In the “Ahsoka” recap, Ahsoka and Sabine attempt to stop Morgan Elsbeth from launching her mission to find Thrawn and a voice from the past returns…
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
A quick 30-minute episode led to the latest installment of “Ahsoka,” which was highlighted by a whole lot of lightsaber battles but ultimately ended with one of the best — and perhaps most devastating — twists in recent “Star Wars” history.
Last week’s episode didn’t do a lot of heavy lifting where the overall story was concerned but rather reconnected Ahsoka and Sabine Wren as master and student while on the hunt for Morgan Elsbeth and the ship she’s building in an attempt to retrieve Grand Admiral Thrawn.
An epic battle in space saw Ahsoka step outside to take down a ship before her own vessel crash landed on the planet Seatos without any way to contact the New Republic for help. To make matters worse, General Hera Syndulla’s attempts to get the New Republic to intervene fell on deaf ears as a council of Senators dismissed her concerns about the remnants of the Galactic Empire seeking to find Thrawn wherever he’s been lost for the better part of the past decade.
As we pick up this week, Ahsoka and Sabine are attempting to put their ship back together while orchestrating a plan to stop Morgan Elsbeth and her rogue Jedi agents — Baylan Skoll and his apprentice Shin Hati — from using a map that will allow them to find where Thrawn is located.
Once again, the story takes a backseat for much of the episode as Ahsoka and Sabine face off with their Jedi counterparts while looking to stop Morgan from achieving her end goal. The final few minutes of the episode are mind-shattering and might even result in a few tears when it’s all said and done.
With that said, let’s get to our full recap for “Ahsoka” episode 4…
Part Four: Fallen Jedi
When we return to the planet Seatos, Sabine and Huyang are doing everything possible to get the Fulcrum back up and operational so they can escape a potential attack but more importantly stop Morgan Elsbeth from launching her massive hyperspace ring to reach Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Sabine eventually joins Ahsoka outside as she ponders the mission ahead of them.
While they both hold out hope that a journey to the furthest reaches of space — possibly even crossing over to other galaxies — might result in finding their friend Ezra Bridger, this could also end in disaster if Thrawn is returned to lead a new Imperial revolt against the New Republic.
As much as Ahsoka understands Sabine’s devotion towards Ezra, she has to remind her Padawan that stopping Thrawn needs to be the priority — even if that means losing their friend forever.
“If we can’t make the journey to find Ezra, then no one should.”
~ Ahsoka
Sabine reluctantly agrees but for now none of that matters because they need the ship repaired and communications fixed so they can reach out to General Syndulla to give her the information with hopes that the New Republic will now send backup.
Nearby, droid sentries are watching over the ship and they soon alert Baylan Skoll and his apprentice that the Jedi ship has been located.
Back at the ground base where Morgan Elsbeth is preparing to launch the map that will send out a signal to locate Thrawn, Shin Hati arrives to inform her master that Ahsoka and Sabine are only 12 clicks away. He orders the sentry droids to attack but he also knows that won’t delay his enemies for very long.
So Baylan orders Shin and Marrok to follow along because they’ll offer much more resistance to prevent Ahsoka and Sabine from finding them. As they leave, Morgan wonders if perhaps Baylan is reacting with fear to the looming threat of the Jedi crashing their party but he tells her he’s only reacting this way due to his past experience in similar situations.
Morgan then activates the map to lay out a trajectory to find Thrawn but the calculations will take some time while the Eye of Sion fires up the hyperspace engines to make the jump. Baylan warns her that if those calculations are off by even the slightest, they’ll travel to an unknown region and never be found again.
Still, Morgan insists that this journey will pay off so she leaves on a transport ship to oversee the Eye of Sion while instructing Baylan to stay on the surface to protect the map until the calculations are completed.
Meanwhile at Ahsoka’s ship, Huyang is working tirelessly on getting the communications back up and running so they can contact Hera but the droid is soon attacked by Baylan’s forces. The Jedi training droid puts up an admirable fight but the numbers are too great — so Huyang is forced to shut down the lights inside the ship to alert Ahsoka and Sabine to the danger outside.
A moment later, Jedi and apprentice emerge from ship — with Sabine wearing her full Mandalorian armor — and they cut down the droids without much trouble. Realizing that there’s no time to waste, Ahsoka and Sabine decide they need to find the ground base where Morgan has set up camp while Huyang is ordered to get the communications working so they can reach out to Hera for help.
Before leaving, Huyang tells Ahsoka and Sabine they should stick together to take down Morgan Elsbeth — they were always better when they were together. It’s a sweet moment as Ahsoka and Sabine start marching through the woods to find Morgan’s base but it’s not long before they run into resistance with the arrival of Shin and Marrok.
It’s a rematch on both counts with Sabine focusing her attention on Shin while Ahsoka deals with Marrok in a lightsaber battle.
While Marrok manages to keep Ahsoka busy, the masked Inquisitor still isn’t a real match for a trained Jedi. When Marrok finally starts the double-ended lightsaber like a helicopter blade to come after Ahsoka, she just smirks and slips between the blades before cutting him down.
There were a lot of theories about Marrok’s true identity — as if there was somebody from the past hiding underneath that mask — but it doesn’t seem that’s the case. Once Ahsoka slices through Marrok, a green smoke explodes from inside the suit and he essentially disintegrates in an explosion.
That catches Shin’s attention as she engages in a lightsaber duel of her own after disarming Sabine from her blasters and the helmet she wore into the woods. Sabine tells Ahsoka to go after the map while she handles Shin.
With Ahsoka racing to the base, Sabine manages to engage in a back-and-forth battle with Shin until the Jedi apprentice uses the Force to launch her into the air. When Sabine attempts to do the same, she can’t make Shin budge, which lets her know that this Padawan can’t control the Force whatsoever.
Force or not, Sabine still has a blaster embedded in her Mandalorian armor, which she uses to disarm Shin from her lightsaber. Rather than staying to fight it out, Shin uses a smoke bomb to distract Sabine as she disappears into the forest.
As for Ahsoka, she eventually arrives at Morgan Elsbeth’s base where a giant glowing dome as formed with the map shooting out into space to give directions to Thrawn’s location. Ahsoka eventually steps inside and that’s when she’s confronted by Baylan Skoll, who can’t help but mention the connection he knows she had with her own former master Anakin Skywalker — the future and now expired Darth Vader.
Baylan Skoll: “Anakin spoke highly of you.”
Ahsoka: “Interesting … he never mentioned you.”
Baylan then tries to get under Ahsoka’s skin by telling her that few saw Anakin’s transformation from Jedi to Sith when he became Darth Vader. He also mentions that she abandoned him when he needed her most — but Ahsoka tells him that she didn’t come to discuss her past.
Instead, Ahsoka ignites her lightsaber for a duel with Baylan Skoll, who is a worthy opponent but still not as skilled as someone who learned from Anakin Skywalker. Ahsoka eventually uses her own manipulation of the Force to launch Baylan into a stone while she goes to retrieve the map.
Ahsoka is able to snatch the map off a platform, which shuts down the massive projection showing Morgan where her ship needs to travel but it’s a short lived success. The map has been tainted with some kind of poison or witchcraft from Morgan Elsbeth, which infects Ahsoka and leaves her weakened.
At that point, she’s easy prey for Baylan Skoll as he attacks her again.
When Shin returns from the forest, Ahsoka can’t help but imagine that Sabine is dead, which serves as a further distraction as she attempts to defend herself against Baylan. Ahsoka does manage to throw Shin against another rock, which knocks her unconscious and prevents her from retrieving the map.
Baylan then comes after her with the full force of his lightsaber attack, which pins Ahsoka against the back of a ledge overlooking a giant drop down to the sea below. Just when it appears that Baylan will strike Ahsoka down, Sabine arrives and she snatches the map into her hand with a blaster pointed directly at it.
Sabine tells Baylan to relent his attack against Ahsoka or she’ll destroy the map.
Ahsoka begs her to destroy the map but Sabine hesitates, which tells Baylan everything he needs to know — and so he unleashes one more strike that sends Ahsoka flying off the cliff to a watery grave below.
Watching Ahsoka fall to a certain death results in Sabine unleashing a guttural scream but she’s soon confronted by Baylan Skull and an offer she can’t refuse.
Baylan knows that Sabine considers Ezra Bridger as the only family she has left, especially after everyone else was killed on Mandalore. Rather than destroy the map, Baylan offers to take Sabine on the trip with him to the furthest reaches of the galaxy where she can be reunited with Ezra and he will realize his true potential by finding Grand Admiral Thrawn.
He promises Sabine that no harm will come to her — and with that she hands over the map to him.
When Shin awakens and attempts to choke Sabine with the Force, her master instructs her to stop because he vows to live up to his word and she will be reunited with Ezra. With that, Baylan reignites the map and prepares to board a ship to join Morgan on the Eye of Sion.
Almost simultaneously, General Hera Syndulla and a squadron of X-wing fighters led by our old pal Carson Teva — the same pilot who has repeatedly appeared in “The Mandalorian” — arrive in the Denab system. Despite her marching orders, Hera Syndulla tells Carson that “once a rebel, always a rebel” and she refuses to let Ahsoka walk into this battle alone.
When they arrive and reach out to the Fulcrum, Huyang answers with communications finally repaired and he informs them of the giant hyperspace ring built by Morgan Elsbeth that’s meant to carry her to Grand Admiral Thrawn.
As Hera leads her squadron into attack mode, she notices that the Eye of Sion isn’t reacting and there’s no ships being launched in response to their arrival. A moment later after Morgan Elsbeth fires up the hyperspace drives, she launches the Eye of Sion on the course laid out by the map and the giant ship just flies right through Hera’s ship and the X-wing fighter.
The magnitude from the hyperspace jump tears through one of the X-wing fighters, who ends up burning up and dying in space while the rest of the ships are twisted and turned around from the torque created by the Eye of Sion. When they finally recover, Hera is stunned at what she just witnessed as her son Jacen turns to tell her he’s got a bad feeling about this.
As a reminder, Jacen is Hera’s son along with fallen Jedi knight Kanan Jarrus so he’s obviously Force sensitive just like his father.
Back on the surface of Seatos, Huyang calls out to Ahsoka and Sabine to tell them the ship has been repaired but there’s no one there to answer him. Sabine boarded the Eye of Sion as a prisoner and she’s there when Morgan launches the ship to find Thrawn — and hopefully Ezra Bridger as well.
As for Ahsoka, she eventually awakens but not underwater or dangling off a cliff — because it appears she’s crossed over the World Between Worlds.
The World Between Worlds is a mystical realm that connects all time and space while creating a conduit between the living and dead. It was once a coveted prize that Darth Sidious wanted for himself but thankfully Ezra Bridger was able to keep the key from him before using the portal to save Ahsoka Tano by pulling her into the past before both eventually returned to their own timelines while Darth Sidious’ plans were thwarted.
It appears that Ahsoka has now crossed over the World Between Worlds again — perhaps now that she’s dead because a moment after awakening, she hears a familiar voice from her past.
“Hello, Snips … I didn’t expect to see you so soon.”
Ahsoka turns and she’s greeted by her former master, Anakin Skywalker. Side note — Snips was the nickname that Anakin gave to Ahsoka after telling her not to get snippy with him after she called him “Skyguy”
So did Ahsoka actually die and she’s now been reunited with Anakin, who we obviously know already perished after reuniting with his son Luke Skywalker? Only time will tell when “Ahsoka” returns next week with a new episode on Disney+!
