Chapter 10: The Passenger

"Chapter 10: The Passenger"
The Mandalorian episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 2
Directed by	Peyton Reed
Written by	Jon Favreau
Cinematography by	Barry "Baz" Idoine
Editing by	Andrew S. Eisen
Original release date	November 6, 2020 (2020-11-06)
Co-starring
Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto Misty Rosas as Frog Lady Richard Ayoade as the voice of Q9-0

"Chapter 10: The Passenger" is the second episode of the second season of the American streaming television series The Mandalorian. It was written by showrunner Jon Favreau and directed by Peyton Reed. It was released on Disney+ on November 6, 2020.

Plot

On his way back from Mos Pelgo, the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and the child are waylaid by a group of bandits/ bounty hunters who want to capture the child. The Mandalorian manages to kill/disarm all of them except one who gets his hand on the child. Mando negotiates with this bandit who takes his jet pack and his cargo. However unbeknownst to the bandit, Mando has full control over his jet pack remotely who then proceeds to launch the bandit up in the air. With his speeder bike destroyed Mando walks back to Mos Eisley along with the child and his stuff. Mando finds Peli Motto (Amy Sedaris) engaged in a card game with Dr. Mandible. She tricks Mando into parting up with 500 credits by covering her opponent who she says knows the location of other mandalorians.

Peli Motto later introduces the Mandalorian to the Frog Lady, who needs passage to her husband on the estuary moon called Trask in the system of the gas giant Kol Iben. The Frog Lady is carrying a cylinder of eggs that need to be fertilized soon, if she is to keep her family tree alive. She says that Frog Lady's husband knows the location of the other mandalorians which he'll divulge to Mando if Mando is able to transport the Frog Lady and her eggs to him in time.

For Mando, there's one caveat: he can't turn on the hyperdrive because it will kill all her spawn. Determined to find other Mandalorians, Mando agrees. Of course, traveling "sub-light" is going to come with its own problems. And it does. The Mando encounters a New Republic patrol of two who request him to send a "ping". He's naturally hesitant as it will allow them to look into the Razor Crest's past.

Cornered, the Mando pushes into gear and tries to flee, diving into a nearby planet's atmosphere to evade the New Republic patrol. Hurtling through the clouds and pulling off some brave maneuvers isn't enough to lose his tail though, but he's eventually able to find a hiding spot after entering an ice canyon. The Razor Crest crashes through the landing base, falls onto the surface below, and gets severely damaged. A frustrated Mando tells the Frog Lady that the deal is off, and tells her to go to sleep as he will inspect his spaceship in the morning when the temperatures are better.

The Frog Lady is quite impatient though, and spots the severed head of the droid Zero, lying in the hull of the Razor Crest. The Mando is rudely woken up from his slumber as the Frog Lady reveals that she got hold of its "vocabulator" as they were unable to communicate. She then explains that he must get them to Trask because these are the last eggs she will ever lay, and the planet her husband has found is the only one hospitable for their species. She then reminds him about the Mandalorian code, which finally gets him to start the repairs.

Meanwhile, the child has been slowly been consuming Frog Lady's eggs whenever no one is looking. Mando has to reprimand the child at least twice and ask him to leave the eggs alone. Given that he's constantly keeping track of where the eggs are, the child informs Mando that the Frog Lady has taken off with her eggs while he was repairing the ship. The two find her in a nearby hot water pool, with the eggs being given the heat they need. Mando notes that it's not safe and begins to pick up the eggs.

While Mando is collecting the eggs from the pool, the child starts exploring the rest of the ice cave. He finds and breaks into another tomb-shaped egg and consumes the offspring whole which somehow wakes up all the other eggs around it. Tiny white spider-like Krykna, of all sizes, start to stream out of the eggs and are soon followed by other bigger spiders and later the giant mother spider. With hundreds of spiders on their tail, the Mando picks up Baby Yoda and asks the Frog Lady to make a run for it.

As they run through the ice cave, the spiders begin to surround them from all sides, and the Mando blasting off a few here and there doesn't deter them at all. He then deploys a series of explosives to hurt the mother spider but its progeny keep following them, right into the Razor Crest. Somehow, the three make it into the cockpit, which is then closed shut by Mando as he uses his arm flamethrower to fry off the immediate invaders. A few remaining ones climb over Baby Yoda which are vaporized by the Frog Lady with a tiny blaster.

Just as they are about to take off in the Razor Crest, the mother spider bursts in from the top and pierces through the glass hull of the cockpit. But then, the giant spider falls flat on its face as red blasters light up the air outside the Mando's spaceship. He exits the cockpit to find out who the miraculous rescue party is, and discovers that it's the same New Republic X-wing pilots he had fled from earlier. As a wondering Mando looks at them, the elder pilot explains that they ran through the full story of what happened on the New Republic prisoner transport (see season 1 episode 6).

Mando expects to be arrested, but the pilots let him go because these are "trying times". Mando tries to go a step ahead and ask for their help in fixing his broken ship, but the pilots rebuff him and remind him to fix his transponder just so they won't blow him up the next time they spot him. He then gets to work on the repairs himself, before taking off for Trask with one of two engines barely functioning. En route while the Frog Lady and Mando fall asleep, the child has somehow sneaked another Frog egg that he happily gulps down.

Development

The episode was written by series creator Jon Favreau and directed by Peyton Reed.