The Acolyte Episode 4: A Big Jedi Cameo, New Story Connections, And Other Easter Eggs

The primary three episodes of The Acolyte served as the primary act of this story, getting us acquainted with the characters and the state of affairs and basically catching us as much as the place we now have roughly the identical quantity of key data about what is going on on as Mae and Osha do. With this week’s Episode 4, the plot is getting began in earnest as each main character races to the identical place: the planet Khofar, the place the Jedi Kelnacca has been residing reclusively for the reason that Jedi incursion to the witch coven on Brendok went so badly.

Warning: The next accommodates main spoilers for Episode 4 of Star Wars: The Acolyte. In case you’ve not caught up, you could wish to cease studying now.

On the one facet of the race you’ve the Jedi and Osha, and on the opposite you’ve Mae and Qimir. Qimir, whose circumstance stays murky, has apparently personally scouted the place and located Kelnacca, and now he is serving to Mae navigate the hazards from the jungle and Kelnacca’s personal traps which might be littered about.

However Mae is having a little bit of a disaster. Her secret grasp, whose face Mae has by no means seen, will kill her except she carries out her mission as described: she should defeat one in all her Jedi targets and not using a weapon. Mae weighs her choices and decides her finest likelihood at survival is to desert the hunt, and her grasp, and attempt to workforce up with Osha. So she traps Qimir, and runs off.

Mae arrives simply earlier than Jedi do, and he or she calls out to Kelnacca when she enters, however he does not reply as a result of he is lifeless, with an enormous lightsaber wound in his chest. Since Mae did not do it, the offender turns into clear in a short time: Mae’s grasp is right here, and able to throw down. The grasp comes up behind the Jedi exterior the home, and has a quick stare-down with Osha earlier than casually tossing her apart with the Power, after which doing the identical to the Jedi because the episode ends.

It is a pretty packed episode of TV. On prime of what I simply described, we received our first look on The Acolyte by a film character, and several other actually attention-grabbing Easter eggs to interrupt down. Let’s dig in.