03x01 - Chapter 17: The Apostate

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IG- : Manufacturer's protocol
dictates I cannot be captured.

(PULSATING)

I must be destroyed.

GREEF KARGA: Nevarro
is a very fine planet.

And now that the scum and
villainy have been washed away,

it's very respectable again.

You do not cover your face.
You are not Mandalorian.

You are a Child of the Watch.

THE MANDALORIAN: There is only one way.

The Way of the Mandalore.

ARMORER: Din Djarin, have
you ever removed your helmet?

I have.

Then, you are a Mandalorian no more.

How can I atone?

According to Creed,

one may only be redeemed
in the Living Waters

beneath the mines of Mandalore.

THE MANDALORIAN: But the
mines have all been destroyed.

ARMORER: This is the Way.

(CLANKING)

(HAMMERING)

(HISSING)

(SIZZLING)

(CLANGING)

(HISSING)

(DRUMMING)

(DRUMMING STOPS)

ARMORER: I swear on my name and
the names of the ancestors...

"I swear on my name and the
names of the ancestors..."

That I shall walk the
Way of the Mand'alor...

"That I shall walk the
Way of the Mand'alor..."

And the words of the Creed shall
be forever forged in my heart.

"And the words of the Creed shall
be forever forged in my heart."

ARMORER: This is the Way.

BOY: "This is the Way."

ALL: This is the Way.

From this moment on, I
shall never remove my helmet.

"From this moment on, I shall never..."

- (ROARING)
- (ALL SHOUTING)

MANDALORIANS: Go! Go! Go!

Go!

- (BONES CRUNCH)
- (MAN SCREAMING)

PAZ VISLA: Young ones, to the cave!

MAN: Get back. Get back!

(ROARING)

MAN : I got you! I got you!

(JAWS CRUNCHING)

MAN: Take cover!

WOMAN: Cover them!

PAZ VISLA: To the sky!

(ROARING)

WOMAN: Go!

(MAN SCREAMING)

(THUDS)

(SCREECHING)

WOMAN: All hands, go!

(GRUNTING)

(BELLOWING)

(MAN SCREAMING)

(MAN SCREAMING)

(GRUNTS)

(ARMORER PANTING, GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

(ARMORER SCREAMS)

(ROARING)

(JETPACK WHOOSHING)

PAZ VISLA: Get down!

(ARMORER PANTING)

(WHOOSHING)

(CREATURE SCREECHING)

(CANOPY HISSES)

(PANTING)

You have removed your helmet.

What's worse, you did
so of your own free will.

You are no longer Mandalorian.

(GROGU GURGLES CURIOUSLY)

The Creed teaches us of redemption.

Redemption is no longer possible

since the destruction of our homeworld.

(HISSING)

THE MANDALORIAN: But what if the
mines of Mandalore still exist?

ARMORER: All was destroyed in the Purge.

THE MANDALORIAN: Is this
inscription not Mandalorian?

(GROGU GRUNTING)

(HISSES)

(GROGU COOING)

ARMORER: Where did you come upon this?

THE MANDALORIAN: Jawas.

They came upon it by
trade from a traveler

who claimed to have visited
the surface of Mandalore.

Then this relic only proves

that Mandalore's entire surface
has been crystalized by fusion rays.

But a traveler was
able to retrieve this,

so perhaps, it is not poisoned.

If I visit the planet
and I can bring you proof

that I have bathed in the Living Waters

beneath the mines of Mandalore,

then by Creed, the decree of exile

will be lifted and I would be redeemed.

(GROGU COOING)

This is the Way.

Then I will see you again.

(WHOOSHING)

(GROGU EXCLAIMING)

(COOING)

(COOING)

(COOING)

(WHOOSHING)

(CONSOLE BEEPING)

FEMALE VOICE: (ON COMMS)
Welcome to Nevarro,

independent trade anchor and
Outer Rim Hyperlane port.

Please state the purpose of your visit.

Here to meet an old friend.

(WHOOSHING)

(LIVELY CHATTER)

DROID: Greetings.

Welcome to the port of
Nevarro, gem of the Outer Rim.

Our esteemed High
Magistrate welcomes you

and hopes that your stay
will be a prosperous one.

(GROGU COOING)

(CACKLING)

DROID: We invite you to
visit our shops and markets,

enjoy local delicacies, marvel
at the black lava canyons,

or soak in the geothermal springs.

A lot has changed around here.

(CHILDREN SHOUTING PLAYFULLY)

(GROUP PLAYING FOLK MUSIC)

(LIVELY CHATTER)

Do you remember your old friend?

GREEF KARGA: Mando!

- (LAUGHING)
- (COOING)

I heard you were back,
but I didn't believe it.

THE MANDALORIAN: Magistrate Karga.

That's High Magistrate Karga to you.

(LAUGHING)

Come.

Let's catch up on old times.

It's so good to see you. Welcome back.

THE MANDALORIAN: Doesn't
even look like the same place.

GREEF KARGA: I know,
we've done a lot with it.

The citizens have been so instrumental

in making this all
work, and look at this.

(EXCLAIMING PLAYFULLY)

We are an official trade
spur of the Hydian Way.

THE MANDALORIAN: Congratulations.

We've got a construction
boom going on in the city.

The belters are mining the asteroid
fields at the edge of the system.

There's a lot of money
to be made on Nevarro.

I can see.

I can set you up with a prime
tract right over by the hot springs.

You and the little one,
you can settle down,

you can hang up your blaster.

Live off the fat of the land.

Grogu.

Come again?

His name is Grogu.

Oh. If you say so.

Come, I wanna show you something.

Now, as I was saying,

there's a beautiful parcel available
right down here by the flats.

I appreciate the offer, but I
have some matters to look after.

Oh, I'm confused.

I thought you had
completed your mission,

but you're still running around
here with the same little critter.

It's complicated.

I completed my quest.

He returned to me.

I removed my helmet,
and now I'm an apostate.

Which is all the more reason
for you to stay here with us.

Where you are from,
you may be an apostate,

but here, you'd be landed gentry.

(GROGU CHEWING)

DROID: Magistrate.

High Magistrate.

Yes, High Magistrate. Apologies.

Your timing couldn't be any worse.

But it's just that, there's
someone here to see you.

- It can wait.
- But it's pirates!

Pirates in the courtyard.

PIRATE: Get out of my way
or I'll split your circuits.

DROID: Oh, my stars.

Stand aside, droid,
don't you know who we are?

Come on, Vane.

That'll be enough of that.

Greef Karga, my old friend.

I knew you wouldn't insult us.

- Come, join us for a drink.
- PIRATE: Yeah.

Let's continue this
conversation back at my office.

This, this is a school.

Well, that explains why
she wouldn't let me inside.

(PIRATES LAUGHING)

I forgot, it was your cut
of my boss's treasure

that built this saloon.

Pirate King Gorian Shard's name
is familiar to all in this sector.

Come, join me for a
drink back at my office.

We'll toast to your captain.

We drink here.

That is a school now.

I say it's still a bar.

Now, bring us a drink.

Is there a problem here, Magistrate?

Is there a problem
here? What do you think?

Not if you serve me a drink.

Not in my school.

You hear that, boys?

His school.

You paid us for m*rder and
mayhem inside these doors.

Sounds like you went soft.

You think so?

Try me.

(CHUCKLES)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(GROANING)

Tell Captain Gorian Shard

that Nevarro is no longer
friendly to pirates.

Now get outta here.

(PIRATES GROAN)

(WOMEN SCREAMING)

(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)

Get out of here, Vane. Now.

Sure you wanna let him go?

He'll let it be known

that Nevarro is respectable
now and not to be trifled with.

Have the service droids
scrub up out there.

DROID: Yes, sir, right away.

I gotta level with you,
Mando. I need a marshal.

What about Marshal Dune?

After she brought in Moff Gideon,

she was recruited by Special Forces.

And what came of Gideon?

Ugh. He was sent off to a
New Republic w*r Tribunal.

(THE MANDALORIAN SCOFFS)

So... What do you say?

You ready to put on the stripes
and collect a healthy stipend?

You'd make a very fine lawman.

Why not request one
from the New Republic?

The last thing we intend is to bow down

to yet another far-off bureaucracy.

No. Under my watch,

Nevarro will become the first
truly independent trade anchor

in this entire sector.

I can't serve as your marshal.

I have something pressing to attend to.

Apologies.

I didn't know you were
here on business. (CHUCKLES)

What can we provide?

I need him back.

(LAUGHS) IG- was
destroyed on the lava river.

This is just a statue.

These are his parts, are they not?

I mean, what's left of 'em.

We were lucky to recover any of
his parts after he self-destructed.

I need a droid I can trust
to help me explore Mandalore,

and he's that droid.

Mando, we've got plenty of droids
around here, we'll find you one.

I guarantee it.

THE MANDALORIAN: Let me give it a sh*t.

(SPARKING)

THE MANDALORIAN: There.

He's hooked up to power.

Let's see if we can wake him up.

(COOING)

(WHIRRING)

(POWERING UP)

(LAUGHS) There you go.

IG- : (DISTORTED)
Subparagraph sixteen-teen-teen

of the Bondsman Guild protocol waiver...

Immediately produce said...

The bounty is mine.
Asset to be terminated.

- (GROGU SQUEALS)
- (DROID YELPING)

Terminate asset. Terminate asset.

(GROANS) Greef!

IG- : Terminate asset.

- Mando, sh**t it! sh**t it!
- IG- : Terminate.

THE MANDALORIAN: Now
that's using your head.

I think he defaulted
to his old programming.

You think?

(COOS)

That's too big a job for
you to do by yourself.

Fortunately, Nevarro has attracted

the best droidsmiths of the Outer Rim.

They'll have IG back to
his old self in no time.

THE MANDALORIAN: Are you
sure they're up for it?

I don't think I can handle him with
all his limbs if things go scud.

Why don't you ask 'em for yourself?

Who?

The Anzellans.

What do you want?

(COOING)

(SPEAKING ANZELLAN)

- (ANZELLAN GROANS)
- (LAUGHS)

(SPEAKING ANZELLAN)

(EXCLAIMS DISAPPOINTEDLY)

No. Can't fix. No. No, no. The broken.

THE MANDALORIAN: Uh... Okay.

(SPEAKING ANZELLAN)

ANZELLAN: The broken. It broke.

I don't understand.
Do you speak Huttese?

Mando, he said he can't fix it.

That's no good, I need this
one. This one is my friend.

It not friend anymore.
Memory circuit broken. (SPITS)

He says the memory circuit is sh*t.

ANZELLAN: No more.

THE MANDALORIAN: Well, put in a new one.

- No, no, no, no.
- Not work.

- Don't make new one. Very hard to find.
- ANZELLAN : No.

He said they don't make 'em
anymore. They're very hard to find.

- THE MANDALORIAN: I got it.
- Buy new droid.

This one poodoo.

He says you should get a new one.

Can you fix it without
the memory circuit?

Yes, but IG no think.

(SPEAKING ANZELLAN)

What if I find you the part?

Okay, now. Then no problem. We fix.

If you can get a new part,
he says he can fix it.

- No! No! No! No! No! No, down, down!
- THE MANDALORIAN: No, Grogu.

- He's not a pet.
- No squeezie. Not squeeze.

Not squeeze.

Bad baby!

- Oh, he's a bad baby.
- Sorry about that. He's young.

Yeah, bad baby. Oh! (SCREAMS)

THE MANDALORIAN: No, Grogu.

MAN: (OVER PA) Thank you for
visiting Nevarro, please make sure...

We hope to see you soon.

Keep IG- safe until I
get back with that part.

If the Anzellans can't find
it, I don't know who can.

Safe travels.

(POWERING UP)

(WHOOSHING)

Being a Mandalorian's not just
learning about how to fight,

you also have to know how
to navigate the galaxy,

because you never know where
you might be headed next.

This here is your hyperspace map.

(COOING)

You determine your range by
looking at your fuel gauge.

- And this...
- (ALARM BEEPING)

(WHIMPERS)

...is your enemy proximity
warning indicator.

Hang on, kid, we got pirates.

(WHIRRING)

VANE: (ON COMMS) Avast, Mandalorian.

You can't just sneak away

after cuttin' down four of
my brothers in cold blood.

We're Pirate King Gorian Shard's
men, now you'll answer to him.

Gorian Shard should stick
to hijacking and ransoming.

(GRUNTING)

(WHOOSHING)

After him!

(GROGU SQUEALS)

(ALARM BEEPING)

Three more.

(GASPS)

(GROWLS)

(GIGGLING)

Has anyone got eyes on the Mandalorian?

Not yet.

(GASPS)

(GRUNTS)

(SNARLS)

(GRUNTS)

Bringing the Mandalorian
to you, Captain.

(WHIRRING)

- (ALARM BEEPING)
- THE MANDALORIAN: (SIGHS) Dank farrik.

They have a target lock on us.

(WHIRRING)

Stop where you are, Mandalorian.

You're outgunned.

I have no quarrel
with you, Gorian Shard.

Ha!

What a kind sentiment from a man who

just destroyed four of my fighters.

Surrender your ship and
I will spare your life.

- THE MANDALORIAN: Kid.
- (COOING)

Never trust a pirate.

(WHOOSHING)

(GROWLING)

(WHOOSHING)

This is Kalevala.

(WIND WHOOSHING)

It's another planet in
the Mandalorian system.

And that is a Mandalorian castle.

(GRAND MUSIC PLAYING)

(WHIRRING)

(CANOPY HISSES)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(FOOTSTEPS ECHOING)

Bo-Katan.

It is Din Djarin.

I am here to join you.

There's nothing left to join.

What of your plans to retake Mandalore?

When I returned without the
Darksaber, my forces melted away.

Where is the stolen fleet?

Making their way through
the galaxy as mercenaries.

Do you still have the saber?

I do.

Then you lead them.

Wave that thing around and
they'll do whatever you say.

So you gave up your
designs to retake Mandalore?

Your cult gave up on Mandalore
long before the Purge.

Where were you then?

The Children of the Watch and
all the factions that came before

fractured and shattered our people.

Go home.

There's nothing left.

I am going to Mandalore

so that I may bathe in the Living Waters

and be forgiven for my transgressions.

You are a fool.

There's nothing magic about
the mines of Mandalore.

They supplied beskar ore to our
ancestors and the rest is superstition.

That planet has been ravaged,
plundered, and poisoned.

You said that the curse was a lie.

Make up your mind.

If you want to go to
the mines, be my guest.

They're beneath the civic
center in the city of Sundari.

Thank you.

And I will find out if the
planet is really poisoned.

Goodbye, Din Djarin.