In the seventh episode of the second season of “Andor”, we experience the use of power for the first time in the “Star Wars” series-by an apparently insignificant healer, which, however, becomes a key figure for Cassians.

An important preliminary note: The main topic of this article is the seventh episode of the second season of “Andor”. If you have only looked at these of the three new episodes so far, you can read the article without hesitation. Only a few important details from the episodes 8 and 9 follow the end. However, there is a separate spoiler warning here, so you can break off beforehand.
The seventh episode of “Star Wars: Andor“After another jump from one year, starts Yavin IV, where a really organized rebel base has now developed. In the duet with the wonderfully parallel series“Star Wars Rebels““ Andor ”tells us about the slow structure of a larger organized rebellion from originally individual small groups. Here we also get to know a very small secondary figure that doesn’t even have a name, but is still very, very important.
Josie Walker plays a healer who directly the presence of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) feels and approaches him. “Who are you?” She asks him – what is the title of the following eighth episode, because this question occurs again in a wonderful way. The healer helps the skeptical cassian with his shoulder injury, which is the consequence of a blaster hit for a charlatan. However, their words are even more important than healing – and the reactions in the facilities faces.
Also pay attention to the music: a clear sign on “Rogue One”
Because the moment she heals Cassian, she sees something in power. She gets a “clarity, a feeling” for which she even thanks. Cassian doesn’t understand what she wants, but she saw something at that moment. She suspects that Cassian will be important, a key role for the rebellion will play. Because Cassian descends because he doesn’t want to hear anything from it, she only shares Bix (Adria Arjona) with.
She saw that Cassian follows a provision. She describes him as a messenger who one day must be in one place. “Maybe you are the place it belongs to,” she gives Bix hope for a future together that will not exist. We all know the outcome of “Rogue One“.
And here it is important to pay attention to the faces and the music in the background. Because In Adria Arjona’s great spectacle, it can be seen that she looks through the healer’s “lies”. She can hear the unspoken “You are not the place”. What the place is is illustrated by the music. Because It sounds the music that we hear in “Rogue One” when Cassian dies on Scarif.
Cassian as a messenger that makes Luke Skywalker possible
“The messenger” is also the episode title and Cassian is this messenger, as the healer says – and in many ways. Finally, we know from “Rogue One” that he ends up with decisive part in the fact that the plans for the Death Star are transmitted. Cassian thus starts the events that ultimately lead to the victory of the rebellion. Without his role as a messenger, Princess Leia would never get the death star plans and without this event Luke Skywalker would not be found and will follow his destiny. Cassian is not only pioneer for the rebel success, but also indirectly for Luke’s fate as Jedi.
But Cassian’s role goes far beyond individual figures. As an explanation, we have to briefly go into a little moment from the eighth episode – so Caution: Spoiler for the 8th Follow here!
At the end of the seventh episode, Cassian goes to Ghorman. There he is recognized by the porter, but who does not reveal him – obviously because he sympathizes with the rebellion. In the eighth episode, both meet again briefly.
“Rebellion arises out of hope”, the hotel employee gives Cassian on the way-a long iconic “Star Wars” set. It was continued by Cassian in “Rogue One” to Jyn Erso and then out into the whole galaxy. It is the key set that finally combines the many small rebel groups into a large rebellion. Here, too, Cassian has the role of a messenger.
Spoiler for Episode 9: In a big decision, the healer has an effect!
At the end of the article, however, we want to return to the power healer. What initially looks like a one -time appearance unfolds its full importance in the ninth episode. Therefore we also go into an important moment here, so again one Spoiler warning to the 9th Follow here from hereif you haven’t watched all three new episodes.
At the end of the ninth episode, Cassian burned out. He wants to leave the rebellion and start a new life with Bix. But BIX strikes in a night-and-fog campaign. With her retreat, she cemented Cassian’s commitment to the rebellion. He now has no other home, no other life than the continuation of the fight.
BIX ‛Decision is not overlooked at this moment, because we should retire for the conversation with the power healer in the seventh episode. Since then, Bix knows that Cassian has to be in a certain place at some point and that she is not this place. So she can’t allow Cassian to leave the rebellion. So she has to leave him. It represents the big whole, the possible victory over the horror empire, about her great luck, a future with the love of her life. It is an exclamation mark to match the topic of the series, which in many characters is about what they personally sacrifice to enable others a better future.
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