BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted.
Official summary: Hera risks her career to help her friends while Ahsoka and Sabine confront enemies.
Trivia
Let us begin this article about the title of the episode and the various meanings that it has. First it could refer to Baylan and the faith that he says he has lost a long time ago. This sounds like he left the Jedi Order before the Purge, and perhaps even during the Clone Wars or because of it. The latter making sense as both he and Shin are wearing armor pieces. Which the Jedi never did before the Clone Wars started and only early in the war.
Also it refers to Ahsoka who literally falls of the cliff, and the more poetic fall of Sabine siding with the bad guys. The opening titles helmet also foreshadows Sabine’s choice, with the helmet being in red, like the bad guys. And then there is Anakin, who also was a Fallen Jedi.
Fulcrum is mentioned yet again, and we explained that meaning before. However with that surprise ending of Anakin, it is worth to point out the origin of the term in-universe. It was the name of Anakin’s subspace frequency during the Clone Wars, long before Ahsoka and Rebel Alliance spies adopted it as a codename.
Used in the trailers, and a very obvious nod, is Ahsoka calling Thrawn the heir to the Empire. This was the title of the first novel in the Thrawn trilogy that Thrawn made his debut in.
Those are WESTAR-35 blaster pistol that Sabine is trying to load. The same kind that Bo-Katan uses.
On board the Home One we see a light-colored Mon Calamari, a Keteerian and a pilot in a green flight suit, which are rare to see these days with the focus on the traditional orange ones, or the newer blue uniforms.
Very difficult to spot: but there is a Kanan photograph on Hera’s dashboard in the Ghost.
It is always fun to try and understand what Chopper is saying, considering it is actual dialogue spoken by Dave Filoni. When Jacen asks Hera why he has to do what he was told, but Hera does not, you can clearly hear Chopper agreeing by saying “the kid has a point.”.
And once again we see Carson Teva, who is now more willing to rebel against the New Republic and join Hera, as he saw in the third season of The Mandalorian how inefficient the bureaucracy of the New Republic is becoming.
The other pilots have their names revealed in the End Credits:
Lieutenant Baysee, played by Michael C. Alexander.
Lieutenant Mowaat, the Rodian played by Dawn Dininger who often is a Rodian in the new series.
Lieutenant Jensu, played by Chau Naumova.
Lieutenant Lander, played by Brendan Wayne who is the grandson of famous actor John Wayne. He is also one of the actors that is actually in the armor of Din Djarin in The Mandalorian.
Later we see that Mowaat talks in Huttese, and is subtitled in the tradition that started with Greedo in 1977.
Not only is the flame underneath the Starmap globe green when it is being activated, like any kind of Magick from the Dathomir Witches is, it even reuses the same sound effect as heard during The Clone Wars and Rebels.
Back in Rebels (3×15 “Through Imperial Eyes“) Thrawn had captured Kallus to find where the hidden rebel base was. Thrawn used a map of a sector, one that is not in the Imperial database but was represented in the art of an ancient people. The people of Peridea perhaps? Meaning Thrawn may have prior knowledge of wherever he and Ezra ended up.
Ahsoka is seen using Form 1, same as Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace. Her patiently waiting for an opening is typical of a samurai, but also seen in Rebels, with Obi-Wan’s final duel with Maul.
Marrok is killed he spews out green mist and his armor, but no body, falls to floor. Now there is a lot to unpack here. The most obvious is how Obi-Wan also just had his cloak fall to the floor when he was killed in A New Hope. But there is more. As seen throughout the Filoni series, green mist and vapor is seen when the Dathomir witches use their Magick. And with it they have enchanted Savage to become stronger, for Maul to heal, for Mother Talzin to return as a ghost and the dead to walk around to fight again (seen not only in The Clone Wars, but also in the first game of Cal Kestis, Jedi: Fallen Order). So Marrok probably was a Magick Spirit inhabiting a dead body, or a body kept alive through Magick. Also, this is not the first time that we see someone die with the green Magick leaving the body. The same happened with Savage in episode 5×16 “The Lawless” of The Clone Wars.
This all ties in with another wolf-connection that we held off in our previous episode guides on purpose. In Arthurian legend, Marrok is a knight who was turned into a werewolf by his wife, who had learned these skills from the witch Morgan Le Fay. Considering that names, with Morgan lending her name from Le Fay, are chosen on purpose, this may be another piece in the missing identity puzzle of Marrok.
And talking about Marrok, for some reason his helmet was also seen in blue, the good guy color in the opening titles. We wonder why and if there is not more to come yet about him.
When Ahsoka removes her cloak for the fight with Baylan, you see some runes of the map clearly. This one reads Occlusion, as in the Occlusion Zone that the Nihil claimed for their own in The High Republic.
During the duel Ahsoka raises her lightsaber, held by both hands, above her head in a similar manner as how Anakin did in Attack of the Clones.
When Ahsoka falls over cliff, Sabine utters a nice Nooo to fit in with the many Nooos we have had throughout the movies.
Baylan refers to Sabine’s parents that we have seen in Rebels. However since we had not seen them among the many Mandalorians seen since, it was vague where they are. And now we know that they died in the Night of a Thousand Tears.
So far we have yet to see Morai, but could it be her point of view from higher up in the trees when we see Huyang leave the ship at the end of the episode, unable to reach Sabine or Ahsoka?
Ahsoka has not falling down into the sea, but instead into the World Between Worlds from Rebels. This was hinted at before with subtle iconography being used. When Ezra enters the World Between Worlds he stepped into a circle with Loth-wolves walking into that circle. The same kind of circle was seen in this episode, but with purgill in the circles barrier.
Also, maybe Ahsoka’s hand getting burned is how they manage to also travel to the other galaxy, using the same trick as seen in Raiders Of The Lost Ark with Toht burning his hand with (in his case with a partial) bit of information that he needed.