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Episode 5 – I Have Friends Everywhere
Official summary: Cassian on Ghorman. Syril on Coruscant. Bix failing. Wilmon trapped. Kleya has a serious problem.
Trivia
While it comes from a piece of dialogue from the episode, the title “I Have Friends Everywhere” can also be a reference to the title of Skeleton Crew episode 6 “Zero Friends Again”.
Rather than opening to music, we hear several broadcasts that are being tuned in to. Well-known worlds like Ryloth and Corellia are mentioned.
A new item is seen inside Luthen’s Galactic Antiquities and Objects of Interest: Queen Amidala’s headpiece.
Kleya listens in to Davo Sculdun hearing that an item he has received being a forgery. Mishko (performed by Mia Soteriou) is the messenger and a new character.
As the Aurebesh reads, Cassian arrives at the Niki-Bon Travel Agency. It is run by Niki (the woman, performed by Pui Fan Lee) and Bon (Elliott Rennie), an alien of unknown species. He could be a Czerialan, but maybe his cranial dome is not high enough for this to be the case.
Right before Cassian knocks on the window you clearly can see a Starspeeder 3000 model from Star Tours inside the travel agency.
Cassian will be traveling under the name Varian Skye, who was born in Tahini. This is a newly mentioned world.
At the Ghorman: Bureau Of Standards field office we see that they have a spy amongst them from the Ghorman Front. This is Leeza (Caroline Vanier). Other new members include: Dreena (blonde woman), Tazi (who in the next episode asks where Dreena has gone to) and Capso (the other newly seen male).
At the Coruscant spaceport (once again filmed at McLaren Technology Centre, Woking) Cassian passes by a Bith.
All the details about where his alter ego lived on Coruscant are new places within the city plnet.
The Aurebesh in Syril’s file reads “Preox-Morlana Security”.
Cassian has arrived at the plaza and we see a bit more of the detail of this incredible set like the café and hotel where he checks in at. The café also has one of the specially made for Ghorman fonts: Ghorelle (or High Ghor) and Dixian (or Low Ghor), named after graphic designers Elle McKee and Lauren Dix.
Also checking in is a Nithorn alien. This species was first introduced in Solo. And while the hotel clerk is unnamed (performed by Matilda Kime), the bellhop who tells his story to Cassian is named in the end credits as Thela (Stefan Crepon).
Neejon tea is also new.
Bix is watching a show called Good Morning Coruscant. This show was most likely named about the morning show Good Morning America that has been on the air since 1975. Fantha Tracks named our weekly live video news show Good Morning Tatooine in the same manner.
The show is hosted by Toffi and Moffi, which is a double cameo role for the well-known comedian Ruby Wax.
Vesty week (short for Senate Investiture) is a new event. The Imperial Ball is not entirely new, as there is one being held also on Empire Day, which was depicted in The Voice of the Empire, a short story published in Insider magazine #170.
Cassian scoffing at the question if he has stolen anything before is most likely a nod to how troublesome the Aldhani heist was from Season 1.
The spit roast on D’Qar (which was partially edible) is of a massif, first seen in Attack Of The Clones but featured more prominently in The Mandalorian and The Book Of Boba Fett.
And Markez Moon, Neen Valley, are also new in-universe locations.
Among other minor tidbits that Luthen and Kleya have listened to from their planted listening device is the “HoloNews buy out”. HoloNews was mentioned in the novel A New Dawn, and HoloNet News was a very popular returning feature of an in-universe news network publishing news in Insider or online websites tying in with the release of Attack Of The Clones.
They also have heard that Sculdun was courting the Grand Vizier. That is Mas Amedda.
Seen parked earlier, but now used to evacuate their base, you see a YV-865 Aurore-class freighter leaving D’Qar. This freighter type was an often recurring one in The Clone Wars ever since its first appearance in 4×11 Kidnapped. Another returning ship was the EasyRide passenger airspeeder, the speeder taxi seen in on Coruscant in this episode and The Phantom Menace.
Saw speaks of his past as a prisoner in a war camp in the Onderon jungle. While we did not saw the incident he talks about, it does hark back to the young Saw and his sister Steela’s fight in The Clone Wars.
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