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Chapter 3: Whispers in the Unknown
Official summary: As Maul’s plans come together, Devon considers her options.
Trivia
Maul offers Devon some cassius tea. Cassius tea was first introduced in The Clone Wars 5×14 “Eminence”. In that episode Maul was offered cassius tea by Death Watch leader Pre Viszla, who believed the tea was good for one’s health.
During their talk Maul refers to the deaths of his brother and mother. While we did saw Savage’s death in The Clone Wars 5×16 “The Lawless”, Talzin died off-screen in the comic Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir. This comic was based on unproduced episodes of The Clone Wars.
Devon is switching between Form 3 and Form 6 as she tries to ward of Maul while in the shadows.
Back at the police station the subtitle says “alien grunting indignantly”. This alien is an Arcona.
One of the two missing named police officers is matched to his character model in the show when Lason talks to Reb. It turns out that he is the blonde officer who could also be seen last week in “Chapter 2 – Sinister Schemes”. This leaves only officer Wade left to identify.
Some kind of variation on the classic mouse droid rolls by at the police station.
Lawson visits his son’s botekin game. It is a very rare occurrence that we see a stadium within the Star Wars galaxy.
Botekin is a cross between lacrosse and jai alai, and there are rules made up for it by the production team. Do not expect these rules to be released any time soon, or at all. We are still waiting for the rules of balaans, a card game introduced in The Bad Batch and from which official rules also exist internally.
Botekin joins a small list of team sports in the Star Wars galaxy that we know of like Huttball (The Old Republic), grav-ball (Servants of the Empire series), limmie (The Crystal Star) and shockball (Han Solo and the Lost Legacy).
In the stadium we can here a couple returning voice actors. The coach was voiced by Jared Butler, who also did the voice of smuggler #2 in this episode. Jonathan Lipow, who we also heard in Chapter 1, was the voice of the stadium’s announcer.
And with nerf filet, Looti mentions another food dish that exists within the Star Wars galaxy. Nerfs are some of the oldest known creatures, having been referenced for the first time in The Empire Strikes Back.
This time around the spice is not loose in a crate, as seen in The Book Of Boba Fett, but packaged as bricks, just like how it is done in our criminal underworld.
The Pyke homeworld of Oba Diah returns once more after we saw it multiple times in The Clone Wars. Also returning from The Clone Wars is Marg Krim, once again voiced by Stephen Stanton who also is the voice of Tarkin.
Krim mentions his Nexu horde, referencing the cat-like creature that attacked Padmé in Attack Of The Clones.
And while Devon adopts a classic Jedi stance during her duel with Maul, the former Sith actually fights more like Dooku with a hand behind his back. We saw Dooku fighting like that in The Clone Wars, like in 6×10 “The Lost One“.
A small cue of “Battle Of The Heroes” from Revenge Of The Sith can be heard during their duel. Is this foreshadowing how Devon will fall to the dark side, like Anakin did?
Throughout the entire episode we hear the whispers that accompanied Maul’s appearances in The Phantom Menace, with even the subtitles calls us out on it. During the duel it reads: “Maul’s lightsaber speaks alien language”.
Join us soon for the episode guide of Chapter 4 – Pride And Vengeance