Hello. Like some, I thought this show was poorly done and wanted it changed. Some of these will be more extensive than others, and it's using the overall premise of the show that was presented. LORD willing, a The Mandalorian season 3 fix will follow this at some point (as his focus in this is minimalized by a lot and his plot with baby yoda is left to be resolved in his own show), with Kenobi, maybe even Ahsoka. Here are the ideas that God, if He wills, blessed me with for this:
EPISODE 1:
Opening in the flashback, Boba is trapped in stomach of the sarlacc pit after nearly being killed in a stupid mistake fighting against Luke and Han in ROTJ. Boba was unable to escape, his body being burned by the digestive fluids of the sarlacc's stomach, it's tentacles wrapped around him, clutching his body to its inside of its stomach.
Trying to pull out of it's grasp only makes the tentacles grip tighter, spikes emerging from the tip that attach to his body, piercing his side, hurting him. Boba extends out the wrist blades in his gauntlets and slices away at the tentacles, trying to pull out through above but unable to (there being nothing to really grab for and his jet pack damaged), as another tentacle reaches for him. Boba slices through the inside of the sarlacc's stomach and punches into it, setting off his gauntlet's flamethrower, burning the sarlacc from the inside out.
Boba crawls out of the side of the sarlacc, bleeding from his pierced side, bursting out of the sand, crawling out, before the blood loss leads him to fall unconscious. His armor is taken by the jawas and he's found and taken by the sandpeople, who do patch up his injuries.
These sandpeople are a different tribe than some of those who attack and try to kill and torture outsiders for their existence. They've taken Boba because when working for Jabba he'd been ordered to murder a tusken who'd been trespassing on his Jabba's property, this tusken digging for melons, not knowing the boundaries of the property. Boba carried the order out.
The tuskens don't seek to murder Boba back, but are going to force him to labor for them as a repayment of the life he took from their tribe. They allow the child and wife of the tusken he murdered to beat upon Boba and force him to look upon the garments of their dead family member. Boba feels guilt for this, remembering the loss of his dad, but refuses to admit it to himself and the tuskens.
Boba tries to escape, using another laborer (someone who'd raided their camp and stole from them, using up their water reserves) as a distraction for their watchdog, throwing the other laborer into the watchdog, but is caught and beaten by the tuskens, them viewing him as distasteful for not being willing to accept responsibility for his actions, after he claims he was just doing his job and that he's not responsible for it.
They force him and the other guy (whose alive but bitter and sore) to labor and dig for melons (being kind of an equivalent to cactus, in a way), under the watch of the tusken son and wife of the member Boba murdered. A creature emerges from the sand and attacks them. The creature brutally kills the other guy and hurts Boba, then attacking the tuskens, the tusken mother shielding her child, then being hit and knocked out, it then going for the child... until Boba takes advantage of the creature being distracted and attacks it from behind, using his chains to choke the creature to death.
Boba then uses the unconscious tusken mother's keys to unlock himself and leaves, the child crying over his unconscious mother, trying to get her to wake up. Boba, hearing the crying of the child, stops and looks back at them, seeing himself as a child crying over his dad's dead body and holding his dad's helmet up to his head. Conflicted over this, begrudgingly he goes back and carries the hurt tusken mother to the tribe, with the child following him.
The child explains what happened, and the tuskens celebrate Boba's actions and helping them and set him free, insisting that, in their minds, by rescuing the child and mom, Boba has repaid his debt to them. Boba seeks the tuskens help finding what happened to his armor, suspecting the jawas, but with so many different jawa sects maneuvering throughout all of tatooine, it could take years to find out which ones took the armor. They allow him to live with them, if he continues to help them.
The basic present day events of episodes 1 and 2 are now in this episode.
Boba examines the holdings within the building, the fortune, the servants, and the Gamorrean Guards, there being only 2 left.
It's explained that the multitude of the other Gamorreans refused to work under Bib Fortuna as they had no loyalty to him and had served Jabba for so long, rejecting the control of the other Hutts as well, a few having been killed by the Hutts for refusing, scattering across tattoine and taking working jobs as grunts for hard labor. The 2 who stayed did so out fear of being killed like the few others.
Boba showcases mercy to them, releasing their binds and allowing them to leave. As a showcase of gratitude, they pledge their loyalty to him.
Boba goes into Mos Espa to proclaim his control of the Hutts territory. The Mayor of Mos Espa refuses to take Boba seriously and dismisses him, refusing the control of anyone not the Hutts, as Bib Fortuna was given control by the Hutts. In retaliation, to show his control, when the Mayor's guards raise their weapons at him, Boba kills them and then forces the Mayor to beg for his life in the town square, to showcase his strength.
This riles up the Hutt twins, who come to Boba and threaten him.
EPISODE 2:
Boba investigates the Hutt's routing of their spice movement. Because of the recent emergence of the New Republic, the Hutts' men can no longer send it directly from the spice mine to a ship. They have to ship it across the planet, before sending it off world, to avoid New Republic patrols.
Boba seeks to sabotage the spice movement to further squeeze the Hutt Cartel. In doing this, he discovers a group of bikers (not multicolored bikes, more like grungy speeder bikes) that are stealing from the sole water supplier of the Hutt Cartel's goons, causing some contention among them.
Boba tracks down and makes a deal with their leader, a girl in her early 20's named Drash, for their assistance, in his goals, after discovering her motive being revenge, as the crime syndicate has been using forced underpaid labor to mine for spice (spice being a drug) on tatooine, Drash's mom being one of the forced laborers, who'd been discarded when she become too weak and is currently dying from exposure in the mining.
At the conclusion of the episode, Black Krrsantan, a hired wookie bounty hunter, uses a bomb to blow in a wall on Boba's palace and defeats the Gamorrean Guards, before reaching Boba's chamber, whose prepared and in his armor.
Boba and Krrsantan battle. Krrsantan showcases his intense skill and strength, able to overpower Boba in this fight, though Boba prevents the wookie from getting a grip on him to avoid any loss of limbs. Drash and her group still disrupt the battle and, with Fennic, they lean it onto their side (though they moreso use their weapons on him, not being strong fighters themselves), Boba luring Krrsantan to the trap door in the throne room and subduing him just enough to trap him.
In flashbacks, Boba has ingratiated himself to the tusken tribe and they teach him how to fight like a tusken, considering he doesn't have weapons or armor, in seeking out said armor on tatooine. Having brought him in as a member, they give him the weird vision quest thing.
In this, Boba sees himself and his dad as the same person, dying like nothing in a pointless battle for a cause they had no stake in. As a result of this, Boba realizes that he's become just like his dad, nearly dying at almost the same age his dad was, and that as much as he's lived his life to avoid his emotions about it, it's ruled him and his identity. He has a catharsis over this.
Boba comes back with the stick and thanks the tuskens for the situation, that this has led him to realize how he operates has done nothing but nearly get him killed. He says that, to him, he still hasn't repaid them for taking that child's dad, tusken female's mate and member of their tribe, from them and owes them.
Afterwards, that entire tusken tribe are murdered by the goons sent by Bib Fortuna under the order of the Hutts, as a way to use their land for their spice running and avoid witnesses and potential conflicts. Boba, essentially reliving the death of his dad through this, is driven by revenge and wants to destroy the crime syndicate for this, placing all of his anger and frustration about his dad's death, how he's lived his life, along with the murder of the tuskens, onto them.
EPISODE 3:
Boba interrogates a chained in the dungeon Krrsantan for any information on the Hutts. Krrsantan maintains his silence. Boba asks him why he's still working for the Hutts, telling him that he's a warrior and that he should be given more respect than being a tool for arrogant nobles. Boba ponders him for a moment, asking him why he was exiled from his home planet Kashyyyk. This only enrages Krrsantan, who practically lunges at Boba, letting out a growl, the chains just barely holding him back.
Meanwhile Drash has followed one of the water shipments to one of the spice mines, seeing Trandoshans force the workers to mine for the spice and antagonizing something in a large animal crate next to the mine (threatening the workers with being fed to the creature if they don't work efficiently), her recording them. She stops and gets ready to leave, but is attacked by a trandoshan. She tries to fight back, but she's not as capable a fighter and has to escape.
Drash gets back to Boba, telling and showing him what she saw. Boba sees that she's been hurt and offers to train her and does so, teaching her the way he was once taught by Cad Bane.
In flashbacks, Boba, angry as a child after the death of his dad, sought revenge on Mace Windu, but was unable to gain it. After Mace Windu died, Boba was left with a feeling of unresolved rage. Cad Bane takes Boba Fett under his wing and trains him. Cad Bane was an old rival of Jango and, in some form, seeks to resolve his rivalry with Jango through Boba, seeking one day to duel Boba to the death, when he comes of age and was fully trained.
Cad Bane taught Boba the skills to become a bounty hunter and be emotionally detached, to seek only his own interests, and that to do anything else, to care about anything or anyone else and put your neck on the line when you gain nothing from it, is weakness and will get you poor and dead, and that he has to ignore those weaknesses.
Boba uses these lessons, from Cad Bane, of lack of mercy, selfishness and emotional detachment, teaching them to Drash, along with how to use the weapons he has. Though, to his surprise, they bond.
Drash tells Boba that her mom is all she has left, after her dad left when she was young, that she felt alone after it, and when her mom was taken by the Hutts she felt angry and powerless.
Boba relates to her through this, telling her that he knows what it's like to lose a parent. Drash feels a sense of understanding with Boba, in what she thinks is the loss of his dad that drives him the same way it drives her. She confides in Boba that she's afraid her mom will die before they can stop the crime syndicate, that she wants her mom to die with the peace of mind that they were stopped, and she doesn't want all this to be for nothing. Boba is effected by this, by her situation, and connects with her over it, but seeks to separate himself from it, telling her that she has to ignore her weaknesses, that they have to stay focused on their goals, their interests, because that's the only way they can succeed and survive.
At the end of the episode, Boba realizes how he can get Krrsantan on their side, showing him the hologram footage Drash took of the trandoshans doing work for the Hutts, asking if he knew the Hutts were working with the trandoshans. Krrsantan becomes enraged and breaks out of the chains, smashing the device on the hologram and getting in Boba's face, who stand completely still, unfazed by this. Boba then says that there's the warrior he'd heard so much about and Krrsantan agrees to help Boba, if he lets him have the the trandoshans for himself. Boba agrees.
EPISODE 4:
Boba continues to train Drash, with Fennic training her in more athletic techniques, as they all plan on a way to sabotage the trandoshan run mine, Boba deducing that they have a creature as a guard there because it may be a larger mine. Drash is unsure if Krrsantan's help can be trusted, but Boba explains to her that trandoshans and wookies have a long and bloody rivalry and that the trandoshans have hunted wookies for sport for their pelts and helped the empire capture and enslave a great many of them, Boba saying that he doesn't trust Krrsantan, but he can count on his hatred and desire for revenge.
Boba plans to use their attack as a way to antagonize the Hutts and cause a ruckus within the loyalties of the crime syndicate, making them look weak, pushing them to make a mistake and tip their hand. They work out an assault, with the help of Krrsantan being the muscle of a full frontal attack, Boba coming in from above, Drash and her gang being a distraction, and Fennic using her sniper techniques from afar.
They debate what to do with the spice, wondering if they could sell it to help fund their goals. Fennic objects to that aggressively, stating that it destroys peoples lives. Boba, seeing her personal involvement, sides with her.
But after that, he questions her. She's conflicted on what to say, but eventually confesses that her parents were addicts and she was raised in squalor. She can't stand the idea of letting more of that trash destroy families like it destroyed hers, it making her an orphan years before she left them in her early teens because she didn't want to deal with them anymore. She says that that helped teach her to depend only on herself though. Boba corrects her, stating that she doesn't now. Fennic shakes off her "depending only on herself" as old habits, stating that it's hard to forget. Boba agrees with that.
They go for the assault and are able to overpower the trandoshans, Krrsantan with intense rage tearing through the trandoshans (tearing one the trandoshan's arms off), but they release their caged animal before the victory is complete: It's a Rancor. Boba tells the others to clear the area, while he uses his jetpack to evade the creature. Boba then feeds the still alive armless trandoshan to the Rancor to distract it and takes this opportunity to order for it to be rendered unconscious with multiple stun shots from all of them, which they do.
Boba and his crew then releases the workers and lets them go, them thanking Boba profusely, Boba being taken aback by this, but also rebuffing the praises. Boba hands off the explosives to Fennic for her to blow up the spice mine with, which she does, leaving it destroyed for all to see.
Boba brings in a Rancor trainer (played by Danny Trejo) to look at the creature, the trainer determining that creature was hurt to make it more savage, pointing to scars on it. Boba wakes the Rancor up and, with the help of the trainer, is able to calm it, feeding it and the trainer explaining the complexity of a Rancor.
The Hutts are shown to be enraged at the loss of the spice mine, their abilities being questioned by other members of the crime syndicate, especially when Boba sends them a message, telling them he knows they had the sandpeople wiped out because they got in the way of their spice routes, having Bib Fortuna contract a local gang to do so and that's why he's doing this, for revenge.
Later Boba talks to Fennic about aquiring more muscle if they're going to be able to take down the Hutts. Fennic agrees.
In flashbacks, it's shown how Boba found Fennic, helped her and got his ship back (less complicated and less time consuming than the show gives, but parts of it are similar). His pitch to Fennic is a bit more nuanced. He insists she owes him, but also tells her that he knows someone like her, just like him, has never had real companionship, stating that people like them need to have the back of eachother. He tells her what he wants to do. She agrees when she hears he's planning on disrupting the spice trade.
EPISODE 5:
The episode starts with the Cobb Vanth scene of him finding some spice runners, the same thing happens there.
Then continues with a very similar opening to episode 5 with Mando, showing Mando doing his thing and going to the other mandalorians, the same thing happens there, being exiled for removing his helmet. Mando is conflicted. He wants to go see Grogu again, even has the chain-mail sweater built out of the spear, but he hasn't tried to go to Luke's jedi school out of here. The difference here is that Mando doesn't go back to Tatooine to get a new ship. He's called there by Fennic for the job. Though he still is seeking a ship and Peli Matto offers to have one for him quickly.
In this, Mando does personally meet and talk with Boba about the situation, and though he is wary of Boba's motives, does want to help and repay Boba for his assistance before. Boba asks if Mando can gather the help of his fellow mandalorians for assistance here, this being one of the reasons they chose him. Mando explains that he can't call on them because of his banishment from the mandalorians due to his removing his helmet, and because of that he has no way to contact them in their new location as he wasn't privy to it. Mando then states in recent days before he was called to tatooine the assassin's guild has blacklisted Boba under the orders of the Hutts, so even if he could pay for enough muscle they'd never agree. Mando suggests that he once worked with Cobb Vanth and some townspeople that could help them, suggesting that this spice running throughout tatooine may be motive enough for them to help, not just money.
Boba and Mando go to Cobb Vanth and try to convince him to help, Boba offering money for their assistance. Boba and Cobb exchange words about Cobb having used Boba's armor. Cobb is uncertain, but says he'll talk it over with the townspeople. Boba and Mando leave.
After returning to the palace, Boba feeds and further bonds with the rancor, as he and Mando discuss their other options if Cobb doesn't agree. Boba speaks to the Gamorrean Guards about the rest of the scattered Gamorreans across tatooine, Boba asking them to recruit their help, as an honor bound rebuke of the Hutts having killed some of their kind, promising them large payments for their assistance.
Meanwhile Cobb pitches this to the townspeople, who don't want to get involved, though Cobb suggests to prevent this from becoming their problem, getting involved may be necessary. One of the kids inform Cobb that someone is coming towards the town.
Cobb goes outside and sees Cad Bane walking into the town, out of the desert.
Cad demands that Cobb stays out of the business of the crime syndicate and allows the spice to run through tatooine. The same thing happens. There's a shootout, Cad guns Cobb down, killing him, warns the rest of the town's inhabitants and walks away, back into the desert.
Mando and Boba get word of what happened, and from the description Boba quickly realizes who it was.
EPISODE 6:
In the flashbacks, a now 18 year old Boba (played by Daniel Logan) is shown being trained to kill without mercy in capturing a bounty that's ordered to be brought in dead, but Boba hesitates when the bounty begs for mercy saying that he has a child, Cad coming from behind Boba and shooting the bounty when he reaches for a knife in his boot. Cad mocks Boba's hesitancy and tells him that that guy would've wound up dead anyway by another bounty hunter, so showing mercy achieves nothing, telling him that the machine always turns and all they can do is find a way to get something out of it for themselves.
They get a report on a bounty for Aurra Sing, but Cad shuts down going after it. In spite of the training he gets from Cad Bane, Boba still holds a soft spot for Aurra Sing, a bounty hunter who'd looked after him after his dad had died, even though she'd betrayed and abandoned him.
As Boba trains in his speed at firing, Cad dismisses his attempts to get faster, stating that he'll never be faster than him, when the assassins guild reports the bounty is no longer available as Aurra's been captured and set to be executed for her crimes on another planet.
Despite Cad Bane's advice, Boba seeks to rescue Aurra after hearing this. He plans an escape for her, then when he gets to the planet, he finds she's already been taken by Cad Bane, Cad using her as a simultaneous lesson to Boba and a way to push Boba to completing Cad Bane's rivalry with Jango. Cad Bane murders Aurra Sing in cold blood in front of Boba and challenges him to a duel, to force Boba to have the, in Cad's mind, what it takes, to murder him, so the duel would be fair for him.
Boba and Cad Bane, using a unique round of pure beskar (which can pierce beskar armor) he'd acquired, dueled eachother. Boba's no match for Cad's firing speed, but is able to move fast enough that the beskar round hits his head at an angle and only dents his helmet, pulling his gun at that exact moment and firing on Cad, hitting him in the side, his weapon being thrown from his hand, the force of the beskar round knocking Boba's helmet off.
Boba gets up, picks up his helmet and walks up to a bleeding and dying Cad Bane, looking at his now dented helmet, his dad's helmet, remembering himself holding the same helmet as a child after his dad was killed, then looking over at the dead Aurra Sing, then back to the dying Cad Bane, telling Cad that he was right, that caring about things, about anything other than himself, it is weak. Boba places the helmet back on his head, then asserting that it's not a mistake he'll make again. Cad tells him to finish it. Boba simply says that granting him a quick death would be merciful, then turning his back on Cad and walking away, leaving Cad yelling out at him.
As he went on he further honed his abilities, and used the teaching Cad Bane had given, always have a price, look out for no one but yourself, anything else is a weakness, doing this as a way to avoid connecting with, caring about and losing someone.
Boba Fett ponders Cad Bane being involved. Fennic notes what she sees as him looking like he'd seen a ghost.
Drash wants to head out to check on her mom. Before she leaves, she thanks Boba for helping her stop the crime syndicate from hurting the people of tatooine, for training her. Boba contemplates this, that he's using her and the others just to get revenge and stops her, giving her his wrist gauntlet, telling her she'll need a weapon in case someone comes for her, giving her his wrist gauntlet for defense, reminding her of the mechanism on it for the gas, fire and shrapnel.
Mando comments on Boba's mentoring of the girl, citing it as very mandolorian of him. Boba dismisses it, saying that his dad worked his entire adult life to be free of that bantha fodder. Mando addresses that, saying that in spite of that, his dad still sought connection in a son. Boba remarks that look where that got em, stating that he won't end up like his dad. Boba then turns the situation back on Mando, asking him about what happened with his kid. Mando states that his mission is done, the child was returned to his people. Boba asks him that's all there is to it. Mando states that he doesn't know if he will see him again, as he's on a different path.
Cad Bane reports to the Hutts the death of Cobb Vanth. He tells them that it's time to uphold their end of the bargain, that it's a win-win scenario for him to kill Boba Fett.
Boba seeks to confront Cad Bane, but is talked out of it by Fennic. Meanwhile Cad works out a scheme to weaken Boba.
Drash arrives at her home to check on her mom, who she finds in her last moments, her mom dying soon after. Drash is devestated, that turning into anger.
When she returns to Jabba's palace, Boba asks her about her mom, and Drash tells him she died. Boba is concerned for Drash because of this, asking how she's feeling. She reiterates his words, Cad Bane's words, back to him, "Ignore my weaknesses", which unsettles Boba, seeing the cycle continue.
Drash has come to suspect that the Mayor is the one who supplied to slaves for the Hutts to use in the mining, gaining word that the Mayor knows the locations of all the spice mines, which she informs Boba of. Mando suspects that this rumor being passed around may be a trap for them. Drash is adamant to confront the Mayor. Boba sees the information as too valuable in putting down the Hutts operation, for good, that it's worth the risk.
Boba then makes preparations with the many Gamorreans that have been gathered to prepare to come in on speeders from the palace, as a sneak attack from behind should this be a trap. Boba and his gang gears up, Boba even putting the gaffi stick on his back.
They scope out the area and sees The Mayor's home being guarded by several armed individuals. Using stealth, Boba, Krrsantan, Drash and her crew take out the guards and enter the home, shooting his main guard, which they do realize was actually to keep him in rather than keep them out, seeing that he's a prisoner and the Hutts betrayed him by using him for bait, over a dozen assassins, with various members of the gangs under the Hutts, trandoshans among them, surrounding the area.
Boba has prepared for this and has Mando and Fennic in sniper positions. But they're all held at a stalemate when assassins use laser scopes to show they have snipers positions on Fennic and Mando (a laser pointed at his neck avoiding his armor defense), and with Boba having prepped explosives in the surrounding buildings with a dead man switch so if any of the assassins come closer they'll be blown apart, which catches Drash off guard, her surprised at the callous disregard for the potential collateral damage it could cause from him, objecting to that, but Boba states to her that it's what's necessary for their survival, asking her if she wants to take them down or not.
But what Boba isn't prepared for is Cad Bane stepping in from the crowd of assassins. Boba is shaken.
Cad taunts him, telling him about how he's heard about his "heroic" feats in rescuing the slaves and fighting against the Hutts to free the people of tatooine from their grip. Cad reveals to his allies that Boba's been using them to get revenge on the Hutts for the killing of the sandpeople (saying that deep down Boba's still just a little boy who can't let go of his daddy), and doesn't really care about this cause, this leading to some rumblings for Drash and her crew. Cad then tells Boba to drop the act and face him. Boba dismisses Cad's confidence in this trap, telling him that he always has a backup. Cad has no fear at this, instead dragging out some beaten up and bloodied Gamorreans. Cad tells Boba he taught him everything he knows, and figured he'd find a way to get some backup with Cobb Vanth's town being intimidated into submission and it wasn't a hard guess where they'd be.
In this we see that Jabba's palace has been blown apart.
EPISODE 7:
Open where we ended the previous episode, Boba and Cad's sides stuck at a stalemate. Cad holding some of the Gamorreans on their knees at gunpoint. He threatens to execute them one at a time if Boba doesn't surrender himself.
Drash is distraught at this, trying to push Boba to do something. Boba tells her that they can't turn themselves over and they have them outnumbered, if they exited the building and surrendered there'd be almost nothing left to stop them from killing them all.
Cad asks the gamorrean if he's going to beg and it growls that he'd rather die than beg, and Cad shoots him, causing Drash to become emotional try and nearly go out herself, but Boba stops her, telling her that she has to follow his orders here. She asks why she should trust him. Boba tells her that they all still want the same thing. She states that these people mean nothing to him, it's only about revenge. Boba tells her that that's what's necessary to get the job done and that if they give up now, the syndicate wins and if that happens they'll continue and that she won't get revenge on them, as he knows she wants that too, that to achieve what needs to be done they have to be ruthless.
Mando contacts Boba for an order, before he and Fennic share a look of guilt at the situation, Fennic signaling Mando that she's going to contact Boba, asking him over her communicator about this. Boba tells her that he'll kill them all anyway and everyone else, they're witnesses and threats, the Hutts would want them gone and Cad would do it. Fennic asks if he's sure, and Boba responds that he knows him.
Cad hands off his blaster to an assassin, who murders another gamorrean (Cad's contacting the Hutts, telling them they have Boba cornered and to send them in), Drash's disgust and conflict builds and she leaves the front of the building to go into the center area where the Mayor is being held. She channels her frustration into interrogating the Mayor, demanding the location of the Hutts from him and the spice shipping port. He asserts he knows nothing.
Drash tells him that she knows what he did, that he handed the people over to Jabba to be slaves and, pointing her flamethrower gauntlet at him, tells him that she'll hold him responsible for her mom's death if he doesn't tell. He says they'll kill him and she, in her anger, asks him if he thinks she won't, as she blasts flames onto his hand, the mayor yelling out in agony.
Boba hears the yelling, and goes to check on it, to see Drash switching to burning the Mayor's other arm. He sternly asks her what she's doing. She says what they came here for.
The Mayor confesses they're on a barge outside the city, as they don't want to look weak to the other leaders due to the current dissension among them so they're close by, but not too close, to maintain the facade of them having a hands on approach, and the location of the spice shipping port.
Boba is uncertain about this when he's called up front by Cad, whose now drug out the 2 gamorreans who were his guards, telling him that he knows these 2 worked for him personally, and to come out or they'll see what loyalty to him gets them.
Boba stands by the entrance in conflict as Cad counts down from 3. Just before 0, Boba takes off the gaffi stick he's wearing, exits the building, now wearing his helmet, yelling out to Cad to stop, with his rifle pointed at him. Boba states that if he's killed the entire place goes up, and his men won't risk that, they only care about themselves. Cad, with a chuckle says, "if that isn't the quacta calling the stifling slimy.", telling him that he's walking out here like he's some type of hero, knowing that he's in no danger and then tells Boba that if he opens fire, the sniper on his friends will take them out, telling him that having so many weaknesses has put him in a vulnerable position, and some things never change, even though he taught Boba to be smarter than that.
Boba tells Cad that only really taught him how to wind up dead and alone for an empty payday just like his dad. Cad, with a smirk, tells him that that's only true for those who aren't skilled enough at the job, then saying that they can see here and now whose more skilled at it. Boba tells him that he's not a child anymore, Cad can't manipulate him. Cad says that they'll see about that, as he repositions his blaster at the head of the gamorrean guard.
Meanwhile Mando is contacted on his comms by someone and he relays this to Fennic and Boba.
In that moment, Cobb Vanth's townspeople ride in on speeders and begin to open fire on the assassins.
Cad swiftly takes his gun away from the gamorrean and to the townspeople for his defense, as Mando and Fennic take cover from the distracted snipers in the flurry, finding better vantage points for fire.
Cad takes cover, but tries to get off a shot at the gamorrean as it rushes to Boba's side, Boba firing his rifle at him to stop it, Cad avoiding the rifle fire with his cover though it does prevent him from getting his shot off. Drash and her people are back up top, engaging with the gunfire.
Boba orders Fennic and Mando to get out of here and get to the spice shipping port, giving her the location, and torch it, that should take out their entire unshipped supply. They take the order and take off on speeder bikes to the location.
Cad's forces having been pushed back into cover, no longer in a position of threat leads to Cad communicating with the outside of the town and tells them to activate them.
Boba, Drash, her crew, the gamorreans and Krrsantan, with the townspeople are outside the Mayor's building at the front, taking in the moment of reprieve.
Some of the assassins are dead, but the one that murdered one of the gamorreans is still alive, wounded. Drash walks up to him and picks up his blaster that he's trying to reach for, coldly shooting him dead.
Boba sees this and has a moment of concern, contacting Fennic and Mando to ask if they're at the shipping port yet.
But that's cut short, when they hear clanging noises heading towards them, then seeing the entering large droidekas.
Everyone immediately fires upon them, but the shield deflects it all and the droidekas open fire on everyone, them all going for cover. They destroy some of the surrounding buildings as well, civilians in them having to take cover themselves.
Mando hears the blasting and he and Fennic stop their speeders and ask what's going on. Boba tells them they sent in droidekas, insisting they get to the spice. Mando, refusing to run away from a town being destroyed by droids, tells Fennic he's going back, telling her to get to the shipping port, because if she destroys that, the Hutts operation is crippled. Fennic agrees.
Cad and his assassins step out, giving more exact shots at them while they're trying to maintain their cover, Cad contacting Boba through one of his communication channels and telling him the Hutts spared no expense to solve this problem.
Boba tells his people they have to fall back, they weren't prepared for this, they can get his ship and go after the Hutts, make them stop these things. One of Drash's crew says that they can't, the civilians could be slaughtered if they leave, telling him they're drawing most of the fire.
Boba tells them it's an order and uses the rocket on his jetpack as a distraction to give them all cover for some escape. But the townspeople refuse, as does some of Drash's crew.
Boba uses his jetpack to get to the palace, seeing it wrecked (though the hangar for his ship is still standing), then seeing a lot of gamorreans alive, but injured and unable to move, then seeing one of the gamorreans bleeding out under some debris. Boba pulls the debris off and has a moment of sympathy for the gamorrean, telling him he's sorry, and then the creature dies.
One of Drash's crew contacts Boba if Drash is with him, as she's gone. He says no. They say that she wouldn't just abandon the people. Boba has a moment of reflection, saying that he would, then realizing that she went after the Hutts. Boba goes to his ship to activate it, but he sees it's been rigged to explode by Cad Bane if he starts it. Furious, he leaves the ship, unsure what to do, then seeing the trap door under the palace, getting an idea.
Cut to Fennic reaching the shipping port, seeing a limited amount of guards there.
Meanwhile the people are overwhelmed by the droidekas, unable to get any shots off at Cad or his men, the blaster fire from the droids chipping away at their cover as it slowly moves toward them. Krrsantan is furious that they're being forced to hide.
Mando flies in on his jetpack, blasting at the droidekas, them redirecting their fire at him. He avoids the droidekas blasts at him at first, but has a near miss that knocks him to the ground. His jetpack damaged, he quickly takes it off, and takes cover with the droidekas attention now fully on him. They start firing at his cover, tearing at it, hitting him in a part of his arm that doesn't have armor on it, as he moves to avoid the blasts.
When suddenly, from behind the buildings, the rancor rises up with Boba riding it.
The rancor tackles one of the droidekas, taking them off of Mando. The blasts of the droidekas only make the rancor angry, it's hide too thick.
Mando takes the opportunity to start shooting fire and blaster bolts at the other droideka, it redirecting at him, which he avoids with cover, Mando contacting Boba on comms, telling him that the shields are too strong.
Boba questions how they're going to get them down. Mando tells him that he knows these things, their shields are meant to keep everything but their own droid construction out, he and Boba working out a plan.
Mando keeps his droideka on him distracted, while Boba pushes the other droideka with the rancor towards that one.
Cad Bane and his men start firing upon Boba and Mando, seeing that they're successfully distracting the droideka. Krrsantan sees a trandoshan distracted by firing upon them and he stalks up to him, retracting his claws to tear at the trandoshan from behind, but he's hit by stray blaster fire, which alerts the trandoshan who quickly turns and shoots him again as well.
The droidekas are pushed together, going through eachothers shields, as Boba fires at Mando's and Mando fires at Boba's, both from behind the droidekas. The droidekas turn their blasters towards eachother and blast at eachother as they're tangled in eachother's shields, Mando's destroying Boba's, this distraction and their shields being damaged by being tangled together allows Mando get past the shield and in a moment of steadiness with the darksaber he turns it on and slashes at it's legs and then slices through it entirely, destroying it.
Boba asks Mando if all the civilians and his people are out of the way and Mando confirms it. Boba then sets off the bombs he had placed, which blows up, destroying the Mayor's building, some surrounding area and taking out a lot of Cad's men. Boba gets off of the rancor, settling it for a moment, before seeing that some of his people are cornered by one of Cad's men-
The trandoshan points his gun at Krrsantan's head, as he lays on the ground badly wounded, the trandoshan about to finish him off, and for a moment a look of sadness crosses over Krrsantan's face. Boba shoots the trandoshan, killing him, and one of Drash's gang quickly rushes to Krrsantan's side, Boba getting there as well, trying to tend to his wound, but he's angry, willing to die, hating himself, saying he deserves it.
When Boba asks him why, Krrsantan tells his greatest shame, that he used his claws to harm one of his own for the sake of luring trandoshans to him so he could kill them for sport. It was the greatest crime a wookie can commit. It was punishable by eternal exile from his people and his world and all it's beauty and connection, and Krrsantan has been living in shame with a hole in his life at the loss of his home and people ever since, and he has displaced blame on the trandoshans about it, but he's now admitting to himself that he betrayed his people and what they stood for and he deserves to die for it.
Boba tells him he understands, but states that they're all monsters, they've all done terrible things, but they're also warriors and they can't change what they've done, asking Krrsantan if he's going to die knowing he's given up or if he's willing to fight to try and fix things. This motivates the wookiee and he allows the humans to help him.
Most of Boba's people are helping to get some civilians even further away, when Cad calls Boba out, telling him he has no one to hide behind anymore, that "it's just me and you now".
Boba first tells Mando and the other guy to get Krrsantan out of here, then readies his rifle and steps out to face Cad, saying that that goes for both of them, pointing out that his people have either died or ran off, telling Cad that that's what having no loyalty will get you.
Cad dismisses his claim, firing back with how he used these people for his own ends, just like Cad taught him, so he has no leg to stand on in his attempt at a moral high ground. Boba admits that Cad's lessons, what he learned in his life before that, are a hard thing to shake loose, and maybe he can never escape them, but he can try.
Cad asks him if that's why he came back to help these people, to try and prove to himself he was something he's not. Boba tells Cad that he doesn't know him anymore and maybe he never did, but he's learned that he's not gonna be caught in this trap of life that Cad convinced him as a child he had to be anymore.
Cad mocks his claim of being a changed man, stating that once you start this life, there's no changing, that Boba oughta know that, his dad never escaped it. Boba states that he's not his dad and he's not Cad Bane, he chooses who he is and he's seen what the consequences of his actions are, so he has a lot to make up for, so under his watch no more innocent people are gonna die, or be locked up, or live in fear. Cad tells Boba to prove it, to finish it right here and now.
Meanwhile Mando, as he helps get Krrsantan into a landspeeder, sees Peli Motto's shop closed up. He quickly makes his way over to it, opening it to nearly be shot by her. She at first says sorry, she thought he was a looter, asking if he came for his ship. Mando tells her that he wanted to make sure she was ok, then realizing what she said, asking if she's finished his ship already. She affirms she did.
Cutting back to the action, Boba understands what Cad wants and that's that they have a good old fashioned gunfight, Boba dropping the rifle, taking off his jetpack and readying his hand over his blaster in it's holster.
They stand on opposing sides of eachother. Close up shots of their eyes intercut, prepping the shot, their hands hovering over their blasters.
Cad gets off the first shot at Boba's throat, which Boba blocks with his gauntlet. Boba takes his shot at Cad's chest, which he dodges, quick to react, taking aim and firing at Boba at the same time. Boba is hit in the side, him quickly taking cover behind a wall of the Mayor's now near demolished building, holding the bloody wound in his side.
Cad tells him that he's still not faster than him as he strides up to the where Boba is.
Boba makes for an attempt at a quick shot around the corner of the wall at Cad, but he's too fast, firing at the wall before Boba can.
Boba looks around, searching for a way out but the entire area is blocked off by walls and building debris, then his eyes falling on the gaffi stick.
Cad Bane is confident in his victory as he sees Boba's blood on the ground in the road, then telling him that if he comes out and takes his death like a man, maybe Cad will spare him the indignity of the slow death Boba left him to.
Boba takes a moment, using his gauntlet to sync with his jetpack remotely, as Cad Bane approaches the wall. When Cad Bane gets close enough, Boba activates the jetpack with a short burst, catching Cad's attention as it's remotely fired towards his direction.
Taking his opportunity at the distraction, Boba lunges at Cad with the butt of the gaffi stick, hitting him in the face 2 times, throwing him off balance, then knocking his pistol out of his hand. Boba throws another hit with the stick into Cad's stomach, knocking the wind out him. He then uses the hook of the stick and cracks Cad's kneecap with it, breaking his leg, him collapsing backwards. And before Cad, blood his mouth from being hit in the face can even reach for his dropped pistol, Boba brings the spear of the gaffi stick down onto his arm, piercing it to the ground, severing his hand muscles, then swiftly stabbing the other arm.
Cad almost chuckles, telling Boba that using the jetpack as a distraction was a good one, he didn't see that coming. Boba says that he's learned from old mistakes. Cad asks him if he's going to end it this time or walk away like a coward again.
Boba brings the spear of his gaffi stick to Cad's throat, telling that he's going to do neither, he's going to show him the mercy he knows Cad hates, drawing Cad's attention to the republic patrol that's entering the city and is landing. Cad, realizing that Boba called them, tells Boba that he'll come back for him. Boba is stoic, as he says that he knows he has nothing to fear from Cad anymore, then stepping back as the republic patrol troopers come to take Cad Bane away, his bitterness festering.
Boba rushes to Mando, and tells him that they have to get to the Hutt barge outside the city, because Drash is going after them, then asking Mando if he has a ship. Mando affirms that he just so happens to.
At the spice shipping port, Fennic snipes the guards one by one in the knees. Then walking into the port, she shoots to kill the guards who won't stay down, telling the rest to get out of here it they know what's best for them. She checks the shipping crates to ensure it's the spice.
Meanwhile Drash pulls up on her speeder bike to the Hutts barge, which is settled on the sand. She uses a thermal detonator to blow open their entrance, killing their guards entering, pointing her pistol and gauntlet at the Hutts.
The Hutts other guards come at Drash from the side, but both are shot by Boba who enters the barge from behind her.
Boba tells her that the droidekas and assassins are stopped, she doesn't need to do this, the republic troopers are arresting the assassins, the Hutts can face justice, it's what she wanted. She says it won't change anything that they've done, they have to pay for what they did, to her mom, to everyone, asking him what does it matter to him if they face justice anyway.
Boba, with a moment of hesitation, steps up past Drash, in front of her pistol, between her and the Hutts, telling that if all she really wants is revenge now, to take it. She's confused.
Boba admits to her that he's the one who was put in charge of the mining while he worked for Jabba and ran point on the gathering of people as slaves for the spice mines under Jabba's orders, telling Drash that these Hutts she wants to murder weren't apart of that decision and he's more responsible than they are, stating that if anyone is responsible for her mother's death it's him.
Drash asks why he's telling her this. Boba takes off his helmet and says that it's because he was in the same place she's at, and he's realizes he's become the monster that he wanted to think the jedi who killed his dad was because he tried to prove to himself that he didn't need or care about anyone, and he thinks that no matter whether she kills the monster responsible for her mother's death or not he's afraid she'll end up the same way, and he wants to break that cycle, give her the chance he never took, to make peace with this.
Drash, in anger, points the pistol at Boba's head. Boba tells her that he's sorry for what he did to her mother.
Drash struggles with murdering him, dropping her arm, saying that she doesn't want to become him.
Taking advantage of the situation, the Hutts reach for weapons in hidden compartments and point them at Boba and Drash to kill them. But both Boba and Drash quickly redirect their blasters at them in self defense, firing, killing the Hutt twins.
Leaving the barge, Drash, the weight of everything hitting her, feels remorseful that she abandoned her friends and the people. Boba tells her that she has things to make up for and he knows what that's like. Drash gives Boba his gauntlet back, telling him that she's not going to forgive him. He tells her he understands that. She silently gets back on her speeder and heads off into town.
Boba takes a moment, closing his eyes and breathing as he holds his helmet under his arm, lifting up his head, letting the sun hit his face, paralleling when he crawled out of the sarlacc at the beginning of the season. Taking his helmet in both hands, he looks down at, paralleling what he did as a child.
Meanwhile at spice shipping port, Fennic sets charges on all the shipping crates. Stepping away from the blast radius, she blows them, watching the spice burn, feeling catharsis at it.
Afterward Fennic returns to the town, being met by Boba, as Cobb Vanth's people, the patched up gamorreans, patched up Krrsantan and Drash and some of her gang are helping the civilians of the town.
Fennic tells Boba she heard about Drash, asking if she's okay. Boba tells her that he doesn't think so, but maybe some day she will.
Fennic then asks him if he's okay. Boba replies that he's not either, but he thinks he's found a way to work with that.
Mando, having been patched up himself, walks up to Boba and tells him he's gonna be going, he's got somewhere to be. Boba asks him where that is.
Mando admits that he's been afraid of going to see Grogu because he's afraid he won't be able to leave him again, but he realized when he so close to death by that droideka that he's more afraid of what could happen if something had happened and he never showed him that he cared, so he's going to go visit him. Boba, feeling a personal connection to Mando and Grogu's situation, wishes Mando a safe journey, shaking his hand.
One of the leaders of Cobb Vanth's town walks up to Boba and as a thank you for stopping the Hutts, gives him Cobb Vanth's sheriff's badge.
Mando leaves the planet, flying off in his new ship, a remodeled Naboo N-1 starfighter.
Boba is uncertain about this, but Fennic wonders if he wants to make the badge official, saying that these people may need some help, with the Hutt's crime syndicate leaders still out there and this planet's spice mines still ripe for the picking. Krrsantan offers his assistance, as he sees it as he owes Boba a life debt now and wants to honor that. The gamorrean guards aligning themselves in loyalty to Boba. Boba decides to take on that responsibility, welding the badge onto his armor.
And we end the show there.
Post credit scene is cutting to a brief glimpse of Grogu with Luke, training.
And that's it. Last episode was so long, but there was a lot to resolve. Please review and tell me what you think!