There are lots of things to love about this episode, directed by Peyton Reed. So the clan of two plus Frog Lady get back on course to find the Mandalorian covert and get those babies fertilized. They let Mando go because “these are trying times,” and they have more important adversaries to face in maintaining order in the new democratic galaxy. Luckily those two X-Wing pilots hadn’t stopped their search and arrive just in time to take out all the remaining spiders. Mando fends them off in a spine-tingling, anxiety-inducing chase scene and even takes out a gargantuan one with explosives, but as the trio attempt to fly away, another huge arachnid stops them from taking off. They even open like the Xenomorph eggs of the film, but this species is arachnid, and when Baby Yoda munches one, an avalanche of spiders great and small spring into attack mode. It’s like that scene from Alien where Kane discovers a sea of them. While Mando is trying to fix the damage, Frog Lady finds a hot spring in the cavernous ice and decides to take a dip with her remaining eggs-the ones Baby Yoda hasn’t eaten, the cheeky little thing! Recognizing the danger of having a bath in an unknown, hostile environment, Mando persuades Frog Lady to collect her spawn and get out, but after stopping Baby Yoda from devouring yet another of her unborn children, its nose leads to another type of egg-hundreds, in fact. Even crueler that the icy planet they’ve landed on has all the chaotic horror energy of The Thing meets Eight Legged Freaks. It’s a cruel twist of fate that the Razor Crest suffers so much damage after just being fixed up.

Mando, The Child, and Frog Lady are forced to crash-land on the nearest planet and hide before they’re caught as fugitives. Mando reluctantly agrees and they set off, but as they're unable to use hyperdrive (it would vaporize the eggs), the travelers soon become the target of two New Republic officers in X-Wings. She needs to meet up with her husband, the aforementioned guy who knows where the bounty hunter’s brethren are. He needs to take the gal in question, a Frog Lady (Misty Rosas) carrying the precious cargo of her unfertilized eggs, with him. Mechanic Peli (Amy Sedaris) knows a gal who knows a guy on a planet where Mandalorians have been spotted, but in order to get the information, “there’s one small skank in the skud pie,” for Mando to agree to.

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