Episode 3 of The Mandalorian is out and with it come new adventures for our heroes. We find the bounty hunter and Grogu, but also other characters, who will certainly play a very important role this season.
It is on Coruscant, the planet-capital of the galaxy, that we have just found a particular character in episode 3 of season three of The Mandalorian. A character seen in the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, and that we had almost forgotten. Not only is he not dead, but he plays a key role in the episode — which foreshadows a big role in the sequel.
When we rediscover in this episode, we can see him giving a speech, and not least: he stands in a packed room, extremely chic, surrounded by very important people. During his speech, the person concerned refers to an important moment that occurred in episode II, Attack of the Clones — and this little wink says a lot about the rest of the series.
Warning, the rest of the article contains spoilers: read at your own risk if you haven’t seen episode 3 yet.
A reference to the movie Attack of the Clones
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It is therefore Dr. Pershing who makes his return in this episode. The scientist worked in previous seasons on behalf of Moff Gideon, a former officer of the Galactic Empire who was able to keep control of certain troops. It was Dr. Pershing who had put a bounty on Grogu’s head, and so through him Din Djarin (the Mandalorian) and Baby Yoda met.
In this episode, he says that thanks to the ” Amnesty program “, he is still alive. ” Many of us had to work for the Empire. But the New Republic gave us another chance “, he specifies. This is a program for the reintegration of former soldiers and scientists who have collaborated with the Empire, whether willingly or by force. The program allows them to start a new life (and may be reminiscent of what the United States achieved at the end of World War II with German scientists).
In his speech, Dr. Pershing talks about his research, which focused on cloning. He assures that they would have been abused in a cruel and inhuman way by an individual ready to do anything to seize power thanks to cloning technology but that his original intentions were good.
More precisely, he was working on a special technique, with eugenic accents. ” Thanks to the innovations of Kaminoens, we know that we can clone an individual from a strand of DNA. I was exploring the possibility of combining various strands to create replicas incorporating the best attributes of both donors. »
It is this mention of the Kaminoans that is key here, as this is not the first time that we have heard of the planet Kamino and its inhabitants. The first time was in the prelogy, with the film Attack of the Clones. The Kaminoans are then presented as excellent cloners – they are also the ones who provide the Republic with its army of clones, thanks to which it wins a battle against separatists in the film.
The fact that Dr Pershing talks about it again in the episode of mandalorian is therefore not insignificant, especially since the scientist intends to continue his research. Although his plans seem to be thwarted by the end of the episode, one can’t help but wonder what this work might lead to.
In previous seasons, Dr. Pershing uses Grogu’s blood and injects it into guinea pigs, in an attempt to empower them with the Force. The experiments he conducts are, fortunately, unsuccessful. But one can’t help but wonder if these cloning works could, eventually, be used to create clone armies, like the Kaminoans did — but with Jedi-powered soldiers. A discouraging prospect.
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