But Cassian himself has snuck back home to Ferrix, where he tries and fails to convince his adoptive mother Maarva (Fiona Shaw) to leave the now Imperial-occupied planet with him, using the money he earned in the heist. We see a meeting between Luthen’s right-hand woman Kleya Marki (Elizabeth Dulau) and rebel cell leader Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay), in which the former essentially orders the latter to hunt down and assassinate the titular Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) for being a loose end in their recent caper. Meanwhile Syril settles into his new job in the bureaucratic maze of the Bureau of Standards, which sounds like the perfect gig for him, though he’s intent on clearing his name with the corporate sector. At Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgard) antique shop, Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) accuses the rebel recruiter of going too far too quickly in his aggressive efforts to steal from the Empire. Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) doesn’t agree with the strategy, but she keeps that to herself and her assistant Attendant Heert (Jacob James Beswick) as they go about their own investigation of the fledgling Rebellion. But nowhere is the impact of that incident felt more critically than in the offices of the Imperial Security Bureau, where Colonel Yularen (one of the first recognizable Star Wars characters to appear in this series outside of the main cast, played here by Malcolm Sinclair from 2006’s Casino Royale) briefs the officers about how the Empire is going to respond. “Announcement” begins on Coruscant, where news of the Aldhani heist has spread even to the apartment shared by our favorite sad-sack Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) and his mother Eedy (Kathryn Hunter). That said, I think I’m always going to prefer the talkier episodes of this series to the action-oriented ones, so Andor episode seven is right up my alley. I’d say by now Star Wars: Andor has pretty well established its pattern of setup, complications, and climax every three episodes (mimicking the typical plot structure of a movie, but split up across several installments), so it should come as no surprise that this week’s new episode, entitled “Announcement,” feels like the beginning of a new chapter in the story rather than the middle or an end.
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