What single thing...
would drag me to this forsaken basement?
[whispers] Say it. Say the word.
Death Star.
[♪ tense music playing]
[Bix] We have to win.
We have to beat them.
And I believe you have purpose in making that happen. I need to believe that.
So, I'm choosing for the both of us.
If you're brave enough to stay, I should be brave enough to go.
Next year. In Yavin.
[Mon] The monster we've helped create?
The monster who will come for us all soon enough...
is Emperor Palpatine!
I'm not sure I can do this.
Welcome to the rebellion.
- [shuddering] - Give me your hand.
[Mon] I'm not sure
how to thank you.
Make it worth it.
[Krennic] You will put this image out
as wide and deep and far
as it takes until we find her.
We're scanning everything we can.
She knows that.
Go back.
Pull the old Axis files.
There was a radio in Ferrix.
Anto Kreegyr had one. We found several of them.
Old frequencies. Pulse codes.
My best guess.
[Wilmon] What if it's a trap?
Then it's a trap. It changes nothing.
You gotta go down to the hangar and get us on the test roster.
I don't wanna be shot down pulling out of here.
[engine accelerates]
This was an emergency call.
- A final call. - [Draven shouts] After all this?
Everything we've put in place. Knowing how vulnerable we are.
It would be you, wouldn't it?
Oh, no.
[button clicks]
They need to hear this.
[Kleya] Okay, you tell them.
Tell them what I just told you.
I'm not leaving you here.
[♪ captivating music playing]
[♪ music fades]
[♪ soft intriguing music playing]
[♪ music intensifying]
[♪ music fades]
Yavin.
After all of this.
What a bitter ending.
Nothing's ending.
You're keeping Luthen alive.
Big words.
[Cassian] You can rest there.
- [sighs] As a prisoner. - [Cassian] As a hero.
You need to see the place you helped build.
You need to tell them what you told us.
I'm not leaving you here.
[radio static]
- Nothing? - [tech] It's not us, sir,
it's a link transmit from the ship, so it's a bit confusing.
There must be someone there.
Anyone else with a tactical line failure?
[radio static]
[console hissing]
[automated voice] Level 27.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
Last unit on the left.
[sighs]
Still no comms.
We're wasting time.
[blasters powering up]
[Cassian] Is that it?
Yeah.
Tighten up.
Two with me. One flank.
You can tuck in, sir.
We've got this from here.
[♪ suspenseful music continues]
[Gharial] You can stop right there!
Go, go, go!
[Gharial] Slowly raise your hands above your head!
No sudden movements.
Hold your fire.
[Melshi grunts]
- Don't. Don't. - What?
Leave it.
[Gharial] This is the ISB!
This is a warrant search.
This is your first and final warning.
- How many? - I don't know.
I need to see open hands and I need to see them now!
- Is there another way out? - Not that we have time for.
- We can still close the door. - We'll be trapped.
- As opposed to what? - [Cassian grunts]
K, where are you? K!
[footsteps approaching]
[Bezni] Stop right there.
Sergeant! [grunts]
- [♪ dramatic music playing] - [grunts]
Stop there! [grunts]
Stunner.
[breathing heavily]
[trilling]
[stunner clatters]
[Kleya grunts]
[Melshi and Cassian groan]
[Gharial] Go, go!
[blaster clicks]
- [blasters firing] - [soldiers grunting]
Cass!
- [panting] - [muffled] Cassian!
[ears ringing]
[Cassian] Hey, wake up!
[grunting]
[automated voice] Level 27.
What's the closest Tactical unit we have in here?
Apparently everyone's out running down the emergency disease warrant.
Flood it. Get anything you can over there.
[♪ dramatic music playing]
[screaming]
Stop right there!
Don't come any closer!
I'm not telling you again!
Flank! On me!
[grunts]
- Cass! Where are you? - [Cassian] Back here!
[panting]
[blaster fire]
[Gharial screams]
[both breathing heavily]
- [♪ suspenseful music building] - [footsteps approaching]
[K-2SO] Cassian, I've cleared a path.
[both panting]
[tech 1] TAC-five, TAC-five, zone 3512. Any unit, please.
- [tech 2 on radio] It's in the queue. - [tech 1] Channel check.
TAC-five, board check, please.
[tech 2] Running it now. You'll have to wait.
[tech 1] This should be open priority. We need units immediately.
[tech 2] Open call confirmed. It's out there.
[tech 1] Push the request. Push it now!
[♪ dramatic music playing]
[sirens wailing]
[Cassian] Hey.
Yeah? Thank you.
[Cassian] Make sure she stays awake.
[K-2SO] I assume any doubts about my value have been erased.
- You can speed up now. - [switches clicking]
[K-2SO] You're welcome.
Hard right coming.
[♪ sentimental music playing]
[Saw] Explain this.
Tell me why whenever I'm being scolded for troubling you,
I'm reminded the Rebellion is bigger than all of us...
And yet, when you feel inconvenienced,
all I hear is how small and how fragile it's all become.
- This is more than inconvenience. - Why should I believe anything you say?
We know you're on Jedha, Saw.
We know you're picking off Imperial transports.
We're trying to share what we hear about how dangerous
that is making things for all of us.
What you know! What you hear!
Poking at my window!
How many more meddling squealers have you sent my way?
I'm trying to help you.
You've already got an Imperial Destroyer on site.
Keep hijacking these transports, that'll be the least of your problems.
You have no idea where I am.
All your spies and infiltrators...
You think I'd still be alive if I hadn't learned to bend them as I wish?
It's the Empire that's after you, Saw, not us.
If only you could fight as well as you lie.
[sighs]
You're sure he's in Jedha?
He's been warned.
- He's insane. - [Draven] He's not.
We've been probing his team for over a year now. It's an active operation.
Which is how you're sure he's on Jedha?
Sir...
Admiral Raddus requested you join him.
The missing U-wing. There's a situation.
[Draven] Have they found it?
Well, speak up.
Apparently, it's coming in hot,
unauthorized, and requesting landing coordinates.
- [sighs] - [Draven] I'll be right there.
- Is this Andor? - I believe so.
With a stolen ship. On an unsupervised mission.
You could make that case.
- Incredible. - If you'll excuse me.
[sighs]
Makes the Senate look easy, doesn't it?
[sighs]
They're still transmitting, sir.
You know the protocol.
Scramble three, put two on the deck in case we need them.
You're lucky Merrick's away. He'd go shoot it down himself.
Let's hope that's not necessary.
[radio whining]
- Try it again. - [K-2SO] It's not the comm unit.
[Cassian] Try again.
- [switch clicking] - [K-2SO] Transmitting.
Should have filed a flight plan.
- Nothing. - Why aren't they answering?
[K-2SO] We could be anybody.
They'll figure it out.
We're gettin' close, aren't we?
[K-2SO] I suspect we'll be shot down as an enemy probe.
[Cassian] Shut up, K.
[K-2SO] But disobeying orders is so refreshing.
[breathes heavily]
[switches clicks]
[♪ dramatic music playing]
[squadron leader] This is a restricted orbital airlane.
We have engaged targeting.
Failure to comply with our specific commands
will trigger immediate destruction.
[K-2SO] I plan to tell them I was kidnapped.
[air-raid siren sounding]
[hurried chatter]
[Draven] Stop right there!
[Cassian] She's injured.
Who else is with you?
[K-2SO] Hello.
Just us.
She needs a doctor! Please!
Take her to the sick bay.
Weapons down.
[softly] Okay.
- [Melshi] Guys, careful. - [Cassian] Careful.
- [woman] All right. - [man 1] Got her.
- [man 2] Medical team on standby. - [man 1] Easy.
Keep him at the hangar.
- You. Droid. - [K-2SO] Me?
Power down this ship, walk away, then power down yourself until further notice.
I have important news.
I certainly hope so.
Come with me.
[Bail] Is this everyone?
We don't have a quorum.
- [Jebel] They'll be back soon enough. - [Senator Pamlo] We're not here to vote.
- [Bail] Captain. - Sir.
Apparently, you've been chasing something you feel is...
worth violating every rule we live by.
Not exactly.
I went to save an old friend. Of that, I'm guilty.
It's what I learned when I got there that made us come back so recklessly.
You went to save Luthen Rael.
Luthen is dead.
We found Kleya at the old safehouse.
Who's Kleya?
Luthen's assistant.
[Cassian] She has some very urgent news.
So where is she?
[Draven] She's been taken to the infirmary.
- Is she all right? - She will be.
Well, let's have it, Captain.
Luthen Rael had a source in the ISB.
A Supervisor. He was hidden there for years.
Yesterday, on Coruscant, Luthen was called to an emergency meeting.
The source told him he'd just learned that the Emperor's secret energy project
was the cover story for the manufacture of a weapon.
The energy project?
That's hardly a secret. We've been funding it for years.
[Mon] Without details or inspections.
What kind of a weapon are we talking about?
I don't know about the weapon.
Then what's the point?
Let him finish.
Luthen was told that there's a connection between the Ghorman destruction,
the kyber mining on Jedha,
and an Imperial engineer named Galen Erso.
All of this conveniently wrapped in a big "energy program" basket?
[Cassian] I'm just reporting what he was told.
It sounds like a paranoid fantasy.
Luthen Rael died for this.
And how has that been verified?
- [scoffs] Are you serious? - [Draven] Captain.
[Bail] The problem, Captain, is Luthen.
I know you share a long history.
Both of you.
It's hard not to wonder if your judgment here might be... less than objective.
I'll have to disagree.
It's everything I know about Luthen that makes me believe this is real.
[Senator Pamlo] We're talking about someone who's been a thorn in our side
since we began building this Alliance.
Did you know him?
Any of you?
Does anyone in this room besides Senator Mothma
have any idea how much you owe him?
Oh, please. [sighs]
When I say I know Luthen...
I mean I know the good and the bad.
I know what was wrong with him.
I had a front-row seat on that,
and I made my choice two years ago,
to join here and be part of this.
But none of that can take away what he did and how hard it was.
I don't know if what he was told is true or not.
But it's insulting to hear him run down
by people who have given a fraction of his sacrifice to this Rebellion!
Enough!
When's the last time you two spoke?
A year ago.
[Senator Pamlo] A year ago?
When he had me rescue Senator Mothma from the Senate.
Duly noted.
A lot can happen in a year, wouldn't you agree?
He stayed on Coruscant too long.
The rumors we've been hearing is that the ISB was onto Luthen.
I'm afraid it's just as easy to believe that Luthen was the one being played.
- Or worse. - [Bail] His paranoia, his secrecy,
his inability to collaborate.
The web of doubts that he created, it makes everything unbelievable.
So we do nothing?
Dodonna and Merrick will be back tomorrow night.
This is active intelligence.
More like puffed-up speculation.
We will follow up tomorrow night with a full session.
As of now, Captain Andor, you are forbidden from accessing your ship...
and confined to quarters.
Requesting permission to visit the infirmary.
Permission granted.
[sighs]
Your contact with Saw Gerrera.
Tivik.
He sent three urgent messages from Kafrene in the past ten hours.
Saw's on Jedha.
And you think this can wait?
You're in no position to make suggestions, Captain.
Make it quick.
[rustling]
[machine beeping]
Not exactly the hero's welcome I promised, was it?
[chuckles]
It's a lot for them to take in.
All at once, it's...
It's a lot.
I'm doing what I can. I promise.
[object rattles]
I thought we were having breakfast.
[sighs] What's happened?
Luthen's dead.
Cassian brought Kleya back, but...
- When did this happen? - Just now.
Cassian?
He's been grounded.
He should stop saving people.
[sighs]
I need something.
They brought back some...
curious information.
I won't share it, because I'm hoping he'll tell it to you,
and you'll tell me what you think.
Spy on him.
Help me believe him.
[thunder rumbling]
I have some bad news.
You couldn't find Luthen?
He's dead, Wil.
He made it worth it.
[♪ somber music playing]
[radio chatter]
Sir.
Another message from Kafrene.
He won't talk to anybody but Andor.
Call him back.
[thunder rumbling]
Will you drink to Luthen?
Just this once.
Can't toast them all, can we?
Gorn, Nemik...
- Taramyn... - Cinta.
The Ghormans, Ferrix.
Your mother.
The Dhanis.
[Cassian] Aldhani.
I've heard people claim they were there when it happened.
I'd kill anyone I heard say that.
[chuckles] I believe you would.
[Vel sighs]
Mon wants to know if your Luthen story is real.
[Cassian sighs]
He died for it.
Does it matter what he did to us along the way?
Does it matter how it twisted him?
None of this exists without him.
None of us are here.
[grunts softly] Kleya wouldn't lie about it.
[Revnog pouring]
Tell me what she said.
[machine beeping]
[♪ melancholy music playing]
[Nemik] There will be times when the struggle seems impossible.
I know this already.
Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this, freedom is a pure idea.
It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.
Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy.
[thunder rumbling]
[on speakers] There are whole armies,
battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause.
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere.
And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And then remember this.
The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural.
Tyranny requires constant effort.
It breaks, it leaks.
Authority is brittle.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
I'm assuming you've heard it before.
[Lagret] Bits and pieces.
Just keeps spreading, doesn't it?
It's been hard to contain.
Who do you think it is?
I'm afraid they're waiting for you, sir.
- I told them I'd bring you down. - [breathes heavily]
[inhales sharply]
May I have a moment to collect my thoughts?
[sighs]
- [muffled blaster shot] - [soft thud]
- [men laughing in distance] - [♪ wistful music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[thunder rumbling]
[Vel] You should reconnect with Bix.
She's safe, isn't she?
That's what I hear.
She wouldn't be safe with me.
It's too late for that.
She might disagree.
[sighs] Once this settles down, maybe...
I'll think about it.
Don't wait too long.
[shivering]
[Vel] Kleya?
Kleya. It's me.
It's Vel.
[shuddering]
I'm not sure it'll do much good, but put this on.
Come on. You can't stay out here.
Come on.
I'm sorry about Luthen.
What you did for him, I can't imagine that was easy.
It had to be done.
It gets tiring saying that, doesn't it?
He always used to say...
"Know your way out before you go in."
I don't even really know where I am.
I have friends everywhere.
You're here with friends.
I need to find my cousin and you need to sleep.
[K-2SO] We've been released.
They threw us out.
Got tired of listening to him.
[K-2SO] None of that is true.
General Draven brought us home.
He's outside.
Tivik's on Kafrene until tomorrow.
He'll only meet with you.
That doesn't sound promising.
Do you trust him?
I try.
There's an Imperial Destroyer parked over Jedha as of two days ago.
We were warning Saw to step away before you came back.
Jedha. Kyber crystal. An ISB mole and Luthen dying to get us in motion.
Now Tivik keeps calling us.
If this is all a trap, it's a brilliant way to spring it.
How do I get to Kafrene?
[footsteps approaching]
You have news.
You need to hear us out.
[girl] Kassa?
[water continues dripping]
[gasping]
[K-2SO] Waking up humans is always confusing.
[sighs]
[grunts, sniffs]
What is it?
[K-2SO] The man you do not like is here.
Excuse us, droid.
Sleep well?
No.
Ever sleep well?
No.
Then we have something in common.
General Draven has your orders.
Proceed to your contact, learn what you can.
Do it quickly.
Can I ask what changed?
If I die fighting the Empire...
I want to go down swinging.
[chuckles softly]
- You find that amusing? - No, but...
You and Luthen would have gotten along much better than you think.
May the Force be with you, Captain.
[♪ soft rousing music playing]
[Melshi] One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
[inaudible chatter]
- [inaudible chatter] - [♪ rousing music continues]
[♪ rousing music continues]
- [lights click off] - [crying]
[♪ rousing music continues]
[♪ music swells, fades]
[K-2SO] There's a rumor we have a flight plan.
- [system beeping] - The Ring of Kafrene.
[K-2SO] Tivik?
We'll take the quick way.
[K-2SO] It's so much easier when I know what we're doing.
Get us out of here.
[♪ epic music playing]
[droids chattering in binary]
[B2EMO] G-g-go again.
Once m-m-more and I win.
[♪ emotional music playing]
[baby cries]
[shushes] It's okay.
It's okay.
[♪ somber music playing]
[♪ dramatic music playing]
[♪ majestic music playing]
[♪ music ends]