The Mandalorian on Disney+ is one of the most popular shows in streaming history. With season two now airing, here is a recap of season one to get you all caught up.
After completing a bounty for Guild leader Greef Karga, a Mandalorian bounty hunter accepts an under-the-table commission on the outpost world of Nevarro from an enigmatic client with connections to the former Galactic Empire. The client directs the Mandalorian to find an unnamed fifty-year-old target who the client's colleague Dr. Pershing insists be brought back alive. The Mandalorian receives a single bar of Beskar steel, sacred to his people, as a down payment. He takes the steel to a covert Mandalorian enclave where an armorer uses it to make him a pauldron. The Mandalorian travels to the planet of the target's last reported location, where vapor farmer Kuiil is tired of the constant bounty hunting activity in his area and hopes the Mandalorian can end it. Kuill directs the Mandalorian to a heavily defended encampment where he reluctantly works with bounty hunting droid IG-11 to clear the camp and find the quarry, a child. IG-11 attempts to kill the infant per its bounty orders. The Mandalorian shoots and destroys the droid, taking the child alive.
The Mandalorian returns to his ship with the child to find it being stripped for parts by Jawas. He attacks them but they escape in their sandcrawler. The next day, Kuiil helps the Mandalorian locate the Jawas and negotiate for the return of his ship's components. The Mandalorian agrees to retrieve the egg of a rhinoceros-like Mudhorn in exchange for the stolen parts. He and the child find the Mudhorn's cave, but the beast attacks him and damages his armor. After a prolonged battle, the Mudhorn is about to kill the Mandalorian when the child uses the Force to levitate the beast, allowing the surprised Mandalorian to stab and kill it. He collects the egg and takes it to the Jawas, who crack it open and eat its yellow insides. With his ship's components returned to him, the Mandalorian works with Kuiil to repair the ship. The Mandalorian then leaves the planet with the child.
The Mandalorian delivers the child to the client on Nevarro and collects the bounty, 20 bars of Beskar steel. Uncharacteristically, the Mandalorian asks about the client's plans for the child and is told that they are not his concern. Returning to the Mandalorian enclave, the armorer replaces and upgrades the Mandalorian's damaged armor and weapons using most of the Beskar steel. The Mandalorian accepts a new job from Karga and prepares to depart. Feeling guilty for abandoning the child, he returns to the client's base and kills the stormtroopers guarding it. He rescues the child from Dr. Pershing's laboratory, where it was being experimented on, but chooses not to kill the doctor. On the way back to his ship, the Mandalorian is ambushed by Karga and other bounty hunters who demand that he hand over the child. He refuses and a firefight begins. Outnumbered and cornered, the Mandalorian is saved when other Mandalorians arrive from the enclave, attacking the bounty hunters and allowing him to get to his ship and escape with the child.
Arriving on the sparsely populated forest planet Sorgan, the Mandalorian encounters ex-Rebel Alliance shock trooper-turned-mercenary Cara Dune. Dune is in hiding and asks the Mandalorian to leave so as to not draw attention to the planet. He prepares to leave, but is approached by desperate fishermen who offer to hire him. They want him to drive off a band of Klatoonian raiders that have been attacking their village. He accepts the job in exchange for lodging, and uses their credits to enlist Dune's help. They are housed by Omera, a widowed mother, and the Mandalorian confides in her that no one has seen him without his helmet since his tribe took him in as an orphaned child. The Mandalorian and Dune help the villagers drive the raiders away and destroy an old Imperial AT-ST the raiders were using. With peace restored, the Mandalorian plans to leave the child in the village, but a Guild bounty hunter finds them and is killed by Dune. Realizing the child is not safe in the village, the Mandalorian departs with the child.
The Mandalorian defeats a pursuing bounty hunter in a dogfight. He lands his damaged ship at a repair dock run by mechanic Peli Motto in Mos Eisley on Tatooine. He seeks work in a cantina to pay for the repairs, meeting aspiring bounty hunter Toro Calican, who is tracking elite mercenary and assassin Fennec Shand. Calican needs to catch Shand to join the Guild, and the Mandalorian agrees to help in exchange for the bounty reward. They capture Shand in the desert, but she destroys one of their speeder bikes. While the Mandalorian retrieves a dewback for transportation, Shand tells Calican that the Mandalorian betrayed the Guild by stealing the child, making the bounty on him and the child worth more than hers. Shand offers to help Calican capture the Mandalorian if he sets her free, but he shoots her instead and rides the remaining speeder bike to the repair dock, taking Motto and the Child hostage. The Mandalorian arrives, disorient's Calican with a flare, and kills him. He uses Calican's money to pay Motto for the repairs and leaves Tatooine.
The Mandalorian contacts his former partner Ran Malk for work, and is offered a place in a five-man job. He is joined by ex-Imperial sharpshooter Mayfeld, Devaronian strongman Burg, droid pilot Q9-0, and Twi'lek knife-expert Xi'an for a mission to rescue Xi'an's brother Qin, a prisoner of the New Republic. The team infiltrate the prison ship, fight through security droids, and kill the ship's security chief though not before he triggers a security beacon. The crew rescues Qin but double-crosses the Mandalorian. Q9-0 finds a message from Karga to the Mandalorian discussing the child, and finds the child in the Mandalorian's ship. Meanwhile, the Mandalorian escapes, defeats each crew member, and captures Qin. The Mandalorian leaves Mayfeld, Burg, and Xi'an locked in cells on the prison transport before delivering Qin to Ran. He departs with his payment while Ran immediately launches a fighter to kill the Mandalorian, but discovers the New Republic beacon on Qin. A trio of New Republic X-wing fighters arrive and attack Ran's station.
The Mandalorian receives a message from Karga, whose town on Nevarro has been overrun by the client's troops. Karga proposes that the Mandalorian use the child as bait in order to kill the client and free the town. In return, Karga would ensure the Guild stops hunting the Mandalorian and the child. Sensing a trap, the Mandalorian recruits Dune and Kuiil, and Kuiil brings a rebuilt and reprogrammed IG-11 to protect the child. They meet Karga and his associates, but are attacked by Mynocks. Karga is injured and the child uses the Force to heal him. In return, Karga kills his associates and confesses his original plan to shoot the Mandalorian and take the child to the client. Instead, Karga pretends that Dune has captured the Mandalorian while Kuiil returns the child to the ship. During the meeting, Moff Gideon's troops open fire on the building and kill the client, trapping the Mandalorian, Karga, and Dune inside. Gideon arrives, demanding the child. Outside the town, two scout troopers intercept Kuiil, killing him and taking the child.
IG-11 rescues the child from the scout troopers. Gideon warns Karga, Dune, and the Mandalorian that they will die if they do not hand over the child. IG-11 arrives and breaks the standoff, but Gideon injures the Mandalorian. The Mandalorian sends the others through a sewer grate with the child to find help from the Mandalorian enclave, while IG-11 removes his helmet to tend to a head injury. Joining the others, the Mandalorian finds the other Mandalorians dead or escaped, except for the armorer. She tasks him to care for the child, discover its origins, and return it to its kind. The armorer fashions the Mandalorian his own signet and gives him a jetpack. The group is ferried down an underground lava river but are ambushed by stormtroopers. IG-11 self-destructs to kill them. Gideon attacks in a TIE fighter and the Mandalorian uses the jetpack to bring the craft down. The Moff secretly survives, and cuts himself out of the ship with the Darksaber. After burying Kuiil, the Mandalorian leaves Navarro with the child while Karga and Dune stay behind.
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