History Recap / TheMandalorianS2E7Chapter15TheBeliever

** Mayfeld suffers a bit of one when speaking with his former superior Hess, when it becomes increasingly clear that not only does Hess have zero regrets or empathy for the destruction wrought by Operation: Cinder, up to and including slaughtering his own men en masse, but also intends to use the rhydonium they collected to go even further. He manages to reboot in time to realize that everyone in the mess hall saw him frag his CO, and he and Din now have a very not-stealthy exfiltration to pull off now.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"He means more to me, than you will ever know."'']]

This episode was written and directed by Creator/RickFamuyiwa.

** Din suffers a minor one when he's forced to remove his helmet in public and show his face (which he hasn't done in probably 30+ years since swearing the creed) in order to find Grogu. He's left in a clear state of emotional turmoil and, when questioned by Hess, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness can't adapt to the social situation like he normally would]] and has to be covered for by Mayfeld. He's visibly distressed the entire time he's forced to go without his helmet and isn't really himself again until putting his helmet back on.

* PuppyDogEyes: Din's eyes become so big and anxious when he must interact with Hess and Mayfeld unmasked (Pedro Pascal even referred to this as the Children of the Watch equivalent of a NakedFreakOut), that it's no wonder they both agree to call him "Brown Eyes".

--->'''Mayfield:''' [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Proceed with caution... is she serious?!]]

* ChekhovsGun: The pair of TIE Fighters who save Din and Mayfield from the pirates come back later to try and prevent their escape in ''Slave I''.

* ObfuscatingDisability: When Din is unable to answer Hess's pointed questions, Mayfield covers by pretending he's suffering from hearing loss due to ExplosiveDecompression.

** For the Imperial faction as a whole; the Stormtroopers not only save Din and Mayfield from the raiders, but also treat them like heroes for delivering the shipment safely, humanizing them somewhat before Valin Hess reminds the audience that they're the "bad guys" for a reason.

* HeelFaceTurn: Mayfeld. He starts completely cynical, then softens a little when he hears The Child has been kidnapped. He turns completely when he and Din encounter his old Commanding Officer, who maneuvers Din and Mayfeld into drinking to the operation where a city, including Mayfeld's old division, were wiped out by the Empire in a [[ScorchedEarth scorched earth]] campaign called, appropriately, "Operation: Cinder". Mayfeld can't take it anymore, and shoots his old CO dead right then and there. He later destroys the entire rhydonium refinery after escaping on Boba's ship to eliminate the facility from supplying terrorist acts against the Republic, [[MeaningfulEcho echoing]] his earlier comment of "Whatever helps you sleep at night."

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Valin Hess, an Imperial officer who will gleefully commit war crimes "for the greater good", gets gunned down rather unceremoniously [[LaserGuidedKarma by a former subordinate who resented his actions at Burnin Konn.]]

* CaptainObvious: Din observes that the attacking pirates, who have brought thermal detonators which they are attempting to plant on the rhydonium containers and have already destroyed multiple transports the same way, are trying to detonate the rhydonium. Mayfeld shoots back, "Ya ''think?''"

--->'''Mayfield:''' [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe "Proceed with caution...is she serious?!"]]

** Operation: Cinder on Burnin Konn is a reference to the ''VideoGame/StarWarsUprising'' game. It was also mentioned in the ''ComicBook/StarWarsShatteredEmpire'' comic that it was targeted in Operation: Cinder (in fact, ''Shattered Empire'' was what introduced Operation: Cinder), which Mayfeld and Hess expand on in this episode. It's also seen in its horrifying mayhem in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017''.

** Mayfeld borrows Boba's cycler rifle, a weapon used by the Sandpeople on Tatooine. This is the first time said rifle has been named on screen; the name was first established in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront2015'', where it appears as a sniper rifle.

** When Cara escorts Mayfeld to Slave 1, out walks Boba Fett in his newly refurbished armor. Mayfeld says, "For a second I thought you were someone else!" Out walks Din.
** When Din and Mayfeld are driving the Imperial transport towards the mining facility, they notice a few smouldering wreckages of other transport vehicles on the sides of the trail. A few moments later, they're attacked by a caravan of pirates that have been blowing up the transports.

* HeelFaceTurn: Mayfeld. He starts completely cynical, then softens a little when he hears The Child has been kidnapped. He turns completely when he and Din encounter his old Commanding Officer, who maneuvers Din and Mayfeld into drinking to the operation where a city, including Mayfeld's old division, were wiped out by the Empire in a [[ScorchedEarth scorched earth]] campaign called, appropriately, ''Operation: Cinder.'' Mayfeld can't take it anymore, and shoots his old CO dead right then and there. He later destroys the entire rhydonium refinery after escaping on Boba's ship to eliminate the facility from supplying terrorist acts against the Republic, [[MeaningfulEcho echoing]] his earlier comment of "Whatever helps you sleep at night".

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Fennec and Cara, who are picking off troopers on the face of a dam from the top of the downstream embankment. And notably Mayfeld, who one-shots a fuel vessel using Boba Fett's Tuskan long rifle, from the open cargo bay of the departing ''Slave I'' at altitude, and blows up the entire facility. Well, not too improbable given that all three of these characters were established to be ex-special forces sharpshooters.

* TheNeidermeyer: Mayfeld's former commanding officer, a real {{Jerkass}}, is at the refinery, and at first he seems incredibly hostile, but it turns out he wants to ''congratulate'' them for being the only successful transport crew. Then we learn he committed a genocide that killed as many of his own troops as the enemy city, turning Mayfeld into a BrokenBird DefectorFromDecadence.

* NonIndicativeName: Din calls the attackers of the transport vehicle "pirates", but they're more like guerillas or terrorists since they're deliberately blowing up the rhydonium, not stealing it.

** The last time Din's helmet was removed, he had to be coaxed with the fact that the one seeing his face was a droid [[LoopholeAbuse and thus he still had not revealed his face to a "living thing"]]. He was still incredibly reluctant, despite the fact that [[HonorBeforeReason removing his helmet was necessary to save his life]]. This time, even though Mayfeld saw his face, Din makes no big deal out of it, since the former Imperial helped save his and possibly Grogu's life. Mayfeld is later set free by being declared dead, and since he's technically '[[ExactWords not alive]]', and everyone else in the refinery mess hall is now either shot or blown up dead, Din can once again overlook his oath.

* TakeAThirdOption: In the previous episode, Din wanted to break Mayfeld out of prison for his knowledge of Imperial protocols. Cara was reluctant because, as a newly-deputized New Republic marshal, she has obligations that she is reluctant to betray. To satisfy both, Cara instead pulls some strings to get Mayfeld remanded to her custody, which she notes is not exactly by-the-book.

* MadeOfExplodium: Unrefined rhydonium is ludicrously volatile, threatening to explode when jostled or even when it's just being moved too fast for too long — never mind when people are trying to blow it up deliberately.

---->[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe "Proceed with caution...is she serious?!"]]

---->[[YouHaveGotToBeKidding Me "Proceed with caution...is she serious?!"]]

* PokeThePoodle: Mayfeld spends much of the early episode needling Din about his customs and values, mocking him, asking pointed questions anpit jos religion, and so on.