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The Mandalorian declared its intention to hit its audience with twists and turns aplenty with its first episode alone, and episode 2 titled "The Child" effectively doubled down on that notion. Its final act had our jaws on the floor, and we're champing at the bit to unpack all of its implications. Before we do, however and just in case you somehow missed the title of this video please be advised that spoilers for episode 2 of The Mandalorian follow.
"Be careful."
"You too."
The episode has our hero at last escaping Arvala-7 with his would-be target, but everything has changed; with the revelation that said target is an infant and a member of the same mysterious race of the Jedi Master Yoda the Mandalorian's life has grown infinitely more complicated. After lulling the audience into a false sense of security with fifteen solid minutes of a seemingly-unrelated fetch quest for the Mandalorian's ship parts, the episode answers the question we were naturally led to ask after the pilot in shocking fashion: is the baby Force-sensitive, like Yoda?
If you listened closely during the climactic scene, you could hear The Mandalorian's creator Jon Favreau laughing his face off — because of course the Yoda baby is Force-sensitive. The show chose to reveal that fact in the most sweeping, epic moment in an otherwise very small and quiet episode.
During an attempt to secure an egg from a ferocious horned beast with which he hopes to barter with the Jawas for his ship parts, the baby uses the Force to save the Mandalorian as he grimly stares down death at the hooves of said beast with naught but a knife; this completely shifts the narrative's paradigm, and it's quite unclear if the Mandalorian himself understands what has just happened.
There's a particularly sneaky bit of exposition in the dialogue between the Mandalorian and Kuiil just before the final ship repair montage: when Kuiil asks if the baby was injured, the Mandalorian replies no, at least not physically. Kuiil then asks the Mandalorian to explain what happened again, that he doesn't understand, and the Mandalorian tellingly replies that he doesn't know, either.
The two never explicitly state it, but the Mandalorian has apparently told Kuiil how he retrieved the egg with the last-minute miracle the baby provided by suddenly displaying its Force abilities. We the audience, of course, know exactly what happened and what it means — but if the Mandalorian is telling Kuiil the truth, then the bounty hunter doesn't know what the Force is, and he has no idea what the baby is capable of and why. That's a pretty big deal, and it could have a massive impact on the bounty hunter's actions going forward.
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