Today's episode of Andor crammed in a lot of story, but moved its characters to some very interesting new places. For starters, we got a very big reveal when it was confirmed that Rebel Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) is, in fact, Mon Mothma's cousin. Mon encouraged her to play the part of a spoiled rich girl to avoid drawing too much unwanted attention but has her own problems.
Getting her hands on that money isn't proving to be as easy as Mon hoped, leading to an upcoming meeting with a Chandrilan "thug" who might be able to help.
Elsewhere, it's now apparent that Dedra Meero is far from a sympathetic Imperial. While she initially appeared to be a woman struggling in a man's world to do the "right: thing, the ISB agent is every bit as twisted and evil as others who loyally serve the Empire.
That's evident when she tortures Bix Caleen for information on Cassian Andor's whereabouts. How? By using recordings of Imperials murdering alien children. The noise those kids make is enough to drive someone to madness, and it doesn't take Meero long to break Bix.
Cassian, meanwhile, is still in that Imperial prison, but things soon take a sinister turn. While he is plotting an escape, news travels to his floor that someone who was "released" was instead just sent to another part of the facility. Once word of that got out, every single prisoner on the floor was killed. There is no leaving this prison; when you're there, it's a life sentence.
With that, Andy Serkis' Kino Loy finally relents and tells Cassian how many guards are on their floor, clearly warming to his plan of staging a breakout.
That's where the episode ends, but Andor has definitely found its feel these past few weeks. We still have three episodes to go, so where things go from here promises to be very interesting.