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Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1, episode 4 recap – “Part IV” (Ready Steady Cut)

Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1, episode 4 recap - Obi-Wan gets back into the swing of things in "Part IV", as a daring rescue effort gets underway.

We get to see Tala being capable and authoritative, we see Obi-Wan beginning to use the Force again, we see Reva open up a little to Leia to try and relate to her on the level of a lost child having everything taken from them, and we see the will in little Leia that defined her character as an adult. The entire escape is really only undermined by the laughable Imperial disguise Obi-Wan puts on right at the end, which is a pointy hat and a long overcoat that he bundles Leia under, even though you can clearly see her feet marching in step with his own. Vader himself, meanwhile, is in a Bacta tank to treat the various injuries Obi-Wan gave him when he took the high ground way back in Revenge of the Sith. And of course, they can feel and catch glimpses of each other through the power of the Force. Classic Star Wars stuff. Meanwhile, Reva continues to interrogate Leia about the Path, the proper name for the Jedi underground railroad of which both Tala and Roken claim membership. But I raise it simply because I laughed to myself in the opening of “Part IV” for including two of my favorite, quintessentially Star Wars things in tandem — one, the Bacta tank, which is a magical hot tub that allows your favorite characters to survive otherwise egregious injury, and the Force, which is just an in-universe name for sheer narrative convenience and always has been. Honestly, it’s a wonder why anyone takes any of this stuff remotely seriously, and I say that as someone who would happily list the franchise as my favorite of all time.

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The final reveal of Lola now functioning as a tracker for the Inquisition also promises something more explosive on the horizon. The simplicity of the situation also means there’s little of interest for Obi-Wan, Tala, or Leia to do; a few blaster bolt deflections is as good as it gets. Mercifully the shortest of the run so far, episode four is the season’s first misstep. A key issue here is that there are no genuine stakes, the classic problem suffered by prequels. Kenobi sneaks through identical, often perilless corridors in search of his ward, with little more than a blast of water offering any kind of interesting hazard on his journey. This would add uncertainty to a story with an otherwise obviously successful outcome.

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It makes you wonder where Obi-Wan Kenobi is going, or even what the show's raison d'etre is in the first place. How about The Mandalorian 's Season Two finale, literally titled, "The Rescue?" Or Season One's "The Prisoner?" Is it too much to ask for more than a mandatory rescue mission capsule episode per season of a Star Wars show? After a third episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi that actually dared to tease, you know, ramifications from the Anakin Skywalker and Kenobi battle that wrecked the former's life and inspired hundreds of thousands of memes in the process, we're left with somewhat of a filler episode.

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Vader drops by to choke the hell out of Reva and tells her that she knew about the consequences of her failure, and now she has to face them. In the goofiest scene in the miniseries, Obi-Wan Kenobi (with Tala on her side) tries to get Leia out of there without anyone noticing by putting her underneath his trenchcoat. Fifth Brother (Sung Kang) and Fourth Sister (Rya Kihlstedt) arrive to order a shutdown of the Fortress. Fifth Brother says that Third Sister will suffer for this mishap. When he sees that Tala and Leia are in the clear and the enemy is about to get to him, Kenobi lets the glass break, drowning the guards and Stormtroopers, and escapes by a hair’s breadth. Although Kenobi tries to take Leia out of place without raising any alarms, a Seeker droid finds them and notifies everyone that there’s an intruder in the Fortress. Reva orders the Stormtroopers to take Tala for questioning so that they can verify if her distraction is a lie or not. Tala comes to take Leia away while Kenobi holds back the water that is waiting to rush in. He lets her through, and Tala immediately goes to the control room to let Kenobi in through one of the underwater ports because Kenobi is swimming his way into the Fortress. It’s a cool callback to when he had to do the same in Naboo. Reva continues questioning Leia and tells her that they are on the same side. Leia tries to do something with LOLA, but Reva catches it and ominously says that she’s going to take everything from Leia like the way everything was taken from her. Reva interrogates Leia about the Path and the location of the last remaining Jedi. Leia asks how Kenobi died. Roken informs us and the characters that Fortress Inquisitorius is located on the Moon Nur, which is in the Mustafar system. At Fortress Inquisitorius, which is the black pyramid structure on an oceanic planet and home to the Inquisitors, we see that Leia has been kept captive.

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They’ve both been through a lot in the last few days, and finally, it seems like they’re in the homestretch of getting her back to her parents. Fortress Inquisitorius is not just being used to hold prisoners—it’s being used as a tomb for the Jedi prisoners that have been killed and preserved in an amber-like substance. In a scene that immediately conjured up memories of Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Master swimming into Otoh Gunga in The Phantom Menace, Kenobi makes his way into the heavily armored fortress through a weak spot underwater. Reva tries a handful of tactics on the child, from intimidating her to attempting to sympathize with her and her droid Lola, but nothing works, prompting her to take things to the next level. With their limited resources and scattered allies, Tala takes Obi-Wan to the workshop of another member of the network rescuing Jedi and Force-sensitives, though he is hesitant to assist Kenobi. Roken (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) has his own emotional baggage and quickly corrects Obi-Wan when he tries to insist that Roken doesn’t fully understand what the Inquisitors are capable of. The flashes force Obi-Wan to retreat from the tank before he is fully healed, much to the chagrin of Tala (Indira Varma) who tries to convince him to stay in the bacta tank longer to properly heal.

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The Empire – backed by Vader’s fury – promises a more vicious response next time around and should make for a stronger episode. Vader does, however, swoop in and provide the episode with a much-needed jolt of energy. When looking at The Mandalorian and even the cinematic quality of the Andor trailer, it stings to see Obi-Wan occasionally feel like a B-tier show when it should be the main event. Obi-Wan’s discovery of the Jedi tomb – a twisted monument to Order 66 – also brings in a deep cut Clone Wars character. The moxie of Leia (“Is this a staring contest?” she quips) proves to be one of the episode’s highlights, though there are just one too many scenes of Reva – supposedly the Inquisitors’ shining light – trying and failing to get information from a ten-year-old for these scenes to really hold much weight. With just six episodes in the series, it’s a move that could be seen as surgical – a swiping cut that does away with any bloat.