Everything To Know About The Mandalorian's Shocking New Jedi Cameo

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Don't try to claim you saw that one coming, because you definitely did not. This week's episode of The Mandalorian, Chapter 20: The Foundling, filled in a key piece of backstory for Grogu. And in the process it gave us both a great cameo and also maybe the single most surprising example of one Star Wars thing making a reference to another Star Wars thing that we've ever seen.

This one's a real doozy.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Mandalorian Chapter 20: The Foundling.

Midway through this episode, the titular Mandalorian Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) heads off with Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) to try to rescue a young Mando who had been nabbed by a giant lizard bird. But Grogu has to stay behind with the Mandalorian known as The Armorer--and as he watches her work the forge, he appears to have a sort of post-traumatic stress flashback to the night Palpatine issued Order 66 and had his clone soldiers assault the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.

While this is likely pretty upsetting for Grogu to remember, it's illuminating for us--we see how he escaped Coruscant during the Purge. While everything looks pretty dire in the temple, with Grogu's companions struggling to hold on against the onslaught from the clone soldiers. The last of them dies sending Grogu into an elevator, with someone named Kelleran hopefully waiting on the other side.

And when the elevator doors open, a familiar face is standing there: Ahmed Best, who most folks know as the man who played Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. So that's dope. Best famously struggled with the, ah, rather unkind popular response to Jar Jar after The Phantom Menace was released in 1999, and it's nice to see him show up here for a fun extended action sequence.

But, somehow,