Tuesday’s episode jumped 16 years into the past to uncover what really happened on Brendok the night she started the fire that supposedly killed her entire coven.
Jedi Masters Sol, Kelnacca and Indara, as well as Indara’s Padawan Tobin, had been residing on the planet for seven weeks in search of a vergence, aka a concentration of Force energy that was capable of creating life. Brendok, which was perceived as lifeless, was flourishing with it.
Their mission seemed fruitless until Sol spotted Mae and her twin sister Osha in the forest — revisiting that moment at the start of Episode 3. What we didn’t see in that previous episode, though, was Sol following the girls all the way to their settlement and watching their training in the way of the Force under Mother Aniseya’s (Jodie Turner-Smith) tutelage.
He relayed his findings to his Jedi cohorts and Tobin suspected the witches were Nightsisters (witches from Dathomir who specialized in dark magick). But according to Indara, the Nightsisters weren’t known to raise younglings let alone train them. Sol, worried that the twins might be in danger, urged his Jedi friends to see for themselves.
When the Jedi showed up to the Ascension, subsequent scenes illustrated how Aniseya took control of Tobin’s mind by enticing him with his greatest desire (to return to Coruscant). Due to the intrusion, Osha did not receive the same dark markings as Mae. Something tells us this will come back up in the finale.
Later, young Mae took the Jedi test and Indara used that opportunity to pry for more details about the Ascension. But Sol was onto the witches’ plan for Mae to purposely fail and took a different approach with Osha. Despite Osha passing, the Jedi refused to sign off on bringing the twins to Coruscant and separating them from their coven. And when Sol offered to speak with their bosses, Indara pointed out that he was too emotionally attached.
Remember in Episode 3 when Mother Koris ominously asked Aniseya, “And what happens if the Jedi discover how you created them?” That was finally addressed!
Tobin examined Mae and Osha’s blood test results and noticed that their symbionts were exactly the same, meaning they were artificially created. Aniseya, it seems, tapped into a power dense enough to split one consciousness into two bodies. And according to Sol, only a vergence can create that kind of power.
With Tobin in tow, Sol rushed to confront Aniseya and Koril over the twins’ origin. The witches and Jedi then braced for a fight, and Osha watched as Sol drove his lightsaber through Aniseya’s chest.
Making that moment even more tragic was Aniseya using her last breath to tell Sol that she was going to let Osha leave. And as Osha cried over her mother’s body, white markings revealed that it was actually Mae!
Flames from the fire set by Mae spread around Sol and Tobin, but they were more concerned with Kelnacca, whose mind was now in control of the witches. The witches swayed in unison — their breathy chanting adding to the mystique — while coercing the Wookiee into battling his friends. Thankfully, Indara eventually broke Kelnacca free of the mind control, and the witches dropping altogether suggested they died in the process.
Back on that collapsed bridge where Mae and Osha stared across from each other, we did NOT see how Mae survived what should have been a deadly fall. Instead, the scene jumped to the Jedi ship, where Osha lay unconscious. Sol was prepared to face the Jedi Council about what happened on Brendok, but Indara pushed him to tell their version of the truth: Mae started a fire and everyone was lost.
When Osha woke, begging for her mother, Sol spun that story.
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