The Acolyte Finale: [Spoiler] Dies and an OG Star Wars Character Appears — Read Our Recap

We, too, would freak out after being stuck in a sensory deprivation helmet that required the Stranger to free us. But Osha’s concern in The Acolyte’s season finale on Tuesday had to do with the vision she saw of Mae with a lightsaber — though her sister hadn’t used it.

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The Stranger was intrigued that Mae might be able to kill without a weapon, after all. He and Osha then agreed to go after her together and see who got to her first.

On the Jedi ship, Sol was firm in his belief that there was a vergence on Brendok and aimed to prove it. Mae confronted the Jedi Master over what happened the night of the fire and Sol maintained his innocence, also expressing regret for not being able to save both girls. He tried to tell Mae that they weren’t even sisters — rather, they were exact replicas of each other — but she tasered him and ran before he finished his sentence.

Mae escaped in a shuttle, but Sol was right on her tail. And after racing through a debris field, she crash-landed back on Brendok.

Meanwhile, on Coruscant, Vernestra met with a senator played by Supergirl’s David Harewood, who had campaigned for an external review of the Jedi. Harboring strong anti-Jedi sentiments, he believed they were a massive cult with unchecked power. He had reported Vernestra’s lack of transparency to Chancellor Drellik (a male human Moff who, in Star Wars lore, joins the Sith Empire).

Back on Brendok, Mae surrived the crash and found herself back at the witches’ refuge, with Sol following suit. The Stranger, wearing his Kylo Ren-esque helmet, thanked Sol for leading him to Mae, and the pair were soon engaged in another lightsaber battle. (Side note: How cool was it when the Stranger split his lightsaber in two?)

At the same time, Osha and Mae were back in their old room confronting the lies that turned them against each other. Osha shared that she never became a Jedi because she couldn’t get over her hatred of Mae and grief for their mother. That’s when Mae revealed that Sol killed their mom and had been lying to her this whole time. This sent Osha over the edge, and she attacked first in a fight that pit sister against sister. But Mae vanished when both girls heard Vernestra’s ship gearing for a landing somewhere in the distance.

Sol, meanwhile, destroyed the Stranger’s last remaining lightsaber. The Stranger removed his helmet and faced Sol, who aimed his blue lightsaber at the Sith’s head. That’s when Mae intervened and disarmed the Jedi Master of his own weapon. The Stranger ordered her to kill him to complete her journey, but she refused. She wanted Sol to confess, face the High Council and pay for his crimes.

Sol then came clean about Mae and Osha being the same person — one soul in two bodies, as it were — which he believed their mother Aniseya created with the vergence on Brendok. And when Osha accused him of murdering Aniseya, he finally owned up to it. Osha overheard Sol’s admission of guilt and pressed him for concealing the truth from his fellow Jedi.  But Sol felt he did what was best for Osha since he had no proof of how the twins were created and knew the Jedi would have sent her away for being too old to train.

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Out of anger, Osha Force-choked Sol to death and her lightsaber instantly changed from blue to red.

Mae advised Osha that they needed to leave, and for the first time in over a decade, the girls were working together. They snuck through a core tunnel Mae revealed she was sucked into when she fell from that bridge. Mae led her sister through the same route she used to escape the night of the fire and before they knew it, they were back in the forest under that massive tree.

Elsewhere, Vernestra and her calvary of Jedi Knights found Sol’s body and began searching the premises for the twins.

Mae apologized for starting the fire and a crying Osha recited their childhood rhyme. And when Osha expressed a desire to turn herself in to the Jedi, the Stranger warned that she would befall the same fate as her mother if they knew how powerful she was. Osha had another proposition: The Stranger let Mae go and she’ll train in her place. He then volunteered to wipe Mae’s memory and remove every trace of himself and Osha. Mae agreed to it, willing to leave her fate with the Jedi.

Later, Vernestra interrogated Mae on Coruscant, and Mae recalled seeing a man kill her mother and running away but had no recollection of Sol or Osha. The Stranger’s mind erasure had worked.

Vernestra went before the Chancellor and named Sol as the solo Jedi who covered up what happened on Brendok, adding that he killed himself in the process. As we saw afterward, she spun that same story for Mae and asked her to find a former pupil who had turned evil.

In the show’s final moments, Osha stood beside the Stranger and stared out at the ocean, having accepted her new path. Meanwhile, Vernestra visited — ahem — Jedi Master Yoda , telling him they needed to talk. Cue credits!

What did you think of The Acolyte’s Season 1 finale? Grade the episode below, and then sound off in the comments.

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