The Acolyte Episode 4: A Big Jedi Cameo, New Story Connections, And Other Easter Eggs

The first three episodes of The Acolyte served as the first act of this story, getting us acquainted with the characters and the situation and essentially catching us up to where we have roughly the same amount of key info about what’s going on as Mae and Osha do. With this week’s Episode 4, the plot is getting started in earnest as every major character races to the same place: the planet Khofar, where the Jedi Kelnacca has been living reclusively since the Jedi incursion to the witch coven on Brendok went so badly.

Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Episode 4 of Star Wars: The Acolyte. If you’ve not caught up, you may want to stop reading now.

On the one side of the race you have the Jedi and Osha, and on the other you have Mae and Qimir. Qimir, whose circumstance remains murky, has apparently personally scouted the place and found Kelnacca, and now he’s helping Mae navigate the dangers from the jungle and Kelnacca’s own traps that are littered about.

But Mae is having a bit of a crisis. Her secret master, whose face Mae has never seen, will kill her unless she carries out her mission as described: she must defeat one of her Jedi targets without a weapon. Mae weighs her options and decides her best chance at survival is to abandon the hunt, and her master, and try to team up with Osha. So she traps Qimir, and runs off.

Mae arrives just before Jedi do, and she calls out to Kelnacca when she enters, but he doesn’t respond because he’s dead, with a huge lightsaber wound in his chest. Since Mae didn’t do it, the culprit becomes clear very quickly: Mae’s master is here, and ready to throw down. The master comes up behind the Jedi outside the house, and has a brief stare-down with Osha before casually tossing her aside with the Force, and then doing the same to the Jedi as the episode ends.

This is a fairly packed episode of TV. On top of what I just described, we got our first appearance on The Acolyte by a movie character, and several really interesting Easter eggs to break down. Let’s dig in.