Star Wars The Acolyte Episode 5 Breakdown & Easter Eggs

The fourth episode of Star Wars The Acolyte is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. Check out my spoiler-free review of Star Wars The Acolyte by heading over here.

The Acolyte is set in the High Republic era during the prime of the Jedi, around one hundred years before the events of Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace.

The Acolyte stars Amandla Stenberg (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), Manny Jacinto (Nine Perfect Strangers), Dafne Keen (Logan), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim), Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), Dean-Charles Chapman (1917), and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix).

For more details on each character, the StarWarsLord is here to help.

Check out my breakdown of Star Wars The Acolyte Episodes 1 and 2, Episode 3 and Episode 4 here.

The synopsis reads:

The Acolyte is a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era. A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.

It follows an investigation into a crime spree that pits a respected Jedi Master (Lee Jung-jae) against a dangerous warrior from his past (Amandla Stenberg). As clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems.

The Mysterious Antagonist (Sith?) Kills Several Of The Jedi

But Yord survives the encounter.

The Mysterious Antagonist (Sith?) Turns Out To Be Qimir All Along And He Kills Jecki

Jecki manages to cut the mysterious antagonist’s mask, revealing him to be Qimir (Manny Jacinto) all along. However, Qimir took the opportunity to stab and kill Jecki in return.

Qimir Calls Himself A Sith, He Also Kills Yord

Qimir says he has “no name” but that the Jedi would call him a “Sith”.

This is the first time that the term “Sith” has been mentioned in The Acolyte.

A few minutes later, he kills Yord by snapping his neck. That’s two major characters already dead, Dafne Keen’s Jecki and Charlie Barnett’s Yord.

Master Sol Defeats Qimir But Osha Stops Sol From Killing Him

But then, Osha sacrifices her droid, Pip, to attach it to Qimir’s back, which attracts Umbramoths to carry him away.

In the same scene, Master Sol is also revealed to have done something, a sin, in the past. He offered to explain before getting stunned by Mae.

Qimir Survives The Umbramoths

Of course he did, it would have been an underwhelming death.

Mae Is Now Pretending To Be Osha

But Bazil saved Osha’s droid, Pip, and they seem to know the truth via their sense of smell.

Qimir Finds Osha

Qimir finds Osha and wraps her in a blanket while spouting some nonsense.

Does he know that it’s Osha or does he think it’s Mae?

We’ll have to wait until next week!

But damn, that was the biggest number of Jedi deaths we’ve seen since Order 66 in Star Wars Episode III Revenge Of The Sith (though, technically, The Acolyte does take place more than 100 years before the events of the Prequels).

May the Force be with you!