Chapter 15: The Believer

After a tense drink where Hess callously dismisses the Imperial soldiers and civilians who died in Operation Cinder,[a] an angered Mayfeld shoots him dead.

[3] Director of photography Matthew Jensen explained the Chop Fields were a mix of the LED video wall of "the Volume" and built set, but that the eye cannot easily distinguish what is real and what is not.

[4] Visual effects supervisor Richard Bluff, and his team created miniatures of the wrecked TIE Fighters which were scanned and projected as part of the background.

[1] Additional guest starring actors cast for this episode include Donald Mills as the voice of a security droid, Gabriel Ebert returning as an Imperial Gunner Officer, Miguel A. Lopez as a juggernaut pilot, Barry Lowin as a shoretrooper, Katy O'Brian returning as an Imperial Comms Officer, and Richard Brake as Valin Hess.

Amy Sturdivant, Chad Bennett, and Dane Farwell are credited as stunt doubles for Cara Dune, Migs Mayfeld, and Valin Hess, respectively.

The website's critics consensus reads: ""The Believer" curbs the season's momentum going into the finale to mixed results, providing some of the most illuminating and frustrating moments of the series so far.

"[9] Keith Phipps of Vulture gave the episode 4 out of 5 and wrote: "That world becomes a richer, more compelling place to tell stories when Star Wars acknowledges that not everything can be categorized into Light and Dark.

Travers was impressed by the pirate fight, and loved the camerawork, but also the moral conversation, saying Famuyiwa "delivers an exciting adventure through the dark side and a convincing enough lesson in cultural relativism.