is the ninth episode of the American streaming television series Andor, based on Star Wars created by George Lucas.
Haynes was hired in September 2020 after a production delay due the COVID-19 pandemic, and Tony Gilroy joined the series as showrunner in early 2019, replacing Stephen Schiff.
Dedra Meero and an Imperial scientist named Dr. Gorst prepare to torture Bix Caleen by forcing her to listen to the sounds of massacred Dizonites, whose screams cause emotional traumatization.
Meero briefs her co-workers on their capture of a rebel pilot who has been forced to leak Kreegyr's plan to raid a power station.
The next morning, Fertha asks Vel about her home life, and Mothma privately advises her cousin to pretend to be a spoiled rich girl.
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in February 2018 that there were several Star Wars series in development,[1] and that November one was revealed as a prequel to the film Rogue One (2016).
The series was described as a spy thriller show focused on the character Cassian Andor, with Diego Luna reprising his role from the film.
[3] Tony Gilroy, who was credited as a co-writer on Rogue One and oversaw extensive reshoots for the film,[4] joined the series by early 2019 when he discussed the first story details with Luna.
[12] Director Toby Haynes decided to film the scene depicting Bix's torture through Dr. Gorst's sound device, which wasn't originally included in the script.
Acord had felt that Gilroy's choice to do so was effective as he knew the audiences would speculate what Bix was hearing, commenting "our own imagination is going to be far more terrifying or interesting on an individual basis than anything that we would create".
[14] Actor Andy Serkis had conceived that his character, Kino Loy, was a man who worked as a firebrand union shop steward that had a family and advocated labor rights, but was traumatized by his Narkina 5 imprisonment.
The final line of the episode features Loy responding to Andor's request to know the number of guards present as he wanted to orchestrate a prison breakout by saying "Never more than 12".
Gilroy had enjoyed the line as he felt it was "causal and strong"[15] The episode stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor,[2][16] Kyle Soller as Syril Karn, Adria Arjona as Bix Caleen, Joplin Sibtain as Brasso, James McArdle as Timm Karlo, and Rupert Vansittart as Chief Hyne.
The site's critical consensus reads, "Diego Luna and Andy Serkis make for a compelling pair in an Andor installment that methodically demonstrates how people are ground up by the Empire's oppressive system.