The Madalorian – Chapter 5: The Gunslinger

The Mandalorian defeats a pursuing bounty hunter in a dogfight, but the Razor Crest is damaged and he lands at a repair facility run by Peli Motto in Mos Eisley on Tatooine. While seeking work to pay for the repairs in a local cantina, he meets Toro Calican, a young bounty hunter looking to join the Bounty Hunter’s Guild by capturing Fennec Shand, a well-trained mercenary. Despite misgivings, the Mandalorian agrees to help him with the bounty, while Calican will take credit for the capture. Peli, meanwhile, has come across “the Child” and begins to take care of it while working on the ship, growing fond of it.

The Mandalorian and Calican travel into the Dune Sea on speeder bikes, looking for Shand. They come upon Tusken Raiders; the Mandalorian barters with them by trading Calican’s brand new binoculars for passage. They eventually come across a Dewback with a dead bounty hunter attached to it, which turns out to be bait laid out by Shand to attract anyone looking for her. The two manage to avoid her attacks and capture her, but she manages to destroy one of their speeder bikes in the fight.

The Mandalorian goes to get the Dewback to replace the destroyed speeder, while Calican watches Shand. She tells him that the Mandalorian is a traitor to the Guild and that the bounties on the Mandalorian and the Child are worth a great deal more than her own. Calican is unconcerned with the bounty, but Shand points out that taking out the Mandalorian would make him a legend. She offers to help Calican capture the Mandalorian if he frees her but Calican, assuming that she would betray him, shoots her and heads to the repair facility on the speeder bike, where he captures Motto and the Child. The Mandalorian arrives, uses a flash grenade to stun Calican, and shoots him dead. The Mandalorian then gives Calican’s money to Motto to pay for the repairs on his ship and he leaves Tatooine. Out in the desert, a mysterious figure is seen approaching Shand’s body.[a]