Disney+Andor Season 2 Episode 3 ends on an incredibly tense note, with the weight of the Rebellion taking its toll on Mon Mothma – and Luthen Rael (possibly) taking drastic action to prevent Tay Kolma from causing any trouble.
Tay appeared to be a friend to Mon Mothma in the first season of Andor. She never outright told him she was funding the Rebels, but she asked him for advice when she needed money to avoid failing an Imperial audit, and he pointed her towards Davo Sculdun.
However, in the opening batch of Season 2, Tay isn’t doing well. Business is down, his wife has left him, and the charity foundation he set up to assist the Rebellion is under scrutiny from the Empire. In his words, he feels “undervalued” – and in short, he presses Mon for more money.
Luthen Rael doesn’t like that, and by the end of Episode 3, it looks like Tay pays the ultimate price for airing his grievances.
Why Tay Kolma is probably dead after Andor Season 2 Episode 3
Disney+In the closing scenes of Andor Season 2 Episode 3, we see Tay Kolma being taken home by a new driver: Cinta, Vel’s former lover and a Rebel spy working for Luthen.
We don’t see what happens to him, so there’s a chance he’s still alive – but it seems more likely that Luthen tasked her with taking him out to prevent Kolma leaking their activities to Davo or anyone else in Chandrila.
It’s obvious that Tay is a problem that needs to be solved. He may be one of Mon’s oldest friends, but his demand for more money is a slippery slope; if she gives in, what will he want next? Will he blackmail her over the Rebellion if he’s still unsatisfied with his life?
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Mon insists to Luthen that she’ll find a number that will get him off her back, but Luthen isn’t convinced.
“I warned you from the start… people fail, that’s our curse,” Luthen says. “You know the number. We’d be vulnerable forever. You need to be protected.”
Disney+Mon says she doesn’t understand what Luthen is suggesting, but her face tells a different story: she knows Luthen is implying that Tay may need to be killed. “How nice for you,” Luthen says, and Mon stumbles back into the celebrations.
In an earlier interview with Awards Daily, Genevieve O’Reilly spoke about Mon’s relationship with Tay. “You start with these two characters, you get a history from them, you know that they’ve known each other growing up, it weaves into their political alliances at that moment.
“They are both a bit nervous to divulge where they lie politically. Then when they find that not only do they hold similar values but they are willing to place rebellion in their minds in that party with the ISB around them.”
In the eyes of showrunner Tony Gilroy, nobody has it harder than Mon Mothma in Season 2.
“Of all the characters in the show, of all the hellacious things that people go through, and all of the difficulties and hardships, I don’t think anybody has a harder road than she does,” he told EW.
“Because she has to do everything that everybody else does with all the tension, fear, and anxiety, and she has to do it in public. She has nowhere to hide, and this season just ramps that up to an almost unbearable point.”
What else happens at the end of Andor Season 2 Episode 3?
Disney+There’s another big death at the end of Andor Season 2 Episode 3: Brasso, who’s killed in the firefight between Stormtroopers and Cassian as he returns to Mina-Rau.
After Cassian’s escape from Yavin 4, he makes it back to Bix and co. on Mina-Rau. However, things have taken a nasty turn, with Bix forced to kill Krole, an Imperial guard who tries to rape her.
Another guard outside raises the alarm, and Cassian arrives just in time in a TIE fighter to blast all the Stormtroopers and save Bix and Wil, but Brasso doesn’t make it. He’s caught in the crossfire, but they don’t have time to carry his body onto the aircraft. Instead, they leave his corpse as they flee the planet.
Bix’s scene marks the first time the Star Wars franchise has depicted an attempt at sexual assault. “It was challenging because everyone involved in the creation of that scene felt the importance of what this scene meant, not only for the show, but for Star Wars,” Adria Arjona told EW.
“But I also felt incredibly safe and cushioned in the process of doing it. It’s something Tony Gilroy does. He brings this mirror effect that [shows] the things that happen in our world can also happen in a galaxy far, far away.”
When does Andor Season 2 come back?
The next episodes of Andor Season 2 will be available to stream on Disney Plus on April 29.
In the meantime, keep tabs on Andor Season 2’s full release schedule and find out when it takes place in the Star Wars timeline. You can also check out what’s happening The Mandalorian and Grogu and Starfighter, and every other upcoming Star Wars project.