
Elia Kane has been waiting in the wings. After two seasons of skulking behind Moff Gideon, the former Communications Officer is now assimilating into the New Republic. She looks like the perfect image of a Republic convert, but Episode 3 of The Mandalorian’s third season revealed she hasn’t changed a bit; at the first chance she gets, she sells out her colleague, Dr. Pershing, to keep him from continuing his cloning research for the New Republic. Then, when left alone with Pershing, she wastes no time cranking up the Mind Flayer that’s erasing his memories to 11.