Andor – Season 2 Episode 7 'Messenger' Recap & Review

The Review Geek

07-05-2025

Messenger
Episode 7 of Andor season 2 starts one year later from the previous 3 episodes. At the Yavin Rebel Base, Wil is part of the rebellion now and has settled in nicely. He's also reunited with Cass and Bix too, who are living out in the woods. He's been doing repair jobs for the rebels but he's pretty quiet about the full extent of his activities. Instead, he tells Andor that Luthen has work for him.
Andor is starting to have doubts over whether Luthen is really building toward a better future, while Wil is seemingly itching for a fight, going all-in with the rebellion efforts. Luthen's plan here involves Andor heading over to Ghorman and killing Dedra. According to Wil, they're not going to get a better chance of taking her out than this.
After a bit of doubting and prophecy dabbling, Andor leaves for Ghorman with Wil. As they fly out, Vel shows up to see Bix and reinforces that Cassian is the leader now and a lot of people look up to him.
Over on Ghorman, things continue to heat up. The Ghorman Resistance is still going, and hitting various hotspots across the planet. We cut over the day after a firebombing has taken place at the Naval Terminal in Palmo. Naturally, things are tense and this powder-keg could explode at any moment.
Admiral Tyzen is expected to make a speech about this event, but curfew has been instigated across the city. With everything tightening up, Syril is still here though, as is Dedra.
Despite their best efforts, the Emperor has decided to ditch Dedra's sabotage plan and instead go with the original plan of going in hard and exploiting the planet. There's no synthetic alternative for the Ghorman substrate material so they're coming up short on that side of things, which has forced their hand. The idea here is that after they've mined everything they can, Partagaz wants the place destroyed. Apparently, all of this is going to happen within 48 hours.
Captain Kaido is a crisis specialist and Partagaz has brought the guy in with personnel to manage this whole situation. The team have been brought up to scratch but Dedra is not happy. When Syril finds out, he begins to doubt the entire validity of what they've been doing, and he's not particularly pleased with Dedra keeping him in the dark too. She kisses him as a way of shutting him up and shrugs off his concerns by claiming that they have a big promotion in store for them once they get back to Coruscant.
The reason why Syril is so annoyed though stems from his ties with the rebels. It would appear that he's been outed as a spy though as he shows up to see Enza that night. He believes there's a way out of this but she simply slaps him in the face. Whether there were any romantic ties between them or not is up for debate.
Meanwhile, Mon Mothma hears about the terrorist attacks in Ghorman but there's not much that can be done from her position, given the planet is marching toward the point of no return.
Back on Ghorman, restrictions continue to tighten, just as Andor and Wil also touch down on the planet, intending to take out Dedra. Their mission is simple enough, and they intend to sniper their target from afar when she shows up on the balcony. Will Dedra make it out alive?
The Episode Review
So another year passes in-universe and as a result, we're playing catch up to work out what's happening and where all of our characters are now. The structure of this season has been an interesting experiment but also highlights the flaws of telling the story in this manner. The execution just hasn't worked all that effectively to be honest.
Key moments like Bix getting over her drug addiction, the reunion between Wil and Andor, along with the terrorist attacks in Ghorman are completely overlooked in favour of just starting new story beats.
There are also many redundant scenes here too, which is a mainstay of this second season at this point. Mon's scenes could have been cut completely and would lose nothing, while the shot of Syril walking, again, could have been cut down too. The exposition about the attacks could have easily been reworked by a panning shot showing an explosion that night.
However, the tension is starting to build toward the end though, especially as it looks like we're gearing up for a potential Dedra assassination plot!
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