Andor – Season 2 Episode 12 Recap, Review & Ending Explained

The Review Geek

14-05-2025

Jedha, Kyber, Erso
Episode 12 of Andor season 2 starts with Kleya and Andor arguing about leaving the apartment. Despite the Empire after them and K-S20 doing what he can to buy them time, the pair go back and forth, which only works in the Empire's favour.
Does Kleya leave with the rebels?
Andor blasts the radio while they're in here, but on the way out his comrade, Melshi, is spotted by soldiers. He rushes back into the apartment as ISB close in on the trio. Thankfully, they do have K-S20 to help them out, which is probably just as well given the agents throw a stun grenade and knock out Kleya.
As gunshots rain down, K-S20 turns the tide single-handedly, killing the squad of soldiers and catching up with Cassian and the others. The group leave the planet after scooping up Kleya, and fly away before reinforcements can close in.
What's happening with the rebels?
Meanwhile the rebellion is at loggerheads. Saw is on Jedha and refusing to listen to Mon Mothma and the others, even with an Imperial Star Destroyer circling their location. He's reckless, carrying out risky operations that the group are worried will compromise their entire situation.
In the middle of this squabbling though, Andor's ship closes in on Yavin. They're rushing and are eventually given an escort as they touch down. Draven is there to greet Andor and the others, as Kleya is rushed off for medical attention.
Andor rushes to the council where he has big news about the Death Star, which he feeds back to the central pillars of the rebellion leadership. This includes Bail Organa, Mon Mothma and Admiral Raddus.
What does Andor decide to do?
Despite the urgency of this news, it's met with scepticism from the rebels. Mon wants to believe Andor though, but given what they've all been through, it's a tough play.
Kleya recovers from her wounds, although she's not particularly happy that the rebels don't believe in her intel, while we learn that Tivik has sent three urgent messages from Kafrene in the past ten hours. Whatever he knows, it's big and he'll only speak to Cassian about it.
General Draven gets K-S20 out of custody, and speaks to our titular character. He goes on to reveal that Tivik is on Kafrene until tomorrow but while he's concerned that this could be a big trap, Andor is willing to go all the same.
How does Andor season 2 end?
In a rare glimpse of the cracks in the Empire's reign, Partagaz loses faith in all this and decides to shoot himself, seeing the writing on the wall given the continued spread of the rebellion voices. Partagaz knows he's also to blame for the messy situation involving Dedra, given he's to be escorted to a 'meeting', so he takes the cowardly way out.
As we soon find out, Dedra is still in custody, thrown onto a prison planet (possibly Narkina 5 but it could be another just like it), while the rebellion efforts continue to grow.The Death Star's construction however, continues to dwarf all of this.
As the episode closes out, we cut across to the peaceful Mina-Rau where Bix has given birth to her child and awaits Andor's return.
The Episode Review
So the finale for Andor bridges the gap to Rogue One's story as we see our characters all taking their definitive stands and preparing for the big rebellion effort to take down the Empire.
The final episode works reasonably well to set up the wheels of motion into play, and while there's not much in the way of outright action and drama, it does work well as a swansong before Rogue One and then the original trilogy takes over.
The show has definitely picked up steam in the second half, most notably through last week's excellent triple bill of episodes, eventually leading into this final trio of chapters. Its been far from perfect but this is still the best Star Wars that Disney have produced.