Given that Tatooine is a remote backwater planet on the Outer Rim of the galaxy, it’s not exactly a convenient place to visit. You can’t really swing by on the way to some other place, you know? So when our hero Din Djarin once again pops into Peli Motto’s (Amy Sedaris) garage at the beginning of Chapter 18 of The Mandalorian, it initially felt like a bit of a stretch.
Warning. This article contains very light spoilers for Season 3, Episode 2 of The Mandalorian, Chapter 18.
But it turned out that the writers and Powers That Be on The Mandalorian had another reason for bringing the titular Mando back to Tatooine for yet another quick, casual visit. While the quest to bring back IG-11 ended here, Motto sold Mando on a different droid she had lying around: an astromech unit named R5-D4 that would prove immediately useful in this episode–and who will very likely remain on the series as the astromech unit for Din Djarin’s old Naboo starfighter.