**WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD THROUGH SEASON 2, EPISODE 3 OF ‘THE MANDALORIAN’**

This week, we learned that there are least two ideologically-opposed sects of Mandalorians, that Silas Adams has upped his villain game and gotten promoted from Gem Saloon muscle to Imperial commander, and that Admiral Ackbar’s brethren are apparently the sleazy body-shop mechanics of the “Star Wars” universe.

I’ll be honest, I cringed a little when the leader of this new Mandalorian group, Bo-Katan, turned to Mando and said, “but first we need your help on our mission.”

That’s a little on-the-nose.

But let’s get to the big news from tonight’s episode: Din Djarin’s backstory is more complicated than both he, and we, realized. According to Bo and her pals, Din belongs to group of Mandalorian “religious zealots, trying to re-establish ‘the old way,’” who call themselves the Children of the Watch.

Bo is from Clan Kryze, and the other big news we discover is that she is after the Darksaber, the black lightsaber we saw Moff Gideon holding at the end of the first season. Bo has some sort of connection to the Darksaber that is fleshed out more in the animated “Star Wars: Clone Wars” series. I imagine we’ll learn some about it in the episodes to come, even though Bo and Din part ways at the end of the episode, having secured a cache of high-powered Imperial weapons.

In the meantime, Mando manages to unite Mr. and Mrs. Frog, and gets the Razorcrest fixed up… kind of.

We continue to see new versions of familiar creatures from the “Star Wars” universe: the squid-like Quarren are the latest to make a run at capturing Mando (you’d think word would have spread around the intergalactic rumor mill by now that he’s basically impossible to capture or kill), and Admiral Ackbar’s folks, the Mon Calamari, do their best to get the Razorcrest back in flying condition. Mando isn’t very impressed, but hey, the ship works and they’re off to yet another forest moon.

I presume this episode’s title, “The Heiress,” is a reference to Bo-Katan Kryze, but I don’t know exactly how. She’s part of the family that held sway over much of the Mandalorian sphere, at least according to Wookieepedia. It will be interesting to see how this new information about his people informs Mando’s plans.

In the meantime, a few spare Razorcrest parts from this episode:

• Mr. and Mrs. Frog did a little babysitting in this episode, and I loved the Mandalorian’s farewell advice to Baby Yoda: “I want you to be respectful and mind your manners. You know what I’m talking about.”

• Baby Yoda will eat ANYTHING. He got a little taste of his own medicine tonight, when his bar chowder briefly fought back. Again, Mando’s admonition of “Don’t play with your food” is spot-on.

• Moff Gideon commands Silas Adams to kamikaze the ship, rather than let those weapons be taken by Mandalorians. Makes me wonder if the “Imperial remnants” are stronger than we’ve seen, if they can afford to just tank a big ship like this.

• Okay, we get it: these new Mandalorians take their helmets off. But honestly, by the end of the episode, there were at least two instances when I recall thinking, “There’s really no reason to take your helmet off right now.”

• “The Heiress” was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard.

• Bo-Katan’s pals are named Axe Woves and Koska Reeves. So there’s that.

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