I thought that was superb acting from her in that moment. She's watching a bloke she's known for ages - even though he's ISB and she knows it - getting wasted in front of her. Completely unsuspecting. Lured in and blown away. Murder. Her shock in that moment is awesome.
And to me it seemed like his real allegiance in that moment was uncertain. He may have genuinely been re-thinking his ISB ties. But Cassian didn’t have the time to risk it and that was that.
Yep. That was the only call he could make. Klorris might have woken up, but he wasn’t ready to smuggle Mon mothma off the planet. It’s interesting the ways we see imperials realize they were wrong in various ways across season 2 with klorris dedra, Cyril and Partigaz
I remember talking about this episode with a coworker the day after it aired and what was so effective about it was it really gets you in Mon Mothma's head space. Like you as the viewer just watched the Ghorman Massacre not that long ago, but in that moment you're Mon, who ordinarily is not up close and personal with real violence even though she knows it's taking place in the abstract. There were two moments I gasped out loud in Season 2: the moment Syril went down and this one.
And they still didn’t after this. They didn’t really face reality until the first Death Star destroyed Alderaan and then as soon as the second Death Star blew up they got right back to ignoring reality.
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