Warning! This article contains spoilers for Andor season 2, episodes 1-3. Thanks to the returning Rogue One characters in Andor season 2, a meaningful, albeit dark, parallel comes to light. Andor season 2's story has long been expected to tie to Rogue One heavily,

Season 2 of “Andor” will has 12 episodes that will be split into three-episode mini-arcs airing over four weeks. Each block of episodes will cover roughly a year of the timeline leading up to the fateful events of “Rogue One.”

As Andor season 2 gears up for release, now is the time to refresh what happened in season 1. For the uninitiated, a spin-off of the 2016 prequel movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the solo spin-off series takes place five years before the events of the movie.