re: The Mandalorian Season 2 Finale Chapter 16 (NOW WITH SPOILERS)

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Also, who hired the ones to kill him? The Imperials wanted him alive, for research.

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That's a good point that I definitely hadn't thought of yet.

The bounty hunting droid was about to kill Grogu to collect whatever person had hired him so it wasn't the Imperial group that hired Mando as you mentioned.

That may be something that never gets answered and sometimes there are shows where I'm okay with that. I might be okay with leaving that a mystery that books and comics etc. can explore.

ETA: Someone mentioned that Gideon seemed to know plenty about Grogru for some time - knowing that using the Force made him tired for example. In season 1 he also said that Grogru meant more to him than Mando knew meaning he full well knew who Grogru was and what he was capable of doing.

I wonder if at some point after Order 66 the Empire got a hold of him, did some tests, somehow lost him, and then put a bounty out there to get him back.

Interestingly, if the Empire had at least an idea of where Grogu was (hence they were able to send Mando and other bounty hunters to the right planet) why not go get him themselves? Gideon clearly had the firepower to do it...but it seemed apparent that Gideon was determined to keep his tests a secret for as long as he could and only intervened when he felt he absolutely had to.