My editor has crashed, but since it’s still rendering my 8-bit Christophsis source I don’t want to force a restart, so I’m looking at some upcoming edits. My episode two is made from the first two Mandalore episodes.

This is a really strong arc, but I wanted to trim the goofier elements, notably Obi-Wan getting put on a Bond villain’s production line OF DEATH, and the small spider things. Instead the story plays out as:

In the intro text we establish that Mandalore leads the Neutral (not Separatist) systems, that it used to be warlike, but that a Mandalorian has attacked a Republic cruiser so while Anakin’s escorting Ahsoka elsewhere, Obi-Wan’s been sent to investigate.
We open with Obi-Wan arriving on Mandalore then continue as in the original with some Satine exposition, the bombing, the trip to Concordia, and Obi-Wan going to investigate the mines while Satine dines with Pre Viszla.
Then, Obi-Wan gets in the fight but we don’t see him captured. He calls Satine for backup (I’ll play some fighting sounds over his phone call so we get the impression he’s still fighting), then she comes in, distracts the guards, but then gets caught, as Obi-Wan springs from high up to save her. (We don’t need to see him on the conveyor at all, he’s just using her as a reliable distraction and happens to be above when she gets grabbed.)
We then conclude that episode with Anakin joining the pair to escort them all to Coruscant, which flows nicely into the next.
More good dialogue now, but we skip all of the early scenes of spiderbots in the basement of the ship, focusing on the relationships and the backstory.
Eventually they go for dinner, but Anakin is called downstairs as some clones have gone missing. We then get the single scene of the Clone being puppeted by the large spiderbot.
He calls up to Obi-Wan that one’s got loose - but as Obi-Wan kills it, we skip the scenes of the baby spiders entirely, with a clean cut to Merrik taking her hostage - he’s now just taking advantage of the chaos (since his plan’s been interrupted by the Jedi anyway) rather than waiting to be caught.
Everything then plays out the same.

This episode doesn’t feature Ahsoka, and this early in the show I’m considering explaining it away in the crawl. There’re plenty of times later when people are off doing their own thing, but in this case, I think people will expect to know why, so I think “Anakin’s escorting Ahsoka elsewhere” is important for the opening. Either that, or this is our episode one?! That’d fit a bit more tightly with the cold open of Death Watch commandos finding the Maul bros, then we could introduce Ahsoka in episode two - though this episode’s quite Obi-Wan focused so isn’t an ideal opening.

I was thinking of calling this episode either THE DEATH WATCH or TERROR(ISM?) ON MANDALORE. I could call it DUCHESS OF MANDALORE, since Satine is the focus, but my DoM wouldn’t include the actual Duchess of Mandalore episode, which’ll come a little later. But by calling it THE DEATH WATCH, they’re our key element to continue to follow throughout the show, which is sensible.