I spliced Cassian line “Set course for Eadu” that he says after contacting with Alliance, and a line Cassian says mentioning Yavin IV after they escape Eadu.
When I made this scene, I originally made it with the intention that they accomplished their mission, securing the pilot, which is why Cassian is returning to base. Jyn has to convince Cassian to now go after her father, since Bodhi knows where he is.
I suppose this could still work, but the whole purpose of getting the pilot was to find out from him where her father was, so I don’t know if Cassian returning to base without even speaking with Bodhi makes sense. I guess you could argue that he was going to take Bodhi back to base for questioning, but Jyn pressed Cassian to go ahead and get her father now.
This was also a scene I wanted to restructure a bit, and reshuffle the dialogue. I think there is a way to make the dialogue in this scene flow much better than how I had it in general, but I also wanted to make this scene more about Jyn wanting to rescue her father, rather than becoming fully committed to the cause.
One thing that can add some “rational” of returning to Yavin 4 is a line he uses with Jynn about “We are deep in Imperial Space, I cannot send that kind of information” when she talked about the Death Star Plans. So we already have a type of rational on NOT sending information out at all … but to bring the whole crew back to base to go over the intel they have with the pilot
So the flow of the scene is Cassian is returning to Yavin 4 with the pilot, as the official mission dictated earlier. Jynn recommends going to Eadu to bring father back to confirm his intel, the source of the message on how to destroy the weapon. Although it is a risk to broadcast to Yavin 4, as he states to Jynn, it may be worth the risk to retrieve Galen since Jynn pushes for it.
Draven confirms the information but still says to proceed with his initial orders. For him, he believes Galen is the problem, so his kill orders stand. This also can add to Cassian’s dilemma about the kill orders. At first, it’s pretty “simple” to do since he knew nothing about Galen. Now, he knows Jynn and the rest of the crew are behind Jynn to retrieve Galen. Heck, the pilot was telling them how Galen is the good guy. So although he relays the information to Yavin 4 to make it a retrieval mission, and not an assassination mission … but the old orders stand. This helps contribute with the conflict we visually see later with him with the orders.
He had an “out” to not kill Galen, but Jynn had the crew behind her and a logical step for the mission to retrieve Galen who knew how to destroy the weapon to go to Eadu instead of just going back to base.
EDIT: There would be one line to remove from Cassian, at one point when Jynn says he should notify the base he says “I’ve already done that”, to help with the concept of not broadcasting out to base because they were deep in imperial space, by removing that line (may need some tweaking overall) it helps sell that he has NOT sent out any information out and only did because the benefit of reaching out to the base about going to Eadu was worth the risk.