Working titles for this episode included “Dark Blade of Dathomir” and “The Boy Who Cried Maul.”
When describing the haunting visions of Maul that Ezra has at the start of the episode, executive producer Dave Filoni likened them to having “a Freddy Krueger-quality” to them.
The Darksaber first appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars as a relatively late addition to the Season Two Mandalorian storyline. Its inclusion spawned a great deal of story development regarding Mandalore’s ancient past.
Strewn in Maul’s sanctuary are battle droid heads and discarded helmets from his former Mandalorian warriors.
Maul has a stolen cubist painting of Duchess Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s beloved, who Maul slayed in the Clone Wars.
Composer Kevin Kiner quotes a small, piano-only refrain from Duchess Satine’s theme in the score when Ezra looks at her painting.
Meredith Salenger and Anna Graves, two recurring actors from The Clone Wars, return to voice the Nightsister-possessed incarnations of Kanan and Sabine.
The Mandalorian writing maddeningly scrawled on the wall of Maul’s sanctuary translates to: KENOBI.
