Ezra steps up to assume a leadership role in the Rebellion, leading a team to spring Hondo out of prison so that he can help them with a plan to steal ships from an Empire reclamation yard. Meanwhile, the Emperor assigns the cunning Grand Admiral Thrawn to oversee efforts to crush the Rebel cell on Lothal.
Ezra's ship heist goes awry thanks to his reckless approach, leaving him and his friends in danger. Elsewhere, on the remote planet Atollon, a dejected Kanan receives a lesson from an ancient Force-wielder called the Bendu.
Sabine goes undercover as a cadet inside the Empire's elite flight academy on a mission to recruit a group of young pilots who may be willing to defect to the Rebellion.
On a supply mission to Hera's home planet of Ryloth, the Ghost crew agrees to help their friend recover a priceless memento from her ancestral home -- which now serves as an Imperial base.
Captain Rex and the crew find themselves in the middle of a battle with a squad of old battle droids, who do not know that the Clones Wars ended years ago.
Sabine and Ezra take the Mandalorian commander Fenn Rau back to Concord Dawn after the rebels lose contact with the planet, and find that it has been taken over by ruthless Mandalorians loyal to the Empire.
The rebels team up with a pair of unscrupulous pirates with a plan to salvage an adrift freighter stocked with weapons, but run into trouble when they find that the ship is not entirely abandoned.
After returning to Lothal to reconnect with the resistance there, Ezra and Kanan go undercover inside an Imperial weapons factory -- only to find themselves under scrutiny when Thrawn shows up and initiates a lockdown of the facility.
Ezra's ongoing connection to Maul brings him and Kanan to a desolate planet, where he must trust the enemy once again in order to unlock the secret of how to defeat the Sith. But something darker lurks in the shadows.
The crew of the Ghost searches the planet Geonosis for a missing team of rebels, only to find a Geonosian who has survived the extermination of his species.
With Imperial forces closing in on them the crew members find themselves at odds with Saw Gerrera, a rebel commander who demands the Geonosian survivor be taken and interrogated. Meanwhile Zeb and Sabine fight to survive after the planet's war machine begins to reactivate.
Left behind on the rebel base Zeb and Chopper recover a damaged droid from the wilderness, only to discover that it is a dangerous Imperial probe droid that has been sent to find them.
The team convinces Sabine to take up an ancient Mandalorian weapon which could help her rally her clan to the rebellion. But her training with Kanan and Ezra proves more difficult than expected.
Sabine receives an expectedly cold welcome from her powerful mother when she returns home, but she and her rebel friends must come to the rescue when Gar Saxon declares Clan Wren to be traitors to the Empire.
Agent Kallus is surprised when Ezra turns up on an Imperial ship to help him defect before he is found out, but decides to turn the tables on the Empire when Ezra is transferred to Grand Admiral Thrawn's star cruiser.
Hera, Ezra, and Zeb rendezvous with Senator Mon Mothma, an outspoken opponent of the Emperor and quiet supporter of the rebellion, only to find themselves cornered by Admiral Thrawn's forces inside a dangerous nebula.
Chopper and AP-5 go undercover with Wedge Antilles to sneak into an Imperial station and steal codes that will help the rebels on Lothal -- but a remote tech specialist discovers them and turns one of the droids against the crew.
A vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi convinces Ezra that the old Jedi Master is alive and in danger. As he hurries to a desert planet to intervene, Ezra is unaware that Maul has laid a trap.
Grand Admiral Thrawn discovers the location of the rebel base, bringing the full might of the Imperial fleet down on the rebels and leaving them with no route of escape -- except for Ezra's desperate solo mission to seek reinforcements.
With the rebel fleet forced to ground Kanan pleads with the Bendu to take sides in their struggle, as Thrawn presses his advantage and attacks the base on Atollon.
