Nick Nolte: Kuiil

Chapter 7: The Reckoning

Kuiil

Kuiil: Droids are not good or bad. They are neutral reflections of those who imprint them.
The Mandalorian: I've seen otherwise.

Kuiil: Do you trust me?
The Mandalorian: From what I can tell, yes.
Kuiil: Then you will trust my work. IG-11 will join me. And we do it not for payment, but to protect the child from Imperial slavery. None will be free until the old ways are gone forever.
The Mandalorian: Okay.
Kuiil: And the blurrgs will join me, as well.
The Mandalorian: The blurrgs?
Kuiil: I have spoken.

IG-11: Would anyone care for some tea?
Kuiil: Please, lower your blasters. He will not harm you.
The Mandalorian: That thing is programmed to kill the baby.
Kuiil: Not anymore.
[narrating over flashbacks]
Kuiil: It was left behind in the wake of your destruction. I found it laying where it fell. Devoid of all life. I recovered the flotsam and staked it as my own in accordance with the charter of the New Republic. Little remained of its neural harness. Reconstruction was quite difficult... but not impossible. It had to learn everything from scratch. This is something that cannot be taught with the twist of a spanner. It requires patience and repetition. I spent day after day reinforcing its development with patience and affirmation. It developed a personality as its experiences grew.
The Mandalorian: [return to the present] Is it still a hunter?
Kuiil: No. But it will protect.

Cara Dune: [arm-wrestling] I got you, Mando.
The Mandalorian: Care to double the bet?
[the Child begins to Force-choke her]
The Mandalorian: No! No, no! Stop!
[the Child lets her go]
The Mandalorian: We're friends, we're friends. Cara is my friend!
Cara Dune: That is not okay!
Kuiil: Hmm. Very curious.
Cara Dune: Curious? It almost killed me!
Kuiil: The story you told me of the mudhorn now makes more sense.
The Mandalorian: What is it?
Kuiil: What it is, I don't know. But what it does, this... this, I've heard rumors of.
Cara Dune: What? When you worked for the Empire?
Kuiil: When I was *sold* to the Empire, in indentured servitude.
Cara Dune: Yet somehow, you walk free.
Kuiil: I bought my freedom through the skill of my hands and the labor of three of your human lifetimes. Do not cast doubt upon that of what I am nor whom I shall serve.

The Mandalorian: I've run into some problems.
Kuiil: I figured as much. Why else would you return?
The Mandalorian: I wanna hire your services.
Kuiil: I'm retired from service.
The Mandalorian: I can pay you handsomely, Ugnaught.
Kuiil: I have a name. It is Kuiil.
The Mandalorian: I need someone to protect the little one, Kuiil.
Kuiil: I'm not suited for such work. I can re-program IG-11 for nursing and protocol.
The Mandalorian: No. I don't want that droid anywhere near him.

Kuiil: [about the Child] It hasn't grown much.
The Mandalorian: I think it might be a Strand-Cast.
Kuiil: I don't think it was engineered. I've worked in the gene farms. This one looks evolved. Too ugly.
[Looks at Cara]
Kuiil: This one, on the other hand, looks like she was farmed in the Cytocaves of Nora.

The Mandalorian: Bring me.
Greef Karga: Bring you?
The Mandalorian: Tell him you captured me. Get me close to him and I'll kill him.
Greef Karga: That's a good idea. Give me your blaster.
Cara Dune: This is insane.
The Mandalorian: It's the only way.
Cara Dune: Well, I'm coming with you.
Greef Karga: No, no, no. That would them suspicious.
Cara Dune: I don't care. I'm coming.
The Mandalorian: Tell them she caught me.
Greef Karga: Fine. Then she can bring the child.
The Mandalorian: No. The kid goes back in the ship.
Greef Karga: But without the child, none of this works!
The Mandalorian: I have a plan. Kuill, ride back to the Razor Crest with the child and seal yourself in. When you're inside, engage ground security protocols. Nothing on this planet will breach those doors.
Kuiil: Here's a comlink. I'll keep the child safe.
[to Cara]
Kuiil: Don't forget to cover your stripes.

Greef Karga: There's something you should know. The plan was to kill you and take the kid. But after what happened last night, I couldn't go through with it. Go on. You can gun me down here and now and it wouldn't violate the Code. But if you do, this child will never be safe.
Cara Dune: We'll take our chances.
Greef Karga: The Imperial client is obsessed with obtaining this asset. You tried to run, but where did it get you?
Cara Dune: This is ridiculous.
Kuiil: Perhaps you should let him speak.
Greef Karga: Listen, we both need the client to be eliminated. Let me take the child to him, and then you two...
The Mandalorian: No.
Cara Dune: Let's just kill him and get out of here.
The Mandalorian: He's right.
Cara Dune: [he holsters his blaster] What are you doing?
The Mandalorian: As long as the Imp lives, he'll send hunters after the child.
Cara Dune: It's a trap.