10) Party at the Mothmas
Luthen Rael isn’t the only one wearing a mask on Coruscant, and the fraught social gathering Mon and Perrin Mothma hold so the senator can court resistance to Palpatine’s law-and-order rule is a masterful display of the many masks she wears. Trying to appease recalcitrant politicians, trying to be the happy mother and wife, and then, when she encounters old Chandrilan friend Tay Kolma and sees an opportunity to mask her Rebel funding in her homeworld’s banking system, we get to see the real fire behind Mon’s steely exterior—a rebel playing the world for fools around her.
