The Death of a Jedi
The trailer opens with an unseen figure saying “last night, a Jedi was murdered.” Official captions for the trailer name this character as Tasi Lowa—perhaps another Jedi, given the context?—but the important thing we see here is that this voiceover accompanies a shot in shadow of Mae (Amandla Stenberg) walking away from a fallen lightsaber, and using the Force to pull a dagger out of the wooden flooring beneath her.
The lightsaber is that of Jedi Master Indara, played by Matrix icon Carrie-Anne Moss. Death flags have been up for Indara since the very first material we saw from The Acolyte, including the fact that its first teaser poster depicted her weapon in a bloodied streak. It certainly seems like Mae is going to take her out early in the series, but there’s some interesting details here: in both the first trailer and the extended preview fans saw accompanied to this past weekend’s anniversary re-release of The Phantom Menace, we see Mae fight Indara in an alien cantina… but that fight takes place during the day.
The lighting of this shot seems to imply that Mae finally finishes her off after nightfall—and the flooring is very similar to the cantina they were fighting in, so it could be the same place, or at least somewhere in the same village. Maybe Mae makes an attempt, fails, and flees, and then returns to take Indara unawares?
