This week’s episode of Star Wars Rebels finds our intrepid heroes on something like leave from active duty. Relaxing for them, but not so interesting for us. For an episode so low on plot movement, though, we’re still treated to a few great moments.

Rex is finding himself right at home among the crew of the Ghost. So much so that he has taken to training Ezra in the art of war… training that butts up against Jedi practice with Coach Kanan. There’s no dust up between the cowboy Jedi and the aging soldier this time despite both men looking to tutor Ezra, which speaks to how far both men have come in so short a time. Ezra though has had it with the busy schedule. He just wants a break from all this TRAINING. (An aside: Ezra, you’re living the fantasy of hundreds of thousands if not millions of Earth children, being trained in the Jedi and clone trooper arts. So, yeah, dry your tears, Babyface.)

While the family’s away, Ezra steals the Phantom and answers a distress call from his Rebel “friend” Vizago, the Devaronian Ezra owes a favor to from last season. Instead of finding Vizago on the seemingly abandoned ship, Chopper and Ezra run into the space pirate, Hondo Ohnaka, first introduced in The Clone Wars. Calamity, and some adept Force use, ensues. 

It seems that the galaxy’s Dark Times have been bad for Hondo, too. His gang is gone and he’s working alone, making his way through the galaxy with only his wits and a penchant for gambling to see him to safety. His lack of morality aside, Hondo has heart. He knows Ezra to have the heart of a true Jedi—and tells Ezra as much—offering Ezra an objective opinion on his training and on his chosen path that he seems to take some comfort in.

Oh, and Chopper, in true astromech fashion, gets to save the day. Whereas R2-D2 would whistle and whirl to distract baddies, Chopper picks up a couple of blasters and charges into the fray like a lunatic. 

Though it’s nice to see that Hondo Ohnaka is still laughing his way out of one mess and into another, “Brothers of the Broken Horn” is a lull in the enticing action of the season’s main plot. Sure, it’s nice to see Ezra gain some perspective on what he could’ve (would’ve?) become had he not joined the Rebels, but I’m not convinced that mushy moment warranted an entire episode.

Rebels this week is all about Hondo Ohnaka and the gray area of morality in the Star Wars Universe.