While Ezra faced his own trial in the depths of the temple, Kanan communed with Yoda, who warned him that this was a dangerous time for master and apprentice alike. Kanan promised his old teacher that he wouldn’t let Ezra lose focus the way he once had.

Revealed as a double agent, Senator-in-exile Gall Trayvis painted the rebels as villains and announced a reward for their capture. Trayvis’s propaganda gave Kanan an idea: the rebels would broadcast their own transmission by hijacking the Empire’s communications tower on Lothal.

Unaware that the Empire had discovered the plan, Kanan tried to ease Ezra’s worries about the mission. But he also told his Padawan that he had to be willing to make sacrifices – including painful ones – for a greater good.

All too soon, Ezra had to heed Kanan’s words: The Inquisitor dueled Kanan at the communications tower, once again using his superior command of the Force to defeat him. This time there would be no escape: Kanan urged Hera to flee and became a prisoner of the Empire.

Kanan resisted questioning by Imperial interrogation droids and the Inquisitor’s dark-side arts, but Tarkin ordered him taken to the planet Mustafar, where interrogations always produced confessions.

Aboard Tarkin’s Star Destroyer, the Inquisitor taunted Kanan, trying to break him by calling him a coward for having abandoned his own master Depa Billaba years before during Order 66.

The rebels infiltrated Tarkin’s Star Destroyer and Ezra broke Kanan out of his cell, but the Inquisitor intercepted them. This time, Kanan was able to overcome his fear and let the Force flow. He defeated the Inquisitor, who fell to his death, and escaped with his Padawan. Both still had much to learn, but a strong bond had grown between them.