With the Andor Season 2 Emmy campaign underway, we’re getting some peeks behind the curtain and seeing how the magic came to be. As part of the push to get Dan Gilroy an Emmy win for his script “Welcome to the Rebellion”, Disney has posted the post-production, final draft online. In addition, we also have access to Tony Gilroy’s full outline for the second season, including how he saw the different character arcs when he pitched it to Lucasfilm.

Dan Gilroy is nominated in the Best Writing category for Drama series for his episode 9 script (check it out here). The episode’s most memorable moment might be Mon Mothma’s speech to the Senate after the Ghorman Massacre, and her subsequent exit from the building. It also brought the long-awaited meeting between Cassian Andor and Mon Mothma, and set the stage for the final three episodes of the season, which didn’t pull any punches.

In addition to that, a separate document also revealed some of the details of the prep work put into Season 2, including the full outline by Tony Gilroy, and some quotes from him, Diego Luna, and other members of the team. You can check out this second document here, and read the outline below:

Andor Season 2 Pitch

A quick summary of the next/last twelve episodes.

Our frame? Think of it as a two-part novel. We’re doing twelve more episodes to wrap the second half of the story.

The one line? Andor is an adventure story about the rise of a galactic revolution, told through the journey of a nobody who ascends to an epic destiny.

When we return for Season Two, a year will have passed since the riot on Ferrix and Cassian’s take-me-or-kill-me ultimatum to Luthen. He’s now at the tip of Luthen’s spear, and we’ll realize how ambitious the network has gorwn and how much Cassian has changed already.

Cassian & Bix. We let it loose. A passionate, complex, real love between two people who’ve been orbiting their whole lives and are ready now to make it together. We saw the power of their connection in Season One. We’ll lean into this now. They deserve a relationship worthy of the ingredients.

No one this season is exempt from sacrifice. Bix will face her deepest dilemma as she senses the strange pull of Cassian’s destiny. In Block #3, they’ll encounter a “Force healer” who’ll dial-in instantly to his aura. Cassian can’t escape fast enough, but the encounter resonates for Bix. She can’t help replaying the miracles of Cassian’s journey and wonder “What if the galaxy’s need for Cassian is more important than hers?”

Ultimately she’ll do more than let him go — she’ll force herself to push him away. She senses what’s coming. It’s an epic decision and terribly sad. But there will (spoiler) be a ray of sunshine at the very end.

There’s another romance in Season Two. Debra & Syril. We’ll find them living together. Their relationship will be no less complicated.

ISB director Krennic will order Dedra to abandon her pursuit of “Axis” (Luthen) to take charge of a horrifying program to prepare the planet Ghorman for complete annihilation.

Ghorman, unbeknownst to all but a very few Imperial conspirators, is the sole source of a mineral essential to the Death Star’s operation. If alternatives are not developed in time, Ghorman will need to be destroyed.

Taking Ghorman won’t be easy.

Syril has been increasingly curious why his girlfriend isn’t more interested in this counterinsurgency progress, and utterly gobsmacked to discover he’s been nothing more than a tool of the Emperor’s “Energy program.”

It’s a toxi, last-minute breka-up that will send Syril into the thick of the Ghhorman plaza riot as the first shots are fired. All beliefs have been trashed — his woman— his values — his respect for the Empire. He’ll wander dazed, as the massacre explodes around him.

And then he’ll see Cassian Andor…

Syril will die in Ghorman. He’ll be celebrated as a martyr.

The Ghorman Massacre is Mon Mothma’s canonical red line. It’s this event that prompts her stand in the Senate Chamber. She will denounce the Emperor and be forced to flee.

We’ll be right there. The final episode of Block #3 will take place in Coruscant the day after the massacre. Bail Organa will orchestrate the politics that get Mon to the podium. She’ll deliver a barn-burning speech and make her daring escape from Coruscant with someone she’s never met — Cassian Andor.

Sadly, as she joins the growing Rebel Alliance, Luthen’s exilie will become increasingly stark. The larger movement he’s spent his life working for has brought with it a few new buffet of egos, betrayals, and suspicions. How does one scale up a clandestine spy network? Yavin will grow too big to trust and Luthen’s been a one-man show for too long. Paranoia is inevitable.

Luthen’s defiance will see him so discredited that, even when he gives everything for the intel that will lead to the discovery of the Death Star, the information will be discounted as the ravings of an outlier.

Kleya will bear the brunt of this injustice. Cassian will ignore the noise about his controversial mentor and break rank to source the rumors of Kyber crystal and Galen Erso.

Their sacrifices, like so many of our characters, will be epic.

Tony.

The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on September 15.

Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.