‘The Book of Boba Fett’ Recap – ‘Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine’

Written by Shae Rufe

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode Two of ‘The Book of Boba Fett’. To revisit ‘Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land’, click here.
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Chapter 2 of The Book of Boba Fett has led us on an even more in-depth look into what happened to Boba after he escaped the Sarlacc pit. First, he’s taken over Jabba’s old territory, and that’s had its ups and downs. The assassination attempt on his life didn’t go well, although he was injured. Fennec does bring back one single assassin who refuses to talk until they throw him down into the Rancor pit. The problem is, well, there is no Rancor. The assassin doesn’t need to know that, and he quickly confessed that the mayor sent him. So, Boba does the most Boba thing he can, and he takes the assassin and Fennec and goes and has a chat with the mayor himself.
 
The mayor, of course, kills said assassin and claims innocence over the whole thing. He does pay Boba a bounty but offers no gift for being the new crime boss in town. That would be fine if it weren’t so blatantly disrespectful. The major also warns him that all is not as it seems. So, they head back to the bar where this all started. Lo and behold, Jabba’s twin cousins simply known as ‘The Twins’ are arriving. They claim the territory is theirs, despite Boba having taken over. Boba disagrees. Thankfully, it ends with the Hutts leaving, for now at least, peacefully. Nothing is ever easy, and we all know this is going to end badly for the former Bounty Hunter.

What doesn’t end badly is his time with the Tusken Raiders. Alright, it might end badly, but for now everything does seem to be going well. He’s being trained by one of the warriors and is all too happy to learn their ways. It seems like they’re starting to understand one another better or have a better understanding of the other, either way. Boba is a good, ish, student and learns somewhat quick. During one sparring/training session, a train comes from out of nowhere and just starts to fire on the Tuskens without prompting, killing several Tuskens. Then a pack of speeder bikes goes by. For some odd reason. This doesn’t sit well with Boba, especially since he’s becoming friends with this tribe. He sets out with a rifle and a club stick that night and tracks down the speeders.
 
The gang is in a bar causing trouble when Boba shows up to literally just beat them, take a drink, and takes all four speeder bikes back to the Tuskens. He then teaches them how to ride and use the speeders. They’re going to need them in order to stop the train. It goes as well as expected, but the Tuskens get a handle on the speeders and the train heist begins. Sadly, they lose all the speeders and several of the Tusken Raiders that went with them. The fight on the train is brutal, and even the droid running the train bails. Boba manages to stop the train without crashing it. They apprehend the leader of the train and Boba makes a starling declaration. They won’t kill the people on the train who’re totally running drugs, from now on they will pay the Tuskens for using their sacred land.

This earns him even more respect of the leader. Boba is offered a gift, a lizard, that will guide him in his brain. Legit, the lizard ends up jumping up into his nose and Boba goes on a very interesting journey. When he returns, it’s with a large branch. The lizard gets removed, thankfully, and Boba crafts the branch into the signature weapon that the Tuskens use. Armed with his own weapon, he joins the tribe around the fire and proves his skills with his new weapon. Boba is officially a welcomed member of their tribe, right? As we saw in The Mandalorian, Boba does get his armor back, and he saves Fennec, which means he eventually leaves the Tusken Raiders. We can only hope that he leaves on good terms. It’ll be interesting to see how he came to really take power over Jabba’s place. Most importantly, what made him decide to do so?

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