Jedi Night " Jedi Night " is the tenth episode of the fourth season of the animated television series " Star Wars Rebels " . It premiered on February 19 , 2018 . Official description . " The rebels look to rescue Hera from the clutches of Governor Pryce and Grand Admiral Thrawn . " Plot summary . Hera ' s captivity . The episode opens with Kanan Jarrus meditating in Lothal ' s wilderness . While meditating , Kanan reflects on flashbacks of his time with Ezra Bridger , Hera Syndulla , and Sabine Wren . A prowling white loth - wolf watches Kanan meditating in the grass . When Ezra approaches , Kanan tells his Padawan that he has to take the lead in getting Hera back . When Ezra suggests that his master should take the lead , Kanan explains that his feelings for Hera may complicate the mission . Kanan tasks Ezra with planning the mission because they need to save Hera and everyone else . Meanwhile , at the Dome , Governor Arihnda Pryce oversees the torture of Hera , who is being electrocuted . Pryce taunts Hera about her " lovely " voice . When Grand Admiral Thrawn enters and asks whether she has revealed the location of the Rebel Fleet , Pryce replies that she hasn ' t begun asking questions yet while Hera screams in agony . Thrawn questions Hera but she remains defiant . Thrawn compliments her resolve and shows her family ' s Kalikori . Thrawn tells Hera that he is interested in the deeper meaning of the things he collects . Thrawn deduces that the Kalikori is a significant symbol for his adversary . Thrawn surmises that the shapes on the Kalikori represent individuals important to her . He notices that one of the designs refers to a deceased loved one . Hera responds that he is unworthy of holding it . Thrawn replies that the Kalikori ' s legacy ends with her and that it will be appreciated by its new owner . He leaves Governor Pryce , who has no appreciation of art , to torture Hera . Building gliders . Ezra is meditating at the top of his former " roost " . Zeb is growing impatient but Sabine shushes him . Ezra senses that Hera is in the " Dome " in Governor Pryce ' s office . Sabine adds that Pryce ' s office would be on the 157th level in block D . Zeb asks how they will get past all the patrols , gun turrets , and the watch towers . Ezra proposes flying in on gliders . Sabine supports Ezra ' s idea on the grounds that the Empire is equipped to counter sophisticated weaponry and targets and won ' t be looking for something low - tech like a glide . Zeb thinks this plan won ' t work but Ezra reassures them that his plan will work and that they can come in disguised as loth - bat s . Ezra suggests that they land at the garbage chute in the south entrance of the Imperial complex . Sabine says that they will make the gliders when Zeb asks how . While Ezra , Sabine , Zeb , and Chopper build the Loth - bat glider s , Kanan cuts his hair and shaves his beard with a knife , using the Force to guide himself . Ryder Azadi , Mart Mattin , and Jai Kell watch the Spectres finishing the gliders . Ezra is about to call Kanan but Kanan is ready to join their mission to rescue Hera . Zeb later tells Kanan that he ' s fortunate he ' s blind because he doubts that the contraptions will work without the Force . For the operation , Ezra and Sabine done stolen TIE fighter pilot uniforms . They along with Kanan harness themselves to the gliders while Zeb and Chopper use a speeder bike to tow the gliders . Once the gliders are airborne , they disconnect from the speeder bike . Zeb tells them to bring Hera back as he and Chopper watch Lothal ' s sunset . Thrawn ' s departure . Above Lothal , Grand Moff Tarkin confers with Thrawn via hologram aboard the " Chimaera " . Tarkin tells Thrawn that his TIE / D Defender project is at risk because Orson Callan Krennic has been lobbying the Empire to divert funding to his project Stardust . Thrawn says that the Emperor has promised that he supports the TIE Defender project . Tarkin admits that Krennic ' s project has been " nothing more than expenses and excuses . " He tells Thrawn that he has arranged a meeting with the Emperor for him to argue his case . Thrawn departs Lothal immediately and tells the commander to inform Governor Pryce that he is traveling to Coruscant . Rescue mission . In the streets of Capital City , two stormtrooper s hear a flight of loth - bat s screeching with one likening them to one step above a loth - cat . The Noghri tracker Rukh asks if they have anything to report and sniffs around . The Spectres fly their loth - bat gliders above the streets of Capital City . They land at the south entrance ' s garbage chute undetected . Kanan compliments Ezra for his plan with Ezra informing him that Pryce ’ s office is six levels below . Ezra and Sabine leave to find an escape transport . Before leaving , he tells them may the Force be with them . Ezra and Sabine climb a stairwell while Kanan uses magnetic climber s to scale down to Hera ' s torture chamber . Ezra and Sabine walk past several stormtroopers in the corridors below . With Hera unwilling to reveal the location of the Rebel fleet , Governor Pryce decides to subject her to a mind probe by an IT - O Interrogator droid . Pryce smirks as Hera is injected with a truth serum . Governor Pryce reiterates her demands as Hera ' s vision goes fuzzy . However , she spots Kanan . Pryce thinks Hera is delusional and gives her a break . Rukh requests an audience with Pryce , who leaves a pair of stormtroopers to guard her . Hera tells the stormtroopers they are in " terrible trouble " and muses how Kanan will get in . Kanan slices the floor under one of the troopers , causing him to fall to his death . The remaining stormtrooper LS - 261 summons reinforcements but Kanan hurls him out the window . Kanan then stabs the IT - O droid with his lightsaber and throws it down the hole he cut open . Hera jokes that the droid deserved it . After Kanan frees her , the two embrace and she jokes that she " hates " his hair . Kanan quips that it was the best he could do without a mirror . Kanan tells Hera that he has recovered her Kalikori as a present . Hera does not regard the Kalikori as a present since it belongs to her family . The two escape before Pryce , Rukh , and several death trooper s force their way into Pryce ' s office . Rukh sniffs for the rebels ' scent while Pryce gives orders to lock down the base and muster the gunships . She also gives the death troopers orders to blast them on sight . In the Imperial Complex ' s hangar , klaxons begin ringing and Ezra and Sabine realized that Kanan has succeeded in rescuing Hera . She says that she will fly the patrol transport . Sabine takes out the transport ' s pilot while Ezra tells the stormtrooper commander that he is a backup pilot . Prison break . Rukh follows Kanan and Hera as they climb back to the garbage chute . Hera tries to express her feelings for Kanan but instead compliments the kids ' gliders . Kanan tells Hera there something he needs to tell her . Before Kanan can say anything , they are attacked by Rukh . Kanan fights Rukh , who is armed with an electrostaff . Rukh knocks Kanan ' s lightsaber out of his hand , causing it to fall to the ground . Kanan hurls Rukh off the building . The Spectres are then attacked by death troopers . Hera shoots one and Kanan shoots another . The two escape on one of the loth - bat gliders while Rukh clings to a balcony . One of the glider ' s wings takes a hit from a blaster bolt . Hera manages to steer the glider towards the Lothal City fuel depot . Meanwhile , Governor Pryce learns that the rebels are heading to the fuel depot and mobilizes several AT - AT walkers to trap them there . Kanan and Hera fly the damaged glider to the fuel depot . They survive a crash - landing with Kanan joking that this was one of Hera ' s better crashes . Hera counters that she never crashes and that it was a rough landing . Kanan contacts Sabine by comlink . Ezra cheers upon learning the news and claims that he enjoys flying to the bemused stormtroopers . Kanan requests a pick up at the central fuel pod of the depot . Sabine removes her helmet while Ezra tells the stormtroopers that this where they get off . Sabine veers the patrol transport , causing the stormtroopers to fall out . Sabine then shoots down another patrol transport with Ezra using his lightsaber to hurl a blast at the second transport , causing it to crash . Kanan ' s sacrifice . Kanan and Hera reach the top of the central fuel pod . Hera tells Kanan that she loves him and the two kiss passionately . Sabine and Ezra arrived in their stolen patrol transport to find Kanan and Hera embracing . Before they can leave , Governor Pryce arrives with a phalanx of AT - AT walkers . She orders her AT - AT pilot s to fire at the central fuel pod . When the pilot protests , Pryce reiterates that it is a direct order . The lead AT - AT fires a salvo that ignites the central fuel pod . The other Spectres watch as Kanan uses the Force to hold back the explosive wave . Hera rushes towards Kanan but he uses the Force to hurl her back into the transport . In his final moments , Kanan looks at Hera and his eyes briefly turn turquoise again . Kanan is then consumed by an explosive wave that ignites the other pods in the Imperial fuel depot . The surviving Spectres flee aboard the patrol transport . Development . The episode originally went under the title " Ascension : Part One " .