Note: This story contains spoilers from "Andor" Season 2, Episode 12. Everyone knew "Rogue One" was the finish line for Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in "Andor," but the question was how close Season 2 of the Disney+ show would put him to the beginning of his end.

The final three episodes include major deaths, callbacks and one last swashbuckling adventure rooted in the idea that every soldier counts in a fight for freedom.

Andor' showrunner Tony Gilroy talks about the thinking behind the series finale's surprise and more in our new interview — spoilers ahead!

Cassian's legacy lives on in more ways than we thought The post How the ‘Andor’ Season 2 Finale Makes the ‘Rogue One’ Ending Even More Bittersweet appeared first on TheWrap.

Spoilers ahead for Andor Season 2, Episode 12, "Jedha, Kyber, Erso." While the final moments of Andor Episode 12 find Cassian heading off to meet his contact and learn more about the Empire's superweapon,

So while this villain doesn't die at the end of the series, she does end up in one terrifying prisons that we saw in Andor season 1. While it's not specified that the prison is on Narkina 5, the moon where Cassian helped stage a breakout years ago, it sure looks a lot like it.

How come Andor Season 2 just elevated the level of sadness of the end of Rogue One in galactic notches? In the lift, Cassian's last words in Rogue One are a gentle, eerie whisper:

For months, the actress “couldn’t bring” herself to watch the series’s closing scene. Now, she’s ready to talk about it.