--- description: 'The Mandalorian' season 3 is offering some additional insight into Grogu's Jedi beginnings. title: 'The Mandalorian' Reveals Grogu's Jedi Backstory image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta58f9000b33a00f0/698a3b5586f68eb4ee6f2417/The-Mandalorian-Season-3-Din-Djarin-Grogu.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Television](/tag/television/) ## Television Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # What We Learned About Grogu's Jedi Backstory in _The Mandalorian_ Season 3  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Mar 22, 2023 6:03 PM CUT  Lucasfilm  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Mar 22, 2023 6:03 PM CUT **Warning:** This post contains spoilers for episode 4 of [_The Mandalorian_](https://time.com/6258673/mandalorian-season-3-disney-plus-what-to-know/ "undefined") season 3. Following an opening sequence in which [Grogu](https://time.com/5922946/mandalorian-season-2-finale-rogue-one/ "undefined") (formerly known as Baby Yoda) spars with a fellow Mandalorian foundling, the fourth episode of [_The Mandalorian_‘s third season](https://time.com/6259360/the-mandalorian-gina-carano-firing-season-3/ "undefined"), “Chapter 20: The Foundling,” offered some additional insight into Grogu’s Jedi beginnings. While watching the Armorer (Emily Swallow) forge him a plate of beskar armor, Grogu once again flashed back to the day he escaped the clone troopers carrying out Order 66, the Jedi purge ordered by Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) in _Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith_. We first saw Grogu begin to remember what happened to him during the infamous Jedi massacre while training with Luke Skywalker (a CGI de-aged version of Mark Hamill) on the planet of Ossus in [_The Book of Boba Fett_](https://time.com/6130332/book-of-boba-fett-what-to-know/ "undefined").  Jedi in a scene from The Mandalorian season 3 Lucasfilm **Read more:** [_Everything You Need to Know About_ The Mandalorian _Season 3_](https://time.com/6258673/mandalorian-season-3-disney-plus-what-to-know/ "undefined") While the first flashback simply revealed that a number of Jedi went to their deaths trying to protect Grogu, this time, we learned that it was Jedi Master Kelleran Beq (played by Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best) who got Grogu away from the Jedi Temple and off Coruscant. Best previously appeared as Kelleran Beq in the _Star Wars_ competition show _Jedi Temple_ _Challenge_, but this is is the first time we’ve seen his story play out in _Star Wars_ canon. Grogu and Kelleran ultimately escaped Coruscant by jumping to lightspeed in a ship given to them by sympathetic Royal Naboo Security Forces. But considering the number of years that passed between Order 66 and when Mando (Pedro Pascal) found Grogu on the desert planet Arvala-7 in _The Mandalorian_ series premiere, it seems like we’re bound to learn more about Grogu’s backstory as the show goes on. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6265043/the-mandalorian-season-3-grogu-jedi-ahmed-best/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6265043/the-mandalorian-season-3-grogu-jedi-ahmed-best/"},"headline":"What We Learned About Grogu's Jedi Backstory in The Mandalorian Season 3","datePublished":"2023-03-22T18:03:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:53:23.602Z","description":"'The Mandalorian' season 3 is offering some additional insight into Grogu's Jedi beginnings","url":"https://time.com/6265043/the-mandalorian-season-3-grogu-jedi-ahmed-best/","keywords":["Television","Brief","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta58f9000b33a00f0/698a3b5586f68eb4ee6f2417/The-Mandalorian-Season-3-Din-Djarin-Grogu.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta58f9000b33a00f0/698a3b5586f68eb4ee6f2417/The-Mandalorian-Season-3-Din-Djarin-Grogu.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The-Mandalorian-Season-3-Din-Djarin-Grogu","caption":"","creditText":"Lucasfilm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6265043/the-mandalorian-season-3-grogu-jedi-ahmed-best/","name":"What We Learned About Grogu's Jedi Backstory in The Mandalorian Season 3"}}]}] ```