By way of the primary two episodes, Mae is unable to efficiently kill a Jedi with no weapon. She makes use of a throwing knife to finish Indara’s life in Episode 1 and convinces Jedi Grasp Corbin (Dean-Charles Chapman) to willingly ingest poison in Episode 2. Nonetheless, Mae has her orders, and one would assume that by the top of “The Acolyte” Season 1, she’ll achieve some method to kill a Jedi the way in which her shadowy grasp needs.
Leslye Headland defined how resorting to weapons thus far showcases a key part of Mae’s character, telling GQ, “As a result of [Mae’s] so undisciplined, she all the time takes out the knives as a result of she’s like, I wish to kill these motherf******.” The truth is, one might virtually see this plan from “The Acolyte” as a precursor to what Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) accomplishes efficiently through the ending of “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.” After it is revealed that he is a Sith and Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) makes an attempt to kill him, Palpatine provides a speech a few “Jedi rise up,” which creates justification to execute Order 66 and switch public sentiment towards the Jedi.
For the Sith, it isn’t sufficient to easily kill a Jedi. It is about killing the concept of what the Jedi stand for. Maybe that is the lesson the mysterious enemy needs to show Mae. What if her grasp would not need her actually to kill a Jedi however as a substitute destroy one’s status? It could definitely differentiate “The Acolyte” from different “Star Wars” reveals.