No one noticed this heartbreaking Rogue One easter egg in Andor

As Andor wrapped up with season two on May 13, 2025, it left a heartbreaking easter egg for us. If you have watched Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, you must remember the blaster Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna) used to kill Director Krennic at the end of the film.

While we do not see Bix (played by Adria Arjona) in Rogue One, the Andor season two finale showed how a part of her is in the film. The blaster Cassian used in Rogue One is the same one Bix had in the Andor finale. While many thought Bix might die at the end of Andor (explaining her absence in Rogue One), she lives, but Cassian carries her into the biggest moment of his life.

Andor easter egg that makes the Rogue One ending more heartbreaking

Jonathan Wallace, Andor's prop supervisor, confirmed that the blaster Bix was seen carrying is the same one Cassian uses in Rogue One. This little detail adds more emotional weight to the already heartbreaking Rogue One ending. It connects the film to the show, not only through the history of the Rebel Alliance, but also through Cassian and Bix's love story.

Andor finale also tells us that Cassian and Bix have a child, and Bix chose to leave Cassian and stay on Mina-Rau with the child. It also makes so much sense given how confused viewers were when Bix left Cassian. Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, spoke on this part of the ending with Variety on May 14, 2025, saying:

"Sure! Why not? That’s what hope is, isn’t it? Its provenance was not mercenary. I’m sure at certain points it helped me out, but it wasn’t there for that purpose. I would’ve done it anyway. That does three things for me at the end. No. 1, it’s for anybody who is confused about Bix leaving Cassian in 9, because it’s a very sophisticated rationale for leaving. I mean, how do you react if you feel like you’re living with someone who has a destiny, and you might be confusing that destiny? That’s a pretty subtle thing. This underlines that and says, 'Oh my God, she was pregnant when she was doing that.'”

He continued:

"It makes his sacrifice in 'Rogue' just that much more epically painful: the child he’ll never see, and all the missed opportunities and the rest of it. And then it also lets me have hope at the end. It gives me an open door, as you say. And it’s not just an open door to a theme park. It’s an open door to a real feeling for the audience and some sort of empathetic closure."

Adria Arjona, who plays Bix Caleen in Andor, when asked in an interview with Collider on May 15, 2025, if Cassian and Bix were actually married, said:

"That's a very interesting question, one that I should know the answer to and want to have the answer for you. I think it's Episode 3 where she says it for the first time, and it's sort of in response to what society puts onto that word 'husband' and how seriously someone takes it if I go, 'Oh, my boyfriend is coming home soon,' rather than me saying, 'My husband is coming home soon.' I think there's a depth to the word husband that happens to somebody else, and that's the reason she chooses that word in that moment, and unfortunately, it doesn't really work as much as she wishes it did. So, I think it's a word used in defense of a moment."

Andor season two wrapped up the show on a hopeful note, showing us how Cassian carried Bix with him in Rogue One. While Cassian does not know he has a child, it is a hopeful moment knowing that a part of him lives on even after the events of Rogue One. Simultaneously, it is heartbreaking to know that his child will never know their father and vice versa.

Diego Luna spoke about the ending in the same interview, saying:

"Also, if you imagine how many different approaches the story could have to answer the question of why Bix is not in Rogue One and why we don't hear about Bix in Rogue One, I love that he he chose this path. I love that at the end, what we are doing is telling a love story. Because everyone focuses, when you talk about a revolution, in loss, in pain, in anger, in injustice, and all of that is there, but behind the revolution, there's love. There's the sense of family and belonging and fighting for the right reasons, and that reason can only be love. I think it's a beautiful way to close this project to remind ourselves what it should be about."

Andor's ending makes Rogue One so much more emotionally charged because now we know what the characters have gone through. Moreover, Cassian's death in the film is even more meaningful, and Andor's ending perhaps makes Rogue One a little less dark, adding a touch of hope and a love that ended too soon. Diego Luna, in the interview with Collider, spoke on Cassian's sacrifice in the film, saying:

"Come on! If you see Rogue One now, it's like, damn, the film is just so much more robust emotionally. It's like everything means so much more now, and you understand what's said and what's not said, which is the beauty of Rogue One, because it's a very mysterious film. You don't know much about these characters. Well, now you know."

Andor and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story are both streaming on Disney+.

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