The mystery behind the dead Jedi on the stretcher persists, even a day after the show’s premiere. He eventually takes Ezra on as his own apprentice, but that’s a story for another time. It’s only after he meets a young Force-sensitive orphan named Ezra Bridger that Kanan begins to come to terms with his Jedi past.
We learn on Rebels that the Jedi padawan formerly known as Caleb was forced to change his name and go into hiding, keeping his Force abilities a secret in order to evade the Empire. This is why fans first met Caleb as a resistance fighter named Kanan Jarrus on the animated series Rebels, which takes place more than a decade after The Bad Batch.
Stream your Star Wars favorites right here! By the time he jumps across a waterfall and into the snowy woods beyond where the clone troopers are searching for him, Caleb has been irrevocably changed. We meet him in the episode as Caleb Dume, a loyal student whose life with the Jedi Order is completely shattered. While most fans will likely recognize Jedi Master Depa Billaba in the opening scene of The Bad Batch (since she first appeared all the way back in The Phantom Menace), some might not be clear on who her padawan is or why he’s significant.
