This one really really felt like an episode of afternoon GI Joe or a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80's, except with a little serialized storytelling tacked on at the end. And that's not said with disrespect, because I look back fondly at some of those old cartoons and the storylines they were able to tell. The difference is this isn't farmed out to a bunch of writers to come up with those how many dozens of episodes...here we have such a shorter season, guided by one storyteller, so it feels weird that the storytelling is coming out so disjointed.
I liked the callback to the Mon Cal Prince...I'm sure he's the guy Din took the bounty on only to forget about the job to rescue Grogu back in season one. That, at least, was rewarding storytelling.
The episode itself was a weird homage to a detective procedural, and gave me strong vibes of the "School Cafeteria" episode of Clone Wars, ie the last episode of Clone Wars I watched when it was airing on Cartoon Network before giving up on the series. I did come back to watch the last few episodes, but the show never really connected with me again.
As far as Bo-Katan finally getting the Darksaber back, it just points out even more how much the overarching storytelling is broken here. None of the events from the finale of Season 2 that should have been complications have been anything that has taken any kind of work or character development by the characters to fix. Grogu is just back, and now superfluous to the story. Din is just fully devoted to the cult again, and not questioning the tenets of their beliefs anymore. Bo-Katan has the Darksaber, her fleet, and her followers back. Why do the work to set up these complications if they are just going to be randomly--and quickly--undone?
(The one good thing was, when Din explained how the Darksaber was now hers by right, my 13-year old son questioned it, and we got to talk about how relying on dogma in religions often leads to people being able to twist and distort the religion to mean whatever they want at the moment. A good teaching moment for us.)
And I have to add, the stuff about the Beskar in Gideon's shuttle...wasn't he the guy who took all the Beskar after Mandalore was destroyed? Wasn't he the source of Mando's own Beskar armor? If Beskar points to anyone on the galaxy anymore, it ought to implicate Moff Gideon himself.