Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers for Episodes 4, 5 and 6 of “Andor” Season 2, now streaming on Disney+.

For the second week in a row, “Andor” killed off a major character in shocking fashion. This week, rebel assassin Cinta Kaz (Varada Sethu) was accidentally shot by a Ghorman revolutionary during a routine attack on an Imperial transport ship.

When we saw Cinta in last week’s episodes, she went undercover as businessman Tay Kolma’s (Ben Miles) driver and covertly killed him on orders from her rebel spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård). Now, the tables have turned on her, just when it seemed like she and her girlfriend Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) were about to put their rebel lives behind them and focus on their relationship.

Cinta arrives on Ghorman to assist a hasty counter-mission led by some local revolutionaries. The Empire started mining the planet for energy and suppressing the Ghormans,...