maul is defeated by a sightless kanan, and darth vader arrives with the intention of retrieving the holocron, but is challenged by ahsoka, his former padawan. while the superweapon is preparing to fire, kanan and ezra retrieve the holocron and escape, preventing the weapon of mass destruction from being used. even though the temple is destabilized, ahsoka and vader keep fighting to the death within the rapidly crumbling building, until it eventually explodes, wounding vader.