Star Wars Rebels is delivering a big moment not just for the show but for Star Wars as a whole this weekend, as Darth Maul (voiced by Sam Witwer) and his old enemy Obi-Wan Kenobi come face to face.

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IGN has a special preview clip from the episode "Twin Suns" – an extended version of footage shown on last weekend’s Rebels Recon. The episode begins with Maul on Tatooine, where he (correctly) believes Obi-Wan is hiding. But with a vast desert to search through, the former Sith is feeling grim about the situation. Check out the clip below:Voicing Obi-Wan in this episode is Stephen Stanton (who also plays both AP-5 and Tarkin on Rebels), doing a rather uncanny impression of Alec Guinness’ voice and cadence as the older Obi-Wan we met in the original Star Wars. Witwer, who has voiced Maul since his return on Star Wars: The Clone Wars – and is a huge Star Wars fan himself – noted how this episode brings so many different Star Wars elements together, telling IGN, “That was a fun thing, because when you hear a voice that sounds like Alec Guinness say ‘My old adversary,’ it just glues the prequels and The Clone Wars and the original trilogy together in a really satisfying way. I remember when Ahsoka started showing up on Rebels and Vader started showing up on Rebels, suddenly that becomes this incredible connective tissue, this thematic connective tissue between all these different pieces of Star Wars storytelling. Myself, being a fan, I think that’s really satisfying to get those connections.”When it came to Maul and Obi-Wan’s history, Witwer remarked, “It’s funny, ever since [Maul killed] Satine back on Mandalore, I had these visions of Obi Wan in the desert and feeling responsible for having gotten the love of his life killed. How did the Alec Guinness Obi-Wan that we all grew up with, how did he deal with the things that happened in The Clone Wars and all that stuff? This is one more piece of connective tissue that acknowledges yes, he was out in the desert and yes, these are things that he had to deal with. These are things that are haunting him from his past - chapters that have to be closed.”The above clip shows a Maul who, at least briefly, is ready to give up and who is not all mentally there – not an unfamiliar place for Palpatine’s former apprentice, who was reintroduced on The Clone Wars in a very broken place, physically and mentally. Said Witwer, of how he approached these moments, “I was trying to make a very specific statement. Dave [Filoni] presented me with the scripted material, and we talked about it beforehand, but when it was time to do it, Dave and I were in complete agreement and said 'We’re going back to Lotho Minor, the garbage heap. We were [mentally] going back to that cave where Savage discovers Maul.’ And in a way we were making a statement that while he composed himself, the madness was always there. The despair, the suffering, none of it has been healed, in any way. Mother Talzin doing all that she did and Maul putting together a shadow collective and conquering Mandalore... All the things he did, he never really left that cave where Savage found him.”Added Witwer, “One thing to remember about Maul is that the Maul you saw in in that cave [on Clone Wars], the spider Maul, that’s the subtext to everything he does. That’s the way that I look at it. He can’t hold it back in this moment. And of course, once he feels like he’s going to get what he wants, he starts hiding again. But that’s always inside him. It also makes a statement of ‘Can this guy be saved?” Or will he even allow himself to be saved? Or is it best that we put him down like a rabid dog?’”For fans excited about “Twin Suns,” Witwer said, “As the guy who’s playing Darth Maul, I’m his advocate. I’m the guy telling things from his side of the story and saying ‘Hey guys, he hasn’t really had a fair shake.’ Some people are getting emotional over these moments and that feels realty, really good.”Star Wars Rebels: “Twin Suns” airs Saturday, March 18th at 8:30pm on Disney XD.