Obi-Wan has learned to listen in his years on Tattooine. He doesn't hesitate to say that, perhaps, that had been his greatest failing in the past: hubris that led him to thinking he knew best, and an inability to really listen to anything else.

So he takes a moment to answer, mulling over Ezra's words. An orphaned boy provided closure by a force greater than himself -- it's not unheard of, not at all.

"We tell ourselves that the Force is mysterious. I don't find it so," he says. "It gives us exactly what we need."