Yeah, exactly. Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. I don't expect a serial to necessarily do so either. When I think back on Galactica, for example, although that series had a lot heavier content overall, and was pretty methodical in pushing the story forward, there were
plenty of episodes that took detours just to build character or show what was going on in some other little corner of the fleet or the galaxy, even if it didn't impact the larger story. But it still helped build the connective tissue of the entire "world" they were building with the story. This episode did that too, especially by tying back to what seemed like another small detour--the prison ship escapade.
I like how every time the child went to eat an egg, Mando would tell him "no!" but not take away the one in his hand that he was about to eat.