Editor’s notice: The under recap accommodates spoilers for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Episode 3.

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Episode 3 picks up proper the place the two-episode premiere left audiences with the core 4—Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), and KB (Kyriana Kratter)—and Jod Na Nawood (Jude Regulation) trying to flee from the brig on Port Borgo. David Lowery returns to direct the script, penned by collection creators Christopher Ford and Jon Watts, which delivers much more of the Captain Hook and the Misplaced Boys vibes that final week’s episodes doled out.

The episode opens on At Attin, the place Wim’s father, Wendle (Tunde Adebimpe), Fern’s mom Fara (Kerry Condon), and KB’s moms are dutifully ready for information about their runaway youngsters. The safety droids relay the information that they’ve found that the starship the youngsters had been on breached the barrier, and the planet’s management can’t “danger” contact outdoors of the barrier. The dad and mom rail towards this verdict, however for no matter purpose, it doesn’t sound like anybody goes to be keen to go after them.

Throughout the primary three episodes, it has been teased that there’s something completely different about At Attin, and with Episode 3, it turns into much more obvious that it was hidden for a purpose. Between Undersecretary Fara referencing the Republic (not the New Republic), Wim’s obsession with the Jedi (who’re lengthy passed by this level), and the youngsters having no data of the conflict or Alderaan’s destruction, it feels like At Attin has been purposefully excluded from the narrative.

Jod Is So Not a “Keeper of the Peace” in ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ Episode 3

After Jod’s eleventh-hour introduction in “Method, Method Out Previous the Barrier,” Episode 3 makes strides in establishing who he’s as a personality, or at the very least who he desires the youngsters to consider he’s. There isn’t a questioning the truth that Jod can clearly use the Power, however simply because Wim thinks he’s a Jedi doesn’t imply he really is a Jedi. Except for the truth that Order 66 worn out nearly all of the Jedi 20 years in the past, it doesn’t actually make sense for Jod to be a bonafide Jedi, even when he’s hiding behind a myriad of identities. All through the episode, it’s revealed that he’s, actually, the Captain Silvo that audiences had been launched to in Episode 1, and he has additionally passed by the title of Crimson Jack. It’s clear that he’s an unscrupulous fellow, and he has no qualms about mendacity to youngsters or killing individuals.

Their jail break is surprisingly profitable (partially, as a result of Jod has the Power), and Wim is so overjoyed to be working alongside a Jedi and “keeper of the peace.” However, Jod isn’t any “keeper of the peace,” and Fern and KB see proper via his bravado, whereas Wim and Neel are blinded by the awe of assembly an actual life Jedi. Jod doesn’t actually care about saving the youngsters, however he wants a ship out of Port Borgo they usually’re his solely means out, which forces him to be beholden to them and their infantile whims.

Jod informs the youngsters that he has somebody who ought to be capable of assist them chart a course again residence, however fairly than seizing on the chance to flee largely unnoticed, the youngsters determine to guilt Jod into returning to the portto rescue Smee — I imply, SM-33 (Nick Frost). Jod doesn’t regard droids as something worthy of risking his life for, however he has no alternative however to do what the youngsters need. Whereas making an attempt to retrieve SM-33 from the droid scrap room, Jod is recognized as Captain Silvo by one among his former crewmembers, who’s stunned to be taught that Brutus (Fred Tatasciore, Stephen Oyoung) has launched him proper earlier than his trial. In fact, that isn’t the reality and Jod does his greatest to attraction his former shipmate into not ratting him out, which doesn’t go precisely as deliberate. Jod escapes the port as soon as once more, with SM-33 this time, taking over fireplace because the pirates attempt to recapture their prisoner.

Jod and the youngsters run into yet one more dilemma as they attempt to escape the planet totally: the ship is connected to the gas line, stopping them from leaving. Whereas Brutus readies the cannons to fireside at their ship, Jod decides that their solely possibility is to leap to hyperspace, which they shouldn’t do whereas tethered to the gas line. Whereas they depart chaos of their wake in Port Borgo, the crew manages to leap to hyperspace with out an excessive amount of of a problem.

‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ Episode 3 Builds the Thriller Round At Attin

Jod commandeers the kitchen to make himself some meals whereas the 4 ravenous youngsters sit and watch him. It’s a hilarious scene, made even funnier by the clear disdain that SM-33 has for Jod as he carelessly orders the droid to wash up his mess. Whereas Jod wanders off to discover a swanky new wardrobe courtesy of the late captain, the youngsters chow down on his leftovers and mull over the previous few hours. Neel means that the treasure that’s apparently on At Attin should be a part of the “Nice Work” their dad and mom are all concerned in, and everybody aside from Wim suspects Jod is barely serving to them due to the potential payout on their homeworld. Later that night, after claiming that none of them are drained, Jod checks in on the sleeping youngsters, solely to find that KB continues to be wide-awake and severely suspicious of his motives. Jod does his greatest to assuage her considerations, nevertheless it’s clear that she isn’t shopping for the entire Jedi shtick, and neither of the women belief him the way in which the boys do.

As soon as they attain their remaining vacation spot, Jod warns the youngsters that he doesn’t belief his supposed buddy Kh’ymm (Alia Shawkat) and believes that she would possibly stab them within the again (an idea the youngsters don’t actually perceive). Jod has good purpose to consider his feathered buddy would possibly betray him, as a result of she does. As quickly as she spots him and the youngsters approaching her observatory, she contacts the authorities, believing that he has seemingly kidnapped the youngsters.

Kh’ymm lets “Crimson Jack” and the youngsters into her observatory and gladly gives her assets to assist them find At Attin. Whereas making an attempt to unravel the thriller of their homeworld, she means that At Attin was purposefully hidden from the galaxy, which accounts for why there are not any star maps or instructions there. Regardless of the planet solely being documented in songs, myths, and rumors, Kh’ymm claims that she has all the time believed within the planet, and he or she’s wanting to exhaust her assets to find it. She begins choosing the youngsters’s brains, they usually know shockingly little about their homeworld or the encircling planets. They’ve a passing data of Coruscant and Alderaan, which they discovered about in class, however they don’t know Alderaan was destroyed they usually do not know there was ever a conflict. Kh’ymm is ready to slim down the checklist of potential places due to their description of the barrier, after which slim it down even additional after she spots Fern’s patch on her jacket, however that’s when Jod realizes Kh’ymm is stalling.

Kh’ymm warns the youngsters that Crimson Jack is a scoundrel and Jod rapidly tries to avoid wasting face by reminding the youngsters that he warned them about Kh’ymm. They scuffle and Kh’ymm winds up caught underneath a pile of books and maps as Jod leads the youngsters out of the observatory. KB lingers behind to ensure Kh’ymm is alright, fueled by her personal distrust of Jod, and Kh’ymm cautions her to belief her head and never her intestine in terms of Jod, vowing to all the time be of assist if the youngsters want her. After they get again to the ship, Fern decides she’s additionally had sufficient of Jod and his lies and half-truths, and he or she bars him from boarding the ship till he tells them who he actually is. He tries to evade her calls for, however SM-33 is greater than keen to implement his captain’s orders. Jod admits that he by no means stated he was a Jedi, he merely didn’t right Wim when he made the declare. Jod tries to purpose with the youngsters, going as far as to check them as “misplaced” individuals, whereas promising to assist get them residence—particularly if there’s a reward concerned. KB tells Jod that he works for them, not the opposite means round, and Jod reluctantly agrees to their guidelines.

The episode ends with Jod and the core 4 having to evade the pair of X-Wing fighters that Kh’ymm hailed when “Crimson Jack” confirmed up with the youngsters. The sequence is a bit like a dramatization of the way it feels to get paired with youngsters on Smuggler’s Run at Disney, notably in terms of having pint-sized gunners getting you out of a decent squeeze. Regardless of the chances, Jod manages to get them off the planet earlier than they are often caught, with no actual trace of what’s to come back in Episode 4.

The place Does ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ Go Subsequent?

Subsequent week, Watts and Ford return to pen an episode directed by the Academy Award-winning directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, which is bound to be a delight, given their whimsical storytelling stylings. It will likely be fascinating to see if the Captain Hook and the Misplaced Boys vibe persists all through the collection as soon as Lowery isn’t behind the digital camera, however the dynamic works properly for Skeleton Crew. The collection has actually set itself aside from the remainder of the Star Wars fare by toying with a extra Amblin fashion, hearkening again to the Spielbergian period of the late ’80s and early ’90s, which completely blends with Star Wars’ campier aesthetics. With three episodes underneath its belt, Skeleton Crew has crafted a really curious thriller to resolve the place At Attin and Jod are involved. Hopefully, the artistic group has given themselves sufficient time with the remaining episodes to reply each, whereas nonetheless exploring the bigger galaxy across the characters.

The primary three episodes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew are streaming now on Disney+. New episodes drop at 9 PM ET each Tuesday.

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