Skeleton Crew episode 1 recap: Breaking through the barrier

This article contains full spoilers for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew episode one, "This Could Be A Real Adventure."

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is here! After years of waiting and some delays, let's jump into a new adventure in a galaxy far, far away!

Let's recap Skeleton Crew episode one, "This Could Be A Real Adventure."

We open with a crawl describing how the New Republic is the governmental power in the galaxy after the fall of the Empire, but the hyperspace lanes are plagued by pirates, as we have seen in The Mandalorian.

Suddenly, a ship floats onto the screen and is impaled by boarding ramps from a pirate ship. The crew of the ship ready to defend themselves. Pirates pour onto the ship, murdering and causing mayhem. The Shistavanen, AKA Wolf Man named Brutus, clears the way for Captain Silvo.

Silvo intimidates the captain of the vessel, who is looking for the vault. As they break into the vault, Silvo gives a rousing speech to his men. Vane, who was a pirate in Season 3 of The Mandalorian, is in the background. They kick in the vault door to find...

A single credit. And with that, it's mutiny for Captain Silvo.

We then jump across the galaxy to the rather normal suburban planet of At Attin to the home of a young boy, Wim, playing with his action figures. His father Wendle calls that he will be late for school. Wendle will be late coming home all week from work, giving Wim some credits and a list of chores and instructions for around the house.

Wim races out of the house towards the bus stop and runs into his best friend, the elephant-looking boy, Neel. They play and pretend to be Jedi while waiting for the bus (and being judged by the other kids). On the way to school, he notices two girls, Fern and KB, race by on their speeder bikes and into the woods. Upon arriving, the girls beat their bus to school.

An official, Undersecretary Fara, visits their class. She's here to get them excited for their Career Assessment Test tomorrow, which will apparently set the course of their future. Fara explains this test assigns them a career path so they "become part of our planet At Attin's contribution to the Great Work."

The kids share their dreams, and Wim says he wants to help people in danger. Only, they have safety droids, so that's not really a career.

Later, Neel is very worried Wim is going to fail his test and they won't be in the same class anymore. Though, Neel also wants to be in the same class as the girl he likes, so he doesn't want to fail his test either. He calls out Wim for basically saying he wants to be a Jedi when he grows up.

After school, we get another brief scene of Fern on her bike with KB in the sidecar, speeding through traffic. Fern is clearly the daring one, with KB being more reserved of their best friend duo. Mirroring the girls, Neel tells Wim to study as he arrives home. As Neel is greeted warmly by both of his parents and little siblings, Wim sadly looks on through the window at the happy family. He arrives back to an empty house.

Later, KB works on Fern's hoverbike as her friend stares longingly up to the sky. Suddenly, a teenage goon named Bonjj Phalfa arrives with his gang and taunts Fern for the broken bike. She insists she can still race as they speed off. With that, Fern hurries home...

Where her mom, who is Undersecretary Fara, is waiting and reveals that Fern is once again head of her class. Her mother is pressuring her to stay at the top, much to Fern's displeasure.

Wendle arrives home in time to put his son to bed, though he doesn't have time to read Wim a story like the boy's mom used to. So, Wim pulls out his own datapad to read his own grand stories about Jedi on adventures.

Oh no! It makes him oversleep! Wim misses his bus on the very important test day, and he has to take a shortcut. Getting his own hoverbike, he goes into the woods just like he saw Fern do the day before. He races through the woods and crashes, falling down a ravine!

Searching for a way out, he accidentally uncovers a metal door in the dirt.

Suddenly, he is found by one of the school's safety droids (which, I should note, have cameras for heads). The droid takes him to the Proctor's office. Fern is brought to the Proctor's, too, for racing, where Wim compliments her bike.

His dad comes out of the office, upset that his son skipped the test. Wim tries to convince his dad there's something buried in the woods (catching Fern's attention), but Wendle won't hear it. He demands for Wim to go home and study. After his dad leaves, Fern asks about what's buried in the woods, as Wim called it a Jedi Temple to his dad. He tells Fern that he lied and races to Neel's house.

Wim and Neel snatch Neel's dad's tool to go dig it up. Neel is worried they will get in trouble, but Wim is ready for a real adventure. They take their bikes and head back out to the ravine where it's buried.

They're caught by a booming voice, but it's Fern and KB revealing themselves. The girls and boys go back and forth about who actually has a claim on the ship. Fern wants it for parts for her bike. Wim wants it for the adventure.

Fern has a penchant for telling tall tales, spinning how this isn't a Jedi Temple but a fake story about it being an underground sewage line where people were buried alive. She tricks the boys to scare them for fun. The four kids all decide to put aside their differences and work together to dig it out.

Wendle arrives to find his son missing and not at home.

Eventually, the kids find a power source, which opens the door to the buried thing. Suddenly, they hear Wim's dad yelling in the distance, searching the woods for his son. Wim wants to search the supposed "Jedi Temple" before his dad gets there to prove he was right about the entire thing.

They come across the body of a discarded droid, clearly broken for a long time. It slips, pulling on a lever that seals the doors. KB decides to follow the cables to look for a source of power. Everyone is pretty annoyed with Wim, who got them all stuck inside. Neel goes with the girls, leaving Wim alone.

KB finds the power source, revealing that this is actually a spaceship, not a Jedi Temple. Wim happens to be in the cockpit, sees a button, and does the one thing he probably shouldn't do:

Of course, he hits the glowing green button!

The ship begins to power up (along with the droid they found earlier). With Wendle watching from the woods, the ship takes off with all four kids inside of it.

Racing to the cockpit, the kids realize they are passing through the planet's barrier, a nebula surrounding their home. They search to turn off the autopilot but stop when all four kids see stars for the first time in their lives.

And suddenly, they're shot into hyperspace for their new adventure! And that's where Skeleton Crew episode one, "This Could Be A Real Adventure" comes to an end.