This recap contains full spoilers for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew episode 6, "Zero Friends Again."
Episode 5 of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew ended with Jod Na Nawood betraying Wim, Neel, Fern, and KB and taking command of the Onyx Cinder. The kids made a daring escape triggering one of the traps. But with Jod now wielding a lightsaber and SM-33 forced to be his first mate, the stakes are higher than ever.
Let's recap everything you missed in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew episode 6, "Zero Friends Again."
We open with the kids tumbling down a slide from a trap, getting separated in the process. Thankfully, the tubes spit out at the same place in the snowy mountains of Lanupa. But they quickly realize that KB is not moving. Fern explains that her augmentations, AKA her cybernetic visor that's connected to her head, go bad, and KB can't move anymore. Fern resets her occipital link, but KB still is still going slowly.
Meanwhile, Jod is having the time of his life climbing up out of Captain Tak Rennod's treasure pit they found last episode. He sees the Hotelier and other guests at the spa waiting for him. But they're not the only people there.
Gunter and some of the other pirates appear, holding him at blasterpoint, having taken the spa guests hostage. The bounty hunter from the last episode, Pokkit, is there too. Gunter doesn't want to hear Jod's smooth-talking, as they also shoot down SM-33 before the droid can attack.
The capture is short-lived as New Republic X-wings swoop in from the sky! The pirates nab Jod and SM-33, racing back to their ships. Down on the mountain as KB is coming around, the kids watch the air battle from afar, realizing that the X-wings are actually the good guys, unlike their encounter in episode 3. The X-wings don't see the kids on the mountain.
KB then reveals she has the coordinates home, having saved them in her cybernetics. Fern proposes the so-called "perfect" plan to climb back up to their ship and fly home. KB then storms off, with her friend following. KB wants to consider other options, but Fern is pretty set on her plan. KB says that maybe Fern should listen to others for once instead of running over everyone with her own ideas.
Then, little creatures called Trash Crabs scuttle about the feet of Neel and Wim, pulling Fern back to them. Wim says they're friendly, and the adorable little crabs with shells of metal pieces parrot back to him. Wim wants to get the little guys to help them, but Neel is against this plan.
Wim and Fern begin to bicker over Fern's plan to climb the big dangerous cliff that will most certainly kill one of them if they fall off. Wim wants to follow the Trash Crabs for help...
And KB sides with him. Fern is clearly hurt by her best friend not siding with her, declaring they are splitting the party (anyone who has ever played any tabletop games like Star Wars 5e knows this is rarely a good idea). Fern takes Neel with her, and they split up.
Back with the pirates, Captain Brutus passes his verdict on Jod, claiming him guilty and sentencing him to death by airlock. One of the pirates evokes the Pirate's Code, where Jod gets one last appeal.
Jod explains that he's always been hungry, only getting scraps in his life. He asks the other pirates how long they have been hungry, fighting over the crumbs of the galaxy. He appeals to them, talking about their individual dreams and the wants they all want. Jod pulls out one last credit he took from Wim, a mint-condition Old Republic credit.
He reveals that At Attin, the last mint of the Old Republic, which makes money, is real, as was the story of the great Captain Tak Rennod finding it. Brutus spares him... for now. But if there is no At Attin, then Jod is going out the airlock.
Back with the kids, Wim and KB find a junk area where the crabs have led them. Suddenly, KB is on her knees, unable to move. She tells Wim to find some droid pieces, and maybe she can fix her corroded augs.
Fern and Neel aren't fairing much better. Neel is struggling on the climb back up to their ship. He flat-out tells Fern that not everyone can do things the way she can.
Wim brings back several droid parts, and KB weakly walks him through the process of fixing her cybernetics. Wim realizes that this is why she didn't want to climb up the cliff. KB admits that Fern isn't always living in the real world herself. KB had an accident in her past, and Fern just assumed KB could keep up with her. But KB admits she has limitations now that she has these disabilities. Wim encourages KB to just tell her friend the truth about how she feels. KB doesn't want to because she doesn't want to have zero friends again.
Wim thinks that idea is silly! Because KB is already friends with him and Neel.
She smiles at him... but then starts to breathe heavily. Wim works quickly to finish her repairs! Several tense moments pass, and KB pops up again, back to her normal self. She admits that she was close to dying.
But Wim did mention he wanted to save someone's life, and now he has saved KB's. She calls him a "Jedi," what he's always wanted to be, and thanks him.
Back with Fern, she's tied a rope around Neel so she can pull him up the cliff, now with metal covering and ladders. They notice that the junkyard ships have taken the Onyx Cinder, preparing to fly away with it. The duo makes a daring jump off the ladder, landing on top of one of the junkyard ships.
Wim and KB have followed the trash crabs to their home.... where their very hungry parent is waiting. The massive trash crab roars and the kids realize they are food. Suddenly, they spot the junk ships coming in with the Cinder. Fern has taken control of it, piloting it down towards their friends. Wim and KB make their own leap!
And they land on the junkyard ship with Fern and KB!
But the Trash Crab parent isn't letting them go! It hurls a rock, taking out one of the other junkyard ships! Their vessel, connected to the Cinder spins out of control! They fall off the ship into the snow, but thankfully, the group is okay. The Cinder lands in a nearby junkyard.
Fern hugs KB, profusely apologizing for leaving her. The girls make up. In the distance, there is a deep rumbling sound. They run to the top of the hill, where there is a massive junk ship melting and decimating everything in the junkyard! It's heading right for the Cinder!
The kids make a dash for their ship and work together to get it moving. KB jumpstarts the engine while Wim holds back the junkyard beast with the gun turret! Neel hits the throttle while Fern steers! KB hits one last surge of power, but the junkyard ship has clamped down too much on the Cinder! They're stuck!
Back in episode two, SM-33 told Wim not to hit a very specific button called the Emergency Hull Demolition Sequencer. Fern realizes that's exactly what they need. With their ship getting pulled into the mincing junkyard ship, Fern makes a choice to smack the Sequencer button.
Tiny explosions rip through the Cinder, and it sheds its outer layer like a metal skin. Freed in a much smaller ship, they fly off to safety (with the engine just a little on fire).
With Wim calling dibs on the new ship, that's where Skeleton Crew episode 6, "Zero Friends Again," comes to a close.