This recap contains full spoilers for Skeleton Crew episode 7, "We're Gonna Be In So Much Trouble."
After last week's emotional trip with KB, Skeleton Crew is back with the penultimate episode for the season. Wim, Fern, KB, and Neel are on their way home to At Attin, but they're not the only ones. Jod Na Nawood has a tentative agreement with Captain Brutus and his pirate crew. If there is no treasure on At Attin, they will make Jod walk the plank AKA blow him out of an airlock.
Let's recap everything you missed in Skeleton Crew episode 7, "We're Gonna Be In So Much Trouble."
We open on At Attin with the children's parents out in the woods setting up a way to try and contact their kids. They have put together a makeshift transmitter.
Suddenly, lights flood the area! The Supervisor's Security Droids have found the parents. Neel's mom, Nooma, tries to take the device, but the droids stun her. One of KB's moms, Maree, snatches the device, and the group sprint into the woods with the transmitter. One by one, the parents fall until it's just Fara, Fern's mom.
She slips away and turns on the transmitter, letting it go up into the sky through the Barrier that surrounds their planet.
On the Onyx Cinder, Wim isn't playing with the other kids. He's upset the adventure is ending, not wanting to return to his boring life. But also, there's some growth because he regrets going on all of this in the first place. But the rest of the group are grateful for the trip because of their character arcs.
But oh no! The pirates beat them to At Attin, coming out of hyperspace above the planet. Seeing the Barrier, Captain Brutus doesn't believe it's At Attin. As they're preparing the airlock, Jod calls him stupid. He says it's obviously a trick. He backs up the story with SM-33, who has been on the planet before.
Brutus sends out a fighter to try and bust through the storm. They watch from the bridge as the ship is destroyed. The pirates toss Jod into the airlock, but he asks SM-33 how Captain Tak Rennod got through the Barrier. Before anything can happen, a ship comes out of hyperspace. Jod and SM-33 recognize the ship as the Onyx Cinder. The ship is the key to getting through the Barrier.
The pirates trap the Onyx Cinder in a tractor beam, pulling the kids in. In the hangar, a metal shipment crane on the ship nabs Brutus as a robotic voice demands the pirates let them go. Jod knows it's the kids who hear Jod's voice. With Brutus trapped, Jod shoots the pirate captain in the head, to the children's shock. None of the pirates seem to mind this turn of events, especially as Jod tells them to find the children on board. Jod is now fully in command of the pirates as the Captain once more.
As Jod and SM-33 look for what allows the Cinder to pass through the Barrier and the kids under the watch of the pirates in the Captain's quarters, the parents' transmitter breaks through the clouds. It begins to play the message where the parents explain the kids must find a Republic Emissary who can tell them how to get through. Apparently, this is information that the kids would find out once they graduated.
The message ends. Before Fern can make a plan to take back the ship, Wim haphazardly tries to attack the adults in the room. Jod orders the pirates to chain up the kids as hostages. Wim yells that Jod's a liar and this ship belongs to the kids. SM-33 chimes in that because of the Pirate Code, Wim's technically right as Jod is now the captain of the pirate frigate, leaving the Cinder once again Captain-less.
Jod claims the ship, but Fern calls un-claimsies! The ship is for kids only. That works for SM-33, who punches out Jod and throws the pirates off the ship. The kids zoom out of the pirate hanger with SM-33 flying them into the storm.
With fighters tailing them, the Barrier takes out the following pirates' small ship. SM-33 reveals why the Onyx Cinder can pass through:
The ship is from At Attin, so the Barrier won't harm it.
With that, they safely get through the storm and see At Attin. They get pulled in with an autopilot towards landing.
Suddenly, a voice breaks in! Jod snuck back onto the vessel before it took off! Before SM-33 can do anything, Jod beheads the droid with the lightsaber he got two episodes ago. He tries to call the pirate frigate, but the Barrier is jamming him.
Jod is so done with the kids, commanding them to shut up and stay on the floor. Jod calls out Wim specifically before telling them all they're weak, sheltered, and spoiled. If they think of acting out, Jod threatens to kill them with the lightsaber.
Back on the planet, the parents are gathered by a Security Droid. Just as they try to explain why they sent the transmitter through the Barrier, the droid very suddenly leaves the room. Then, the Supervisor's voice comes over the PA system of the world. An Emissary ship, AKA the Cinder, is arriving. KB's moms pick up KB's life tracking system on their comms, realizing that's her ship.
The Cinder lands outside of the building, with Jod leading the kids off the ship. He bluffs that he's the Republic Emissary. He asks to call the pirate frigate above orbit, but the Security Droids follow protocol to pull the platform the ship is on underground. Their parents can't make it in time to get their kids. The Security Droids recognize the children as the ones missing and follow Jod's orders to put the kids on the Cinder for "their own safety."
Jod sees the underground working Old Republic Mint still making coins. He presses again to contact his ship in orbit, but the Droids explain that only the Supervisor can give him permission.
They arrive at the vault. It opens, and it's everything the pirate dreamed of. It's full of gold, packed to the brim with Old Republic credits as far as the eye can see. And the droid says this is just one of 1,139 vaults.
Jod cackles in his victory.
Outside, a lift arrives, and it's the children's parents! The kids run to them, pulling their loved ones into massive hugs. It's short-lived. Because Jod comes out, sees the happy scene, and ignites the lightsaber. This is where episode 7, "We're Gonna Be In So Much Trouble," comes to an end.