Skeleton Crew's Jude Law On Episode 3 Cliffhanger, Jod's Secrets: 'The Adventure Is Literally Just Beginning'
The following contains spoilers from Episode 3 of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, now streaming on Disney+.
Episode 3 of Disney+'s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew saw the mysterious Jod Na Nawood (played by Jude Law) lead the way out of the brig, as he, Wim, Fern, KB and Neel dashed for the docked spaceship the kids had unearthed on At Attin, and accidentally launched into space.
Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial. Was he now once again chasing the "big score" he always talked of?
The kids hold a vote to keep or ditch Jod, and though it at first appears to be a tie, KB actually sides with the boys, saying they need all the help they can get. Jod, though, is forced to r=run back and find/retrieve SM-33. Slipping away in their ship is easier said than done, though, once they realize that it is still hooked up to stubborn fuel lines. But even with Brutus' men firing canons at the ship, Jod & Co. manage to yank away and launch into hyperdrive.
As Jod sets course for a cold moon on which a not-entirely-trustworthy friend resides, the kids wonder aloud about their increasingly mysterious home planet. What exactly is the Great Work? And what is it their parents analyze? (Is it about money, maybe treasure?) Later, KB tells Jod that she computed the odds of him being a bona fide Jedi, and they seem slim. "Sometimes you have to trust your gut," he counters.
Meanwhile, Jod's owl-like/cat-like friend Kh'ymm plans to have him arrested soon as he arrives, calling him "Crimson Jack." But once he shows up and the kids express their want to return to At Attin, Kh'ymm busts out her maps and goes on about how their home is a purposely hidden planet, one of the "Jewels of the Old Republic" — and the only one not yet destroyed. Kh'ymm presses the kids for descriptions of their planet/the "cloudy, like a swirl" barrier that keeps them from seeing stars, so as to form some educated guesses about where At Attin is located. Kh'ymm also takes note of the symbol on Fern's rucksack, indicating its use of Palmarish numeral suggests a proto-Republic origin.
The brainstorming session is cut short when it becomes clear that X-wings are en route, to round up Jod/Crimson Jack. Before the kids flee, Kh'ymm warns them that their newfound companion is a scoundrel, and specifically urges KB to "use your head" to get at he truth, saying, "Call me anytime."
Moments later, outside the ramp to their ship, Jod admits that he "never really said" that he was a Jedi. But he pleads that he is "lost" and "alone," "just like you," and vows to get the kids home — in trade for, of course, "maybe a little reward." KB makes clear that he and her friends and "not partners," and that Jod instead works for them. Jod begrudgingly agrees, and everyone boards the ship, with Wim and Fern manning the turrets, and Neel at the controls. With the kids inside, the X-wing pilots deem it too risky to open fire, and before they know it, Jod & Co. have disappeared into hyperspace.
"Any idea where are they headed?" one pilot asks Kh'ymm. She answers with more than a bit of a sense of wonder, "If I told you, you wouldn't believe me...."
But to be clear, the next stop for Wim, Fern et al will not be At Attin. Far from it. Literally.
After leaving the X-wings and Kh'ymm in their dust, "They're still a long way from home," and with a lotta "ebbs and flows" ahead, Skeleton Crew star Jude Law tells TVLine. "The adventure is literally just beginning."
And when in said adventure will the kids get confirmation of who/what Jod is? If not a Jedi? In the five remaining Season 1 episodes, "You will understand a lot more about him," Law promises, and the true nature of the character's seeming Force-sensitivity is "all revealed."
"But," the actor says with a wink, "he keeps you guessing until the end."