This episode was first shown April 15, 2019 at Celebration Chicago, and premiered on TV October 6, 2019.
Above Castilon, TIE fighters patrol around a First Order Star Destroyer. On the ship's bridge, Commander Pyre and Agent Tierny report via hologram to Captain Phasma that the Colossus has escaped. Angry, Phasma orders them to destroy the station if they can't take it over, and threatens to personally oversee their executions if they fail. After the Captain signs off, Tam is escorted onto the bridge, and looks intimidated when Pyre says he wants to know all about her friends.
On the Colossus, Bucket and CB-23 watch from a hangar as the station drops out of hyperspace in the middle of nowhere. Kaz asks Neeku how close he thinks he got them to D'Qar, which the Nikto doesn't know. Kaz finds a bright spot, though: if they don't know where they are, the First Order won't either. Heading up to the tower to report to Captain Doza, Kaz is relieved that at least the station is still in one piece, given the damage it took during the escape. When they arrive in Doza's office, the captain is asking Yeager over the comms for a diagnostic of all the station's systems. Kaz apologizes to Doza for getting the station in this mess, but Doza points out it wasn't his fault, since he invited the First Order onboard in the first place. Kaz responds that things went very fast, as the First Order went from a nothing concern to destroying the capital of the New Republic in a period of months.
Doza takes Kaz and Neeku upstairs to the recently reopened command deck, where Yeager, Torra and 4D-M1N, along with several other droids, are manning the systems. Yeager reports that there are mechanical issues all over the platform, including the sublight engines being down. Torra reports that the station is about three parsecs from D'Qar, and Kaz congratulates Neeku on getting them that close. 4D adds that the hyperdrive is out of coaxium fuel, meaning the station is dead in space until they can get some more. In response to a question from Yeager, Kaz affirms that there is a Resistance base on D'Qar, which he heard straight from General Organa herself. Doza orders 4D to send a message to the base for help, but the long-range communications are down as well.
Just to top it all off, the gravity generator chooses this moment to begin malfunctioning, cutting out for a moment. Kaz, having never actually been in zero-G before, panics, and when the gravity turns back on, he, Neeku, CB-23 and Torra volunteer to go down and fix it. Down in engineering, a black ball droid with a cracked red eye watches the darkened area through a vent. Sure enough, after Kaz and company arrive in the hyperdrive room and begin repairing things, the droid turns out to be the First Order ball that CB threw down a lift shaft earlier. After the communications have been restored, the droid takes out CB and Neeku when they head into a darkened room alone, but Kaz and Torra manage to escape after they go there to see what's taking the others so long.
The droid pursues the two to engineering, and as Kaz and Torra hide, they see that the droid is attempting to send a message to Castilon, where the First Order waits. While tied up, Neeku manages to restart CB, and as Kaz and Torra fight the droid to prevent it from signalling its allies, CB arrives to help. Kaz eventually opens up a hatch in the floor, and he and Torra blow the droid into space. CB-23 saves Kaz from being pulled out with the droid as it tries to grab onto him to save himself. They eventually rid the Colossus of the infiltrator by closing the hatch, severing the First Order droid's cable and leaving it drifting in space.
However, what the droid tried to do gave Kaz an idea, and he decides to send an apology message to Tam's comlink, despite Neeku and Torra thinking it's a bad idea. Onboard the Star Destroyer, Tam, having received her new uniform, has arrived at her bunkroom and is checking out her new locker when her comlink buzzes. She answers, but when she hears it's a message from Kaz, still angry, she turns it off and throws her comlink down before putting on her new helmet, becoming a faceless First Order drone.
Tropes:
- Artificial Gravity: Most of the episode takes place in zero-G as the Colossus' gravity generators have failed, requiring Kaz, Torra, Neeku and CB-23 to go fix them.
- Breather Episode: In contrast to the drama of the Season 1 finale, this episode is about Kaz and Torra travelling down to the generator room to fix the gravity generators, where they encounter a surviving First Order ball droid that has been hassling Neeku and CB-23. However, the breather is offset with the dramatic scenes involving Tam.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The First Order ball droid that CB-23 fought earlier returns and causes some problems.
- Continuity Nod: Kaz tries opening a hatch on the ledge side again. The same hatch.
- Cutaway Gag: While working on the gravity generator, Kaz comments that everyone else on the Colossus must be having a miserable time in zero-G. The scene cuts away to everyone getting drunk at Aunt Z's bar, and the camera keeps cutting back and forth from there to the generator room while the gravity switches from zero-G to being too strong. There's one more after the gravity is finally fixed, cutting away to Kragan getting crushed by one of his Gamorrean soldiers.
- Dramatic Irony: Yeager asks Kaz if he's sure the Resistance is on D'Qar, which he affirms. Since we're getting close to the events of The Last Jedi, they won't be there for long nor will the Colossus be able to meet up with them.
- Facepalm: Kaz when Neeku starts repeating some sentences about the sun rising and setting while describing how monotonous life on Castilon used to be, before cutting him off.
- Freudian Slip: Kaz accidentally calls Torra "Tam" while asking her to hand him a tool.
- Gilligan Cut: Kaz says everyone must be miserable with the gravity off. Cut to everyone partying in zero g.
- History Repeats: Doza notes that it's back to the time of making the hard but right choices, while lamenting that the galaxy clearly hasn't learned since the last time happened back in his youth.
- Hope Spot: At the end of the episode, Kaz figures he can use the Colossus' transmitter to send a message to Tam's comm to explain himself and apologize. Tam receives it, but immediately turns it off.
- It's Personal: Tam joins the First Order less because she believes in its ideals than because Kaz and Yeager lied to her for a year.
- Lame Pun Reaction: Torra isn't impressed when Kaz makes a "shell-shocked" pun regarding the Chelidae having retreated into their shells.
- Near-Villain Victory: The First Order droid nearly manages to send a signal back to Castilon before Kaz and Torra stop it and blow it into space.
- Oh, Crap!: Kaz, when he's nearly pulled into the vacuum of space by the First Order ball droid grabbing onto him to try and avoid being thrown out.
- Only Sane Man: Torra tags along with Kaz, Neeku, and CB in fixing the gravity generator since she's the only one who knows how to fix it. Yeager and Doza note that this is one good thing about it, considering they'd otherwise be entrusting this to just Kaz and Neeku.
- Putting on the Reich: Tam officially joins the First Order as a pilot cadet, swapping her worker overalls for a TIE pilot's uniform and helmet.
- Rejected Apology: Tam receives a message from Kaz apologizing for lying to her and explaining that he had to, but Tam is having none of it and shuts it off before going on her merry way.
- Screw the War, We're Partying: Even though they are still being pursued by the First Order, most of the Colossus residents, including Kragan's pirates, spend their time getting drunk and playing around in zero-G at Aunt Z's bar.
- Staircase Tumble: Kaz falls down the stairs in the command deck while distracted reassuring Captain Doza.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The previous episode established that the Colossus hasn't flown for decades. Since no one really bothered to run maintenance on the systems of the Colossus relating to flight during that time, the station is shown to suffer from numerous malfunctions.
- Synchronous Episodes: Overlaps with The Force Awakens and possibly The Last Jedi. Captain Doza and Yeager attempt to contact the Resistance base, but are unable to reach them because the transmitter is down, so it's unknown whether they've evacuated yet.
- Taking You with Me: The First Order ball droid attempts this on Kaz after he opens the airlock, latching onto him and trying to drag him through with it. Torra manages to close the hatch, severing the connection and shutting the droid out into space.
- Thrown Out the Airlock: Kaz and Torra dispose of a First Order ball droid that stowed away on the Colossus this way.
- You Are Number 6: Tam gets the alphanumeric designation DT-533 when she becomes a First Order pilot cadet.
- You Have Failed Me: Captain Phasma threatens to personally see to Pyre and Tierny's executions if they fail to take back the Colossus (or at least destroy it).
