Star Wars recap: the story so far

No. 01 · 1977 · Film

Star Wars: A New Hope recap

Princess Leia, carrying the stolen plans to the Empire's Death Star, is captured by Darth Vader, but hides the plans in the droid R2-D2. R2 and C-3PO land on Tatooine and are bought by Luke Skywalker's uncle. Luke finds Leia's message for Obi-Wan Kenobi, an old hermit who tells Luke his father was a Jedi killed by Vader and gives him his father's lightsaber. Stormtroopers kill Luke's aunt and uncle while searching for the droids, so Luke and Obi-Wan go to the spaceport at Mos Eisley and hire the smuggler Han Solo and Chewbacca to fly them to Alderaan. The Death Star has destroyed Alderaan, and the Millennium Falcon is pulled aboard. They rescue Leia, and Obi-Wan lets Vader strike him down so the others can escape.

How Star Wars: A New Hope ends

The Death Star follows the Falcon to the rebel base on Yavin 4. Luke joins the attack on the station's one weakness, an exhaust port. Vader closes in, but Han returns in the Falcon to save him, and Luke, guided by Obi-Wan's voice, uses the Force to fire the shot that destroys the Death Star. Vader spins away into space. Leia awards Luke and Han medals at a ceremony in the temple on Yavin 4, with Chewbacca and the droids beside them. The Empire has lost its weapon, but Vader is still alive.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 02 · 1980 · Film

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back recap

Luke is attacked by a wampa and nearly freezes before Han finds him. Then the Empire finds the rebel base on the ice planet Hoth and attacks with walkers, scattering the rebels. Following a vision of Obi-Wan, Luke flies to Dagobah to train with the Jedi Master Yoda. Han, Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO escape in the Falcon, hide in an asteroid field, and fall back on Cloud City, run by Han's old friend Lando Calrissian. Han and Leia fall in love. Lando has already made a deal with Vader, who uses Han and Leia as bait for Luke. Han is frozen in carbonite after Leia tells him she loves him, and handed to the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Sensing his friends in danger, Luke leaves his training unfinished to save them.

How Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ends

Luke duels Vader, who cuts off his hand and tells him he is his father. Luke lets himself fall rather than join him and is rescued by Leia, Lando and Chewbacca in the Falcon. Han is gone with Boba Fett. Luke gets a robotic hand, and Lando and Chewbacca set off in the Falcon to find Han, while Luke, Leia and the droids watch from the rebel fleet.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 03 · 1983 · Film

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi recap

Luke, now a Jedi, leads his friends in rescuing Han from Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine; Leia strangles Jabba with the chain he used to hold her, and Boba Fett falls into the Sarlacc. Luke returns to Dagobah to finish his training. A dying Yoda confirms Vader is Luke's father, and Obi-Wan's ghost tells Luke that Leia is his twin sister. The Empire is building a second Death Star over the forest moon of Endor, and the Emperor himself is aboard. Han and Leia lead a strike team to the moon to bring down the shield generator, with the help of the Ewoks, while Lando leads the fleet. The Emperor arrives to oversee the battle himself. Luke surrenders to Vader, believing there is still good in him, and is brought before the Emperor.

How Star Wars: Return of the Jedi ends

The Emperor goads Luke into fighting Vader, and Luke cuts off his father's hand, then throws away his lightsaber. As the Emperor kills Luke with lightning, Vader throws him down a shaft, mortally wounded. Anakin dies unmasked in Luke's arms. Lando destroys the Death Star, and Luke burns his father's body. The rebels celebrate, and Luke sees the ghosts of Obi-Wan, Yoda and Anakin.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 04 · 1999 · Film

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace recap

The Trade Federation blockades the planet Naboo, and the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to negotiate. The talks are a trap set by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who orders an invasion. The Jedi rescue Queen Amidala and flee, but their damaged ship lands on Tatooine, where Qui-Gon meets Anakin Skywalker, a slave boy unusually strong in the Force. Anakin wins a podrace that pays for the ship's parts and his own freedom, though his mother Shmi stays behind. On Coruscant, the Jedi Council refuses to train Anakin, and Amidala, frustrated by the Senate, backs a vote of no confidence that makes Naboo's senator Palpatine the new Chancellor. Sidious's apprentice Darth Maul hunts the group throughout, and the Gungan Jar Jar Binks, exiled from his own people, tags along with the Jedi. Amidala resolves to go home and fight, even though the Republic will not help her.

How Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ends

Amidala allies with the Gungans and retakes Naboo, while young Anakin destroys the droid control ship and shuts down the droid army. Maul kills Qui-Gon in a duel, and Obi-Wan cuts Maul in half. With his dying breath Qui-Gon asks Obi-Wan to train Anakin, and the Council reluctantly agrees. Palpatine, secretly Darth Sidious, takes office as Chancellor and tells Anakin he will watch his career with interest.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 05 · 2002 · Film

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones recap

Ten years later, Senator Padme Amidala survives an assassination attempt, and Obi-Wan and his apprentice Anakin are assigned to protect her. Obi-Wan follows the assassin's trail to the hidden planet Kamino, where he finds an army of clones grown for the Republic, all copies of the bounty hunter Jango Fett, ordered ten years earlier in the name of a dead Jedi, Sifo-Dyas. Jango escapes with his son Boba after a fight in the rain. Anakin escorts Padme to Naboo and they fall in love. Plagued by visions of his mother, Anakin returns to Tatooine and finds Shmi dying in a Tusken Raider camp; in his rage he kills the whole tribe. Obi-Wan tracks Jango to Geonosis and discovers the former Jedi Count Dooku leading a separatist movement building a droid army.

How Star Wars: Attack of the Clones ends

Anakin and Padme go to rescue Obi-Wan on Geonosis and are sentenced to die in an arena. Mace Windu leads a Jedi strike team, Windu kills Jango Fett in front of his son Boba, and Yoda arrives with the clone army, starting the Clone Wars. Dooku cuts off Anakin's arm and escapes to his master, Darth Sidious. Anakin and Padme marry in secret on Naboo.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 06 · 2005 · Film

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith recap

Three years into the war, Anakin and Obi-Wan rescue Chancellor Palpatine from General Grievous, and Anakin kills Count Dooku at Palpatine's urging, cutting off his head while he is unarmed. Padme is pregnant, and Anakin has visions of her dying in childbirth. Palpatine places Anakin on the Jedi Council as his personal representative, but the Council denies him the rank of Master and asks him to spy on the Chancellor. Palpatine tempts Anakin with a story of a Sith who could stop people dying, then reveals he is Darth Sidious. Obi-Wan kills Grievous on Utapau with a blaster. Padme tells Anakin he has changed, and the Senate grants Palpatine ever more power. Anakin reports the truth to Mace Windu, then, desperate to save Padme, helps Palpatine kill Windu and kneels as the Sith apprentice Darth Vader.

How Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith ends

Palpatine issues Order 66, the clones kill the Jedi, and Vader slaughters the Jedi Temple, younglings included. Palpatine declares himself Emperor. Obi-Wan defeats Vader on Mustafar and leaves him burning; Palpatine rebuilds him in the black suit. Padme dies giving birth to twins: Leia is adopted by Bail Organa on Alderaan, and Luke is taken to his relatives on Tatooine, with Obi-Wan watching over him.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 07 · 2008 · Film

Star Wars: The Clone Wars recap

Early in the Clone Wars, Anakin is assigned a teenage apprentice he never asked for, Ahsoka Tano, during the battle of Christophsis, where the two of them sneak past the droid lines to bring down a shield generator. The Republic needs the Hutts' trade routes to move its armies, but Jabba the Hutt's infant son Rotta has been kidnapped. Anakin and Ahsoka recover him from a monastery on Teth, where Count Dooku's assassin Asajj Ventress has set a trap to make the Jedi look like the kidnappers. Rotta falls sick, R2-D2 is nearly stolen, and while Obi-Wan duels Ventress, Anakin and Ahsoka run for Tatooine. On Coruscant, Padme goes to Ziro's palace and finds that Jabba's uncle Ziro is working with Dooku to have Jabba's son killed and take over the Hutt clans.

How Star Wars: The Clone Wars ends

Anakin fights off Dooku in the Tatooine desert while Ahsoka carries Rotta to Jabba's palace and fends off his droids. Padme exposes Ziro's plot to Jabba, who has Ziro arrested and agrees to let the Republic use his space lanes. Anakin accepts Ahsoka as his apprentice. The film leads into the animated series of the same name, which runs to the end of the war.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 08 · 2014 · Series

Star Wars Rebels recap

In season 1, five years before A New Hope, the teenage street thief Ezra Bridger on Lothal joins the crew of the Ghost: the Jedi survivor Kanan Jarrus, the pilot Hera Syndulla, the Mandalorian Sabine Wren, Zeb Orrelios and the droid Chopper. Kanan trains Ezra in the Force while the crew fights the Inquisitor and Agent Kallus. Grand Moff Tarkin captures Kanan, and the crew rescues him, joining a wider rebellion whose secret contact Fulcrum is Ahsoka Tano. In season 2, Darth Vader hunts the rebel fleet. Ahsoka learns Vader is Anakin, and on Malachor she duels him while Maul blinds Kanan and tempts Ezra with a Sith holocron. In season 3, Grand Admiral Thrawn takes command against the rebels, Kallus becomes a rebel spy, Sabine takes up the Darksaber, and Maul dies at Obi-Wan's hands on Tatooine. Thrawn smashes the rebel base on Atollon. In season 4, Sabine helps free Mandalore and gives the Darksaber to Bo-Katan, and the crew fights to liberate Lothal. Kanan dies saving his friends, and Ezra finds a world between worlds where he pulls Ahsoka out of her duel with Vader.

How Star Wars Rebels ends

Ezra calls in the purrgil, space creatures that wrap around Thrawn's flagship and carry it, with Ezra and Thrawn aboard, into hyperspace, freeing Lothal. The Imperial base on the planet is destroyed by its own fuel. Neither is seen again. An epilogue after the Battle of Endor shows Hera and Kanan's son Jacen, and Sabine and Ahsoka setting out together to find Ezra, which the live-action Ahsoka picks up.

No. 09 · 2015 · Film

Star Wars: The Force Awakens recap

Thirty years after the Empire's fall, the First Order has risen from its ruins, and Luke Skywalker has vanished. Resistance pilot Poe Dameron hides a map to Luke in his droid BB-8 before being captured by Kylo Ren. A stormtrooper, Finn, breaks Poe out and crash-lands on Jakku, where the scavenger Rey has found BB-8. Fleeing in the Millennium Falcon, they are picked up by Han Solo and Chewbacca. At Maz Kanata's castle Rey touches Luke's old lightsaber and has a vision. General Hux destroys the Republic's capital system with Starkiller Base, a planet-sized weapon, and Kylo captures Rey, who discovers she can use the Force when she resists his probe and escapes her cell with a mind trick. Han, Chewbacca and Finn land on the base to bring down its shields.

How Star Wars: The Force Awakens ends

On Starkiller Base, Han confronts Kylo Ren, his son Ben, and Kylo kills him. Kylo wounds Finn, but Rey calls the lightsaber to her hand and defeats him in the snowy forest as Poe's X-wings destroy the base. The planet collapses, and Chewbacca flies Rey and Finn out. Finn lies in a coma. R2-D2 completes the map, and Rey travels to Ahch-To, where she finds Luke and holds out his lightsaber.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 10 · 2016 · Film

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story recap

Imperial weapons director Orson Krennic forces the scientist Galen Erso to complete the Death Star, killing his wife and leaving his young daughter Jyn to be raised by the extremist Saw Gerrera. Years later, the Rebel Alliance frees Jyn from a labor camp because an Imperial pilot, Bodhi Rook, has defected with a message from Galen. Rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor and his droid K-2SO take her to Jedha, where Saw shows her Galen's message: he built a flaw into the Death Star that can destroy it, and the plans are on Scarif. The Death Star destroys Jedha City. The group, joined by Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus, fails to save Galen on Eadu, where Krennic has his engineers shot and a rebel air strike kills Galen in Jyn's arms. The Alliance council will not act, so Jyn leads a volunteer team to Scarif.

How Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ends

On Scarif, Jyn and Cassian steal the plans and transmit them to the rebel fleet above, while K-2SO, Chirrut, Baze and Bodhi die holding off the Imperial garrison. Tarkin fires the Death Star on the base, killing Krennic, Jyn and Cassian. Darth Vader cuts through the rebel crew trying to escape with the plans, but they reach the Tantive IV, and Princess Leia flies off with them, leading straight into A New Hope.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 11 · 2017 · Film

Star Wars: The Last Jedi recap

Luke refuses Rey's lightsaber and her plea to return. On Ahch-To he admits he once considered killing his nephew Ben and caused his turn to the dark side. Rey and Kylo find themselves connected through the Force, talking across the galaxy. The First Order tracks the Resistance fleet through hyperspace, Leia is blown into space and survives, and Vice Admiral Holdo takes command, clashing with Poe. Finn and the mechanic Rose Tico, who lost her sister in a bombing run, go to the casino city of Canto Bight to find a codebreaker to stop the tracking, but are betrayed. Rey learns from Kylo that her parents were nobodies who sold her for drink money, and goes to him aboard Snoke's ship, believing she can turn him.

How Star Wars: The Last Jedi ends

Kylo kills his master Snoke and fights beside Rey, then asks her to rule with him; she refuses. Holdo rams her ship through Snoke's flagship at lightspeed. The survivors, cut down to a few dozen, hide in an old rebel base on Crait, and Luke appears to face Kylo, who learns he is a projection from across the galaxy. Luke dies at peace on Ahch-To as the Resistance escapes. Rey has the Jedi texts, and a stable boy on Canto Bight looks to the stars.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 12 · 2018 · Film · optional

Solo: A Star Wars Story recap

Han, a young street thief on Corellia, escapes the planet but is separated from his girlfriend Qi'ra. He joins the Imperial army to become a pilot, is thrown out of flight school, deserts to fall in with a crew of thieves led by Tobias Beckett, and befriends the Wookiee Chewbacca. A train heist for the crime lord Dryden Vos goes wrong and Beckett's partners die, so to pay off the debt, Han proposes stealing unrefined coaxium from the mines of Kessel. Qi'ra, now Vos's lieutenant, joins them, and they win the use of the Millennium Falcon from the gambler Lando Calrissian. Han flies the Kessel Run in under twelve parsecs to escape with the fuel. Enfys Nest, the marauder who has been chasing them, turns out to be leading a young rebel cell.

How Solo: A Star Wars Story ends

Han double-crosses Vos, but Beckett betrays Han; Qi'ra kills Vos and leaves Han behind, reporting to Vos's real master, Maul. Han shoots Beckett before he can draw, gives the coaxium to Enfys Nest's rebels, and wins the Falcon from Lando in a game of sabacc. Han and Chewbacca set off for a job on Tatooine for a gangster putting a crew together.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 13 · 2019 · Series

The Mandalorian recap

In season 1, five years after the Empire's fall, the bounty hunter Din Djarin, a Mandalorian who never removes his helmet, is hired by an Imperial remnant to retrieve a target: a child of Yoda's species. He hands the child over, then changes his mind and rescues him, turning the Bounty Hunters' Guild against him. With the former shock trooper Cara Dune, the guild boss Greef Karga, the moisture farmer Kuiil and the reprogrammed droid IG-11, he defends the child on Nevarro from Moff Gideon, who wields the Darksaber. In season 2, Din is told to return the child to the Jedi. Bo-Katan Kryze helps him, Ahsoka Tano names the child Grogu, and on Tython Boba Fett and Fennec Shand join him as Gideon's troops take Grogu. Din removes his helmet to find him, then storms Gideon's cruiser and wins the Darksaber. Luke Skywalker arrives and takes Grogu away for Jedi training. In season 3, Din has been cast out for showing his face and must bathe in the living waters beneath Mandalore to be forgiven. Bo-Katan takes him there, unites the scattered Mandalorians, and leads them back to their planet, where Gideon is cloning himself in a hidden base.

How The Mandalorian ends

Din, Bo-Katan and Grogu destroy Gideon in the burning base, Grogu shielding them with the Force, and Bo-Katan relights the Great Forge on Mandalore. Grogu is formally adopted as Din's apprentice under the name Din Grogu. The Mandalorians are united again under Bo-Katan. The pair settle in a house on Nevarro and take freelance jobs for the New Republic, which continue in The Mandalorian & Grogu.

No. 14 · 2019 · Film

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker recap

A broadcast reveals that Palpatine is alive. Kylo Ren finds him on the hidden Sith world of Exegol, where he has built a fleet of planet-killing Star Destroyers and orders Kylo to kill Rey. Leia, now training Rey, sends her out. Rey, Finn, Poe, Chewbacca and the droids follow clues across Pasaana and Kijimi to a Sith wayfinder that leads to Exegol. Kylo tells Rey she is Palpatine's granddaughter. Rey fights Kylo on the wreck of the second Death Star, and as Leia reaches out to her son with her last strength, Rey stabs and then heals him. Ben Solo turns back to the light. Luke's ghost pushes Rey to face Palpatine.

How Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ends

Rey and Ben face Palpatine on Exegol while the Resistance and an army of ordinary ships fight his fleet. Palpatine drains them both, but Rey, backed by the voices of past Jedi, turns his lightning back and destroys him. Ben gives his life to revive Rey and vanishes. Rey buries Luke's and Leia's lightsabers on Tatooine and calls herself Rey Skywalker. She watches the twin suns set, with Luke's and Leia's ghosts standing nearby.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 15 · 2021 · Series · optional

The Book of Boba Fett recap

Boba Fett, who survived the Sarlacc, has taken Jabba's old throne in Mos Espa with Fennec Shand and tries to rule through respect. Flashbacks show how a Tusken tribe captured him after his escape, then accepted him, until a biker gang working for the Pyke Syndicate wiped them out. In the present, the spice-running Pykes are moving into Tatooine and Boba hires muscle, including young modified street kids and a Wookiee. In chapters 5 and 6, the story turns to Din Djarin, who has been cast out by the Armorer for removing his helmet, gets a new starfighter, and visits Grogu training with Luke Skywalker. Luke offers Grogu a choice between Yoda's lightsaber and Din's gift of beskar armor: one path makes him a Jedi, the other returns him to Din. Back on Tatooine, Boba offers jobs to the townspeople of Freetown, and Din joins his side. The Pykes bring in the gunslinger Cad Bane, who shoots the marshal Cobb Vanth.

How The Book of Boba Fett ends

Grogu chooses the armor and returns to Din. The Pykes and their allied crime families turn on Boba, and a battle wrecks Mos Espa; Boba kills Cad Bane and rides a rancor through the streets, while Fennec kills the Pyke leaders and the corrupt mayor. Boba and Fennec rule as daimyo, and Din and Grogu fly off together. A post-credits scene shows Cobb Vanth alive, being healed in a bacta tank.

No. 16 · 2022 · Series · optional

Obi-Wan Kenobi recap

Ten years after Order 66, Obi-Wan lives in hiding on Tatooine, cut off from the Force and working at a meat-packing plant, watching Luke from a distance. The Inquisitor Reva kidnaps ten-year-old Leia Organa to draw him out, and Bail Organa begs Obi-Wan to go after her. He rescues Leia on Daiyu and learns that Anakin is alive as Darth Vader. Vader catches him on Mapuzo and burns him in revenge for Mustafar. Obi-Wan and Leia, helped by the Imperial officer Tala, reach the underground network called the Path that smuggles Jedi to safety, and Reva infiltrates it. Reva is revealed to be a youngling who survived Vader's attack on the Temple and has been hunting Vader from inside the Inquisitors. Her attempt to kill him fails, and Vader leaves her for dead before going after the fleeing transport.

How Obi-Wan Kenobi ends

Obi-Wan draws Vader away from the refugees and defeats him, cracking his helmet, and accepts that his friend is gone before leaving him alive. Reva learns Luke's identity and goes to Tatooine to kill him, wounding his uncle Owen, but cannot do it and stays her hand. Obi-Wan returns Leia to Alderaan, says hello to Luke for the first time, and finally sees Qui-Gon's ghost.

No. 17 · 2022 · Series · optional

Andor recap

In season 1, set five years before A New Hope, the thief Cassian Andor kills two corporate security officers on Morlana One and goes on the run. Luthen Rael, an antiques dealer secretly funding a rebellion, recruits him for a heist of an Imperial payroll on Aldhani. Senator Mon Mothma backs Luthen in secret while hiding the money from her husband. Syril Karn, a disgraced corporate officer, and Dedra Meero of the Imperial Security Bureau both hunt Cassian. Cassian is arrested on a petty charge and sent to the Narkina 5 prison, where he and Kino Loy lead a breakout. His friend Bix Caleen is tortured by the ISB. His adoptive mother Maarva dies, and her funeral on Ferrix becomes a riot against the Empire. In season 2, which jumps a year at a time across four years, Cassian rescues Bix on Mina-Rau and works for Luthen. The Empire targets Ghorman for a mineral Director Krennic needs, and Dedra sends Syril into the local resistance to provoke an uprising. A protest on Ghorman turns into a massacre; Syril is killed, and Cassian escapes with the reprogrammed droid K-2SO. Mon Mothma denounces Palpatine in the Senate and flees to the rebels on Yavin IV.

How Andor ends

Dedra identifies Luthen, who tries to kill himself rather than be taken, and his adopted daughter Kleya finishes the job at the hospital. Cassian and K-2SO rescue Kleya, who brings the rebels word of the Empire's secret weapon. Dedra is jailed and the ISB chief Partagaz kills himself. Bix, unwilling to hold him back, leaves Cassian a note telling him to fight on, and Cassian and K-2SO fly to meet an informant on Kafrene, the opening of Rogue One. The last shot shows Bix on Mina-Rau holding a baby.

No. 18 · 2023 · Series

Ahsoka recap

Ahsoka Tano tracks Morgan Elsbeth, who is building a hyperspace ring to reach another galaxy where Grand Admiral Thrawn and Ezra Bridger vanished. Ahsoka reluctantly takes back her former apprentice Sabine Wren, and Hera Syndulla brings New Republic support. Two dark Jedi, Baylan Skoll and his apprentice Shin Hati, work for Elsbeth. Baylan wounds Ahsoka, who wakes in the world between worlds and trains against Anakin's memory. Sabine trades the map for the chance to find Ezra and is carried with the enemy to the galaxy of Peridea, and Ahsoka follows aboard a purrgil. Sabine finds Ezra living among a group of locals, and Ahsoka and Huyang catch up to them, and the group fights Thrawn's troops and the Nightsister witches who serve him as he loads his ship for the journey home. Shin parts ways with Baylan.

How Ahsoka ends

Thrawn returns to the known galaxy with an army and the Nightsisters' cargo, and Ezra makes it home to Hera. Ahsoka kills Morgan Elsbeth in a duel at the Nightsister fortress, but she and Sabine are left stranded on Peridea with Huyang. Baylan stands at the statue of the Father, a mystery left for a second season, and Anakin's ghost watches over Ahsoka.

No. 19 · 2024 · Series · optional

Skeleton Crew recap

Four kids, the dreamer Wim, his friend Neel, the bossy Fern and her quiet friend KB, live on At Attin, a sheltered planet hidden behind a barrier. Wim finds a buried starship, and it carries the four of them into deep space, where nobody believes At Attin exists. Pirates capture them, and the old pilot droid SM-33 and a prisoner, Jod Na Nawood, who uses the Force and pretends to be a Jedi, help them escape. Jod guides them across the galaxy toward home and learns At Attin is a mint for the Old Republic, full of credits. He turns on the kids, steals Wim's lightsaber and buys his way back into the pirate crew by selling At Attin's location. The kids, abandoned in the pirates' base, escape on their own, recover their ship and set course for home, where the Supervisor keeps the parents in the dark.

How Skeleton Crew ends

Jod leads the pirates to At Attin and destroys the planet's ruling droid, the Supervisor. The kids, KB and SM-33 fight back while Wim's father Wendle and Fern's mother Fara bring down the barrier. New Republic ships arrive and shoot down the pirates, Jod is defeated, and the families reunite at the wreck of the kids' ship, where KB is found alive. At Attin is now open to the galaxy, and Wim watches the X-wings arrive.

No. 20 · 2026 · Film

The Mandalorian & Grogu recap

Din Djarin and Grogu hunt Imperial warlords for the New Republic. Ward, a New Republic officer, assigns Din to track down the warlord Commander Coin, and the Hutt Twins, Jabba's cousins, offer Coin's location in exchange for a favor: rescuing Jabba's son Rotta from a gladiator pit on Shakari. Rotta, now grown, wants to win his freedom in the ring, so Din defeats him in the arena and spares him. The pit's crime lord, Janu, sets monsters loose, and Din and Rotta fight them together. Rotta reveals that Janu and Coin are the same man, and Din raids his compound and turns him over to Ward, which breaks his deal with the Twins. The bounty hunter Embo captures Din and delivers him to the Twins on Nal Hutta, where he is thrown to a giant Dragonsnake and poisoned.

How The Mandalorian & Grogu ends

Grogu saves Din with an antidote, and the two break into the Twins' palace. Grogu frees Rotta, and in the fight the Twins fall into the Dragonsnake's pit and are eaten while Grogu uses the Force to save Rotta. Ward's New Republic squadron destroys the palace and confirms Janu and the Twins were working together. Rotta stays to work with the New Republic, and Din teaches Grogu to fly as they leave together.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no mid-credits or post-credits scene; the film opens with its credits instead.