This episode will air November 3, 2019.
Working on the never-ending repairs to the Colossus, Neeku fixes the station's long-range scanners and immediately picks up a distress call from a stranded woman. Yeager is suspicious, but Kaz volunteers to go, bringing along Synara on orders to have someone who's a better shot with him. Docking with the ship, they pick up a female Nikto who introduces herself as Nena and explains she's a computer engineer who barely escaped a First Order attack which left her ship crippled. Kaz immediately invites her onboard the Colossus, noting that they could use another engineer.
Onboard, she and Neeku immediately hit it off as they work together to repair the ship. But after Nena accuses the pirates of draining huge amounts of power, things take a turn, as the evidence seems to be conclusive, but when Kaz sneaks into their hangar to investigate, Synara catches him and points out that she's the one who installed their power shunt, so there's no way it could be taking that much. Investigating Nena's ship, Kaz and Synara find that it's not actually damaged at all, and that all of her data is encrypted. Decrypting it reveals that she's been tracking the Colossus for days at the behest of the First Order.
As Synara guards Nena's ship, Kaz runs back to engineering to alert Neeku, but finds him and Nena talking pleasantly. When Kaz pulls Neeku aside to tell him what he's found out about Nena, Neeku assumes that Kaz is worried that he isn't his best friend anymore, but when they go back, Nena has vanished. Chasing her through the hallways, Neeku is confused, and hurt when Nena shooting at him and Kaz reveals that she really is an enemy agent. Nena admits that her past as a slave for the Hutts, which she wasn't lying about, led her to conclude that the most important thing is surviving. Neeku attempts to talk her down, pointing out that surviving is exactly what the Colossus is doing, but when CB-23 takes advantage of Nena's distraction to disarm her, she thinks Neeku tricked her and angrily runs off, overpowering Synara for long enough to board her ship and escape as a hurt Neeku looks on.
With her coordinates transmitted to the First Order, Pyre and Tierny's Star Destroyer drops out of hyperspace and begins its attack. Pyre admits that he didn't think Tierny's plan with a saboteur would work, something the First Order Security Bureau agent is smug about. Nena, having received word that her account has been credited, laments that she hopes Neeku will realize it wasn't personal before jumping away. Realizing the sabotage, Neeku heads to the bridge and works to fix things, ordering Kaz around the station to do various things to get the Colossus working and moving again. As the station fights back against attacking TIEs, Kaz and Neeku's quick work pays off, and Captain Doza orders the Colossus into hyperspace.
Pyre pointedly remarks that Nena's sabotage clearly wasn't effective enough, and Tierny responds that an asset is only useful if they carry out their purpose, ordering Pyre to have Nena executed if they should encounter her again, something he's only too glad to do. In the Colossus marketplace, Kaz and Neeku have a talk about their friendship, with the Nikto reaffirming that Kaz is his "bestest" friend after Kaz tells him that he shouldn't stop being trusting even after what happened with Nena.
Tropes:
- Chekhov's Gun: The caseline that Nena installed in the bridge turns out to be the key to her sabotage, and removing it allows the station to escape.
- Continuity Nod:
- BB-8 told CB-23 about Kaz's "greatest pilot in the galaxy" incident.
- At the end, Neeku lists Bibo among those he has considered friends.
- Distress Call: The Colossus picks up Nena's, although Yeager is worried it could be a trap.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Neeku nearly manages to talk Nena down, and then CB-23 disarms her, leading her to assume that he was intentionally tricking her.
- Foreshadowing: The lights flicker for the first time right after Nena installs the K-spline.
- Frame-Up: Nena attempts to start a conflict on the Colossus by blaming the pirates for the Colossus's power drain, something she was responsible for in order to draw in the First Order.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Nena's justification for selling the Colossus out to the First Order is that she has accepted that fighting them is a lost cause, and not incurring their wrath is the only way to survive. She hopes at least Neeku will understand that this is not personal.
- Job Title: Nena is the titular engineer.
- The Mole: Nena was hired to track down the Colossus and sabotage it to make it a sitting duck for the First Order.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: Neeku declares Kaz to be his "bestest friend". He's really Neeku's only friend, something Kaz quickly lampshades by asking how many other friends Neeku actually has.
- Properly Paranoid: Yeager's first concern after Nena's distress call is picked up is that it's some kind of trap. Synara is also suspicious of Nena, and after it seems like the pirates have been draining huge amounts of power from the Colossus, she's the one who figures out that Nena is working for the First Order.
- Ship Tease: Between Neeku and Nena. She actually nearly admits that she's sabotaged the Colossus because she's beginning to like him, and later says that she'd never wanted a partner to work with before meeting him.
- Tempting Fate: A franchise-wide example. Nena claims to be "smart enough to be on the winning side" and that "the Resistance has already lost". While the Resistance definitely are on the back foot at this point in time, the events of The Rise of Skywalker will ultimately prove her dead wrong on both counts.
- The Sleepless: Neeku says that he doesn't need to sleep.
- Too Good to Be True: The crew find an additional engineer just when they could really use one. Nena's repairs on the Colossus's systems work a little too well... and it turns out she's diverted power from the platform's more critical systems. As a result, Neeku and Kaz have to quickly repair the Colossus so that they can escape the First Order.
- Unperson: Neeku talks about whom he considers friends. Tam clearly isn't one of them, showing that she has been officially disowned by him.
- Was It All a Lie?: Neeku asks this of Nena after her treachery is revealed. Nena replies that she was telling the truth about having been kidnapped and enslaved by pirates.
- We ARE Struggling Together: Pyre was doubtful that Tierny's plan involving Nena would work and admits that he was wrong, up until it ultimately fails. The two then decide that they'll have her executed if they ever see her again. This is a notable instance in that both Pyre and Tierny both make passive-aggressive snipes at each other, but them accepting Tierny's failure is rather graceful compared to other instances of this trope in the franchise.Pyre: I wasn't sure your plan with the saboteur wasn't going to work, but it seems to going well.
Tierny: It's nice of you to admit that I'm right. You'll learn to regret ever doubting me.
Pyre: [chuckles] Heh. We'll see about that.
[after the Colossus escapes]
Pyre: Looks like your saboteur has failed to completely disable the Colossus.
Tierny: Unfortunately for her, an asset is only as useful as it is effective. Should we happen upon Nena again, have her executed. [leaves]
Pyre: With pleasure. - Wham Line: It's easy to believe that Nena actually is the helpful engineer she appears to be... until she tells Neeku, "That K-spline doesn't do what you think it does", at which point it becomes obvious that she isn't.
- You Have Failed Me: When Nena's sabotage of the Colossus's systems fails, Tierny and Pyre agree to have her executed if they ever see her again.
