This post contains spoilers for "Skeleton Crew Episode 5".

In Skeleton Crew, coordinates for Athens are harder to come by than pirate treasure. After being referred to the nearly identical "Fallout"-coded planet Ahran. and close to being torn limb from limb, the titular crew decides to override the SM-33's memory drive. Episode 4 revealed that the droid's former captain had his memory of Atin's coordinates erased, so the crew's latest mission is to retrieve the hidden coordinates from a physical location. This leads Jod (Jude Law) and co. to the pleasure planet of Lanupa, which used to be a dangerous pirate base that is now modeled in a bathroom.

The intensely coded Indiana Jones adventures revealed here warrant a separate discussion, because there is one a lot to be unpacked here, including a Star Wars version of the popular entity Lovecraftia (!). However, most of the emotional gravitas in episode 5 comes from Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), who realizes that going on space adventures isn't as much fun as he imagined. After Wim and his friends accidentally left their home planet, he was the only one who relished the idea of ​​exciting, risk-laden adventures across the galaxy, thanks to his idealism of Jedi heroism. However, after things get all too real on At AchrannWim is forced to face the truth of the situation: he and his friends are lost in space and in constant danger until they find a way to get home.

When Jod sees a disappointed Wim, his initial instinct is to rudely tell him to get over it. However, once Wim reveals himself to be scared and vulnerable, Jodh comes up with remarkable pearls of wisdom and genuine comfort. What's surprising here is that he quotes the iconic Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn - drawing parallels that reveal a bit more about his mysterious past.

This isn't the first time the Skeleton Crew has referenced The Phantom Menace. Wim constantly embraces the term "wizard!" is a direct callback to Anakin's pod race, and the kids calling it the Republic make the "data" reference to Qui-Gon (Liam Neeson) using this particular term in the prequel. "Your focus determines your reality," advises Jodh Wim, stressing that his vivid imagination is one of his many strengths and that he can overcome obstacles with courage. This is a direct quote from Qui-Gon's advice to young Anakin (Jake Lloyd) before his tragic death, where he emphasizes that Anakin must "always remember" that a Jedi's focus defines their worldview and strength of character. Unfortunately, Anakin loses focus of this profound piece of wisdom in the years to come and ends up charting a dark, complicated legacy with galaxy-changing repercussions.

Although Jodh's advice to Wim doesn't have such tragic connotations, it does reveal the former's probable connection to the Jedi way of thinking, or alignment with their philosophy, at the very least. So far, Jodh danced around the assumption that he was a Jedibut his power-handling abilities raise questions about his past. Of course, not every Force user has to be a Jedi, but it's not too much of a stretch to imagine Jodh as a young Padawan or Jedi Knight who turned to piracy after the Purge. Jodh's insistence on not forming attachments is also heavily coded with the Jedi Order, and it remains to be seen whether this is an ingrained belief or a philosophy he accidentally adopted much later.

There are also whiffs of the behavior of the neighboring Sith is a little evil to scare and threaten a bunch of kids after earning their trust. However, I'm inclined to believe that Jodh is neither a Sith nor a Jedi in the strictest sense of the term, but a secret, third thing that functions as the morally gray worldview of someone who is tired of the cruelty of the galaxy. The fact that he picks up a lightsaber with closeness towards the end further complicates things, but we'll have to wait and see how this delicious mystery unfolds.

New episodes of "Skeleton Crew" premiere Tuesdays at 6pm PST on Disney+.