Rey (Daisy Ridley)’s Timeline and Summary
- Rey finds bits of junk in a crashed Star Destroyer, which she trades for frivolous luxuries like food.
- She comes across BB-8 in the desert and reluctantly takes him in after chasing off the alien critter trying to claim him for resale on Junkyard eBay.
- The next morning, they head to the local town (and we use the term loosely) to find BB-8's contact.
- Her fence, Unkar Plutt, offers a bunch of dried, edible crud in exchange for the droid. She politely declines…even though food isn't something she gets nearly enough of.
- Unkar's thugs try to take BB-8, but she thumps them…and in the process, bumps into Finn.
- Rey continues the thumping, this time with Finn. He's wearing Poe's jacket, and BB-8 thinks he stole it.
- He smooths things over and claims to be part of the Resistance. He says he can get the droid to the right people, and she believes him.
- Their delightful exchange is interrupted by a TIE fighter attack.
- After the cool ship gets blown up, she and Finn head toward the local junker…which just so happens to be the Millennium Falcon.
- She flies, while Finn shoots. After a fun-filled chase, they blast the TIE fighters and head for the stars...
- …only to get picked up by a very large freighter operated by none other than Han Solo.
- Han gets grumpy but seems to like her, mostly because she can fly the ship and refrained from gassing him with poison when he came aboard.
- He takes them to Maz's place to figure out where they need to go next.
- She finds her way down to the basement, where Anakin and Luke's old lightsaber sits in a trunk.
- The lightsaber grants her a vision of Ren destroying the Jedi academy, a confrontation in a forest, and that whole Cloud City unpleasantness from The Empire Strikes Back.
- She comes out of the vision to find Maz looking at her, saying that the lightsaber is calling to her.
- Rey refuses to take the call but is interrupted by the arrival of the First Order.
- She runs into the woods, followed by BB-8. When the attack starts, she holds off the advancing troops while her little beach ball friend escapes.
- The stormtroopers she can handle. Kylo Ren? Not so much.
- The dark Jedi knocks her out with his Force mojo and takes her back to Starkiller Base.
- He probes her mind for information, only to find her probing his mind right back.
- While he retreats to get advice from his master, she finds a new Force power to play with and orders her guard to release her.
- Wandering the base looking for an escape, she runs into Finn, Han, and Chewie, who came to rescue her.
- She watches, horrified, when Ren cuts down Han Solo, and then retreats to the Falcon.
- Ren blocks her way and throws her against a tree.
- Finn tries to defend her with Luke's lightsaber (which he conveniently brought along), but he gets cut down.
- Rey awakens and rallies in time to Force-nab the lightsaber away from Ren, then throws down in the film's Designated Lightsaber Duel.
- She harshes Ren's mellow before a fissure in the ground splits them apart, and then she retreats to the Falconwith Chewie and the injured Finn in tow.
- She arrives at Resistance headquarters, grief-hugs Leia, and picks up the map to Luke from BB-8 and R2-D2.
- She, Chewie, and R2 head to Luke's secret location: an island mountain where the first Jedi Temple is located.
- She climbs the steps to find Luke, then holds out his lightsaber to him as the movie ends.