

Every time he and Rey connect, sometimes sans his shirt, they learn more about one another and find a familiar loneliness at the heart of the other. At first, he thinks it can tell him where Rey and Luke are located but eventually he just puzzles over why the Force has joined them at all. As he licks his wounds, a Force bond with Rey opens up. When he senses his mother, Leia ( Carrie Fisher), close by, he contemplates firing on her before relenting (unfortunately, one of his henchmen took him by surprise and got her instead). After Snoke scoffs that he's just a child wearing a mask, Kylo smashes that mask in fury and launches an attack on the fleeing Resistance forces. Though Kylo Ren hoped the murder of his father, Han Solo ( Harrison Ford), would extinguish the conflict he felt within him, all it did was split him further apart. Taking one last look at him, Rey understands that he has made his choice and now she is going to make hers and closes the Falcon's door on him. Though Snoke is now dead, the Force connects her and Kylo again as she escapes with the Resistance on the Millennium Falcon. She escapes back to the Resistance and saves its remaining members by clearing their escape route through her growing skill with the Force. Though Kylo wants her to join and rule alongside him, Rey will not and as they fight again, they split the Skywalker lightsaber in two. Instead, after leaving Luke to see Kylo, she inadvertently helps him kill Snoke (Andy Serkis) and become Supreme Leader himself. After touching hands through their bond, Rey has a powerful vision of Ben's future and mistakenly believes she could help turn the conflicted man back to the light. Initially disgusted by him for the murder of his father, Rey soon discovers much remained of the former Ben Solo and eventually learns how Luke's tragic mistake helped turn him to the Dark Side.

When Luke initially refuses to train her, Rey wounds up turning to her enemy Kylo Ren ( Adam Driver) when a mysterious Force bond opens between the two.

Hoping Jedi legend Luke Skywalker (a never-better Mark Hamill) would help her channel her burgeoning Force powers and find her rightful place in the world, Rey ( Daisy Ridley) locates him on the remote planet of Ahch-To and is stunned to discover he became a cranky hermit in self-imposed exile.
