finn awakens from his coma aboard the main resistance cruiser, and immediately demands to know where rey is, learning that leia has a beacon that will lead rey back to her when necessary. later, following the attack on the cruiser that killed most of the resistance's main leadership and rendered leia unconscious, finn takes the beacon and attempts to board an escape pod in the hopes of keeping both himself and rey out of danger. before he can board the pod, he is found by rose tico (kelly marie tran), a maintenance worker whose sister paige, a bomber for the resistance, has recently died in an attack on the first order. seeing finn trying to escape, rose stuns him and intends to turn him in for desertion, but stops when finn tells her that the first order has found a way to track the cruiser through lightspeed. she tells finn that she might be able to disable the tracker, and finn says that, having worked aboard a star destroyer, he would be able to find where the tracker is. rose and finn run their plan by poe, who contacts kanata for help, but she claims that she is too busy and instructs them to find a "master code breaker" on a casino on the planet canto bight. operating against acting resistance leader vice admiral holdo’s (laura dern) wishes, finn and rose, along with bb-8, steal a ship and go to canto bight.