Tobias Beckett

"Let me give you some advice. Assume everyone will betray you and you will never be disappointed."

- Tobias Beckett to Han Solo

Tobias Beckett was a human male professional thief who worked for the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn during the era of the Galactic Empire. A native of Glee Anselm, Beckett organized a crew to help with his heist missions. Although he became a mentor to Han Solo, a young mudtrooper who joined Beckett's group, Beckett was a survivor who quietly worked out angles that enabled him to come out ahead. He made use of many blasters, including the RSKF-44 heavy blaster and DG-29 heavy blaster pistol. He also owned a DL-44 heavy blaster pistol before he gave it to Han Solo.

Early life
At some point before 10 BBY, Tobias Beckett met the criminal and bounty hunter Aurra Sing who he pushed to her death. Sing's death was later recalled to Beckett while talking with Lando Calrissian, though Beckett claimed that he just gave Sing a push and that it was the fall that killed her.

Mimban
During the Mimban campaign, Beckett was found with his crew, disguised as a Captain of the Imperial Army. At some point during the battle, Beckett asked who was in charge, since their commanding officer had recently perished. Han Solo, a mudtrooper with the 224th Imperial Armored Division, informed Beckett that he was in fact the ranking officer. Beckett then led his men through the battle. While observing a ship, he met the young Han Solo, who wanted to join them as part of their crew. A member of his crew, Rio Durant had doubts in letting Solo join them, but Beckett decided to give the boy an opportunity by leading him to be locked for desertion. Solo was put in a chamber, where he was to be fed to the Wookiee Chewbacca. Solo ultimately was able to escape with Chewbacca, who was initially intended to devour Solo. Beckett left with his crew, stealing the ship they observed earlier but then while in mid-take-off they found Han and Chewbacca running towards them, waving for them to let them onto the ship. Beckett ordered Durant to lower the ship to let Solo and Chewbacca board it.

Heist on the Conveyex
Tobias Beckett was a member of Crimson Dawn, a criminal organization led by Dryden Vos. Beckett was instructed to retrieve a crate of coaxium from a 20-T Railcrawler conveyex transport on the planet Vandor-1; he went on this mission with his lover, Val, and Durant. They were accompanied by Solo and Chewbacca.

When they arrived at Vandor-1, they started a fire, ate dinner and had a chat about why Han and Chewbacca had come along with for the mission. Val would correct Beckett by stating that Beckett's question was wrong, but instead asked who he was doing this job for. Han had simply stated it was someone he left on Corellia 3 years ago. He said that he was going to go back for her and free her from the horrible life there. Val would state that everyone needed someone, and leaned on Beckett saying "even this old man". Beckett then asked Han if he was a moron and Han would reply, saying that he and Chewie weren't. Beckett while doing this, starts deconstructing one of his blasters and chucks it to Han, which is later kept by Han throughout the rest of his life as a smuggler and a rebel.

In the morning, Beckett and Val observed the transport which was carrying all of the coaxium as well as some Viper droids who were patrolling the area. They discussed the plan for a bit but only to be interrupted by Han. They then started executing their plan. Val went further up the track, starting to place down thermal detonators, Durrant flew their ship over the transport, and Beckett, Han and Chewbacca jumped down onto the transport. They opened up a hatch and started to admire the coaxium, Beckett stated that coaxium could power a whole star fleet. Once they got into a fight with the transports guard, Val spotted the Cloud-Riders, zooming towards the transport.

They clashed with the Cloud-Riders led by Enfys Nest. Durant was shot by a cloud-rider starting to pilot the ship very poorly and Val was surrounded by a swarm of viper droids. She later tells Beckett over the comm how much she loved him, and who decided to detonate the explosives, even with her still near them. Han had to take over for Durrant and tried carrying the shipment with only one cable attached to the carriage. Enfys Nest and her Cloud-Riders had cut off the other three Beckett, Chewie and Han had attached, and replaced them with their own. Shortly after, Durrant had perished too.

Chewbacca had to uncouple the carriage with the others so that they could get the shipment off the tracks so it didn't plummet into a frosty end. Han and the Cloud-Riders had to eventually lift up the shipment, for they were running out of track. Both tried to take the shipment with them but failed since they were both pulling opposite directions. Beckett and Chewbacca had climbed aboard their ship and went to the front to watch the excitement. As they were nearing a mountain, Han detached the shipment of coaxium, making the Cloud-Riders to, too. They then flew away from their mysterious enemies. After they landed Beckett had made tombstones in rememberance of his fallen comrades.

He reported back to Dryden Vos and was able to avoid execution by promising to retrieve unrefined coaxium from Kessel. Beckett had to make room for Qi'ra on his crew in accordance with his Vos' wishes.

Mission to Kessel
Taken to Kessel by Lando Calrissian and L3-37 on the Millennium Falcon, Beckett successfully obtained the necessary amount of coaxium and travelled with his accomplices to Savareen so the unstable material could be refined and they could rendezvous with Dryden Vos. During the mission, Beckett posed as a guard for Qi'ra, directing the fake captives, Han and Chewie, out of the Falcon. He later follows Qi'ra, L3, the Pyke who met them and its guards. While Qi'ra went into another room to discuss with the Pyke, Beckett takes out the guards who stand outside, he after watches Qi'ra fight the Pyke. After a moment of unnerving silence from the room, he opens the door, and is only to be astonished to see a Pyke laying on the floor with Qi'ra walking out of the room telling him that she was taught Teräs Käsi by Dryden Vos. Once they got to the consoles to help Han to get to the vault of coaxium, L3 had freed some slave droids, who also freed the other slaves in the mine. The slaves inevitably rebelled against the guards allowing Beckett and the others to escape aboard the Millennium Falcon.

Refine on Savareen
Once on the planet, Beckett showed his true colors to Han, Qi'ra, and Chewbacca. Once Han had told Beckett their plan he reports to Vos. Once they meet Vos, Vos surprises the team by announcing that the coaxium is fake – he reveals that his "inside man," and Han assumes that it was Qi'ra but it was indeed, Beckett. He had informed him of Han's plan to sell the real shipment to the Cloud Riders, a rebellion group led by Enfys Nest. Han announces that he anticipated Beckett's deception – the coaxium they are holding is real. He betrayed the three and abandoned Dryden. He attempted to take the coaxium for himself, but he was shot by Han, he praised Han for his actions right before he died.

Behind the scenes
"I play a guy named Beckett, who's kind of a criminal and a mentor to Han."

- Woody Harrelson, on Tobias Beckett

Tobias Beckett appears in Solo: A Star Wars Story and is portrayed by Woody Harrelson. Early fan speculation believed that Harrelson would be playing Garris Shrike&mdash;Han Solo's mentor in the Star Wars Legends continuity who first appeared in A. C. Crispin's The Han Solo Trilogy book series&mdash;but this theory was proven incorrect when Harrelson revealed Beckett's name on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

According to screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan, Beckett is based on Long John Silver, the main antagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Beckett 1
 * Solo: A Star Wars Story
 * Solo: A Star Wars Story: Meet the Crew
 * Solo: A Star Wars Story: Train Heist