I do have a pretty good idea of what to do, though. We can’t see Neel’s mouth because of his trunk. Replace Neel’s final line in the destroyed house:
“Maybe you shouldn’t be touching that” -> “Let’s go get Yod from the ship”
Then we do the scene with Yod and SM-33. Then go back to the parents (perhaps a scene from a later episode). And then we transition to them entering the Fallen Sanctum. The dialogue here is perfect so the audience isn’t confused:
Yod: “So, who exactly lives here now?”
Neel: “On our planet, this is the Supervisor’s Tower.”
The only problem is that Yod now has their credits and hasn’t given them away. Unless he completely murdered those warriors earlier and didn’t actually give it up.
I’m working on a similar train of thought. My plan is for them to meet the 2 children and the girl directs them to the tower, there is a shot of Neel looking at KB and Fern inside the wrecked school “bus” where a Neill line could be added.
I feel like someone needs to direct them to the tower.
That would trim the episode down to 13mins, bringing the total to 1h 27 after 4 episodes.