The SAR then tortures Scarecrow to death, using Scarecrow to connect to Robot and show them via the Alien Engine's star map that their parents are in danger. Scarecrow manages to get the engine from another robot spaceship, but is captured by the SAR. He helps them plan to get another alien engine. Scarecrow finds their ship and is initially hostile towards them, however, learning that they are Will's parents (Maureen and John), he starts helping them. About an year later, John, Maureen and Don lands on the planet searching for the remains of the SAR. Scarecrow makes his way back to the Desert Planet alive. When Will steps out into the hallway in a failed attempt to convince the robots to let them go, Scarecrow attacks the robot leader before he can hurt Will and continues to fight off the other aliens as long as he can, allowing the children to launch in Jupiter T18. The robots soon begin attacking the Resolute to retrieve the alien engine, leading the colonists to attach the alien engine to a transport Jupiter with all of the Resolute's children on board, with the hope that Robot could get them all to Alpha Centauri, but the robots arrive just outside the ship's airlock before it can leave. Adler sacrifices himself to get Scarecrow out to the mark in time, and when Scarecrow is healed, dozens of other robots are activated as well. The two succeed in locating the mark along the ring that matches the one on Scarecrow's arm, however the lightning that would supposedly heal Scarecrow was arriving far sooner than they anticipated. Will and Adler decide to try to save Scarecrow by bringing him to the metal ring on the Amber planet, as Robot informed them by the markings on their arms that matched those on the rings that this was where Scarecrow came from, or if he was just born there. Adler has a change of heart, however, when Robot pleads with him by name, crying out "Help, Ben Adler," and takes Will and Scarecrow into the Jupiter to escape while Robot prevents the guards from following. The Robinson children almost manage to get Robot and Scarecrow off the ship while avoiding the efforts of Hastings, Adler, and Smith to stop them, but Adler figures out at the last moment that Will would try to get to Jupiter 2 and cuts him off, alerting security when Will, Robot, and Scarecrow show up. After overpowering the men, Robot opens the cage, revealing to Will and Penny that Scarecrow is dying. Later, during Hastings' attempt to prevent Maureen's plan to purify infected water to run the life support systems, Robot is drawn to a room where the rebellious robot Scarecrow is being stored and repeatedly electrocuted by security personnel. To avoid contact, the colonists evacuated the Resolute until the Robinsons, unaware of the danger, re-board the ship and later manage to contain him. He remained there for twenty-three trips to Alpha Centauri and back before the fight between Robot and SAR somehow let it loose on the ship during the transport of the twenty-fourth colonist group. In captivity, both Scarecrow and his ship were incorporated into the design of the Resolute, where Scarecrow was enslaved to be a farmer and forced to serve as the ship's pilot. Upon recovery by Ben Adler and other scientists, the robot was officially given the nickname Scarecrow due to his ragged and destroyed appearance, including the metal filaments that Adler remarked looked like glowing straw. The crash of Scarecrow's ship caused a global catastrophe due to the enviromental effects. This truth was hidden from most of humanity, however, and with the exception of a handful of individuals, most believed its ship to be nothing more than a super bolide meteor referred to as the Christmas Star.
However, for reasons unknown, Scarecrow crashed to Earth upon arrival. As a result, Scarecrow and his ship were sent to Earth, possibly on a mission to wipe it out as the Robots had done to their creators. The Robot scanned Grant Kelly and was able to determine Earth's location from him. On December 21, 2044, an unknown Robot, possibly Scarecrow himself, found the Fortuna in space above the shattered planet. Based on this, Hastings taunted him, saying that he thought that Scarecrow had a brain and that "Tin Man" (Robot) had a heart. He was named by Ben Adler after the character from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Robot Scarecrow is a recurring character on Netflix's Lost in Space.Īs with Robot, Scarecrow is portrayed by Brian Steele.