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Still with us, Brett?

Anybody ever tell you you look dead, man?

Oh, yeah, right.

I just forgot something, man.

Before we talk, I think we ought to discuss the bonus situation.

Brett and I, we think we deserve full shares, right, baby? You see, Mr. Park

and I feel that the bonus situation has never been on an equitable level.

You get what you're contracted for like everybody else. Yes, but everybody else

gets more than us. Oh, his mother wants to talk to you.

Yeah,

that's a yellow light for my eyes only.

Okay, get dressed, huh? Park here.

Come on. Can I finish my coffee?

It's the only thing good on this ship.

Right? Okay.

Plug us in.

Thank you.

Where's Earth?

You should know.

It's not our system.

Scan.

Contact traffic control.

This is commercial towing vehicle Nostromo out of the Solomons.

Registration number 1809 or 24609.

Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.

Commercial towing vehicle Nostromo out of the Solomons. Registration number

1809 or 24609.

Nothing. Keep trying.

Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me, Antarctica?

Over.

I found it.

Just short as Lady 2 Reticuli.

I didn't reach the outer rim yet.

So how are we doing out here?

I don't know.

What the hell are you talking about?

That's not our system.

I know that.

Listen, you ought to notice how they never come down here.

I mean, this is where the work is, right?

Well, it's the same damn reason we get a half share of their want. Our time is

their time. That's the way they see it.

Same old shit, man.

Well, I think I know why they don't come down here.

It's because of you.

You don't have no personality.

All right.

You're having to be in my seat. Can I have a seat?

Yes.

What's happening now, baby?

Well, some of you may have figured out we're not home yet.

We're only halfway there.

What? Mother's interrupted the course of our journey.

What? Yeah. She's programmed to do that should certain conditions arise. They

have. Like what?

Seems she has intercepted a transmission of unknown origin. She got us up to

check it out. A transmission?

Out here?

Yeah.

What kind of a transmission?

Acoustical beacon. It repeats at intervals of 12 seconds.

SOS? I don't know.

Human?

Unknown. So what?

We are obligated on the section. I hate to bring this up, but this is a

commercial ship, not a rescue ship. Right.

It's not my contract to do this kind of duty.

And what about the money? If you want to give me some money to do, I'd be happy

to.

Let's go with a bonus situation.

Can we just talk about the bonus situation? Sorry, can I say something?

Let's talk about the bonus situation.

There is a clause in the contract which specifically states any systematized

transmission indicating a possible intelligent origin must be investigated.

I want to hear it. We don't know if it's intelligent.

I want to go home and party. Parker, will you just listen to the man?

Penalty of total forfeiture of shares.

You got that?

Yeah. All right, we're going in.

Yeah, we're going in.

Equatorial orbit nailed.

With the DORs in line. How's the status on the lifters?

Give me an AC pressure reading.

48 seconds.

Prepare to disengage from platform.

20 seconds.

18, 17, 16, 17, 12, 11,

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4,

3, 2, 1.

Disengage.

Umbilic is clear.

Money's safe. Let's take her down.

Roll 92 degrees, port yaw.

Prime the port.

Turbulence.

Locked and floating.

Drops any time now. We'll catch it. All right, initial damping's going off. Hold

on, people. There's going to be a little bump.

Russia dropping intake 3. Must have lost a shield.

Let's go with it.

Dropping off now.

Still dropping.

There we are. We've got it.

Take her down.

navigation lights on

you've

got five three still out no problem just down 11 okay

What the hell happened?

Somebody give me a straight answer. Here's the whole briefing.

Is that it?

Dry it out, Tom.

Dry it out. Tell me to dry it out. Look, we couldn't fix it out here anyway.

We've got to reroute all these ducts, and in order to do that, we've got to

dry it out.

What else?

What was it?

$17.

At least 25 miles.

Yeah.

It's down.

I'll be right down.

What the hell is she coming down here for? She better stay the fuck out of my

way. I like to see what she's going to do when she gets there.

Any response yet?

No, absolutely nothing except the same transmission every 12 seconds all the

other channels are dead

Kick

on the floods

We can't go anywhere in this.

Well,

Mother says the sun's coming up in 20 minutes.

How far away from the source of transmission?

Uh, northeast.

Just under 2,000 meters.

Walking distance?

Can you give me an atmospheric?

Yes.

Oh.

It's almost primal with you.

There's inert nitrogen, high concentration of carbon dioxide,

crystals, methane.

I'm working on the trace elements.

Anything else?

Yes, there's rock, lava base.

Deep cold, well below the line.

Mm-hmm.

I'll volunteer to be in the first group to go out.

Yeah, that figures.

You too, Lambert.

I'm gonna break out the weapons.

Good contact on my board

Hey

Ripley

Ripley, I want to ask you a question.

If they find what they're looking for out there, does that mean we get full

shares? Don't worry, Parker, yeah.

You'll get whatever's coming to you.

Look, I'm not going to do any more work when we get this straightened out.

Brett, you're guaranteed by law to get a share.

What? Why don't you just fuck off?

What?

What did you say, Rip?

If you have any trouble, I'll be...

Son of a bitch.

What's the matter?

Can't see a goddamn thing.

Quit griping.

I like griping.

Come on, knock it off.

How's it going?

Oh, all right. Have you tried putting that transmission through ECIU?

No, the mother hasn't identified it, yes.

Mind if I give it a shot?

Please do.

Ash, can you see this?

Yes, I can.

I've never seen anything like it.

Very bizarre.

What is it?

Let's get out of here.

We've got this, though. We must go on.

We have to go on.

Will you say that again?

I'm going back to the console.

Dallas.

Something different down here.

I don't know what it is, but... See if we can get up that wall. If we can get

up that wall, we can find out.

Looks like it's been dead a long time.

Fossilized.

Looks like it's grown out of the chair.

Bones have been outward.

They exploded from inside.

Wonder what happened to the rest of the crew.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Well, see what you make of this.

Ash. That transmission.

Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an SOS.

What is it, then? Well, I... It looks like a warning.

I'm gonna go out after them. What's the point?

I mean, by the time it takes to get there, they'll know if it's a warning or

not, yeah?

You okay down there?

Can you see anything?

I don't know, a cave.

A cave of some sort, but I... I don't know, but it's like the goddamn

tropics in here.

This is completely enclosed and it's full of leathery objects like

eggs or something.

There's a layer of... just covering the eggs that reacts when broken.

Hey.

You all right?

No, I'm okay. All right.

I'm okay. I just slipped.

Wait a

minute

this movement

Bye.

I'm right here.

Okay,

Ripley, I'm at the inner lock hatch now.

Right.

Hey, Ripley. Right here. We're clean.

Let us in. What happened to Kane?

Something has attached itself to him. We have to get him to the infirmary right

away. What kind of thing? I need a clear definition.

An organism.

Open the hatch.

Wait a minute. If we let it in, the ship could be infected. You know the

quarantine procedures.

24 hours for decontamination.

It could die in 24 hours. Open the hatch.

Listen to me. If we break quarantine, we could all die. Look, could you open the

goddamn hatch? We have to get him inside.

No. I can't do that. And if you were in my position, you'd do the same. Ripley,

this is an order. Open that hatch right now. Do you hear me?

Yes.

Yes, I read you. The answer is negative.

Thank you.

What the hell is that?

Who is he?

How are we going to get that off of him?

How are we going to get it off?

All right, can I go from this vision?

Try and remove one of the digitals from his head. You're going to do what?

Finger. I'm going to try and get his finger off. Just a minute.

It's creasing on there.

It's tearing his skull.

I know.

He went off without tearing his face off with it.

We'll have to take a look at him inside.

Right.

How come they don't freeze him?

How come you guys don't freeze him?

Take your mask off.

What's it got down his throat?

I would suggest it's feeding him oxygen.

Paralyzes him, puts him in a coma.

And keeps him alive. Now, what the hell is that?

Well, we gotta get it off him. Just a minute. Just a minute.

I mean, let's not be too hasty.

We don't know anything about... it.

Now, we're assuming it's feeding him oxygen. If we remove it...

I'm willing to take that chance. Just cut it off from now. You'll take

responsibility? Yes, yes, I'll take responsibility.

Get him out of here.

Where do you want to do this?

Make an incision just below the knuckle there.

Okay. Stand by.

That crap's gonna eat through the hole.

That thing's gonna eat through the goddamn hole. Come on!

What's going on?

This way.

Next deck.

There it is.

Don't get under it, don't get under it.

Looks like it's stopping.

Take a look at this, Ben.

Right, give me, uh, what do you got, a pen? Now give it to me, quick.

Come on, come on!

Don't get any on your arm.

Stopped.

Don't see anything like that except molecular acid.

Must be using it for blood.

It's got a wonderful defense mechanism.

You don't dare kill it.

What if I came?

Here's your pen, pal.

What do we do now? They've came to ash.

You get back to work.

What? What?

Okay.

Try it.

I'm not sure that was it.

Feel like I've been in this place a month.

We should have landed in this place in the first place.

Shouldn't have landed on this damn ball, I know that.

Well, the sooner we patch this thing up and get out of here, the sooner we can

go home. This place gives me the creeps.

What is it?

I don't know yet.

Did you want something?

Yes, I had a little talk. How's Cain?

He's holding, no changes.

And our guest?

Hmm? Well, as I said, I'm still coalescing, actually, but I have

confirmed that he's got an outer layer of protein polysaccharides.

He has a funny habit of shedding his cells and replacing them with polarized

silicon, which gives him a prolonged resistance to adverse environmental

conditions.

Is that enough?

That's funny. What does it mean?

Please don't do that. Thank you. I'm sorry.

Well, it's an interesting combination of elements, making him a tough little son

of a bitch.

And you let him in.

I was obeying a direct order, remember?

Ash, when Dallas and Kane are off the ship, I'm senior officer.

Oh, yes, I forgot.

You also forgot the science division's basic quarantine law.

No, that I didn't forget. Oh, I see. You just broke it.

Look, what would you have done with Cain?

You know his only chance of survival was to get him in here.

Unfortunately, by breaking quarantine, you risk everybody's life.

Maybe I should have left him outside.

Maybe I have jeopardized the rest of us, but it was a risk I was willing to take.

It's a pretty big risk for a science officer.

It's not exactly out of the manual, is it?

I do take my responsibilities as seriously as you, you know.

You do your job.

Dallas? I think you should have a look at Kane.

Why?

Something's happened.

Serious?

Interesting.

Ripley, meet me in the infirmary right away.

No, not in the corner.

Shh.

Have one of these.

Just in case.

Kane?

Dallas?

You okay?

I didn't see it. Was it in the overhead?

What? It's up there somewhere.

All right, go on.

Cover it with a damn thing, will you?

Oh, I'm... That's a reflex action.

Well, we've got to have a look at this.

Let's get rid of it.

Ripley.

For God's sake, this is the first time that we've encountered a species like

this. It has to go back. All sorts of tests have to be made. Ash, are you

kidding? This thing, blood acid, who knows what it's going to do when it's

dead?

I think it's safe to assume it isn't a zombie.

Douglas, it has to go back.

Well, I'd assume it's not. Burn it at stake, but you're the science officer.

It's your decision, Ash.

Dallas? Look, I'm going to change my mind, all right? I'm not trying to

change your mind, Dallas. I just want you to listen. Will you listen to me?

Just tell me how you can leave that kind of decision to him. Look, I just run the

ship. Anything that has to do with the science division, Ash has the final

word. How does that happen? It happens, my dear, because that's what the company

wants to happen. Since when is that standard procedure?

Standard procedure is to do what the hell they tell you to do.

Did you ever ship out with Ash before?

I went out five times with another science officer.

They replaced him two days before we left Thedas with Ash.

Hmm? I don't trust him.

I don't trust anybody.

What's happening with the repairs? How's it going? Oh, they're pretty much

finished now.

Why the hell didn't you tell me so?

Well, because there's still some things left to do. Like what?

Well, we're blind on B and C decks. The reserve power system's broken. Oh, no,

that's a bunch of horseshit. We can take off without that.

Yeah, we can.

You think that's a good idea? Look, I just want to get the hell out of here,

all right?

Dustin and Dix again. Number two's overheating. Spin on it for two minutes.

We're just quite straight.

We're hot. We're getting hotter.

Engine room. Red clip status.

One kilometer on ascension.

Engage artificial gravity.

Engaged. I'm altering the vector now.

Stretch retract.

Stretch retracted.

Walk in the park.

We fix something, we stay fixed, don't we, Brad, baby?

Right.

What I think we should do is just freeze him. I mean, he's got a disease. Why

don't we stop it where it is? He can always get to a doctor when we get back

home. Right.

Whenever he says anything, you say, right, Brett. You know that?

Right.

Parker, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around and says, right.

It's like a regular parrot. Yeah, shape up.

What are you, some kind of parrot?

Right. Oh, come on. Knock it off.

Jane's going to have to go into quarantine. That's it.

Yes, and so will we.

Well, how about a little something to lower your spirits? Throw me away,

please.

Well, according to my calculations, based on time spent getting to and from

the planets... Just give me the short version. How far to Earth?

Ten months.

Oh, God.

Great.

Yes? Dallas, I think you should come and see Kane.

Has his condition changed?

It's simpler if you just come and see him. We're on our way.

Great.

How are you doing?

How you doing?

Terrific. Next silly question.

Thank you.

Do you remember anything about the planet?

What's the last thing you do remember?

Remember some horrible dream about smothering?

Anyway, where are we? Right here. We're on our way home. Yeah, back to the old

freezerinos.

Oh, I've got to have something to eat before we go back. I need something to

eat.

One more meal before bedtime, I'm buying.

Hey, that's a break. Big time.

What happened? What happened to this guy?

The

first

thing that I'm gonna do when I get back is to get some decent food.

Right now, I'm thinking of food.

Well, you just know you know what it's made of.

I know that.

I don't want to talk about what it's made of.

I'm eating this.

What's the matter?

The food ain't that bad, baby.

Are you chill? What's wrong?

What's wrong?

What? What?

Hey!

Hey, what's wrong?

Inner head sealed.

Anybody want to say anything?

This is just an ordinary prod, like a cattle prod.

It's got a portable battery.

It's insulated all the way here, all the way up to here.

Just make damn sure nobody puts their hand on the end of it.

It shouldn't damage a little bastard, unless its skin's thinner than ours.

But it will give him a little incentive.

I just have to find it.

I've taken care of that. I've designed this.

Tracking device.

You just set it to search for a moving object.

So?

Haven't got much of a range, but when you get within a certain distance, it'll

start to give off a signal.

What's the key on?

Micro changes in air density.

Give me a demo.

See? Again.

Gotcha.

Two teams.

Ash, Lambert, and I. Ripley, you take Parker and Brett.

Now, anyone see this thing or catch it in the net that Parker's holding in his

lap? Parker, I don't want any heroics out of you, all right?

Catch it, put it in the airlock.

Get rid of it.

Channels are open on all decks. I want you to communicate. Keep in touch.

I thought you fixed world module.

We did.

I don't understand it.

The circuits must have burned out.

What do we got here?

Diamond, hold your light over here, would you?

Yeah, that's it.

I don't know if this is going to work. Right.

Maybe I can just put this in there.

Right. Oh, damn it.

Check the insulation.

It's within five meters.

When I say right

now

Wait, don't let him go!

What the hell are you doing, man?

It's the cat.

Hey, look, now.

We've had to back it, man.

Now we might pick it up on the track again.

I'll get it. Go on, get it.

All right, you get him. We'll go on.

Kitty, kitty, kitty.

Kitty crap.

Jones!

Jonesy?

Here, Jonesy.

Jonesy?

Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.

Good morning.

Jonesy? Jonesy?

Hey, hey, come on, Dorothy.

Come on, baby.

That's a kitty.

That's a kitty. Come on, baby.

That's a kitty.

Hey, hey.

I'm going to come out with you.

Come on.

He sure took him into the air shaft.

Disappeared into one of the cooling ducts. No question. He's using the air

duct to move around.

Could he want Brett alive?

What? Could Brett be alive? No.

I mean, I don't think so.

Well, this air shaft may work to our advantage here. It leads up to and comes

out in the main airline.

All right, there's only one big opening along the way. We can cover that up, and

then we... drive it into the airlock and zap it into outer space.

This son of a bitch is huge.

I mean, it's like a man. It's big.

Cain's son.

Come on, Ash. I mean, the science department should be able to help us.

What can we do to drive it?

Yes, well, it's adapted remarkably well to our... atmosphere considering its

nutritional requirements the only thing we don't know about is temperature okay

what about temperature what happens if we change it let's try it i mean most

animals retreat from fire yeah fire yeah parker can you rig uh three or four

incinerator units give me about 20 minutes i'll do it who gets to go into

the vent i do no you and ash take the

main airlock

Parker Lambert you cover up that maintenance opening, please

I'm at the first junction.

Dallas, I'm right here.

Parker? Yeah.

We're in position. I'm just trying to get a reading here.

The airlock is open.

Okay, Ripley.

Ready.

All right,

I've got a reading on you now.

Open the hatch to the third junction.

Okay, I'm through.

Ripley? Yes?

Close all the hatches behind me.

I'm moving on.

Just hold it a minute. I mean, I think I got it.

Yes, I've got it.

Where?

Somewhere around the third junction.

It is right around there, Nadellas. You're going to have to be careful.

All right.

I've reached the third junction, and I'm going down.

The hell's in that box?

Dallas? You're gonna have to hold your position for a minute. I've lost the

signal.

What?

You sure?

Look around. Are you sure that it's not there? I mean, it's gotta be around

there somewhere.

Check that out, Lambert. You may be getting interference.

Dallas, are you sure there is no sign of it? I mean, it is there.

be around there.

Dallas?

All right.

Uh, am I Claire Lambert? I want to get the hell out of here.

Oh, God. It's moving right towards you.

We found this laying there.

No blood.

No Dallas.

Nothing.

How come I don't hear anybody saying nothing around this place?

I'm thinking... Unless somebody has got a better idea.

We'll proceed with Dallas's plan.

What? And end up like the others?

No, you're out of your mind. You got a better idea? Yes.

I say that we abandon the ship.

We get the shuttle and just get the hell out of here. We take our chances and

just hope that somebody picks us up.

Lambert, the shuttle won't take four.

Well, then why don't we draw a straw? I'm not drawing any straws. I'm for

killing that goddamn thing right now. Okay.

Well, let's talk about killing it. We know it's using the air shafts. Will you

listen to me, Parker?

Shut up!

Let's hear it.

Let's hear it.

It's using the air shafts.

That's the only way.

We'll move in pairs. We'll go step by step and cut off every bulkhead and

every vent until we have it cornered and then we'll blow it the fuck out into

space. Is that acceptable to you?

Obviously, it means killing it.

But we have to stick together.

How are our weapons?

The weapons are fine.

This one needs refueling. Will you get it, please?

Ash, go with him. No, no, I can manage, Ash. You will follow me.

Ash?

Any suggestions from you or Mother?

No, we're still collating.

You what?

You're still collating?

I find that hard to believe.

What would you like to do? Just what you've been doing, Ash.

Nothing.

I've got access to Mother now, and I'll get my own answers, thank you.

There is an explanation for this, you know.

You're so rude!

I wanna hear your goddamn explanation!

Parker.

Lambert.

Ash.

Open the door.

You open the door?

Whoa!

It's a robot.

Ash is a goddamn robot.

God.

Holy shit.

Help me get this fucking thing off.

company sent us a goddamn robot all i can think of is they must have wanted

the alien for the weapons division it's been protecting it right along parker

will you plug it in

Ash, can you hear me?

Ash!

Yes, I can hear you.

What was your special order?

You read it. I thought it was clear.

Bring back life form.

Priority one.

All other priorities rescinded.

There's a damn company.

What about our lives, you son of a bitch?

I repeat, all other priorities are rescinded.

How do we kill it, Ash?

There's gotta be a way of killing it. How? How do we do it?

You can't.

That's bullshit.

You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?

A perfect organism.

Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.

You admire it.

I admire its purity.

A survivor.

conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

Look, I've heard enough of this, and I'm asking you to pull the plug.

Last word.

What?

I can't lie to you about your chances, but...

you have my sympathies.

We're gonna blow up the ship.

We'll take our chances in the shuttle.

Blow up the ship.

When we throw the switches, how long before the ship's on? Ten minutes.

No bullshit. We ain't out of here in ten minutes. We won't need no rocket to fly

through space.

We're gonna need coolant for the air support system.

You two go down, get all the coolant you can carry.

I'll get the shuttle ready.

I'll give you about seven minutes.

Come back up here, I'll shut the switches off and we'll blow this fucker

off into space.

Okay, all right.

Ready? Okay, son. Seven minutes.

Jones?

Okay, check the bottles.

Charles.

How you doing? Fine.

Jones? Psst, pst, pst, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty.

Come here Jones, come here.

Jones?

Come here boy.

Come here.

Nice kitty.

Jones?

Jones?

Give me a sweet hug.

Jones.

Jones.

Jones.

Jones.

Jones.

God damn it.

Lambert? Get out of the way, Lambert!

Lambert?

Lambert?

Uh...

The emergency destruct system is now activated.

The ship will detonate in T-minus ten minutes.

The option to override automatic detonation expires in T-minus

five minutes.

The option to override automatic detonation

expires in T-minus three minutes.

20 seconds, 90, 80, 70, 60,

50, 40, 30, 12, 11,

10 seconds, 9, 8, 7, 6,

5, 4, 3, 2,

1.

Thank you

Johnson.

One minute to abandon ship. The ship will automatically destruct in

T minus one minute.

T minus 30 seconds.

29, 28, 27, 26, 25,

24, 23, 22, 21, 20 seconds.

19, 18, 17, 16, 15,

14, 13, 12, 11.

10 seconds, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5,

4, 3, 2, 1.

Nice to see you too.

You are my lucky star.

You are my lucky star.

You are my

lucky

star.

Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo.

Third officer reporting.

The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker,

Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas are dead.

Cargo and ship destroyed.

I should reach the frontier in about six weeks.

With a little luck, the network... pick me up.

This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.