Aliens

Bio-readouts are all in the green.

Looks like she's alive.

Well, there goes our salvage, guys.

How are we today?

Terrible.

Well, better than yesterday, at least.

- Where am I?

- You're safe.

You're at Gateway Station.

Been here a couple of days.

You were pretty groggy at first,

but now you're OK.

Looks like you've got a visitor.

Jonesy! Come here!

Hey, come here!

How are you, you stupid cat?

How are you!

Where have you been?

Guess you two have met, huh?

I'm Burke. Carter Burke.

I work for the company.

But... Don't let that fool you.

I'm really an OK guy.

I'm glad to see you're feeling better.

They say that all the weakness

and disorientation should pass soon.

That's just natural side effects of such

a long hypersleep. Or something like that.

What do you mean?

How long was I out there?

Has no-one discussed this with you yet?

No. But, I mean, I don't...

... Recognise this place.

No, I know. Uh... OK.

It's just that, uh,

this might be a shock to you.

- It's longer...

- How long?

Please.

57 years.

What?

That's the thing.

You were out there for 57 years.

You had drifted

right through the core systems.

And it's reallyjust blind luck...

... That a deep-salvage team

found you when they did.

It's one in a thousand, really.

You're damn lucky to be alive, kiddo.

You could be floating out there forever.

You OK?

Uh...

Oh!

You OK?

Oh!

God!

Nurse! Please!

Someone get in here now!

No!

Now!

Hold!

Please!

Hold her!

Kill me!

No!

Bad dreams again?

- You wantsomething to help you sleep?

- No.

I've slept enough.

Jonesy... Come here.

Shh!

It's all right.

It's all right now.

It's over.

Hi. Sorry I'm late.

Been running behind all morning.

Is there any word about my daughter?

Uh... I think we should worry

about the hearing now.

I read your deposition...

... And it's great.

If you stick to that, we'll be fine.

There are gonna be

a lot of heavyweights in there.

Feds, Interstellar Commerce Commission,...

... Colonial Administration,

insurance company guys.

Do you have any news about my daughter?

Well, we did come up with some information.

Why don't we sit down?

I was hoping to wait

until after the inquest.

Uh...

Amanda Ripley McClaren...

Her married name, I guess?

Age 66.

And that was at the time of her death,...

... which was two years ago.

I'm real sorry.

Amy...

She was cremated...

... And interred at Westlake Repository,

in Wisconsin.

No children mentioned.

I promised her...

... That I would be home for her birthday.

Her eleventh birthday.

Ohh...

They'd like to go back to this

point about the override destruct order.

I don't understand this.

We have been here

for three and a half hours.

How many different ways

do you want the same story?

Look at it from our perspective, please.

Please?

You admit to detonating the engines of, and

thereby destroying, an M-Class star freighter.

An expensive piece of hardware.

42 million in adjusted dollars.

That's minus payload, of course.

The lifeboat's flight recorder corroborates

some elements ofyour account.

In that, for reasons unknown,

the Nostromo set down on LV-426,...

... An unsurveyed planet at that time.

That it resumed its course, and was

subsequently set for self-destruct by you...

... For reasons unknown.

Not for reasons unknown. I told you.

We set down there on company orders to

get this thing, which destroyed my crew...

... And your expensive ship.

The analysis team found no physical

evidence ofthe creature you describe.

Good!

That's because I blew it out

of the goddamn air lock.

Like I said.

Are there any species like

this hostile organism on LV-426?

No. It's a rock. No indigenous life.

Did IQ's just drop sharply while I was away?

Ma'am, I already said it was not indigenous.

It was a derelict spacecraft. An alien ship.

It was not from there.

Do you get it? We homed in on its beacon.

And found something never recorded once

in over 300 surveyed worlds.

A creature that "gestates...

...inside a living human host".

- Yes.

These are your words.

- "And has concentrated acid for blood. "

- That's right.

Look, I can see where this is going,

but I'm telling you that...

...those things exist.

- Thank you, Officer. That will be all.

Please! You're not listening.

Kane - The crew member...

Kane, who went into that ship, said

he saw thousands of eggs. Thousands.

Thank you. That will be all.

Goddamn it, that's not all! If one ofthose

things gets down here, that will be all!

Then all this bullshit that you think is so

important... You can kiss all that goodbye!

It is the finding

of this court of inquiry that...

... Warrant Officer E Ripley,...

... NOC 14472,...

... Has acted with questionable judgment...

... And is unfit to hold an ICC licence

as a commercial flight officer.

Said licence is hereby

suspended indefinitely.

No criminal charges will be filed against

you at this time, and you are released...

... On your own recognisance for a six-month

period of psychometric probation,...

... To include monthly review

by an ICC psychiatric technician.

These proceedings are closed.

That could have been... Better.

- Look, I think... Ripley?

- Van Leuwen.

Why don't you just check out LV-426?

Because I don't have to.

The people there have never complained

about any hostile organism.

What do you mean? What people?

Terraformers.

Planet engineers.

They set up atmosphere processors

to make the air breathable. Takes decades.

It's what we call a Shake 'n' Bake colony.

How many are there? How many colonists?

I don't know. 60, maybe 70, families.

Do you mind?

Families.

Jesus!

I'll be down in maintenance, OK?

- Al?

- What?

- Hey, Al.

- What?

Remember you sent some wildcatters

out past the alien range last week?

Yeah.

One ofthem's on the horn.

Says he's on to something.

Wants to know if his claim will be honoured.

Why wouldn't his claim be honoured?

Because you sent them

on company orders, maybe?

Christ! Some honch in a cushy office on

Earth says "Go look at a grid reference".

We look. They don't say why and I don't ask.

I don't ask because it takes two weeks

to get an answer out here.

And the answer is always "Don't ask".

So what do I tell this guy?

Tell him, as far as I'm concerned,

if he finds something, it is his.

- Lydecker?

- What?

You kids are not supposed

to be on this level! Get out of here!

You go in places we can't fit!

So? That's why I'm the best!

Knock it off! If I catch you playing

in the air ducts again, I'll tan your hides.

Mom, all the kids play...

Annie, come and have

a look at this, will ya?

Folks, we have scored big this time.

What is it, Dad?

I'm not sure.

Let's see ifwe can't get

a closer look at this thing.

- Shouldn't we call in?

- Let's wait till we know what to call it in as.

That's about as close as we can get.

Should we take a look inside?

You kids stay inside. I mean it.

We'll be right back.

- OK.

- Bye.

Timmy, they've been gone a long time.

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