Lambert and Parker would use the ship's equipment to find the Alien, so Dallas could deal with it. The plan worked intially, as Dallas closed off parts of the air duct system to force the creature out into space and Lambert managed to pick up the Alien's signal on the tracker.
However, the signal suddenly disappeared. Just as quickly, though, it reappeared and headed straight for Dallas. He panicked in the cramped space and actually ran right into the Alien.
The crew tried to find Dallas' body, but they only found his flamethrower. The remaining crew members discuss a way of dealing with the creature. Lambert was emotionally unstable and suggested that they escape in the Narcissus , but Ripley stated the shuttle could not support four people. She consulted the ship's computer, MU-TH-UR , on how to deal with the creature, only to discover that it would not tell her.
She did, however, find out about the company's " special order ": to retrieve the Alien and ensure its survival at the expense of the crew. Ash, who Ripley suddenly discovered had been sitting next to her, responded by trying to attack her. As Ripley tried to find the other crew members, Ash kept shutting the doors. He then attacked her, eventually pinning her down to shove a magazine down her throat. However, Parker and Lambert arrived at a critical moment to save her.
Despite Ash's unnatural strength, Parker knocked Ash's head off with a fire extinguisher, revealing him to be an android. Lambert then stabbed Ash with the cattle prod, causing him to short-circuit. Ripley reactivated Ash temporarily to ask him his special order.
He told them that they were doomed, but that they had his sympathy. Ripley then knocked the head over, deactivating him once again. With the number of crew members being reduced to three, the Narcissus would be able to support them. Ripley, Parker, and Lambert decided to escape in the Narcissus after activating the Nostromo's self destruct device. While waiting for Parker and Lambert to collect the necessary supplies, Ripley heard Jones over the intercom meowing, and left to retrieve the cat.
The Alien then attacked Parker and Lambert. Ripley rushed to save them, but it kills them and leaves behind their bodies with one of Parker's arms being torn off and hanging. She activates the self-destruct and rushes to the escape shuttle. Ripley then had a short face-off with the creature in front of the shuttle, and with it blocking her way, she rushed to reactivate the cooling unit.
Ripley rushed back to the shuttle and found the Alien gone. She enters the shuttle and narrowly escapes as the Nostromo explodes. Ripley, having thought that the Alien died in the explosion, prepared for Hypersleep. However she was shocked when the creature revealed itself hiding in one of the walls. Ripley panicked and scrambled to the spacesuit closet.
Catching her breath and composure, she realized the creature hadn't discovered her yet. Unarmed, she quickly made a plan to get rid of the creature once and for all, quietly slipping on a spacesuit and slowly making her way to a control console. She then started the process to open the hatch and flush the creature out; unfortunately, the process gave off steam and the creature became agitated. Ripley quickly lost her courage, but by the time the creature was in striking distance of her she opened the hatch to the vacuum of space.
All loose objects and the creature were sucked out. It held onto the entrance, until Ripley shot it with a harpoon. However, the hatch closed on it, tethering the creature to the shuttle. The Alien then tried to get back in via the engine, but Ripley hit the ignition and the creature was blown into space. After she gave her final report on the status of the ship, cargo, and crew Ripley signed off and entered hypersleep.
She is visibly traumatized by her experience and has recurring nightmares about being impregnated with a chestburster. She is introduced to a representative of Weyland-Yutani, Carter J. Burke , who tells her she is going to be brought before an inquiry for the destruction of the Nostromo and possibly the deaths of the crew, as the company does not seem to know about the Alien. Before her debriefing, Burke showed Ripley a photograph of her adult daughter and informed her that she married without children and died two years before Ripley was awakened, causing her to break into tears.
Ripley was then brought before a court of Weyland-Yutani, as well as other interstellar company officials. She tried to convince them of the existence of the Alien, but they denied that Weyland-Yutani's "special order" existed and also denied the existence of the Xenomorph , or any similar species.
Ripley asked them to check out LV to find out for themselves, but she learned that a terraforming colony has been living there peacefully for years. They finally decided that she has acted "with questionable judgement" and put her on a six-month period of psychometric observation and revoke her flight license, although they do not file any criminal charges. Ripley settles down on Gateway working as a power loader operator, but she misses working on a starship and still has nightmares about the Alien.
Ripley was one of two civilian advisers to the mission, the other being Burke for the interests of the company. Ripley gave a debriefing on her prior experiences with the creatures. Although, a few Marines joked about the "bug hunt"; Sgt.
Apone quickly put them in their places. Ripley would also use her skills with a power-loader to help the Marines on moving supplies. During one of the meals, she discovered that the executive officer Bishop was an android. After her near death experience with Ash, Ripley was left wary of synthetics and went on the offensive at Bishop, ordering him to stay away from her. Burke told Bishop that Ash "malfunctioned and there were a few deaths", and Bishop tried to reassure Ripley by telling her that malfunctions were only common in older models.
Later, the investigation team prepped and supplied before heading planet-side. After the APC was dropped, the Marines went on patrol through the medical and operations buildings within the colony and found it to be deserted. However, there were signs of battle, barricading and large acid burns to the structure of the complex. After the building was secured, Ripley, Burke and Lt.
Gorman entered. Exploring the complex, a startling discovery was made: two living facehuggers were kept in stasis tanks in the med lab, showing the colonists had already discovered the derelict craft. While they were exploring, a signal was picked up on a motion tracker. The marines were surprised to find that it was a young girl. Corporal Dwayne Hicks reached for her only to get bit in the hand and lose her down a ventilation shaft.
Ripley then chased after the girl into the vents and managed to corner her and talk the girl in coming back with her to the marines. Bishop began an examination of one of the dead facehuggers. As Dietrich , the marines' medic, treated the girl, Ripley asked her questions regarding the other colonists, her parents and her brother.
The girl replied that they were all dead, which Ripley understood all too well. She introduced herself as "Newt", with her real name Rebecca Jorden. Ripley grew fond of Newt, remembering her own deceased daughter.
The Marines found the colonists using the computer and discovered they are all grouped around the main cooling tower in the atmospheric processing center , a large reactor which made breathable air on LV They took the APC to the entrance and the Marines investigated. Inside the processing station, the Marines kept in contact with Ripley, Burke and Gorman via radio and a camera which showed what they were seeing. Eventually, the team discovered the alien nest , where all the colonists are being kept.
However, the signal from their cameras and radios became fainter at the point due to the structure of the processing station. Ripley realized that the Marines were right under the cooling tower and she informed Gorman, who was confused. Burke explained that the processor "is like a big nuclear reactor": and that using assault rifles and grenades could rupture it and cause a thermonuclear explosion.
Gorman agreed and had the Marines hand their grenades and ammo over to Frost. Ripley watches as the Marines found the cocooned colonists and some open eggs with dead facehuggers. She witnesses on the camera feedback as Dietrich discovers one of the cocooned colonists is still alive. She begs them to kill her, but they do not listen and try to comfort her, promising to free her. Ripley was upset when the woman started to convulse, and a chestburster erupted from her.
Gorman starts to panic and freeze up as the Marines' radio is cut off, while they are slaughtered by the aliens. Ripley yells at Gorman to do something before she seizes control and drove the APC into the alien hive.
Corporal Hicks, Hudson and Vasquez managed to evacuate the scene. During the escape, the APC was damaged to the point where it could no longer drive. Gorman was knocked out by falling crates. The group remained inside the APC and discussed ways to exterminate the aliens another way. Ripley suggested leaving LV for the Sulaco in orbit to destroy the colony. The Marines praised Ripley's idea, but Burke claimed the aliens are an 'important species' and that they had no right to exterminate them, much to the chagrin of Ripley and Vasquez.
Despite Burke's protests, they went with Ripley's plan and signalled one of two dropships to land and collect them. But the dropship had an alien sneak onboard and killed one of the two crewmembers then it opens the door to the cockpit, and the pilot, assuming it was the other crewmember who was killed.
John Redman wrote:. Was ripley really asleep for 57 years? Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. While watching aliens again, I noticed that the only mention of ripley sleeping for 57 years was in the dream sequence.
I was in and out the room while it was on, so I may have missed some later reference. But if it only happened in the dream, does that mean it was true? John Bingham.
Yes, we have evidence in the non-theatrical release of A2 that Ripley was assuredly in hypersleep for 57 years. In the special edition, note the conversation between Ripley and Burke about Amanda McLaren Ripley's deceased daughter who indeed died just two years before Ripley was picked up in the kor systems.
She was out there 57 years, 57 and a half to be more exact. While the dream sequence in the main theatrical version of A2 implies that the amount of years could've been a fictoid of the dream, we later do find that colonists have been on LV for 20 years. And it takes so long to construct things like the orbitting satellite station around Earth and the atmosphere processor.
Yes, we have inference and proof that Ripley was out there 57 years from other sources than the dream. Now theres an interesting tidbit! I still think they intended to imply she was asleep for 57 years, but who knows. Maybe we can get the timeline closer to Blade runner after all, oops sorry.. Rob Durfee. I would count it because its James Cameron preferred version of the movie without time constraints. After spending 57 years drifting through space in stasis following her encounter with the alien, Ellen Ripley Sigourney Weaver is rescued but her story about the deadly creature is treated with scepticism.
Ripley learns that the planet where her crew first found the alien has now been colonized but that contact with the colonists has been lost after the Company ordered them to investigate the derelict alien spacecraft Ripley claims was there. Ripley is subsequently called back into action as an advisor to a team of hardened space marines, dispatched to the planet on a rescue mission Aliens is a sequel to Alien , which was based on an original screenplay by Dan O'Bannon.
The screenplay for Aliens was written by Canadian-American film-maker James Cameron, who also directed the movie. Ripley was indeed in hypersleep for 57 years. When she first meets Company representative Carter Burke Paul Reiser , she is in the hospital and he informs her that she's been out there for 57 years, at which point she starts to react to an alien birthing from her.
Then she awakens and we find out this was a nightmare. In the Director's Cut, there is an added scene later on where Burke sits down and tells Ripley that her daughter had died two years prior at the age of This means that if she was still alive, she would be Ripley the laments that she was trying to get home for her 11th birthday.
So it's likely that in the initial meeting with Burke where he reunites her with Jones the cat, he had informed her how long she'd been in hypersleep, but then she had a recurring nightmare where that discussion went a very bad way. Her escape shuttle was found drifting through space by a salvage team. Hoping to claim the shuttle for salvage, they discovered that Ripley was inside and still alive in hibernation, and so their finders claim was negated.
Ripley and Jones were then taken to Gateway Station in orbit around Earth for recuperation. Ripley's shuttle decompressed shortly after the Alien drooled on the floor. After being adrift in space for 57 years, any remaining drool would certainly have evaporated. However, since the Alien was bleeding when Ripley hit it with the harpoon, some drops of acid may have scorched the floor or wall, and because saliva also contains organic molecules, trace amounts of proteins should have been discovered if the team had done a thorough job.
Since the discovery of some proteins or scorch marks is hardly conclusive evidence, it is very likely that the Company simply lied to Ripley and used it as a way to demote her and thereby silence her about the Alien as they may have plans for it yet. This is further supported in that no mention was made of the fired harpoon gun, which was still in the shuttle when the salvage team found it.
Ripley would be fully accountable for the destruction of the Nostromo, which would enable the Company to get their lost money back through insurance.
In the novelization of the film taken from the original shooting script , Ripley comments to Burke that the evidence had been tampered with, and later, when Burke is confronted with the extensive damage to the colony complex, he remarks that the complex is insured anyway. This is not made completely clear in any of the films, though there are plausible explanations. One reason may be that the Company's secret attempts to obtain the Alien were only known by a few of its executives the ones who re-routed the Nostromo to LV's vicinity and that they were no longer in a position to send another team to LV after the events of the first film.
Another reason could be that they simply had no opportunity: with the Nostromo declared missing, there were undoubtedly large inquiries done which would only have drawn attention to their unethical acquisition of the Alien. In that case, the Company probably had little other choice than to bury the project. About thirty years after the events of the first film, the Company begins terraforming the planet and a colony is set up there. However, neither the colonists nor any Company employees seem to know anything about the Derelict Ship until Ripley arrives back at Earth 20 years later and the warning signal coming from the derelict ship was presumably deactivated or no longer operating after the Nostromo visited the planet.
Burke then instructs the colonists to investigate the Derelict Ship, which supports the notion that the Company's information about the Alien and their plans to obtain it were either deliberately buried or simply lost in the 57 years it took Ripley to return to Earth, and no one involved in this earlier attempt was in power anymore otherwise they would have sent out someone earlier.
In the colony's information log, Ripley later reads that Burke sent the colonists to the Derelict Ship directly after hearing about it from her testimony. Burke says he did this for three reasons: 1 he wasn't certain that there even was a Derelict Ship on the planet, 2 making it an official investigation rather than a coincidental finding would make it a security situation, resulting in the loss of any rights to anything found on the planet, and 3 he hoped to obtain an Alien specimen and make millions by selling it for bio-weapons research.
While on Earth, Burke may have had access to classified Company documents that detailed their earlier attempt to obtain the Alien and sacrificed an entire crew to get it; he then simply chose to follow up on that plan; or he just heard Ripley's story about the Alien and thought it was an interesting species for the bioweapon research program, not knowing the Company had tried to get one 57 years before. The colonists were sent to LV with no knowledge of a derelict ship or any warning that the planet may harbor a dangerous alien lifeform, so they had no reason to go looking for them.
They may not have detected the derelict's beacon because it was no longer sending out a signal. In a graphic novel released by Heavy Metal two months before the movie release, when Dallas Tom Skerritt , Kane John Hurt , and Lambert Veronica Cartwright enter the derelict ship, Dallas twists a knob near the base of the giant's chair and turns off the signal. Although this is not strictly canon, this event also occurs in the original shooting script for Alien. This damage may well have silenced the signal.
This is also James Cameron's preferred explanation. It's been suggested that the signal stopped broadcasting as soon as the crew of the Nostromo entered the derelict, though this is unlikely as there would be no sense in programming a warning signal to deactivate and thereby risk other visitors coming to investigate.
An explanation is also provided in the video game, Alien: Isolation, which is widely considered canon by fans. The Anesidora crew locates the beacon and intentionally turns it off to keep anyone else from finding the ship. Whatever the reason the colonists were not alerted by the warning beacon, the original script did call for them to eventually find the derelict, although that information did not make it into the movie.
In fact, it was Newt Carrie Henn 's father who found the derelict and he was attacked by a Facehugger much like it happened to Kane in Alien. Like on the Nostromo, the Alien then hatched and quickly began to go after the rest of the colonists. By the time Ripley and the Marines got there, Newt was the only one of the colonists left.
This scene was restored in the special edition. The initial investigation of the Nostromo crew already indicated that the planetoid's atmosphere was primordial, and therefore incapable of sustaining complex life.
LV is described during Ripley's hearing as "a rock with no indigenous life". It stands to reason that the Company did thorough checks of the planet, determining that its soil was incapable of sustaining life, and therefore suitable for terraforming.
They simply didn't bother to check the entire planet surface for signs of life or external civilization, or perhaps the Derelict Ship itself blends in with the surroundings so much that it doesn't stick out on any scan or picture made from above. In the first decade, the colonists were probably busy building the Colony Complex and Atmosphere Processor, leaving little time to explore the planet's surface, where nothing is expected to be found anyway.
Exploring the surface would be much harder without a breathable atmosphere, so this was probably limited to the direct vicinity of the Colony Complex. It is also suggested that the Derelict ship is quite far away. As soon as the air became breathable, the colonists probably did active surveys of the planet. In the extended edition, it is suggested that the Derelict ship was in fairly uncharted territory, described as "past the Ilium range, in the middle of nowhere".
Also, the surveyors took their kids with them, suggesting that the distance back and forth couldn't be conveniently covered within a day, and the ship is not in the near vicinity. This makes a random discovery unlikely, also because the terrain is rocky, and the atmosphere causes cloud formation and mist, which would have made the ship harder to detect when one doesn't know what to look for.
It is only on Burke's instructions and with precise coordinates that the colonists found the ship. Ripley is initially reluctant to go back to the planet, even after she hears that over 60 colonist families now live there and that the Company have lost contact with them.
However, Ripley keeps having terrifying nightmares about the Alien, and most likely feels the best way to deal with the problem is to face it head on and ensure the Alien species is wiped out forever. When she calls Burke after yet another nightmare, she does not agree to go until he confirms that the mission is to "destroy, not bring back a sample for study.
The Company agrees to restore her previous position with them on the condition that she goes back to the planet as a consultant with a team of marines to investigate why they have lost contact with the colonists.
However, given the fact that she makes her decision to return immediately after another nightmare, it seems that her intent to wipe out the Aliens is her main drive. Each marine's first name is the same as the actor who played them. We see "Frost R. Ricco Frost. The other characters are: Pvt. William Hudson Bill Paxton , Pvt. Jenette Vasquez Jenette Goldstein , Sgt. Al Apone Al Matthews , Pvt. Mark Drake Mark Rolston , Cpl. Collette Ferro Colette Hiller , Pvt.
Daniel Spunkmeyer Daniel Kash , Cpl. Trevor Wierzbowski Trevor Steedman. The only exceptions are Cpl. Dwayne Hicks Michael Biehn and Lt. Scott Gorman William Hope. Pvt Hudson comments about the mission being "just another bug-hunt," possibly implying that the marines have encountered alien species before, as does Pvt Frost in the mess hall scene, when he reminisces about "Arcturian poontang.
Elsewhere on the marines' uniforms are patches with similar images of an eagle and the slogan, "We endanger species. Heinlein's novel "Starship Troopers" published in , and this is a nod to the inspiration of that book. However, the most likely reason is that "bug hunt" was slang for a search-and-rescue mission, which seemed a rather second-rate challenge than a "stand up fight", which, in Hudson's terms, meant being sent down to a war-ridden planet to aid in some sort of violent dispute where there will be lots of combat.
When Gorman says, "All we know is there's still no contact with the colony and that a xenomorph may be involved. Then he asks, "What exactly are we dealing with here? It is likely the marines uniform slogans about being "bug stompers" is merely coincidence done so because of the Starship Troopers novel , as if they specialized in dealing with alien species or had been sent on wild goose chases before in regards to aliens, then they would've been a little more serious in the briefing, knowing that there have been past inquiries as to extraterrestrial existence.
But they scoff at Ripley's story, just as the Company executives did, because there hadn't been anything relating to extraterrestrials recorded in "over surveyed worlds". Unlike Star Wars, which has thousands of different species, this universe is portrayed as a humans-only dimension, as the concept of the original film was to depict what it would actually be like to encounter an alien. There is also the explanation, supported by some dialogue, that the bug hunt suggests that they have to kill aliens from space not the alien of the film , but the extraterrestrial life is limited to vermin or lower form of life.
Hudson being impressed about Ripley seeing an "alien" sound like he has seen many before when the marines have been on bug hunt. The hearing committee also comment that the Nostromo crew found something never seen before in worlds, making the life-cycle of the Alien rather unique and more threatening than the other Alien-species out there in the world including the so-called Arcturians. To sum up: there are different alien-species in the world, and the alien of this film appears to be the most sophisticated and dangerous.
Prior to his encounter with the Aliens, Hudson is only concerned that this is going to be another "bug hunt". During the first encounter with the Aliens, his point of view changes drastically. He probably did not expect the Aliens to put up much of a fight or to be so unstoppable against all their superior military weaponry.
He also loses his composure after seeing many of his squad claimed by the Aliens. He is one of only three marines to survive the encounter. As they set up a barricade, Hudson begins to slowly sink into a state of paranoia, even questioning Ripley's judgment and her ideas of survival.
Eventually, Ripley calms him down stating, "We really need you and I'm sick of your bullshit. Hudson starts to gain control of his fears, partly because Ripley is acting like an officer, therefore he'll fall in line, and because he suddenly remembers what his job entails—acting like a soldier.
When the Aliens overrun Operations, Hudson fights without fear, constantly taunting the Aliens and gunning them down at will. Secondly, from a film making perspective, Hudson represents "the audience".
By portraying him as panicking and stricken with fear, it represents what normal people would do if they were in a similar situation. After all, if none of the characters were shown to be afraid of the aliens, they wouldn't seem nearly as menacing.
It also allows the audience to develop a sense of compassion and empathy for the on screen characters—right before the aliens mount their final attack, even Hicks seems afraid. The role of the audience was portrayed by the Lambert character in the first film.
Numerous behind-the-scenes pictures and documentaries of Alien show the Alien's head with ridges, but the special effects artists covered it with a gelatinous substance, causing the head to appear smooth. The reason for the different look in Aliens is that director James Cameron thought the Alien head looked more interesting with the ridges visible, so the special effects team left out the gel.
According to the extras from the DVD, Cameron also didn't want to have the clear dome on the Alien's head, as he thought it would be prone to breaking. To stay within the continuity of the saga, one could argue that Aliens are "born" with a smooth head and that this cover falls off after a while, exposing the ridges. Another proposed theory is that Aliens, similar to bees and ants, can differentiate into different castes including Queens ; the original script also called for much smaller, albino versions of the Aliens, serving as worker drones in the Queen's lair, to care for the eggs.
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