Back on the Nostromo , Ripley attempts to enforce a 24-hour quarantine to prevent the creature from coming aboard. However, Ash violates protocol and opens the airlock, allowing the team and the specimen inside.
As the crew attempts to hunt the creature, they realize it is growing at an impossible rate, transforming into an eight-foot-tall apex predator with concentrated acid for blood. One by one, the crew members are picked off:
The facehugger eventually dies and falls off, and Kane appears to recover. During a final meal before returning to cryosleep, the crew is horrified when Kane begins to convulse. A small, phallic creature—the —shatters through his ribcage and escapes into the ship's dark corridors. Alien(1979)
Below is a retelling of the harrowing events aboard the USCSS Nostromo .
is snatched while searching for the ship's cat, Jonesy. Back on the Nostromo , Ripley attempts to
Dallas, Kane, and Lambert descend to the barren surface and discover a massive, biomechanical derelict spacecraft. Inside, they find the fossilized remains of a giant "Space Jockey" whose chest has exploded from the inside. Kane explores a lower chamber filled with thousands of leathery eggs. When he approaches one, it hatches, and a spider-like creature—a —leaps out, melting through his helmet and attaching itself to his face.
is cornered and taken while navigating the cramped ventilation shafts. One by one, the crew members are picked
They haven't reached home; instead, Mother has intercepted a mysterious transmission from a nearby moon, Acheron (LV-426). Bound by company protocol, they are forced to investigate.