Ripley and the two remaining crew escape to the shuttle, but the other two are killed by the alien while gathering life-support supplies. The android taunts them about their chances against the “perfect organism.” Ripley disconnects it and they smash its remains with a flamethrower. She discovers that Ash is an android who was assigned to the Nostromo to ensure that the creature was returned for analysis at any cost, including the crew’s lives. Ripley insists on flushing out the alien. The four remaining crew want to abandon ship, but the shuttle won’t support four people. The captain is its next victim, leaving Ripley in command. After heated discussion, the crew decides that the creature must be in the air ducts. One member follows the ship’s cat into an engine room where the now fully-grown alien attacks him and disappears with his body into an air shaft. At dinner, he convulses in pain then dies as a small alien creature bursts from his chest and escapes into the ship. It later detaches on its own and is found dead.Īfter repairs, the Nostromo lifts off, and Kane awakens with some memory loss but otherwise unharmed. They unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Kane’s face. Īs acting senior officer, Ripley refuses to let them aboard, citing quarantine regulations, but a crew member named Ash ignores her and lets them in. He’s carried unconscious back to the Nostromo. When he touches one it opens and a creature springs out, attaching itself to his face. Meanwhile in the alien spacecraft, an officer, Kane, discovers a chamber containing hundreds of large egg-like objects. Warrant Officer Ripley, the protagonist who has remained on the Nostromo, determines that the transmission is not a distress signal, but a warning of some kind. Two crew members discover that the signal comes from a derelict alien spacecraft and they go inside, where they find the remains of a large alien creature. They land to investigate, sustaining damage. The ship’s computer awakens the crew when it detects a transmission from a nearby planetoid. The commercial space tug Nostromo is on a return trip to Earth with a seven-member crew in stasis. Here’s a synopsis adapted from Wikipedia : You can find the Foolscap Global Story Grid here. This week we’re analyzing the 1979 movie Alien, screenplay by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, and directed by Ridley Scott. Download the Math of Storytelling Infographic
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