Alien: Earth

I took her hearing offline.

She mentioned a sound the moment we landed.

It was louder the closer to the Xenomorph she got.

Then last night in the lab when I extracted the embryo...

You think it's got something to do with these creatures?

Not all of them. Just one species.

Hmm.

Ma. Ah. Ah. Ah.

Stop frowning. It's not a wake.

We're on a voyage of discovery, and I have a colonic in 30 minutes.

Go, uh, push some buttons and turn some knobs while the grown-ups talk.

We've taken her offline. We think she can hear--

The Xenomorph, yeah. Just assume I'm ahead of you always.

Which... Don't you have little, you know, little experiments to run?

These creatures aren't gonna discover themselves.

Of course.

You too.

No. She's scared. She needs me.

Ah, careful. You're not her mother.

It's an IT issue, not a gab session.

And I'm still waiting on your field assessments of the hybrid performance.

I'll be back. Okay?

Alone at last.

Okay.

Let's bring her hearing online...

...figure out if it's a hardware or a software issue.

- Oh, good. It's the brother. - Are you okay?

Uh, she can't hear you.

- Why? - Uh, we took her hearing offline.

- He did what? - Hi.

We haven't met. You, uh...

You work f-for me. Or should I say you work for a, uh,

subsidiary of a subsidiary of a holding company of an LLC of mine.

Yeah, how's the new lung?

It's great. Thanks.

You'll never guess what we did with the old one.

- What? - I can't hear you.

I can't hear.

There was a-a sound in the lab. It hurt my head. I-I can't hear.

Okay.

What's in the lab?

Tell me you didn't bring those things back here.

We're wasting time. Okay, bring her audio processors online.

Yeah. Okay.

All right. Can you hear my voice?

Can you hear my voice? Can you hear my voice?

- Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah? Can you hear the sound?

- No. - No? Okay, how's this?

- Okay. Okay. - Okay?

- Okay. - Okay.

Hey. Hey, Biscuit.

Hi.

Where were you?

I... I had a surgery, but it's okay. I'm fine.

- Wendy. - I'm all better.

- Wendy. - Hmm?

Can you tell me what happened?

I woke up and I heard it. The sound like...

Like bugs rubbing their legs together.

- Crickets? - Hmm.

So I followed it. And it was coming from the lab.

Kirsh was...

Kirsh was doing things in there. He was experimenting on the eggs.

It was screaming.

The eggs?

No.

The baby.

The baby was screaming.

Okay, we're gonna figure out what it is you're hearing and why you're hearing it,

and we're gonna make it stop.

- No. - No.

- What-What do you mean no? - She...

...She can hear an alien language and you wanna turn that off?

If it's hurting you, we should make it stop.

No, I-I think they picked me.

- They're talking to me. I wanna hear them. - Deal. Start the test.

Okay.

Let's start the test at 20,000 Hz.

I hear it.

Okay, that's on low. What if I raise it?

Same.

Must be spread across multiple frequencies.

Uh, I'm gonna go to the highest range now.

- Stop, stop, stop, stop. Down. - Down.

There.

Curly, did you hear anything?

- Like what? - A sound you can't identify.

Maybe.

Don't tell me what I wanna hear. Tell me the truth.

Move.

Can you make the sound in a frequency we can hear?

How?

How did you hack the data to watch your brother? Hmm?

Asimov said above a certain level

technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Don't think of your voice as a voice. Think of it as a speaker,

just plays music.

The sound is in your mainframe, so you just... ...Alakazam.

Sure you speak French, but can you do that?

Enough.

- Oh, the brother's having a feeling. - She needs to rest.

She has a lithium-ion battery that could power a small city.

She doesn't need to rest.

She's not a machine. She is a child and she's frightened.

I can speak for myself.

She-She needs a break, sir. It's been a rough night.

Of course.

Just take all the time you need.

Wanna go show me your room?

Yeah.

What do you think?

I think when a hostile alien species decides to speak, one needs to ask why.

Yeah, unless it's not her they're talking to, it's each other and she can hear them.

And now they know that too.

Are you sure you wouldn't like to return them to Yutani

and get back to the work at hand?

So I can wake up one day with a Xenomorph in my belly? No, thank you.

Tell the brother he can stay, but he's working for us.

- The conflict. - No.

Just a reminder. It's my world. He just lives in it.

I've been drawing a lot.

And, uh... and this is my bed.

Well, it's more like a charging station, but it... it's kind of like a bed.

You don't sleep?

Oh, I... No, not really.

Are you mad at me?

What? Why would I be mad at you?

Because I wanted to hear the aliens. I...

Because you had to go to a cemetery. For me.

No.

Come on.

I'm not mad at you.

I'm mad at them.

Why?

Because they wouldn't let me see you when you were in the hospital.

Or Dad.

So you wanted to come?

Of course I wanted to come.

You just... You couldn't find a way?

If there was a way, I would have found it.

But there was a war, and I was on the other side of the earth.

Okay.

I'm here now though.

"The Neverland had been make-believe in those days,

but it was real now...

and there were no night-lights,

and it was getting darker every moment."

When is a machine not a machine?

Get off me.

When is a machine not a machine?

"Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest

and most compact...

...not large and sprawly, you know,

with tedious distances between

one adventure and another, but nicely crammed.

When you play at it by day with the chairs and tablecloth,

it is not in the least alarming,

but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real.

That is why there are night-lights."

We're not friends.

No, I suppose not. But I want to be.

Friends don't lie. You said you were Prodigy.

Well, I didn't know if you were a villain or a hero.

Hero.

Me too.

And since we're both heroes, I need your help.

Get something and bring it to me, okay? An egg.

You don't have eggs where you are?

It's not that kind of egg.

A monster egg.

Such a smart boy.

No, I can't. I can't.

That would be stealing.

But wait. How can you steal from a thief?

Is this another riddle?

A moral inquiry. Do you know the difference between right and wrong?

I think so.

Well, if that egg belongs to me and somebody takes it,

how can it be wrong to take it back?

They fixed me here, you know? Like, Boy Kavalier. This... This is my home.

Now you're talking about loyalty. That's a very different principle.

People do all kinds of terrible things in the name of loyalty. No.

If you want to do the moral thing, you'll help me get back what you stole.

Think of it as restitution.

What's "recstitution"?

It means making things right.

You want to make things right, don't you?

Can I talk to someone about it? Like Smee or someone?

He always knows the answers to things.

No, you can't talk to anyone.

That would hurt me and what do we know about hurting people?

It's wrong?

Yes, very good.

Can I trust you? We need to trust each other if we're gonna make this work.

So I'm going to tell you my name.

It's Kumi. Kumi Morrow.

Kumi? It's a nice name.

It's Ghanaian.

Remind me of your name again?

Slightly.