Ripley Vs. The Man

I blew it out of the 

goddamn air lock. 

The Man :

I'd just like to go back to this point 

about the override destruct order.

Is it in the file? 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status in Poor Standing :

I don't understand this. 

We have been here for three and a half hours. 

Now, how many different ways 

do you want me to tell the same story? 

The Man :

Look at it from our perspective, please. Please? 

Now, you freely admit to detonating the engines of 

and thereby destroying, an M-class starfreighter --

a rather expensive piece of hardware. 

42 million in adjusted dollars. 

That's minus payload, of course. 

 ...for which The Insurance will have already paid-out on DECADES ago, once The Nostromo was declared overdue and lost. 

The Man :

Now, The Lifeboat's flight recorder 

corroborates some elements of your 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. 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status in Poor Standing :

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 Man :

The analysis team, 

which went over The Lifeboat 

centimetre by centimetre 

found no physical evidence 

of the creature you describe. 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status 

in Poor Standing :

Good. That's because I blew it 

out of the goddamn air lock. 

Like I said. 

The Man :

Are there any species like this hostile organism on LV-426? 

The WoMan :

No. It's a rock. 

No indigenous life. 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status 

in Poor Standing :

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

 

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

It was a derelict spacecraft. 

It was an alien ship. 

It was not from there. 

Do you get it? 

We homed in on its beacon. 

The Man :

And found something never recorded once 

in over 300 surveyed worlds. 

"A creature that gestates 

inside a living human host." 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status 

in Poor Standing :

Yes. 

The Man :

These are your words. 

"And has concentrated acid for blood."

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status 

in Poor Standing :

 That's right. 

Look. I can see where this is going, 

but I'm telling you that 

Those Things Exist. 

The Man :

Thank you, Officer Ripley. 

That will be all. 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status 

in Poor Standing :

Please. You're not listening to me.

 

Kane, the crew member... 

Kane, who went into that ship, 

said he saw thousands of eggs there. 

Thousands. 

The Man :

Thank you. 

That will be all. 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status 

in Poor Standing :

Goddamn it, that's not all. 

Because if one of those things gets down here, 

then that will be all. 

Then all of this... 

this bullshit that you think is so important... 

Well, you can just kiss all of that goodbye. 

The Man :

It is the finding of this court of inquiry that warrant officer E. Ripley, NOC14472 has acted with questionable judgement and is unfit to hold an I.C.C. licence as a commercial flight officer. 

Said licence is hereby suspended indefinitely. 

Now, 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 I.C.C. psychiatric technician. 

These proceedings are closed. 

Burke :

….That could have been better.

Look, I think the... Ripley? 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status 

in Poor Standing :

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

The Man :

Because I don't have to. 

There have been People there for over 20 years 

and they never complained about any ‘hostile organism’. 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status in Poor Standing :

What do you mean? What People? 

The Man :

Terraformers. Planet Engineers. 

They go in, set up these big atmosphere processors 

to make the air breathable. Takes decades. 

It's what we call a "Shake 'N Bake" colony. 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status in Poor Standing :

How many are there? 

How many colonists? 

The Man :

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

Do you mind? 

Lt. Ellen Ripley,

Woman of Low-Social Status 

in Poor Standing :

Families — Jesus.