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The Company :

I'd just like to go back to this point about 

the override destruct order. 

Is it in the file?

Ripley, The Witch :

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 Company :

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. 

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. 

Ripley, The Witch :

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 Company :

The analysis team, which went over the lifeboat 

centimetre by centimetre found no physical evidence 

of the creature you describe. 

Ripley, The Witch :

Good. That's because I blew it out of 

the goddamn air lock. Like I said. 

Are there any species like this 

hostile organism on LV-426? 

The Company :

(Blows smoke) No. It's a rock. 

No indigenous life. 

Ripley, The Witch :

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. 

And found something never recorded once in over 300 surveyed worlds. "A creature that gestates inside a living human host." Yes. These are your words. "And has concentrated acid for blood." That's right. Look. I can see where this is going but I'm telling you that those things exist. 

Thank you, Officer Ripley. That will be all. 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.

Thank you. That will be all. 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... You can just kiss all of that goodbye. 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. That could have been better. - Look, I think the... Ripley? - Van Leuwen... Why don't you just check out IV-426? Because I don't have to. There have been people there for over 20 years and they never complained about any hostile organism. What do you mean? What people? 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. How many are there? How many colonists? I don't know... 60, maybe 70 families. Do you mind? Families. Jesus