♪ ♪
[cat meows, roars]
♪ Strange brew ♪
♪ Kill what's inside of you. ♪
[panting]
[Tootles] Can I see?
[Kirsh] Five previously undiscovered species collected,
but the crew lost containment.
Look with your eyes.
[creatures chittering]
[screams]
- [grunting] - [indistinct shouting]
You okay?
Why couldn't we keep our names?
When they made us.
I don't know, I think it's 'cause we're a secret.
You know, like they're all code names.
But how come Peter Pan?
Why didn't we get to choose?
I don't know, sweetie, I...
think just 'cause Lost Boys, you know, they don't grow up.
But they put us in grown-up bodies.
We're not even all boys, we're half girls.
How come Wendy gets to be Wendy?
Because Wendy was the first.
Nibs is a good name.
You know in the book they called Curly "Pickles"?
He's always getting into trouble, you know,
like "into a pickle."
Well, at least Curly was in on the action.
Tootles always missed everything 'cause he...
stepped off round the corner.
- [alert sounding] - [Kirsh] Quiet now.
Kirsh.
[Boy Kavalier] Assume I know everything from the feed.
This is no longer a rescue mission.
I want you to secure the site,
collect alien life-forms,
and bring them back for study.
- Boss, as much as I'd love to-- - S-Sir, I think--
[Boy Kavalier] Enough with the "I know better."
A... [laughs]
A trillion dollars of R & D
just landed in our laps.
She fucked up, Yutani,
so we're supposed to, what, just say "All good"
and give her her bioweapons back?
[Dame Sylvia] Sir, we are
weeks away from launching a product
that will change the world.
- Plus, th-these are very dangerous-- - Oh, please, please.
We have a high-quarantine lab in the sublevels.
You said it yourself.
It's five species.
We bag 'em, isolate,
do a full workup. How are my kids?
[Kirsh] I have three of them with me.
They've done well so far.
- Including Wendy? - [Kirsh sighs]
Kirsh?
No, she went to find her brother.
Oh, so she's just out there on her own?
I sent Slightly with her.
He's a child.
I told you to watch her.
- Her specifically. - Sir,
with all due respect, it's a crash site
and we're trying to contain an alien invasion.
I thought you were supposed to be better than a man.
But all I'm hearing are excuses.
Bring her in.
Now.
[line beeps]
[Nibs] So Wendy's just out there?
With all these things?
♪ ♪
[siren wailing in distance]
Joe!
- J... - [chittering nearby]
Joe!
[chittering continues]
Joe?
[clattering in distance]
[Hermit] No!
Marcy!
- It's a trap! - Joe!
[Hermit] No!
[Wendy] Joe!
Joe.
No. No, no, no.
Oh, Marcy.
[grunting]
- Oh, Jesus. - I got you.
- Marcy, you,
you got to get out. It's coming back.
[Wendy grunting]
- Marcy. - [grunting]
Marcy. Marcy.
[hisses]
[growls]
Well, stay behind me.
I'm the soldier, you're a kid.
- Not anymore. - Marcy.
[xenomorph snarling]
- Should-- - No.
[footfalls thudding]
[footfalls stop]
[grunts]
[xenomorph screeches]
[Wendy grunts]
Why is it doing that?
- It's acid. - [grunts]
- We got to get out of here. - [thud]
- [Wendy grunts] - You okay?
[xenomorph screeches]
[grunting]
Marcy.
[xenomorph screeches]
Marcy.
[groans, screams]
[wheezing]
[whimpering]
[screeches]
- [Wendy grunting] - [xenomorph screeching]
- What are you doing? - I don't know!
Joe, the door!
Get to the door!
[both grunting]
[xenomorph screeching]
[Wendy] Go!
[grunting]
[shouts]
Ready?
[grunting]
Now!
[whirring]
- [grunts] - Marcy!
[buzzer sounding]
Marcy! Marcy!
[Wendy grunting faintly]
[thudding]
[xenomorph screeching]
[Wendy] Oh!
I'm coming.
[buzzer sounds]
- [alarm ringing] - Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!
Come on. Fuck.
Marcy!
[mutters]
[coughs]
Marcy.
♪ ♪
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
[retching]
Marcy?
Marcy, you're gonna be okay.
[stammers]
You're gonna be... okay.
Marcy, you're okay.
[panting]
Stay with me, stay with me.
[wheezing]
[clanging, clattering]
Wendy?
[crunching]
[crashing nearby]
[thudding echoes]
[sighs] Bro!
Finally.
Kirsh wants you, bro.
- You scared the shit out of me, bro! - Hey, hey!
- What's wrong with you?! - Hey, hey!
What are you doing?
Aah!
[both grunting]
Sorry, bro.
It's creepy as fuck out there, bro.
You said "fuck."
You said "shit."
[both laughing]
- Bro. - Yeah?
- Can you believe we're on a spaceship? - Yeah.
Underground.
Which is a dumbass place to put a spaceship,
if you ask me.
Wait, are...?
What are those?
Eggs, I think.
Oh, dude?
- What? - Oh!
- What? - Dude, we saw this, like,
- these, like, space bugs. - Space bugs?
That drink, like, all your blood.
- What? - Right? And then we saw this
super messed-up, like,
- octopus... - Octopus?
...eye monster. - Oh, dude,
come on, I can't believe I missed that.
Bro?
It tried to yoke Nibs.
- No. - It was like...
[shouting]
- Like, bro? - Aw, dude.
It was full-on sci-fi.
- That sucks. - Bro.
- Ah, I should've been there. - Wait.
- Where's Wendy? - Dude.
- What? - This 12-foot-tall alien thing,
it just took her brother from there.
And she's gone all hunter/killer mode now in pursuit.
Wait, alone?
She said stay here. I would have gone.
- Huh. - Yeah.
What do you think is in these eggs?
Like, really?
Not chickens. [laughs]
- Check this out. - What? Check this out.
- [Morrow] Turn around. - I can...
Slowly.
Drop your guns.
We don't have any guns.
- Yeah, they don't let us. - Shut up.
- It's okay. - No, it's not.
Move away from the eggs.
Slowly.
Over to me.
Uh-uh.
Where are we?
What do you mean?
A spaceship.
No, where?
What city?
It's a Prodigy city. It starts,
it starts with a "S."
[both] Um...
Uh...
- New Siam. - New Siam.
- Yeah. - New Siam, I knew it.
Yeah.
What, is this, is this your ship?
Did you crash?
- That must've hurt. - Like, did it hurt?
Quiet.
You're like...
You're like a couple of kids.
[groans] We are not kids!
Yeah, no, we're not.
[both] We're not kids.
Well, what are you doing here?
You come for the specimens?
Um, that's...
- It's classified. - ...classified, yeah.
It's classified.
All right.
Um...
Here's a scenario.
You're the chief security officer on a, on a ship.
Deep space research vessel.
So, this ship finds
something on a faraway moon.
Eggs.
[Smee] Wait.
Like these eggs?
Right.
These eggs.
They're not like normal eggs.
And when you take them onto the ship,
they start to hatch.
And monsters come out.
You've met them, I think.
The monsters.
Um...
- I think we should-- - I think... Yeah.
Um, sorry, we're gon...
Okay, sorry, just...
[whispers] Let's go, let's go, let's go.
There's a feeling you get
in this scenario
when the monsters come.
And you can't...
[computer whirring]
...you don't help.
[Mother] Commencing data transfer.
Maybe you're feeling it now.
When Mother says
the crew's lives don't matter.
Only the bounty matters.
When you hear the screams.
And all you can do
is save yourself.
- Are you a robot? - [Morrow chuckles]
Wouldn't that be nice?
To be all machine instead of what I am.
The worst parts of a man.
[Mother] Data transfer at 78%.
So...
what...
what would you do?
In the scenario.
Could you harm others
or allow them to be harmed?
Could you follow those orders?
No. Not, like...
Are they bad people?
Does it matter?
Well, yeah, I mean,
you know, if it was to protect someone
like, like a friend or...
Like our, mm, like our parents.
Yeah, like our parents.
[Mother] Data transfer at 93%.
You don't know?
Is that possible?
Know what?
Well, your bodies are clearly synthetic,
but... you think you have parents.
- Oh, no, it's just 'cause we're-- - Don't.
Shh, don't tell him.
Tell me what?
- Nothing. - [Mother] Data transfer
at 98%.
99...
- 100. - [exhales]
Data transfer complete.
Data erased from source.
Tell me what?
[Smee] Whoa, no, no...
When is a machine not a machine?
Get off me.
When is a machine not a machine?
Let him go.
Aah! H-He has a gun.
I can see that.
You're on my ship.
This ship,
to be clear,
is an object, not a location.
It's a ball that got hit
over the fence into the neighbor's yard.
I'm the neighbor.
So the ship belongs to me now.
You're Prodigy?
I work for Prodigy.
I don't talk to errand boys.
And which country are you king of again?
Are you the parent?
Excuse me?
These synths, they think they have parents.
Are you the parent?
We're not here to talk about what I am,
Mr. Morrow.
[fluttering]
I read the manifest.
Chief of security, sole survivor, cyborg.
Lost a lot of friends, did you?
I don't have friends.
Everybody needs friends.
She won't let you have them.
What's on this ship.
She spent billions, people's lives.
They belong to her.
[fluttering]
[Kirsh] If you're not careful,
you're gonna belong to them.
- Dude, dude, dude. - Bro.
["Maggot Brain" playing]
- [machinery beeping] - [indistinct chatter]
[mechanical whirring]
[Chief Nagg] All right, people.
You know the word! Let's hump this bug out of here!
[soldier] That's Hermit, we got him.
[Prodigy Soldier] We've swept the crash site.
No sign of the cyborg.
♪ ♪
[man over radio] Neverland, approach...
[popping lips]
[monitor beeping steadily]
♪ ♪
[computer beeps]
[Dame Sylvia] Is she gone?
Just give me a second. All right.
I need a full firmware review.
Loop in the skeletal team.
They'll scan for microfractures.
This is my fault.
It's no one's fault. She made a choice.
She's a child.
I'm her guardian.
He made a choice.
Not you.
And he's the boss, but... if you ask me, sending a...
a billion-dollar prototype to an active crash site is--
[Boy Kavalier] What?
Nothing.
- Yeah, nothing. - [Boy Kavalier] No?
What were you gonna say?
Look, it's your company.
You can decide whatever you want to do.
Please grow a spine.
Enough.
What happened happened.
And she was so brave, our girl.
I can't even believe it, but she took a lot of damage.
So if you could just, please, let us get on with our jobs.
- Can you save her? - Yeah, we're doing tests right now.
- Can I talk to her? - No.
Kirsh suspended her hardware at the site.
It seemed the safest option.
I'm looking right here.
I'm worried about that, okay?
Careful.
Fascinating.
You can go.
Well done, you two.
Was it worth it?
What?
Risking a decade's work on something new and shiny.
My, you're all so feisty today.
[device whirring]
I thought you'd be excited. [chuckles]
- [chitters] - All this ground to break.
New life-forms...
with acid for blood.
Like an undiscovered country.
And here you are.
A scientist.
- Out. - Hey, hey, hey.
Out.
- Hey. - [knocking]
- What the fuck? - It's a parasite.
The xenomorph lays its eggs.
They wait for organic life to draw near,
only to hatch some kind of proto-creature.
How do you know that?
I saw it earlier with the security officer.
The body in the cryo-tube was killed from the inside.
The proto-creatures must have gestated inside a human host.
Like you.
Lock it down.
Nobody in or out who isn't synthetic.
You're in charge.
As you wish.
Psst.
Um, are...
are-are we in trouble?
Why?
Have you done something?
Uh...
[Slightly] No, sir.
Ex-Exactly what we were told.
Tell me about this... security officer
that you encountered.
Um...
Well, h-he had a... he had a knife in his arm.
Yeah, like a, li-like a robot arm.
And he-he threatened Slightly.
Well, both of us, really.
Yeah, but it was my neck.
Yeah, but after he'd done you, he would've done me as well.
- [overlapping chatter] - Quiet. Quiet.
There's no sign of him at the site.
We think he managed to slip through the cordon.
We're circulating images we took from your retinal cameras.
[Smee] Our what?
Your eyes.
We record everything you see.
[chuckles] Wait, shut up. Really?
Um, I don't think I like that.
There's one thing I didn't catch, though.
What did he whisper to you at the end?
Uh...
He said, "When is a machine not a machine?"
[chuckles softly]
[chuckles] Fine.
That's all for now.
Uh, y-you'll find him, though, right?
Like, he-he's not gonna, um...
Going to what?
I-I don't know.
Like, come here and kill us in our sleep?
Of course not.
This is a secure facility in the middle of an ocean.
No.
Trust me.
He'll be dead or in custody by the day's end.
- [machinery whirring] - Thank you.
♪ ♪
[Boy Kavalier] Prodigy is the future.
Prodigy is forever.
Prodigy is the future.
[lively chatter]
[horn honks]
[baby crying]
[grunts]
[keypad beeping]
[line rings]
[receptionist] Weyland-Yutani.
Security code: 871. Keyword: Falcon.
- [dog barking] - [receptionist] Hold, please.
- [phone chirps] - [Yutani] Mr. Morrow.
[Morrow] Who is this?
Do you have my specimens?
I need to speak with Yutani.
I have code word clearance.
This is her.
Ah, I see. Yes.
You used to know my grandmother.
It's been 65 years, Mr. Morrow.
I run the enterprise today.
Now...
where are my creatures?
Captured, but I have the data.
The data is good.
But it's not enough. Did they survive?
Yes. We were sabotaged.
Come in, and we'll do a full debrief.
Who is Prodigy?
A rival run by a child.
I can get them back. I see a way in.
No. You've done enough. Come home.
I don't have a home.
I'm gone a lifetime. Everyone I know is dead.
Yes, well...
you should have read your contract.
I'm not complaining. I'm just telling you.
This, these creatures, they are my life's work.
And I'm gonna get them back.
[line beeps]
♪ ♪
[Boy Kavalier] Prodigy is the future.
Prodigy is forever.
Prodigy is...
♪ ♪
They're running tests on her now.
I assume that's why you're here.
You sent us on a mission. I'm here to report.
I sent Wendy on a mission.
But she got broken.
So here you are.
She's your favorite.
Says who?
Smart people don't ask dumb questions, I thought.
She's my favorite because she was first.
My dad always threw the first pancake in the trash.
[chuckles softly]
Is this where you made us?
[Boy Kavalier] Yeah. Does that bother you?
[Curly] No.
Not everyone would like that, you know.
Being artificial suddenly. [chuckles]
No more blood.
No more heart.
- No more pooping. - [chuckles]
I'm okay with that if I get to live forever.
And does it...
does it, does it bother you that Wendy's my favorite?
No. I just think you're wrong.
- I'm the best. - [chuckles]
Really. Why?
All she cares about is her stupid brother.
But I think about things.
- What kind of things? - The world.
How to make it better. I have ideas.
What kind of ideas?
No way. If I tell you, you'll steal them.
True.
I'm saying I think I could be you one day.
More than you, maybe.
But she doesn't care about that.
No, and you gave us these big brains,
all the... this hard drive or whatever.
Memory.
I learned French.
- When? - Last week.
I asked Arthur to upload all the lessons.
Et maintenant, je parle Français.
Do you know what a prodigy is?
Sure. A child genius.
Yeah.
But what most people don't understand is,
what makes them geniuses is the fact that they're children.
Because...
children have access to a world
of infinite imagination.
Like me.
Like you.
[chuckles softly] Tell you what.
I'm gonna give you some books to read...
...some recordings to listen to, some things to think about.
And then
we can get together...
and play.
How does that sound?
Does this mean I'm your favorite now?
No.
But you're in the race.
[liquid dripping]
[Mub] We'll find each other.
Just follow the slime.
[MK] I will, Mub.
- [Nod] You're really leaving? - [MK] Put your arms around me.
[Morrow] Did you figure it out?
My riddle.
I figured out yours.
Who is that?
[techno music playing]
When is a machine not a machine?
I don't want to talk to you.
I know. I'm sorry if I scared you before.
I hadn't figured it out yet.
You. Is there any way I can make it up?
Just leave me alone, please!
Please.
[Bomba on TV] I always hoped, if I, uh...
if I proved it to her...
...she'd, uh...
[Morrow] Ask me how I figured it out.
[sniffles]
Figured what out?
Your riddle.
How can a synthetic being have parents?
I'm-I'm not supposed to talk about that.
Said the child to the stranger.
I'm not a child.
Well, let me ask you this.
How old are you?
Hmm?
I'm a parent, you know.
A father.
I was. I had a little girl.
She hated raisins.
I have to go.
Of course. Yeah, we-we'll talk tomorrow.
No!
No. [stammering] I mean, no, I can't.
You know, you said something very wise to me before.
Do you remember?
Everybody needs a friend.
Will you be my friend?
Please?
Okay.
Thank you.
I feel so much better now.
Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite.
♪ ♪
Hello?
♪ ♪
When do we get to go home?
[Wendy] You don't.
[whirring nearby]
♪ ♪
[high-pitched tones sounding]
[chimes]
[creature chittering]
[machinery hissing]
[creatures chittering]
[keypad beeps]
[sensor chirps]
[sheep bleats]
[monitor beeping steadily]
I've selected an egg
approximately 54 centimeters wide.
It's 77 centimeters tall.
Come in close on the incision point, please.
T, get the suction tube.
If it tries to escape, vacuum it up.
[creatures trilling]
[whirring]
[trilling continues]
[creature croaks]
[screeching]
- [screeching] - [groans]
[groans]
[screeching]
[trilling intensifies]
[buzzing]
[pained groan]
[clicking]
♪ ♪
- [trilling resumes] - [groans]
[gasping]
[panting]
[trilling]
[high-pitched screech]
[crying]
[clicking]
[high-pitched screeching]
[thuds]
[machinery whirring quietly]
[machinery clicking, hissing]
["Wherever I May Roam" by Metallica playing]
♪ ♪
♪ And the road becomes my bride ♪
♪ I have stripped of all but pride ♪
♪ So in her I do confide ♪
♪ And she keeps me satisfied ♪
♪ Gives me all I need ♪
♪ And with dust in throat I crave ♪
♪ Only knowledge will I save ♪
♪ To the game you stay a slave ♪
♪ Rover, wanderer ♪
♪ Nomad, vagabond ♪
♪ Call me what you will, yeah ♪
♪ Wherever I may roam ♪
♪ Wherever I may roam, yeah ♪
♪ Wherever I may wander ♪
♪ Wander, wander ♪
♪ Wherever I may roam. ♪
Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org
- [heart beats] - [gun fires]
[rocket whooshes]