12. Alien: In Alien3, how did the eggs get on the Sulaco?
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This article is from the Alien Movies FAQ, by Darryll Hobsonand Eelko de Vos E.W.C.deVos@TWI.TUDelft.NL with numerous contributions by others.
12. Alien: In Alien3, how did the eggs get on the Sulaco?
- When Bishop was preparing to crawl down the service tunnel to pilot the
dropship down, he told Ripley that it would take (in total) approx 3 hours.
Earlier in the movie, it was established that the place was going to blow
up in approx 4 hours. This left Bishop an extra hour during which he
could have: fetched 2 eggs and hidden them. While Ripley was rescuing
Newt, Bishop could've then returned to pick up the eggs and put them in the
drop ship. He'd then fly back to pick up Ripley and give some bogus story
to cover up why he was late.
- The queen laid eggs in the landing gear prior to getting out and tearing
Bishop in half.
- Yet another theory is that the queen laid eggs on the Sulaco while Ripley
was going to get the cargo lifter. However, it doesn't seem that the
queen's physiology would accomodate this AND it would be unlikely that she'd
be able to lay the eggs in a well concealed place (such that Ripley wouldn't
find them) during the split seconds that the camera is not on the queen.
This egg can't get in the EEV, anyway, unless it has some way of getting up
and walking from one end to the ship to another. The EEV was in a complete
other part of the Sulaco.
- In Gibson's "ALIEN^3" script, it is suggested that the queen "stings" Bishop
with her tail, thus poisoning him. While Bishop lies in his hypersleep
capsule, the poison genetically combines with his body and forms two eggs.
(notice when Ripley tries to repair Bishop, there is only his one arm and
head remaining). It is possible that Bishop observed the development of
two eggs (from his body) then, when complete, opened the hypersleep chamber
and (with his remaining arm) moved the egg out (so it could infect Ripley).
- Alien3 was a dream Ripley had.
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