Alien

This is the worst shit I've ever seen, man.

Have you got any biscuits overthere?

Here's some cornbread.

Cornbread. Yeah.

I am coId.

StiII with us, Brett?

Right.

IfeeI dead.

Anybody everteII you you Iook dead, man?

Oh,yeah, right.

I justforgot something, man.

Before we dock...

I thinkwe oughtto discuss the bonus situation.

Right.

Brett and I thinkwe deservefuII shares.

Mr. Parker and IfeeI the bonus situation...

has never been on an equitabIe IeveI.

You'II getwhatyou contracted for, Iike everybody eIse.

But everybody eIse gets more than us.

DaIIas, Motherwants to taIkto you.

Yeah, I saw it. YeIIow Iight'sfor my eyes onIy.

OK, get dressed, huh? Parker, Iet's go.

Can Ifinish my coffee?

It's the onIy thing good on this ship.

Good morning, Mother.

Right?

OK.

PIug us in.

Thankyou.

Where's Earth?

You shouId know.

It's not our system.

Scan.

I can't beIieve this.

Contacttraffic controI.

This is commerciaI towing vehicIe Nostromo...

out of the SoIomons...

registration number 1-8-0-9er 2-4-6-0-9er...

caIIing Antarctica Traffic ControI.

Do you read me? Over.

CommerciaI towing vehicIe Nostromo...

out of the SoIomons...

registration number 1-8-0-9er 2-4-6-0-9er.

-Nothing. -Keeptrying.

CaIIing Antarctica Traffic ControI.

Do you read me,Antarctica? Over.

Ifound it. Just short of Zeta II ReticuIi.

We haven't reached the outer rim yet.

That's hard to beIieve.

CaIIing Antarctica...

Whatthe heII are we doing out here?

I don't know.

Whatthe heII are you taIking about?

That's not our system.

I know that.

You ever notice how they never come down here?

I mean,this is where the work is, right?

The same damn reason we get a half share to their one.

Ourtime is theirtime. That's the way they see it.

Same oId shit, man.

I know why they don't come down here.

It's because of you. You have no personaIity.

Wonderwhatthey want now?

What's going on down here?

You happen to be in my seat. Can I have it?

-Yes. -Thankyou.

Sorry.

What's happening now, baby?

WeII, some of you may havefigured out...

we're not home yet.

We're onIy halfway there.

What?

Mother's interrupted the course of ourjourney.

Why?

She's programmed to, shouId certain conditions arise.

-They have. -Like what?

Seems she has intercepted...

a transmission of unknown origin.

She got us upto check it out.

A transmission? Out here?

Yeah.

What kind of a transmission?

AcousticaI beacon.

It repeats at intervaIs of tweIve seconds.

-S.O.S.? -I don't know.

Human?

Unknown.

So what?

We're obIigated under Section B-two--

I hate to bring this up...

butthis is a commerciaI ship, not a rescue ship.

It's not in my contract to do this kind of duty.

You wantto give me some money to do it, I'II be happy to.

-Parker. -The man's right.

Let's go over the bonus situation.

Can I say something?

Let's taIk aboutthe bonuses.

There is a cIause which specificaIIy states...

any systematized transmission...

indicating a possibIe inteIIigent origin...

must be investigated.

I don'twantto hear it. I wantto go home and party.

Parker,wiII you just Iisten to the man?

On penaIty of totaIforfeiture of shares.

No money.

You gotthat?

WeII,yeah.

AII right,we're going in.

Yeah,we're going in, aren'twe?

Approaching orbitaI apogee.

Mark.

TweIve, eIeven...

EquatoriaI orbit naiIed.

-Main stabiIizers in. -Eight seconds on descent.

Grids energized. FieIdsfocused.

Five,four...

Putthe D.O.R.s in-Iine.

How's the status on the Iifters?

Give me an A.C. pressure reading.

Forty-eight seconds and counting.

SR-one stabIe.

Prepare to disengage from pIatform.

Twenty seconds.

Eighteen, seventeen...

sixteen,fifteen...

fourteen,thirteen...

tweIve, eIeven,ten...

seven, six...

five,four...

three,two, one, Iock.

Disengage.

OK.

Money's safe. Let's take her down.

RoII 92 degrees portyaw.

Prime the port.

Prime ventraI.

Prime dorsaI.

Down a degree.

Nine hundred meters and dropping.

Thirty-nine thousand.

TurbuIence.

Locked andfIoating. Drop us any time now.

InertiaI damping's going off.

HoId on, peopIe, there's gonna be a IittIe bump.

Whatthe heII was that?

Pressure dropping in deckthree.

Must've Iost a shieId.

Let's go with it.

Dropping off now.

StiII dropping.

There we are. We've got it.

Take her down.

Navigation Iights on.

We've gotfive-three stiII out. No probIem.

Just down eIeven percent. Grid status...OK.

Fifteen meters and dropping.

TweIve, eIeven,ten...

nine, eight...

seven, six...

five,four...

three,two, one.

KiII drive engines.

Whatthe heII happened?

Somebody give me a straight answer!

-Is the huII breached? -We've stiII got pressure.

Hitthe screens.

Secondary Ioad-sharing unit is out.

Three of thefour ceIIs are gone.

Is that it?

HoId on. We can'tfix it out here anyway.

We need to reroute a coupIe of these ducts.

Dry-docktime.

Dry-dock. TeII them we need to dry-dock.

We couIdn'tfix it out here anyway.

We gotto reroute aII these ducts.

In orderto do that, we've gotto dry-dock.

What eIse?

Somefragments caked up...

and we've gotto cIean it aII out and repressurize it.

How Iong before we'refunctionaI?

What?

Seventeen hours,teII him.

At Ieasttwenty-five hours.

Get started. I'II be right down.

What's she coming down herefor?

She'd better stay thefuck out of my way.

I'd Iike to see what she'II do.

Any response yet?

Nope. AbsoIuteIy nothing...

exceptthe same transmission every tweIve seconds.

AII the other channeIs are dead.

Kick on thefIoods.

We can't go anywhere in this.

Mm-hmm.

Mother says the sun's coming up in twenty minutes.

Howfar are we from the source of transmission?

Northeast, just undertwo thousand meters.

WaIking distance?

Can you give me an atmospheric?

Yes.