This episode takes us back to Prodigy Island, where Wendy grows fascinated with the young xenomorph. Kirsh insists she can handle herself, dismissing Joe’s plea to take her away and live like a family. To him, Wendy is the future, and nothing else matters.
Meanwhile, Dame Sylvia, Arthur, and Atom Eins debate Nibs’ erratic behavior after her sudden claim of pregnancy. Atom Eins orders a memory wipe against Sylvia’s wishes, and when Arthur resists, he is fired. The procedure goes ahead, erasing Nibs’ trauma.
Joe speaks with Wendy about the dangers of the alien, but she refuses to leave, convinced this xeno is not a threat. Elsewhere, Boy Kavalier negotiates with Yutani. With Barrister McAfee moderating, he exposes the cover-up. Pressed, Yutani admits the specimens were meant for an off-world facility.
They settle on a twenty-billion-dollar agreement, though Kavalier reveals a quarantine delay. Furious, Yutani pushes Morrow to execute his plan to seize the creatures.
Tensions build when Slightly approaches Joe with an escape idea, but his desperation unnerves him. Joe instead crosses paths with Arthur, who quietly urges him to flee with Wendy and hands over a boat code.
In the lab, things unravel. Wendy begins mimicking alien sounds while Ocellus observes. Tootles bungles a feeding session, breaking the door and getting trapped with corrosive insect-like creatures that kill him. Wendy confronts Sylvia about Nibs’ memory wipe, questioning the morality of the entire facility.
Later, Kirsh and Slightly discover Tootles’ body. Slightly panics, releasing more lab doors and locking Arthur inside. Arthur becomes host to a facehugger while Kirsh coldly watches from afar. The chaos spreads as the bugs break free, swarming through vents and tearing containment apart.
This episode highlights the show’s biggest problem: sloppy writing masked as high-stakes tension. The pacing feels sluggish, yet the narrative forces characters to make laughably bad decisions.
The introduction of new insect-like creatures that feed on synthetics is poorly explained. If these things can spit acid and eat metal, how were they safely transported in glass and steel cages? The same inconsistency applies to the xenomorph, which has previously torn through steel but now sits passively in fragile containment.
Arthur’s death is another eye-roller. Moments after warning Joe to escape, he recklessly enters a lab he knows is unsafe, conveniently falling victim so Slightly’s plan can progress. The idea of vents inside a containment lab also makes little sense, undermining the notion of security in a supposedly high-tech facility.
The Kavalier-Yutani meeting is equally disappointing. Morrow, who supposedly carries full ship data, never exposes Petrovich’s sabotage, and Yutani caves far too easily. The writing feels contrived, bending logic to keep the plot moving.
At its core, the show wants to build suspense, but instead, it leaves us questioning the intelligence of both characters and writers. Alien: Earth promised high-stakes horror, but at this point, it is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions.
