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\u201cThis thing orchestrated the incident with Tootles, and I want to talk to it.\u201d Once Kirsh shows him the tape, Kavalier is legit fascinated with Eyeball Tentacle\u2019s tapping of the glass. And we do think this aggressive form of life, with its kaleidoscopic vision and strands of sinew for a body, is officially the sleeper VFX star of Alien: Earth itself. But we\u2019ll also say it\u2019s completely on-brand for Boy Kav to insult the lifeform\u2019s intelligence while simultaneously giving it a test. He gets up close to the mobile containment unit where the eyeball resides in the sheep\u2019s physical body and mindspace. He shows \u201c3.14\u201d scrawled on his palm. \u201cWe call this Pi,\u201d Kav says, and reduces a foundational component of human thought to a schoolyard taunt. \u201cAll advanced civilizations would know this figure\u201d \u2013 na nana boo boo \u2013 \u201cso what are the next three numbers?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eyeball Tentacle answers Boy Kavalier correctly, employing the sheep\u2019s hooves and sphincter to count. But mutual fascination with Eyeball T is the only place where we agree with Boy Kavalier. As a constricted mess of sound emits from the sheep\u2019s throat, understood to be a form of speech straining for language, the instant-gratification enthusiast exclaims \u201cIf only you could talk!\u201d and immediately commits to live human trials. Careful containment of a smart, deadly alien entity that threatens all of humanity? Somebody else\u2019s problem. Let\u2019s put in a human being, and get this alien hooked on phonics. \u201cSomeone with a low IQ, so we can see the difference.\u201d Boy Kavalier, with all his smarts and riches, is just a despicable person.<\/p>\n
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Wendy has been changed by Tootles\u2019 demise, and Kavalier\u2019s casual dismissal of the hybrid\u2019s existence as simple product failure. Add her reaction to his laying dead in the lab \u2013 this can\u2019t be; \u201cBut, we\u2019re premium!\u201d; what happened to immortality? \u2013 with \u201cI don\u2019t want to be people anymore,\u201d her philosophical realization from Episode 6. Wendy was always a little wary of Boy Kav. But Tootles\u2019 death proves the Neverland compound is unsafe, and no matter how motherly Dame Sylvia wants to appear, Wendy has learned she can\u2019t trust anyone working for Prodigy not to burn out her memory like they did to Nibs. Their consciousness, the human spark that defines their manufactured bodies\u2019 hybridism, is itself proprietary. \u201cThe Boy Genius is not your friend,\u201d Wendy tells Nibs and Curly. \u201cHe owns us.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This realization aligns Wendy and Nibs with Hermit\u2019s plan to get away from the island, and when they pass graves marked with their given names and filled with their physical remains, it\u2019s a\u00a0 further admission of their new forms and empowerment. Why wait around at Neverland just to serve selfish human whims?<\/p>\n
No matter what Slightly and his forced accomplice Smee thought, Arthur was never gonna survive being facehugged and smuggled to Morrow. The hybrids attempt to drag the scientist down to the water for pickup, and the sequence generates some you-get-the-arms laughs like a 22nd-century Weekend at Bernie\u2019s<\/a> until the Baby Xeno inside Arthur decides to see the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n Morrow isn\u2019t pleased to find a hollow corpse instead of a live specimen, once he emerges from the sea with a Weyland-Yutani kill team. But neither his mental trolling of Slightly nor how he intended to surf away with the alien matters, because the incursion at Neverland becomes the latest chapter in Alien: Earth\u2019s battle inside the battle, that of Morrow the Cyborg versus Kirsh the Synth. \u201cAre you the parent?\u201d Morrow accused Kirsh in Episode 3<\/a>, and by Episode 6<\/a>, their elevator squabble defined the dislike. (Morrow with the burn: \u201cI\u2019ll see you soon, old toy.\u201d) Two outmoded versions of upgraded human technology, hating on each other to maintain relevance. \u201cThis isn\u2019t over,\u201d Morrow says at Neverland, as Prodigy security overtakes his team. \u201cNothing ever is,\u201d retorts Kirsh. And in a television series with big ideas about where immortality meets technology, maybe they\u2019re right.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The journey of Wendy, Nibs, and Hermit to the escape boat does not go well. When Siberian and Rashidi try to stop them at gunpoint, Nibs\u2019 frustrations with human interference manifest in her ripping out the soldiers\u2019 lieutenant\u2019s throat. She\u2019s about to crush Siberian\u2019s head with her arms when Hermit ends the immediate threat \u2013 he gets a hold of a rifle and blasts hits with a blast of electricity. But while Wendy screams \u201cWhat did you do?!\u201d, her brother was only trying to protect his pals. To us, the implications of this journey are much bigger than one altercation, because we saw Wendy use her technological ability and connection to the xenomorph to harm. She touched a screen to hack a network, Big Xeno was suddenly free of containment, and we caught a glimpse of the carnage as random Prodigy scientists and security personnel were reduced to body parts and pink mist. It was equally bad for a random bunch of security types in the Neverland forest \u2013 Wendy spoke one coo-coo-command, and Big Xeno emerged from the trees to start up the murder train. An insulated rich guy like Boy Kavalier, surrounded by sycophants and consumed by his arrogance, never considered his creations might bundle their autonomy with the power to kill.<\/p>\n Specimens for Alien: Earth Episode 7 (\u201cEmergence\u201d):<\/p>\n Alien: Earth finally cracks the 2000s guitar rock canon with its Episode 7 end-credits banger, \u201cSong for the Dead\u201d from Queens of the Stone Age. If Songs for the Deaf was a QOTSA concept record about driving into the desert with nothing but FM radio haze as accompaniment, then maybe a lyric like \u201cIf you\u2019re hanging around\/I\u2019m holding the noose\u201d is a message from Wendy and her new accomplice, Big Xeno. Get gone from Neverland, however you still can.<\/p>\n And the large-sized Xeno is not alone. Eyeball Tentacle, yes, and that venus flytrap-like lifeform is still in a lab somewhere. And The Fly is still buzzing, too \u2013 Ep 7 of A:E includes a funny moment in the lab with Kirsh totally deadpan as the lifeform flies around all crazy and spatters control boxes with acid blood. But the Baby Xeno that bursts from Arthur\u2019s chest is also contained by Kirsh with a net. Too simple by half, but we\u2019ll allow it, because we want to see what it means for Wendy to have access to a growing xeno army.<\/p>\n \u201cI know just who to use!\u201d This was Boy Kavalier after his demented lightbulb moment to put Eyeball Tentacle into a live subject with the ability to speak. For the upcoming season finale of Alien: Earth, we can only speculate who Boy Kav means. But like we\u2019ve been saying, the island of Neverland is running out of available humans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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