Everybody knows that the scariest thing in the Alien is the eponymous extraterrestrial murder creatures known as xenomorphs. But, in the first full clip for the upcoming series Alien: Earth, the biggest villain in this story might not be anything with acid blood. Instead, this installment of the Alien mythos is going to double down on the hidden menace from the first film: the A.I. master computer known as “Mother.”
In the new clip, we see someone in a room exactly like the one Dallas (Tom Skerritt) and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) used to access Mother in the original 1979 Alien. This white room illuminated with amber dots felt like being inside the mind of an old-school control computer, and seeing it recreated for Alien: Earth will certainly delight a ton of nostalgia-obsessed purists. But the new scene adds a unique twist to what we’ve always thought we knew about the Weyland-Yutani conspiracy involving the xenomorphs.
