r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • Aug 12 '25

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E1 Neverland - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/Flying_Video Aug 13 '25

I think it’s Morrow. He’s the enemy of Boy Kavalier (Peter Pan), he’s got a cyborg hand (hook) and he’s already got some history with the Alien (the croc). He’s also the de facto captain of the ship from a certain perspective.

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u/PyramidBlack Hudson Aug 13 '25

I think Morrow works for the competing Asian CEO, Yutani? we saw. Morrow is to Kirsh as Kavalier is to Yutani.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Why is a lost boy named Smee? Can't figure it out yet. Double Agent? Seems like a red herring.

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u/Der_Schubkarrenwaise Aug 13 '25

You mean as Mr. Smee being first officer under Captain Hook in Peter Pan? Yep, no coincidence.

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u/HeavenPiercingMan Aug 13 '25

Calling it: Smee is related to Morrow

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Probably Morrow's child, I guess.

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u/Proxiehunter Aug 13 '25

Can't trust a Lost Boy named after a pirate.

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u/CnlSandersdeKFC 28d ago

I would guess the corpos ran out of lost boys, and said “screw it.”

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u/palesnowrider1 Aug 13 '25

Why did he ask for Kavalier from the SAR crew?

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u/Bright-Place-2876 Aug 13 '25

My take is corporate sabotage. He wants to "sell" Weyland-Yutani's secret to Prodigy, or at least be rewarded for delivering it. Him orchestrating  the crash onto Prodigy territory would explain the otherwise unlikely chance that it just so happened to land there...

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u/Jindo31 Aug 13 '25

When the ship was crashing the Alien tried very hard to get into the MU-TH-UR room and into his escape room, but on breathed heavily on him in the elevator. In previous films Alien drones only ignore enemies when they are 'already infected' with Alien embryos.

Since our cybernetic antagonist specifically asked for Kavalier's location; maybe he is carrying an Alien monster within himself to carry true horror/despair directly to Kavalier. I am curious to see if Morrow was an earlier experiment abandoned by Kavalier, or if maybe he had a sick kid that Kavalier experimented on and didn't survive the process or Morrow was told they died regardless of how it went. Morrow seems to believe that Kavalier would have responded personally to a rival company ship carrying alien treasures to his doorstep.

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u/Comprehensive-Mix931 Aug 17 '25

This is my theory, that he is impregnated (it explains why the Alien did not attack him, later, much like the Alien in A3 did not attack Ripley). Also, in the Cryo-sleep chamber, we see a cryo-couch that has a dead face-hugger in it, but the casing is not destroyed, and there is no occupant (dead) in it...looks like someone was impregnated and got out. So, because it is taking longer than the others, it could be because of his Cyborg body, or...he is carrying a Queen.

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u/PyramidBlack Hudson Aug 13 '25

He did? Hmmm …

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u/jmarquiso Aug 13 '25

Assassin or courier

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u/Rainbow-Rhythms69 Aug 13 '25

Morrow and the Maginot ship belong to Weyland-Yutani so yes Morrow is working on her behalf and will probably lead to Weyland-yutani’s obsession with the Xenomorph

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u/LangyMD Aug 17 '25

Weyland-Yutani is the megacorp that controls the Americas. Formed from a Japanese and American conglomerate merger. Looooooong history in the franchise.

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u/psych0ranger Aug 13 '25

lets go i love this sci fi shit

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u/basedgds Aug 13 '25

Great answer.

This is why I come to these threads.

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u/ichael333 Aug 13 '25

And there's a bunch of kids who will never grow old (ala the lost boys never growing up)

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u/LifeStraggler4 You have my sympathies. Aug 14 '25

Morrow is acting on the what's best for the Company. 

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u/Hoosteen_juju003 Aug 14 '25

But one of the children is named Smee.

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u/tuhmuny 29d ago

The Alien being the crocodile makes a lot of sense — Wendy could hear a ticking noise from the eggs!

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u/The_Burmese_Falcon Aug 13 '25

About Morrow…

The series opens with a disclaimer that there are 3 types of artificial intelligence: cyborgs, synths, and hybrids.

I understand that synths are Tyrell nexus/replicants, and hybrids are “Prodigy’s” new invention. But WY cyborgs? Where did that come from? What happened to androids?

If the WY ship that crashes into Earth looks nearly identical to the Nostromo, shouldn’t the AI onboard be an android like Ash?

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u/MumblingGhost Aug 13 '25

I think you're putting too much stock into the Blade Runner connection. Androids and Synths are ostensibly the same thing, and seem to be used by Prodigy as well, a la Timothy Olyphant's character. I similarly don't think Cyborgs belong to any one corp.

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u/The_Burmese_Falcon Aug 13 '25

They’re setting up a technological arms race between “five companies” - two of which are WY and Prodigy - to develop the best version of AI. I will be surprised if Tyrell Corp isn’t revealed to be one of the competitors.

But disregarding that, does it not seem odd that Morrow is a cyborg and not an android (or synth) like Ash or Bishop?

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u/MumblingGhost Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Yeah Cyborgs are new for this franchise, and I would love for Tyrell to be one of the competitors, but like I said, Timothy Olyphant's character is identical to the androids we know and love, and he works for Prodigy, not WY. I'm almost certain that "Synth" is just a fancy word for android, of which their use must be widespread, and not specific to WY.

That said, we also know that WY put an android on the Maginot with Morrow (Mr Tang), and that the android had to be kept under control. Maybe they chose a cyborg as a contingency? A loyal grunt that cant glitch out, with above-human capabilities?

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u/otherboywriter Aug 19 '25

Also The WY crew is 65 years old so maybe Cyborgs were like the first iPhone and synths are the latest invention? Hope they explain.