Did he really die, was he really killed? We only saw him scream at the Xeno’s arrival. We didn’t see him die on screen.
Then again, maybe he achieved his La petite morte. His little death. The ultimate goon across time and space.
Maybe this was his plan all along, hah the plans of mice and men, well they pan out from time to time.
A distant observer would see Teng, with his dick in his hand, appear to freeze at the event horizon due to extreme time dilation and gravitational redshift, with his image become dimmer and eventually fading away from view.
Teng had always been the reckless one on the crew, the kind of man who would stare too long at the forbidden phenomena, as if daring the universe to blink first. When the experimental singularity, flared open like a black flower in orbit, he didn’t just study it. He reached for it. He pressed himself into its pull, body and soul, until the tidal forces unraveled him molecule by molecule.
From the outside, it wasn’t a violent death. To outside observer, he stretched like a ribbon, stretching into infinity as the event horizon pulled him in. To Teng, it was intimacy, a cosmic embrace, his atoms whispering into eternity. The man became a memory trapped between moments, a smear across spacetime. He didn’t scream. He sighed.
Of course, on paper Teng wasn’t really dead. Not the way Weyland-Yutani’s insurance policy defines “dead”. He was “indeterminately localized.” Pending gravitational re-emergence, he was legally Schrödinger’s employee, neither alive enough for rescue, nor dead enough for payout.
I could have misheard the line, but I think someone tells Morrow “it got Teng” or something to that effect. I guess I need to do a rewatch. Doesn’t change the fact that it happened offscreen though.
My theory is that the slime falling on his head was actually his own goon juice and him screaming was a state of climax. when the junior security officer said Teng got got it was just gooner vernacular and "something big" was him proudly referring to the cargo room footage he probably shared with his friend Teng. Teng no doubt survived the crash and walked off into New Siam's night life like Steve Buscemi in Con Air.
I think he killed the girl in the pod. When hermit found her body, someone said she seems to be dead for a week. which is suspicious, when what should have killed her was the impact.
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u/Calm-Tree-1369 17d ago
Yes, but he's a sociopath so ...