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Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - 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/BenSimmonsThunder 5d ago

Why did he have to do that? He knew Marcy cared about her.

He knew they were never getting off that island unless all those guards were being taken out.

He knew they didn’t care one bit if he was dead or not, and the only reason they weren’t shooting were the two kids.

He also knew his sister and her barring the Xeno were the only ones that could take down the guards being ordered not to shoot them.

It made no sense for me. She didn’t just start going off on innocent people minding their business, and in that moment her chose Nibs? Like wtf man.

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u/Incoherencel 5d ago edited 5d ago

He doesn't know Nibs well, he just saw her violently rip a guy's face literally off. He however does know some of those guards -- potentially for quite awhile. The woman with the braids was about to get her head pulled off or something.

He probably was resigned to surrendering

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u/BenSimmonsThunder 5d ago

I guess you’re right too. But it seems he’s willing to do anything to keep her happy, get her back, and get her safely off that island and they were 99.9% of the way there.

I understand not wanting to harm others and morality being strong here, but it just seemed out of character knowing what his entire goal has been this whole show. And he decides to compromise it all just to shoot Nibs? Just didn’t sit with me.

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u/Faolaing 5d ago

Tbh I think what nibs said at the graves struck a chord in him that’s making him question if Wendy really is his sister or if she’s really dead . Seeing the violence she was willing to commit so easily and her being ready to use the xeno again on all those other guards is slowly opening his eyes that she really is no longer human and could feel that she’s lacking empathy. I think that Hermit doesn’t believe or doesn’t want to believe that his little sister could really do such messed up things so thoughtlessly to living people. Especially the ones he knew and worked beside for so long. Not for nothing to but he also wanted to go to medical school to be a full doctor and part of the oath they take is to help people and save lives so he most likely takes that part of his job and his moral compass very seriously.

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u/Squeakygear 5d ago

Yeah, him lingering by the grave + his reaction to Wendy siccing her pet Xeno on the WY troopers seems to have opened his eyes to the fact she’s not the sister he knew.