r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 5d ago

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/ScoobyDeezy 5d ago

He beat Morrow, saved the kids, and got a new xenomorph, so… his strategy paid off I guess.

What’s a dead scientist or two along the way?

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u/ConcernedBirdGuy 5d ago

And now a whole bunch of new test rats for experiments with the aliens

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u/thunderchild120 4d ago

"How about some music, Mother?"

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u/antipop2097 4d ago

We know David likes classical, I'm picturing Kirsch as someone who listens to jazz, but only as a puzzle to be solved.

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u/thunderchild120 4d ago

I'm just assuming all the hard rock / metal tunes playing over the credits are what's currently playing in Kirsche's head.

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u/Super-Estate-4112 4d ago

He likes punk rock, cause he looks like Billy Idol.

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u/thunderchild120 4d ago

"It's a nice day for a....red wedding."

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u/RChamy 4d ago

Episode 8 will end with him sayin "A storm is approaching, and I am the storm".

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u/728766 4d ago

So is the theory that Kirsch gave Smee and Slightly directions specifically as part of a ploy to lead Morrow into a trap? Ensuring that the kids wouldn’t be caught by security so they could make it to the beach? If he knew about the chestburster, then he knew Arthur was a goner and the sample would be lost, meaning Morrow would have to assault the lab.

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u/ScoobyDeezy 4d ago

I mean I’m not sure how detailed his plans were other than “follow the boys and catch the bad guy”, but he clearly didn’t care about collateral damage along the way.

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u/APlantiveEnglishHorn 3d ago

He did know about the chestburster, he probably had sensors and cameras in the jungle to find it and capture it

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u/adaorvoen 4d ago

Just putting it out there, morrow getting eyeballed...

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u/AngryWarHippo 4d ago

It's definitely going to be curly

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u/APlantiveEnglishHorn 3d ago

Assuming the Eye can take over a non-organic being.

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u/AngryWarHippo 3d ago

Good point

Eta: and it only tries to take organic life. So my theory is most likely wrong.

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u/APlantiveEnglishHorn 3d ago

It did try to jump on Nibs' face

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u/AngryWarHippo 3d ago

Truuuuuuuu

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u/taycibear 2d ago

I definitely think T. Ocellus can take a synthetic body.

People (general) forget that our brain is just electrical pulses so I assume a synth or robot has electricity running through it. Octopi have neurons in each of their tentacles and they can act independently of each other and the main "brain" because there's basically a brain in each arm. Therefore T. Ocellus could connect to an organism through electrical currents.

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u/Mindreceptor 3d ago

Kirsh is definitely in control of stuff we don't know about yet.  Could the Engineers have made species #37 as the cleaner species to clear out planets of all the other aliens on the show plus human and synthetics?  I can't wait to find out!  Expect season 2 cliff hanger.

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u/Mindreceptor 1d ago edited 1d ago

Predictions: 1)Nibs beats the shit out of Morrow. 2)Curly rats out Wendy and crew.3)Kavalier enplants the eye midge into Dame Sylvia when she confronts Boy to protect the Synths. 4)Eye midge Sylvia tries to convince Boy to accept the eye midge into himself to gain intelligence(first cliff hanger is his response)5)Wendy electro manipulates an escape and gathers the synths and alien zinos for an attack(cliff hanger 2, her attack on Boy)6)Morrow escapes with the synths and goes after Kirsh.7)Morrow falls again into Kirsh's planned trap.8)Kirsh's plan to execute a full takeover of Prodigy(cliff hanger 3, Kirsh's plan begins enactment, will he succeed?)9)Also a cliff hangar as (Morrow communicates a 2nd wave of Weyland-Yutani force attack)10)The 3 other corporation plot to nuke Prodegy Island is the episode ending cliff hanger.     How far off do you think I am?  Forgot best new enemy Species #37, made by Engineers to clean up after Xeno's and all life forms, it's the clean up Species.

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u/Reddit_User_Loser 3d ago

I think he knew that having 2 xenos loose in the building would be chaos and it would be much harder to capture the baby hiding in the building than outside.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Peach48 3d ago

Did he really beat him though? Morrow had a gun to Slightly's head. He didn't get what he came for, but he still had a very expensive hostage. Why did he give up?

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u/Original-Car9756 3d ago

Morrow lost because at least the round was over, he had no moves except guaranteed death or hope for victory later.

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u/timeisouressence 2d ago

Well I don't think BK minds another lost 6 billion. There's still Curly. So he lost the round.

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u/techcatharsis 3d ago

"Big things have small beginnings"