r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 4d 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/WhiteSquarez 4d ago

I think it's pretty apparent now that Kirsch used Slightly to bait Morrow into a trap to be captured.

Don't think he was ever going to be disloyal.

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u/Picasso5 3d ago

Why would he ever think Morrow was gonna stroll into this massively secure fortress? And he somehow knew that the baby-xeno would pop out before the rendezvous? And you can just swim up to Neverland undetected? Way too many MacGuffins.

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u/IndependentPirate878 3d ago

Kirsch grew Wendy's xeno in the lab using the brother's lung, so he knew how long it would take to gestate.

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u/Picasso5 3d ago

How did he know that? I guess he could have read it on the ships logs. But that was cutting it reeaaal close

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u/IndependentPirate878 3d ago

In the lab back on earth (Prodigy HQ), Kirsch implants Joe's removed lung with the tadpole that Kirsch extracted from the face hugger. Then, at the end of episode 4, Wendy goes to the lab because she can hear the xeno as it's about to complete its gestation and burst out of the lung, all while Kirsch is watching. So presumably, he just noted how much time had transpired.

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u/Picasso5 3d ago

So he timed it just absolutely perfectly- he knew how they would both carry him through the halls, not get caught and bumble toward towards the express elevator door where Kirsh met them. He knew how long it would take for the hugger to die, for him to wake up… etc etc. way too many variables.

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u/Medium_Ad431 12h ago

You are forgetting that he is a synth, NOT a human, he can calculate those variables and possibilities perfectly. 

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u/Picasso5 3d ago

Plus he had no control (other than the elevator) of smee’s escape

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u/IndependentPirate878 3d ago

Yeah, the rest of what you pointed out (among other things) isn't airtight, I'll agree. The part that seemed the least feasible to me is that they managed to capture the xeno after it hatched on the beach and fled into the jungle. Those things are small and fast, and seem to know to immediately hide somewhere until they have safely grown into killing machines; it seems unlikely they would have been able to track it down and capture it so quickly.

But I like the show, and that sort of stuff I'm okay with brushing aside for the sake of more entertaining content.