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Alien³

Ripley on a prison planet

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Not required. It's left out of the main story but is part of the full chronological order.

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Quick recap

A fire aboard the Sulaco ejects the hypersleep pods, and the escape craft crashes on Fiorina 161, an all-male prison colony bound by religious vows. Ripley is the only survivor: Hicks and Newt die in the crash. A Xenomorph came along and bursts out of one of the prison's animals. With no weapons, the inmates, led by Dillon, are hunted one by one, and Clemens, the doctor who'd grown close to Ripley, is killed. Ripley learns a Queen embryo is growing inside her and that Weyland-Yutani is coming for it. The prisoners lure the creature into the foundry and kill it with molten lead. When the company arrives, Ripley throws herself into the furnace, holding the Queen as it bursts from her chest. Only Morse survives.

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3 easter eggs

Hidden details

  1. CameoLance Henriksen, twice

    Henriksen returns as the voice of the damaged Bishop and, at the end, shows up as Bishop II, a man claiming to be the android's designer.

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  2. Behind the scenesWilliam Gibson's rejected script

    A rejected draft by William Gibson made Hicks the lead, with Ripley in a coma. He summed it up as "Space commies hijack alien eggs—big problem in Mallworld."

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  3. Behind the scenesTheaters got a dog, Assembly an ox

    In the theatrical cut, the creature bursts out of Spike, an inmate's dog. In the 2003 Assembly Cut, with over half an hour of extra footage, the host is an ox.

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