Did David Kill Shaw or......

[Deaconschristpose]

Did she end up dying due to complications from her pregnancy with the Trilobite?  It would seem that after harboring an alien child, it might have had an effect on her DNA and gradually changed her over time, hence her transformation before her death.

I apologize if this has already been fleshed out in another thread.

[SM]

If you go by Advent it's implied David killed her.

[Perfect-Organism]

We can only rely on the answer of a lying murderous android for the truth about what really happened.  In other words, there's no way to know for sure...

[Scorpio]

Actually prefer it's left a mystery.

[Highland]

Does it really matter anyway.

[Perfect-Organism]

No more or less than anything else worthy of discussion this forum.  It's really compelling fiction is all.  Whatever happens offscreen is even more so..,

[Biomechanoid]

David: "And with the aid of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, I found a rotting paradise. I washed this world clean as a gift to her. We could have built anew. A second Eden. But she refused. What choice did I have? She was the perfect specimen."

"But she refused. What choice did I have? She was the perfect specimen".......it seems to me that alone implies he killed her.

[Deaconschristpose]

Being the perfect specimen, maybe that implies something about her mutating over the decade. You definitely wonder how she came to be the way she was when she died. I find the idea of her becoming symbiotic with the accelerant fascinating.

[Perfect-Organism]

You can't take the words of a lying psychopath as truth.  He told Oram that the alien pods were perfectly safe.  Were they?

David may have been telling the truth, or he may have been lying.  There's no way to know for sure.

[motherfather]

Yep, Advent (which I don't particularly like btw) confirms Shaw wouldn't go along with David's idea so he killed her.

Or "hastened her death" - which, come to think of it, sounds like a very David thing to say.

[Corporal Hicks]

Fassbender also spoke about it in interviews for the Making Of books. He put across that David killed her so she couldn't leave him.