Smee

Smee is a Hybrid and is a member of the “Lost Boys”. Smee appears in the 2025 FX Series Alien: Earth and is played by Jonathan Ajayi.

Biography

Background

Smee’s name as a child was Christopher Okafor. As a child, he suffered from severe ADHD, and his mother was a manic depressive. He was struggling in school and frequently getting sent home to a mother who was dealing with her own battles.

Smee is among the first group of Hybrids – a human consciousness inside of an artificial body. Wendy helps Smee and the other hybrids transition to their artificial bodies.

Maginot Crash

In 2120, the USCSS Maginot ship crashes into a tower in Prodigy City, Earth. As the Hybrids are talking, Wendy arrives and informs them that they will be going to investigate the crash. Smee, along with the other Lost Boys and Kirsh, travel to the wreckage. The commander of the operation explains the situation. Wendy goes off with Slightly to rescue her brother, while Smee and the remaining Hybrids go with Kirsh into the Maginot.

Smee and the group come across some kind of plant lifeform hanging from the ceiling. Kirsh instructs Curly, Smee and Nibs to go find something to capture it with. In a laboratory, the trio witness a lifeform scurry away from a dead soldier. They then notice a cat that has been infected with the T. Ocellus. It detaches from the cat and tries to attack Nibs. Nibs manages to get it off of her and Curly traps it in a container while Smee holds onto it.

Smee shouts for Kirsh to join them and tells Kirsh they’ve trapped a creature in a container. Kirsh plugs into the computer system and learns that the USCSS Maginot is a deep-space research model which was collecting specimens. Kirsh sees numerous Alien Eggs on the monitor and tells Smee to go there and link up with Wendy and secure the area. Kirsh contacts Wendy and tells them to go there and secure the cargo.

Smee finds Slightly and the Alien Eggs. Maginot security officer Morrow confronts both of them and holds them at gunpoint. While Morrow downloads all the Maginot’s data, he questions what they are. Morrow threatens Slightly and asks him when a machine is not a machine. Kirsh appears and tells Morrow to let Slightly go.

Morrow tells Kirsh that Yutani won’t let them have the specimens. An Alien Egg opens due to Morrow’s presence, and he jumps off the platform and escapes. Slightly and the rest of the Prodigy personnel return to Neverland Research Island along with the specimens.

Neverland Research Island

As Smee and Slightly are sitting alone, Eins asks them about the security officer they encountered on the Maginot. Eins tells them they’re trying to locate him, but he has slipped out of the site. He tells them the Hybrids have cameras that record everything they see. Eins asks Slightly what he whispered to him at the end of the encounter. Slightly tells him and Eins says the security officer will be dead or in custody by the end of the day. Smee comforts Slightly after Eins leaves.

Smee goes to Slightly’s room and finds an unconscious Arthur under his bed with a Facehugger attached to him. Slightly convinces Smee to help him move Arthur to the beach. Kirsh catches them en route and tells them to take the secure elevator to the beach.

In the forest, Smee and Slightly spot a Prodigy security team and drop Arthur and hide. When they return to find Arthur, he is missing. The Facehugger has fallen off and Arthur has regained consciousness. He doesn’t remember what happened to him. Slightly says that his wife is waiting for them at the beach. Smee and Slightly lead him to the beach.

Arthur collapses and begins to convulse. Moments later, a Chestburster bursts out of Arthur and kills him. The Chestburster vanishes into the forest. Smee and Slightly carry Arthur’s body on a makeshift raft down a stream. Weyland-Yutani soldiers, led by Morrow, emerge from the water.

Slightly explains that he did everything he could to get Arthur here in time. Morrow leads his team to the next target and takes Smee and Slightly with them. They enter the facility and are confronted by Kirsh and Prodigy soldiers. Kirsh orders them to drop their weapons and asks Slightly and Smee to join him.

After Wendy, Nibs and Hermit are caught escaping, the Hybrids are all imprisoned in a holding cell. Wendy tells them that Prodigy should be afraid of us and begins sabotaging their security feeds and communications. Wendy communicates with the freed Xenomorph and it enters the facility.

Boy Kavalier visits the Hybrids and tells them about his childhood. Nibs kills Kavalier’s security soldier and as the Hybrids approach Kavalier, he runs away. Wendy tells Nibs to find Dame Sylvia, Smee and Slightly to find Kirsh and Morrow, Curly to get the soldiers, while she goes after Boy Kavalier.

Slightly and Smee go to the lab and find an unconscious Morrow and a badly damaged Kirsh. Kirsh tells them to tie up Morrow, but Smee ties Kirsh up instead. As Morrow regains consciousness, he tells Slightly that he didn’t hurt his mother. Slightly hits him with a specimen tube.

Kirsh, Kavalier, Eins, Morrow and Dame Sylvia are imprisoned in the holding cell. Wendy tells Kavalier that he’s a mean, angry little man who decided to hate everybody. Curly asks Wendy what they do now and Wendy says they now rule.

Personality & Traits

Smee is enthusiastic and happy to be part of the team. He always carries a childlike eagerness with his new friends. He is very close to Slightly and often comforts him when he is down.

Behind The Scenes

Actor Jonathan Ajayi did an interview with Esquire about his time on Alien: Earth:

What did your preparation to play Smee as a literal “big kid” look like?

I worked with one of my teachers from drama school, James Kerr. We did Grotowski puppet work, which is using your body and treating it like a mannequin. Over months I would read the scripts and he would ask me, “What’s showing up for you about Smee?” I’d talk about his mum or his relationships with each Lost Boy. My body would start to do things. He would then go, “I want you to imagine Smee has entered the room. Let your imagination do the work.”

I remember the first time I “met” Smee in this context. In my imagination he sprinted into the room and dived like Superman onto a sofa and pulled out a GameBoy. It was so vivid. James would then say, “Now act this. How does he sit on chairs? How does his chest rise and fall in his breathing? How does he listen?” Every weird idiosyncrasy that makes a human body, he encouraged me to visualise, then represent what I’m seeing physically. That’s the puppet. I’m observing on the inside and allowing it to take over my mannerisms. It was a profound experience. We were getting rewrites around that time, and there were some things we would discover in those rooms that would show up in the script. It was a profound synchronisation of imagination and the body.

Trivia

• As with other members of the Lost Boys, Smee’s name was inspired by J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.

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