Egg on Sulaco

[Alien³]

My money is on here...

But they're smaller and faster than the Queen.  They could've taken Ripley and Newt out in seconds and neither Hicks nor Bishop would be able to stop them.

This is all speculation obviously but at that time there's only the Queen, one big facehugger and the egg remaining. I imagine the Queen ordering the facehugger to hide the egg while she deals with the thing that destroy her hive. Much in the same way she orders the aliens to back down from their advancement on Ripley in the hive.

They're smaller and faster but the risk isn't worth it when the Queen is already battling them.

Pot needs a stirring. Lol

Stirred enough for ya?

[SM]

My money is on here...

Oh, that's right.  On the dropship.

[Alien³]

Interesting. Got anything to back that up?

[SM]

[Alien³]

Oh yeah the menu! Totally overlooked that.

So we've established where it hid the egg. Nice.

[SM]

Or indeed, didn't actually need to hide it at all since it just stayed where it was.

[Alien³]

A hidden egg either way.

[HuDaFuK]

Unfortunately it being in the dropship forces us to believe Ripley wouldn't have a thorough look around inside the dropship after the Queen came out, which is total nonsense.

"Glad that stowaway murderous egg-layer has been dealt with! Anyway, bedtime..."

[Salt The Fries]

What a shame that this point is f**ked up any way you look at it from, because the opening sequence in Alien 3 is otherwise superbly made.

[Local Trouble]

Unfortunately it being in the dropship forces us to believe Ripley wouldn't have a thorough look around inside the dropship after the Queen came out, which is total nonsense.

"Glad that stowaway murderous egg-layer has been dealt with! Anyway, bedtime..."

This is why I'm still on board with the WYR's "egg-forming material" having been leaked (or "flung") to an area where Ripley either wouldn't look, was too small to notice and/or seemed harmless enough that she could easily overlook it as a potential threat.

[FiorinaFury161]

Unfortunately it being in the dropship forces us to believe Ripley wouldn't have a thorough look around inside the dropship after the Queen came out, which is total nonsense.

"Glad that stowaway murderous egg-layer has been dealt with! Anyway, bedtime..."

Does anyone know how long she was consciously awake from the time of the facehugger attack from Burke tho? The human body does get nutty and disoriented after severe lack of sleep.

[Alien³]

I agree, it would be stupid of her not to look over or scan the ship somehow, but as far as she could tell the queen needed an egg sack to lay eggs.

[Local Trouble]

"Scan the ship" with what?  They had cameras and motion trackers, not tricorders.

[Alien³]

Scanning a ship doesn't necessarily require some high tech wizz-bizz. Scan with their eyes and a torch.

it would be stupid of her not to look over or scan the ship somehow,

Guess my wording was a little off. 'and' instead of 'or'.

[Local Trouble]

Scanning a ship doesn't necessarily require some high tech wizz-bizz. Scan with their eyes and a torch.

Which makes it more conceivable that she could have missed the egg even if she performed a deliberate search.