Quote from: SM on Apr 25, 2020, 08:43:07 AM
How can Hankerson viably threaten Hicks and Newt if he doesn't know where they are?
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 25, 2020, 10:18:00 AM
I can only assume he means that Hankerson could try bluffing if he was able to keep her isolated and uninformed.
Precisely! As SM said, Ripley gets her happy ending at the end of Aliens with her new surrogate family, then she's woken up by this military stooge in the Company's pocket with her family nowhere to be seen, and he's telling her that they're going back to Acheron and he's going to have a guide, if not her then he can always get the corporal or the little girl instead. She would have every reason to believe he could back up that threat and zero reason not to. How would she know any different? It's just like Rollins threatening Alan Decker's kids in Sea of Sorrows, she doesn't need the kids in the room to get her point across, she just needs to flex her figurative muscle to get Decker into line.
That being said, in WG's Alien 3, the Company as represented through Wells and Fox has orchestrated the entire Sulaco UPP territorial violation in the first place so it's fully on record where Newt currently is and where Hicks last was. It wouldn't be hard to find out that the only survivors of the Anchorpoint and Rodina stations were recovered by the colony ship Kansas City. In fact, by three days later, I'd wager to say it would be an international incident, but that's another story altogether. Suffice it to say, Hankerson would have every incentive to control any and all information access aboard his ship and with his crew, given the shady nature of his mission they'd likely be on silent running, Ripley would have no way of knowing anything else and after Burke, every reason to believe the Company would stoop so low.
Especially after finding out that the Company had Kane's helmet footage all along and has been railroading her from the start.
Fun and nerdy speculations aside, I hope you guys are safe and healthy down under there, or wherever you may be. I can only assume you are all sheltered in place like we are up here in Northern Cali. Global pandemics ftw
::sad tromboone:: latest word up here is that our corona death toll has surpassed 50,000 now. Here in Sonoma County we've taken to collectively howling like coyotes every night at 8pm to kind of connect with our friends and neighbors who we're not allowed to visit and mingle with. Hug your kids tight, y'all.
