This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth , “Metamorphosis,” now streaming on Hulu.

Midway through “Metamorphosis,” Boy Kavalier and his faithful synthetic sidekick Kirsh get into a debate about the wisdom of bringing the creatures retrieved from the Maginot wreckage back to Prodigy’s Neverland headquarters. Kirsh not unfairly points out that Kavalier is risking a decade of work on the technology that created the Lost Boys “on something new and shiny.” The response disappoints Kavalier, who cites Shakespeare, saying these monsters are “like an undiscovered country. And here you are — a scientist.”

We know from the decades-long history of the Alien franchise that Kirsh is almost certainly right, and that bringing Xenomorph eggs — not to mention the walkin

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