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

After Wendy and her brother Joe spent most of last week’s installment out of action, both are up and around for “Observation,” the episode that in many ways feels like the real start of the story that Noah Hawley and company are telling with Alien: Earth . The previous three chapters introduced the idea of the Lost Boys, as well as the cold war between the corporations that rule the planet. But they also spent a lot of time mixing and matching elements of different Alien films, particularly the first two, and focusing a lot on the threat posed by the familiar Xenomorph.

With “Observation,” the various recovered alien specimens are now fully under Prodigy control, ready to b

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