Editor's note: The below interview contains major spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 7.
It might be harsh to say, but we probably could've guessed that poor Arthur Sylvia's ( David Rysdahl ) fate was sealed as early as last week's episode of Alien: Earth , when he had the misfortune of being locked in a lab alongside all manner of hostile extraterrestrial specimens — including a facehugger. While Arthur wasn't the originally intended target, he became the most convenient one for hybrid Slightly ( Adarsh Gourav ), who set the scientist up to be the facehugger's victim after being blackmailed into the task by Weyland-Yutani's cyborg security officer, Morrow ( Babou Ceesay ). As this week's episode, "Emergence," co-written by series creator Noah Hawley and Maria Melnik