ALIEN: EARTH’s Scariest Creature Just Got Scarier

Prodigy’s synth Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) saw the whole thing happen on security cameras. He deduces that the Ocellus sheep is far more intelligent than previously known. He informs his boss, Boy Kavalier, of his discovery, and he goes to the lab to see for himself. That’s when Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) asks the sheep directly, as if it were a person, if it knows the mathematical formula pi/π. Kavalier is aware that “All advanced civilizations would know this.” So after showing him part of the equation written on his hand, he asks, “What are the next three numbers?”

The sheep taps its hooves menacingly on the ground once. Counting that as “one,” Kavalier asks for the next number. The sheep angrily taps his hooves five times. When it gets the last number correct, Boy Kavalier becomes overjoyed. This alien isn’t just smart for an animal, it’s highly intelligent, comparable to humans. Probably even smarter. When warned of the danger if this species were let loose in the human population, all Kavalier can think of is getting it into another human. He’s more than willing to sacrifice one of his own employees to see what happens.

In episode five, we saw that aboard the Maginot, the T. Ocellus escaped and took residence inside the ship’s engineer, Shmuel. In his human body, it attacked the Xenomorph, even biting it. The Xeno killed Shmuel, but the T. Ocellus escaped his eye socket, then jumped on the Xeno itself and furiously attacked it. All of this showed that the two species are definitely not friendly. But the strange sounds the T. Ocellus made while inside Shmuel sounded very similar to the sounds Wendy makes when trying to speak to them. This suggests they are, at least theoretically, from the same planet.

As far as we can tell from over four decades of this franchise, the Xenomorphs don’t seem to know how to do things like hold tools, much less something like fly a ship. But if the T. Ocellus finds itself in the right body, say another human, and for longer than a few minutes, it will easily be the smartest extraterrestrial life form we’ve seen in this franchise. We’re not sure yet, but we are under the assumption that it absorbs the knowledge of the host body. Given that scary prospect, we’re eager to see what kind of harm it can do.

Alien: Earth is currently dropping new episodes every Tuesday on FX and FX on Hulu.