All the wild developments in the 'Alien: Earth' finale

This episode doesn’t just give us synths vs. hybrids, but we also get a brutal synth vs. cyborg fight. The Weyland-Yutani cyborg Mr. Morrow (Babou Ceesay ) escapes his cell, thanks to the help of Joe Hermit and Wendy. He goes to retrieve the alien species from the labs to bring them back to his boss, Yutani. But waiting in the lab is the synth Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant). The two had a vicious brawl, and it for a moment, it feels like Morrow gets the upper hand on Kirsh, breaking his back over a table. (There’s a lot of gross milky white android blood.) But then Kirsh gets Morrow in a chokehold, and because he’s part human, this knocks him out. So for now, it’s Synths-1, Cyborgs-0.

Goodbye Evil Sheep, Hello Eyeball Zombie

Poor Dr. Arthur Sylvia (David Rysdahl). First, he gets fired by Boy Kavalier for refusing to follow his orders when it comes to memory wiping one of the hybrids. He then gets sabotaged by Kirsh to get attacked by a facehugger, which plants its embryo inside him. When he awakes on the beach outside Neverland Research Facility, the chestburster alien pops out of him, leaving his corpse on the beach. Later, his body suffers more indignity as it slips into the ocean. But in the finale, it washes up ashore, rotting in the sun. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the eye monster, now free of the sheep, finds a home inside his corpse. Thus, it gives us our first zombie in the Alien franchise.

Hybrid Domination

The finale also ended on quite a cliffhanger. Wendy and her fellow hybrids (with the help of her human brother, Joe), get the upper hand on Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) and his forces on Neverland. She puts Boy, Dame Sylvia, the broken body of Kirsh, Atom, and Mr. Morrow tied up in a cell. With her fellow hybrids at her side, she also lets her prisoners know that she has the Xenomorph at her beck and call, like a loyal lapdog. When Curly asks her what they intend to do next, she simply says, “Now we rule.” As far as we know, in Alien and Aliens, hybrids don’t rule the world. Or do they?? Actually, we never see who runs the Company in the films. But it could be hybrids. We’ll have to wait until a potential season two of Alien: Earth.

The full first season of Alien: Earth is now streaming on Hulu.