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After all the “Alien” films, a lot of questions are of course still unanswered. But at least one thing now seems to be clarified-as Facehugger get the alien creature in her host.
In the third episode of season 1 of “Alien: Earth” (im Stream at Disney+) there is the solution to see up close. A goosebumps scene!
We remember “Alien” (1979): The Facehugger jumps up, presses over the mouth and nose, something “pushes” into the body. It is implicitly shown that the facehugger “brings” something like an embryo into the host. Later in the film, the Chestburster larva slips from it.
However, it is never explicitly explicit whether it is an egg, a larva, a fertilized cell package or whether the Facehugger itself injects genetic material that develops in the host.
“Alien: Earth” shows the alien larva
There were many fan theories. But the episode “metamorphoses” now shows how it really works. In one scene, Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) examines a landlord and finds a larva in its lungs that looks like a tadpot.
In this early form, the alien is buried in the tissue of his host, grows there more or less slowly and then violently drills its way out of the body (as to be seen in the legendary scene in “Alien”). Xenomorphs, so “Alien: Earth” now gives us for the franchise, so they grow from real alien larvae.
It can be read here why the third episode of “Alien: Earth” caused a thick frown for the first time after two strong initial consequences.