By Juan Markos
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 09/27/2025
Wendy opens her eyes, realizing she is being interrogated in a lab. Her brother Joe is present, and they are asking her about what happened. She details the events leading up to her last waking moment. She hears her brother talking about his surgery, but her hearing is turned off; she can’t hear him. They took her offline because they believe she can hear the Xenomorph.
Boy Genius is eager to find out if it’s a software or hardware issue. He tells Joe that he would never guess what happened to his old lung. Wendy mentions that when she woke up, she heard a sound that was like bugs rubbing their legs together. Following the sound, she realizes it’s coming from the lab. She reveals that Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) was experimenting on the eggs and that there was screaming—specifically, a baby screaming. She claims they picked her, as if they were talking to her.
Arthur adjusts her hearing until she can listen without going into shock. She begins to play back the noise, like a speaker. Joe starts to act like a parent; after all, he is her older brother. Boy Genius instructs her to show him her room. He orders Atom Eins, who is somewhat of a business partner, to tell Joe (Alex Lawther) that he could stay but that he works for them.
The experiments don’t stop there. Unlike the films, the show introduces other alien species discovered and brought back; we don’t yet know how they operate or if they are deadlier than the Xenomorphs. Once make-believe, Neverland is now real.
Marrow continues to manipulate Slightly, who is now functioning as a spy; he is connected to the enemy without realizing it. Marrow asks him for an egg, claiming it belongs to him, pressuring Slightly into thinking there’s nothing wrong with taking it back. Slightly (Adarsh Gourav ), just a boy, is easily deceived. Marrow pretends to be like him, a person in a synthetic form, sharing his “real name” and asking for Slightly’s. Unknowingly, Slightly sells out his family. I wish Slightly had confided in Kirsh, Wendy, or Kavalier. I also think Kirsh is onto him; he comes in and talks about the three monkeys: hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil—or maybe in another order.
In an experiment, an octopus-like creature is introduced to a goat. The creature darts at the goat and rips out its eye. The goat appears to die from a heart attack, but the creature then burrows into its eye, and we witness the goat reanimated, standing on its hind legs and looking out at them. It seems the Xenomorph acts like a parasite, needing a host temporarily before evolving into something else; the functionality of this new creature is still unclear.
Arthur, played by David Rysdahl, takes Dame Sylvia into the woods for a private conversation. He expresses his concerns about their current course of action, stating that it’s all a bad idea and that he doesn’t want to be involved with this kind of science. I then realized they are a couple, a connection I hadn’t made before. She mentions cooking him dinner to discuss it later when Nibs (Lily Newmark) suddenly appears and announces her pregnancy. Dame Sylvia invites her for a chat and tries to explain the birds and the bees, but Nibs insists she knows how that works, mentioning that Jesus’ mother didn’t have a typical birth. She becomes hostile and threatens Dame Sylvia (Essie Davis) before reverting back to a childlike state. Dame Sylvia calls security, categorizing it as a level three event; we are witnessing her further malfunction or evolution.
We are gradually observing hybrids evolve or malfunction. Atom Eins (Adrian Edmondson) offers Joe Hermit a job to stay with his sister, though it feels more like bribery than an offer. He emphasizes that Wendy is the property of Prodigy and that there is no universe where he gets to take her home; she isn’t really a human being anymore—she’s a synthetic.
Wendy meets with Kavalier and pleads for her brother to stay. Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin)questions why others don’t get to have brothers, attempting to paint Joe in a negative light by suggesting that if he were her brother, he would’ve visited her. He claims that if she helps him understand what the aliens are saying, she can keep Joe, reducing him to mere property. The more Kavalier talks, the more he resembles a Bond villain. He is out of touch, exhibiting quirks like being barefoot and obsessing over Peter Pan. Although he’s older, he behaves like a child, revealing a kind of evil in his childlike naivety.
Excited to help Kavalier and keep her brother there, Wendy (Sydney Chandler) enters the lab. She can hear the xenomorph nested in Joe’s lung and observes it. Singing a melody as it hatches and breaks out of containment, she shows no fear. In fact, she seems to communicate with it and even pets it, and it doesn’t appear to be angry with her.
