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Episode 5

By: Tim Lebbon, Dirk Maggs
Narrated by: Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Andrea Deck, Mac McDonald
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  • The crew finally arrives at the deserted trimonite mine on LV-178. Cautiously, they make their way through the facility to salvage the spare fuel cells they desperately need. Ripley and the Marion crew find themselves facing an infestation of aliens. All the while, Ash, is keeping a remote eye on their progress. What is his real agenda and who will survive?
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excellent content

this series is incredible. loving Rutger huaer in this episode! I'm excited for the next one!

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no process

The latest entry in this audio drama finds the cast look for furl cells but end up getting closer to the source if the aliens.

There a lack of any real action scenes this episode it was more if getting the cast from one point to tge next this time.

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Well narrated but deeply flawed.

By Episode 5, Ash records messages almost constantly. Nothing in the story is a surprise, because he is narrating all of his plans in transmissions to Weyland-Yutani. Why? No one can say. From there, Ash begins to exhibit knowledge and objectives that make no sense: he supposes the presence of a Queen, even though he has no reason to think one exists; he obsesses over the idea of getting an egg, even though that the Alien eggs are to be found in a derelict spacecraft on LV-426 was presumably sent to the Company long ago, and in any case, he has already sent it to them in this story. that the special order is to report knowledge of any noteworthy alien life, Ash places no interest on the presence of a derelict chip created by a space bearing alien species. instead, he is seniorly focused on retrieving what amounts to a particularly hostile ant.

good the story was never made into a movie. in every way, it's inferior to "Aliens" but would foreshadow or give away every plot point of that movie. Worse, since any reader knows that "Aliens" follows -- and specifically, that Ripley arrives at Gateway Station alone -- we are not left to wonder whether the crew we are following will survive. The result is a well-acted but entirely derivative and predictable series of tropes, slap dashed into packaging that makes it seem original.

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