Alien: Earth – The Fly review S1 E6
The Fly proves to be a little too close to real life as one of the few genuinely nice characters on Alien: Earth gets killed in a horrible way while the smug, rich bastard gets to keep on breaking things with his smelly feet.
Last week’s episode was a highpoint not just of the series, but the Alien saga in its entirety. It says a lot about the quality of The Fly that it didn’t feel like a complete letdown as the follow-up episode.
Neverland has been Boy Kavalier’s idyllic paradise where he gets to wax on with his Peter Pan fascination, while in the real world, people and synthetics are suffering from his actions.
A mediator on behalf of The Five listens to Boy Kavalier and Yutani discuss her crashed ship in Prodigy City. BK immediately shows his level of respect by placing his feet on the table. He starts picking her feet before getting bored and interrupts her — a classic bully move in not letting the woman talk.
BK questions if it wasn’t an accident and outs her smuggling biological weapons. Morrow is sitting casually listening to BK’s spiel, continually getting more annoyed with all this smoke blowing. BK toys with Yutani accepting her offer for $50 billion to take the specimens…after the six-week quarantine. In the interim, “your thoughts and prayers for all the victims of the crash are always welcome.”
Yutani is understandably annoyed and is down for Morrow’s plan to destabilize the facility and exfil in the chaos.
The Fly features a solid catty scene with Kirsh and Morrow having a face off in the elevator. Morrow got the best dig asking Kirsh what does it feel like working for a company that has made you obsolete?
Undeterred by Atom’s threat, Joe is still trying to figure out a way to take Wendy away from all of this craziness. Kirsh is befuddled by Joe’s question and says this truly condescending line” You want to take care of her? That’s like an onion asking how to take care of a star.” Brutal.
Wendy is excited about communicating with the rapidly growing xenomorph. Joe witnessed the full onslaught of one xenomorph and doesn’t want to be anywhere close to another outburst. Wendy’s not here for that as Neverland is a yes place, not a no place. Joe is not feeling the company mantra placed on the hallways of the complex. Wendy is channeling her inner Sen. Amidala thinking there’s some good in this xenomorph. That would be a first. Joe has a more attainable goal — getting them out of there, but there’s one hitch. Wendy isn’t sure she wants to go.
Atom is confused why Nibs thinks she’s pregnant and asks Arthur and Dame how to fix her? That sounded very Handmaiden’s Tale. Arthur is not down with the suggestion to wipe Nibs’ memory and promptly gets fired. Dame says she can do it. Maybe she’s more attached to the kids, but it just also might be that she can’t afford those swank glasses if they’re both on the unemployment line.
Nibs wakes up to find Wendy sitting next to her charging chamber. Did no one think none of The Lost Boys would talk to Nibs? This is the kind of upper management lack of awareness that’s frustrating. Any good tyrannical corporation would send out a memo from HR advising no one to talk to Nibs about the incident at The Tower.
Since they didn’t, Wendy realizes something is not right and confronts Dame. Dame tries to work her psychological magic, but Wendy’s not having any of it and goes so far as to remind her Wendy is not her name. Dame really needs to work on her bonding with The Lost Girls.
The Fly also features this very insightful line from Wendy/Marcy: I don’t want to be people anymore if this is what people are. Killing things and taking them apart just to see what’s inside.
It’s probably not to get on the bad side of the one creature that can communicate with the xenomorph.
Dame asks Wendy to tell her what’s wrong so she can fix it, but Wendy asks, “What if you’re what’s wrong?” Pretty heavy question, Wendy.
MORE:
- McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Hourman action figure review (2025)
- 28 Years Later review (2025)
- Marvel Legends Silver Samurai figure review Vintage X-Men wave
- G.I. Joe Classified Series Darklon review No. 155 (2025)
Slightly creepily sneaks up behind Joe with the intention of using him as the courier for the xenomorph chilling in one of the eggs. That’s a no go on Joe as Rinadi asks Joe to come with him on a patrol mission. Joe asks enough questions about how to get off the island that Siberian warns him not to mess up the good thing they’ve got going here. Well…about that good thing. (Where have you gone?)
Isaac gets a call from Kirsh to take care of feeding the lab specimens. Wendy’s xenomorph has grown up. The containment door breaks in The Fly cell and Isaac decides to go in. This would be breaking the protocol big time. The Eye alien distracts him just enough so Isaac finds himself locked in the cell. Now he’s probably regretting not letting Curley come with him. Right on cue, here comes the The Fly, which promptly sprays acid that melts through all the fancy tech and kills poor Isaac.
Sadly, Arthur is not checking the monitor otherwise he might have noticed the containment breach and The Fly taking out Isaac. Joe interrupts Arthur’s packing — this is why companies have goons with a box and promptly escort fired employees out of the building. That would have worked out better for Arthur.
Joe asks, “is my sister safe here?” Realizing the cameras would catch his voiced answer, Arthur types a negative response and gives Arthur the boat code and deactivates Wendy’s tracker. Before he can leave himself, Arthur gets the message that Tootles/Isaac is disabled. Look at the monitor, Arthur! Sigh.
Arthur rushes into the secure lab while Kirsh just watches from his tablet. The lights are low, but Arthur and Slightly find Toodles’ body. Too late, Arthur realizes Slightly left him while the door has been opened for the eggs. And here it comes. Slightly just watches from the outer door and offers a weak “He has my family” to explain his betrayal. Poor Arthur can’t do much more before the facehugger gets him. Slightly can’t watch. Face him you coward! Right, he’s just a kid afraid that mean old Morrow is going to kill his momma.
Kirsh watches all of this play out and tells BK it’s “informative.” Way to keep the blood pressure down, Kirsh. The Fly starts to come back out of the cocoon, but Slightly manages to drag Arthur into a vent safely away from The Fly. Meanwhile, The Eye seems content with the chaos it caused as it waits for another opportunity to cause more mischief.
The Fly was a very solid follow-up to last week’s sensational episode. Things are following their inevitable course of collapse on Neverland and we’re now short two characters. How many more will not see the end of the penultimate episode next week?
Rating: 9 out of 10
Photo Credit: FX
Enjoyed The Fly? Check out the six feature Alien collection including Alien/Aliens/Alien Iii/Alien: Resurrection/Prometheus/Alien: Covenant on Blu-Ray now at Amazon.
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.