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Old 22nd March 2007, 10:47 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Re: Why do the aliens want Ripley?

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Originally Posted by Kanazaka View Post
I recently bought Alien on DVD, and one of the special features is character dossiers. In Ripley's several of the entries note that she requested and was ultimately granted maternity leave. I forget whether or not the movies even mention what happened to her child, whether born or unborn. But if she was once pregnant (and this is a huge shot in the dark), perhaps Weyland-Yutani engineered a strain of Aliens to ultimately impregnate Ripley . It's the only connection I can think of that fits that information.
I'm not sure about that but she did have a daughter, who had died before Ripley was picked up at the start of Aliens.
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