"After four episodes of mostly sticking to action set in a future-tense version of planet Earth, the thrilling sideways prequel series, Alien: Earth, has now jumped back into space and into the recent past. In Episode 5, "In Space, No One...", the story of how and why the Weyland-Yutani-owned spaceship Maginot ended up crashing in the nation state of Prodigy is fully explained."
"Finally, the episode gives a crucial twist: One member of the crew, an engineer named Petrovich (Enzo Cilenti), was getting out of hypersleep secretly and sabotaged the ship on purpose because Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) of Prodigy promised him a reward if he did. So the big revelation here is that the crash of the Maginot was not an accident, but rather, crafted by Kavalier."
The Maginot's voyage and crash are revealed through a flashback that returns the story to space and the recent past. The show recreates events resembling the original 1979 Alien by detailing the ship's crew and how various creatures were released aboard. Weyland-Yutani's historical interactions with the xenomorph species are clarified. Crew contracts span 65 years, and Morrow lost a daughter during hypersleep, undermining his original motive for signing on. Engineer Petrovich secretly exited hypersleep and deliberately sabotaged the ship after Boy Kavalier of Prodigy promised him a reward. The Maginot's crash was therefore intentional rather than accidental, reframing Kavalier as an active architect of the disaster.
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