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.
And, in this deeply nostalgic, but also extremely revealing episode, we learn all about Weyland-Yutani’s history with the xenomorph species. Which leaves just one major question: When did Weyland-Yutani first learn about all of this? Spoilers ahead.
