Here's something you might be interested in.
(Part 1 is here.)
You all remember the chestburster from the first Alien movie, right?
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53953/
That nasty little fellow poked his head out in 1979. Two years later, James Cameron gave us this in Piranha Part 2:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53954/
I'm not saying he was ripping off Alien. I'm saying he was serving notice that the seeds of Aliens, the sequel he would write and direct, were being sown in Piranha Part Two, the sequel he was currently writing and directing. There are just so many similarities.
Consider: our heroine leads a dive down to the wreck that is home to the mutant piranha. One of her chargers disobeys orders and swims inside. He gets eaten. She sees his mauled body. Cut to interrogation from the local authorities:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53955/
Police Chief: This incident took place on one of your regularly scheduled dives?
Anee: Yes.
Police Chief: Did you see what happened?
Anne: He just swam away from the rest of the group.
Police Chief: Did you see a shark at any time?
Anne didn't see a shark, but she knows it wasn't a shark. So Police Chief Steve asks, "What was it?"
Anne: l don't know. That's the point. l'm familiar with the marine life in this area, and l don't know! l've gotta look at the body. l only saw it for a moment.
Police Chief: Out of the question. That's the coroner's job.
Anne: Steven. l was responsible for that boy. That's my job. l have to know what happened.
Police Chief: That's right. You were responsible, and that's precisely why you can't touch the body. Because it may be used in evidence in a case of negligence.
Okay, so the heroine knows something bad is out there, but no one else knows, and the circumstances are such that it looks like the problem might be with her. Negligence! Eventually, Anne insists to her boss that the resort shut down its water activities until the danger can be dealt with. For her troubles, she is fired.
Fast forward to the opening of Aliens. Ripley, having survived her go-round with the xenomorph in Alien, is now facing a review panel after her escape pod gets picked up:
VAN LEUWEN
Look at it from our perspective.
You freely admit to detonating the
engines of, and thereby destroying,
an M-Class star-freighter. A
rather expensive piece of hardware...
INSURANCE INVESTIGATOR
(dryly)
Forty-two million in adjusted dollars.
That's minus payload, of course.
VAN LEUWEN
The shuttle's flight recorder
corroborates some elements of
your account. That the Nostromo
set down on LV-426, an unsurveyed
planet, at that time. That
repairs were made. That it resumed
its course and was subsequently set
for self-destruct. By you. For
reasons unknown.
RIPLEY
Look, I told you...
VAN LEUWEN
It did not, however, contain any
entries concerning the hostile
life form you allegedly picked up.
Ripley senses the noose tightening.
RIPLEY
Then somebody's gotten to it...
doctored the recorder. Who had
access to it?
The ECA (Extrasolar Colonization Administration)
Representative (ECA REP) just shakes his head.
ECA REP
Would you just listen to yourself
for one minute.
Ripley glares at the ECA Rep, a woman on the ungenerous
side of fifty. Van Leuwen sighs with exasperation.
VAN LEUWEN
The analysis team which went over
your shuttle centimeter by
centimeter found no physical
evidence of the creature you
describe...
RIPLEY
(losing it)
That's because I blew it out the
Goddamn airlock!
(pause)
Like I said.
INSURANCE MAN
(to ECA Rep)
Are there any species like this
'hostile organism' on LV-426?
ECA REP
No. It's a rock. No indigenous
life larger than a simple virus.
Ripley grits her teeth in frustration.
RIPLEY
I told you, it wasn't indigenous.
There was an alien spacecraft there.
A derelict ship. We homed on its
beacon...
ECA REP
To be perfectly frank, we've surveyed
over three hundred worlds and no one's
ever reported a creature which, using
your words...
(read from Ripley's
statement)
...'gestates in a living human host'
and has 'concentrated molecular acid
for blood.'
Ripley glances at Burke, silent at the far end of the
table. His expression is grim. Her mouth hardens as
a bit of the old nail-eating Ripley surfaces.
RIPLEY
Look, I can see where this is
going. But I'm telling you those
things exist. Back on that planetoid
is an alien ship and on that ship
are thousands of eggs. Thousands.
Do you understand? I suggest you
find it, using the flight recorder's
data. Find it and deal with it --
before one of your survey teams
comes back with a little surprise...
VAN LEUWEN
Thank you, Officer Ripley. That
will be...
Okay, so the heroine knows something bad is out there, but no one else knows, and the circumstances are such that it looks like the problem might be with her. Negligence! She insists that they go back and wipe out the alien threat, and for her pains, she loses her job. The only job she can get is one running loaders.
Back to Piranha Part 2. Eventually, Anne gets a chance to do some investigating, aided by a seemingly friendly true believer Tyler. But it turns out he knew all along about the mutant fish - he just wasn't telling Anne! Here he is making a secret call back to his bosses.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53956/
Gosh, is there anyone in Aliens who is a seemingly friendly true believer out to help the heroine? Who we later find out knew about the alien menace all along? Why yes, yes there is. His name is Carter Burke.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53957/
Eventually, Anne finds out that Tyler knew about the mutant killer fish. She freaks out. She wants to go after them. He replies, "I've got to get more information so I can fill out my report! Then I can submit it to the proper authorities, who are qualified to handle this! The people on this island aren't qualified to handle this!"
Compare to this scene from Aliens, in which Burke, the film's Tyler character, balks at the notion of nuking the alien nest from space:
VASQUEZ
All right, we can't blow the fuck
out of them...why not roll some
canisters of CN-20 down there.
Nerve gas the whole nest?
HUDSON
Look, man, let's just bug out and
call it even, okay?
RIPLEY
(to Vasquez)
No good. How do we know it'll
effect their biochemistry? I say
we take off and nuke the entire
site from orbit. It's the only
way to be sure.
BURKE
Now hold on a second. I'm not
authorizing that action.
RIPLEY
Why not?
Burke senses the challenge in her tone and backpedals
flawlessly into conciliatory mode.
BURKE
Well, I mean...I know this is an
emotional moment, but let's not
make snap judgments. Let's move
cautiously. First, this physical
installation had a substantial
dollar value attached to it --
RIPLEY
They can bill me. I got a tab
running. What's second?
BURKE
This is clearly an important
species we're dealing with here.
We can't just arbitrarily
exterminate them --
RIPLEY
Bullshit!
VASQUEZ
Yeah, bullshit. Watch us.
HUDSON
Maybe you haven't been keeping up
on current events, but we just got
out asses kicked, pal!
Ripley faces Burke squarely and she's not pleased.
RIPLEY
Look, Burke. We had an agreement.
Burke moves in, lowering his voice. He takes her aside
from the others.
BURKE
I know, I know, but we're dealing
with changing scenarios here. This
thing is major, Ripley. I mean
really major. You gotta go with
its energy. Since you are the
representative of the company who
discovered this species your
percentage will naturally be
some serious, serious money.
Ripley stares at his like he's a particularly
disagreeable fungus.
RIPLEY
You son of a bitch.
BURKE
(hardening)
Don't make me pull rank, Ripley.
RIPLEY
What rank? I believe Corporal Hicks
has authority here.
BURKE
Corporal Hicks!?
RIPLEY
This operation is under military
jurisdiction and Hicks is next in
chain of command. Right?
HICKS
Looks that way.
Burke starts to lose it and it's not a pretty sight.
BURKE
Look, this is a multimillion
dollar operation. He can't make
that kind of decision. He's just
a grunt!
(glances at Hicks)
No offense.
HICKS
(coolly)
None taken.
(into mike)
Ferro, you copying?
FERRO
(voice over; static)
Standing by.
HICKS
Prep for dust-off. We're gonna
need an immediate evac.
(to Burke)
I think we'll take off and nuke
the site from orbit. It's the
only way to be sure.
He winks. Burke looks like a kid whose toy has been
snatched.
BURKE
This is absurd! You don't have
the authority to --
The same ideas are in play: "Yes, people are dying, but the grunts on the ground aren't qualified to handle this. We need to take this information to the higher ups."
Oh, and why are the mutant piranha where they are? Because, says Tyler, "four canisters of fertile piranha eggs sank right there." So the problem is being near to a nest of eggs nestled in the hull of a crashed ship, huh? You mean sort of like this?
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53958/
Moving on. Why doesn't Burke want to nuke the alien nest?
BURKE
Those specimens are worth
millions to the bio-weapons
division. Now, if you're smart
we can both come out of this
heroes. Set up for life.
Right. Because the aliens would be awesome bio-weapons. Hey, I wonder where the mutant piranha came from in Piranha Part 2?
Tyler: Maybe it's a new kind of species, you know. Something that never existed before.
Anne: Like a mutant strain or genetic engineering?
Tyler: Yeah, l guess. Anybody doing stuff to fish?
Anne: The Army was, but that was several years ago. They developed a sort of killer fish to screw up the rivers in Vietnam.
Tyler: Apocalypse Two. And Three and Four.
Anne: They escaped from their tank and killed a lot of civilians.
Bio-weapons that kill civilians! Like all the colonists on LV-246!
I could go on, but let's just wind this up with a couple of notable scenes. Anne and Tyler dive down to the wreck that holds the piranha nest and plant some bombs to blow up the baddies. They try to escape the wreck through a narrow duct, but Tyler gets caught. He dies, but while the fish attack him, Anne is able to escape.
Aliens: Vazquez, Gorman, Ripley, Hicks, and Newt are crawling through ductwork, trying to escape the aliens:
They try to crawl back, jamming together. Behind them,
the way they have come, a GRATING is battered in with a
FEROCIOUS CLANG and the deadly silhouette of a warrior
flows into the duct. They are trapped. Vasquez uses
her flamethrower, bathing the tunnel in fire. Hicks
snaps out his hand-welder and cuts into the wall of the
duct. Molten metal spatters him, as sparks fill the
tunnel with lurid light. Vasquez' flamethrower sputters.
VASQUEZ
(icy)
Losing fuel.
Between eye-searing bursts of flame Ripley sees the
glistening apparitions closing in. Hicks' torch feathers
out. Empty. Bracing his back he kicks hard at the
cherry-hot metal. It bends aside.
Beyond is a narrow SERVICE WAY, lined with pipes and
conduit. Hicks slides through the searing hole,
lifting Newt safely through as Ripley hands her out.
Ripley follows and turns to help Gorman. Vasquez'
flamethrower goes dry. She draws her SERVICE PISTOL.
Suddenly she looks up as a WARRIOR SCREECHES DOWN FROM
A VERTICAL SHAFT, right above her.
She fires with incredible rapidity...BAM! BAM! BAM!
Rolls aside. It lands on her legs and she snaps her head
to one side just as its TAIL STINGER buries into the
metal wall beside her cheek. She fires again, emptying
the pistol, kicking the thrashing shape away.
Acid cuts through her chickenplate armor, searing into
her thigh. She cries out, gritting her teeth against
the white-hot pain. Gorman sees Vasquez hit, unable to
move. Sees the creatures coming the other way...and
turns away from the escape hole. He crawls back to her,
grabs her battle harness and starts dragging her towards
safety. Too late. The approaching alien warriors have
reached and passed the opening. Vasquez sees him,
barely conscious.
VASQUEZ
(hoarse whisper)
You always were an asshole, Gorman.
She seizes his hand in a deadly drip, but we RECOGNIZE
it as the "power greeting" she shared with Drake...
something for the chosen few. Gorman returns the grip.
He hands her two grenades and arms two himself as the
creatures are upon them.
They die, but while the aliens attack them, Ripley and Newt are able to escape. Oh, and speaking of Newt, the little girl that Ripley feels compelled to save. There's this scene in Piranha Part 2 where the fish come flying out of the water and start eating everybody on the beach. There's a panic, and everyone's trying to get inside the hotel, but Anne pauses to rescue a little girl:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53965/
And finally...the big bang at the finish. We all remember the friendly computerized voice in Aliens, advising Ripley that she now has one minute to reach minimum safe distance before the whole place blows up. Yeah, here's the bomb in Piranha Part 2:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53966/
Anne planted it, just like Ripley started the meltdown. Now Anne has to swim far enough away not to get blown to pieces, just like Ripley has to fly far enough away not to get blown to pieces. And in both cases, who's flying the ship (or boat) that carries her to safety in the nick of time? LANCE FREAKING HENRIKSEN.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53969/
Amazing.
(Part 1 is here.)
You all remember the chestburster from the first Alien movie, right?
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53953/
That nasty little fellow poked his head out in 1979. Two years later, James Cameron gave us this in Piranha Part 2:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53954/
I'm not saying he was ripping off Alien. I'm saying he was serving notice that the seeds of Aliens, the sequel he would write and direct, were being sown in Piranha Part Two, the sequel he was currently writing and directing. There are just so many similarities.
Consider: our heroine leads a dive down to the wreck that is home to the mutant piranha. One of her chargers disobeys orders and swims inside. He gets eaten. She sees his mauled body. Cut to interrogation from the local authorities:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53955/
Police Chief: This incident took place on one of your regularly scheduled dives?
Anee: Yes.
Police Chief: Did you see what happened?
Anne: He just swam away from the rest of the group.
Police Chief: Did you see a shark at any time?
Anne didn't see a shark, but she knows it wasn't a shark. So Police Chief Steve asks, "What was it?"
Anne: l don't know. That's the point. l'm familiar with the marine life in this area, and l don't know! l've gotta look at the body. l only saw it for a moment.
Police Chief: Out of the question. That's the coroner's job.
Anne: Steven. l was responsible for that boy. That's my job. l have to know what happened.
Police Chief: That's right. You were responsible, and that's precisely why you can't touch the body. Because it may be used in evidence in a case of negligence.
Okay, so the heroine knows something bad is out there, but no one else knows, and the circumstances are such that it looks like the problem might be with her. Negligence! Eventually, Anne insists to her boss that the resort shut down its water activities until the danger can be dealt with. For her troubles, she is fired.
Fast forward to the opening of Aliens. Ripley, having survived her go-round with the xenomorph in Alien, is now facing a review panel after her escape pod gets picked up:
VAN LEUWEN
Look at it from our perspective.
You freely admit to detonating the
engines of, and thereby destroying,
an M-Class star-freighter. A
rather expensive piece of hardware...
INSURANCE INVESTIGATOR
(dryly)
Forty-two million in adjusted dollars.
That's minus payload, of course.
VAN LEUWEN
The shuttle's flight recorder
corroborates some elements of
your account. That the Nostromo
set down on LV-426, an unsurveyed
planet, at that time. That
repairs were made. That it resumed
its course and was subsequently set
for self-destruct. By you. For
reasons unknown.
RIPLEY
Look, I told you...
VAN LEUWEN
It did not, however, contain any
entries concerning the hostile
life form you allegedly picked up.
Ripley senses the noose tightening.
RIPLEY
Then somebody's gotten to it...
doctored the recorder. Who had
access to it?
The ECA (Extrasolar Colonization Administration)
Representative (ECA REP) just shakes his head.
ECA REP
Would you just listen to yourself
for one minute.
Ripley glares at the ECA Rep, a woman on the ungenerous
side of fifty. Van Leuwen sighs with exasperation.
VAN LEUWEN
The analysis team which went over
your shuttle centimeter by
centimeter found no physical
evidence of the creature you
describe...
RIPLEY
(losing it)
That's because I blew it out the
Goddamn airlock!
(pause)
Like I said.
INSURANCE MAN
(to ECA Rep)
Are there any species like this
'hostile organism' on LV-426?
ECA REP
No. It's a rock. No indigenous
life larger than a simple virus.
Ripley grits her teeth in frustration.
RIPLEY
I told you, it wasn't indigenous.
There was an alien spacecraft there.
A derelict ship. We homed on its
beacon...
ECA REP
To be perfectly frank, we've surveyed
over three hundred worlds and no one's
ever reported a creature which, using
your words...
(read from Ripley's
statement)
...'gestates in a living human host'
and has 'concentrated molecular acid
for blood.'
Ripley glances at Burke, silent at the far end of the
table. His expression is grim. Her mouth hardens as
a bit of the old nail-eating Ripley surfaces.
RIPLEY
Look, I can see where this is
going. But I'm telling you those
things exist. Back on that planetoid
is an alien ship and on that ship
are thousands of eggs. Thousands.
Do you understand? I suggest you
find it, using the flight recorder's
data. Find it and deal with it --
before one of your survey teams
comes back with a little surprise...
VAN LEUWEN
Thank you, Officer Ripley. That
will be...
Okay, so the heroine knows something bad is out there, but no one else knows, and the circumstances are such that it looks like the problem might be with her. Negligence! She insists that they go back and wipe out the alien threat, and for her pains, she loses her job. The only job she can get is one running loaders.
Back to Piranha Part 2. Eventually, Anne gets a chance to do some investigating, aided by a seemingly friendly true believer Tyler. But it turns out he knew all along about the mutant fish - he just wasn't telling Anne! Here he is making a secret call back to his bosses.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53956/
Gosh, is there anyone in Aliens who is a seemingly friendly true believer out to help the heroine? Who we later find out knew about the alien menace all along? Why yes, yes there is. His name is Carter Burke.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53957/
Eventually, Anne finds out that Tyler knew about the mutant killer fish. She freaks out. She wants to go after them. He replies, "I've got to get more information so I can fill out my report! Then I can submit it to the proper authorities, who are qualified to handle this! The people on this island aren't qualified to handle this!"
Compare to this scene from Aliens, in which Burke, the film's Tyler character, balks at the notion of nuking the alien nest from space:
VASQUEZ
All right, we can't blow the fuck
out of them...why not roll some
canisters of CN-20 down there.
Nerve gas the whole nest?
HUDSON
Look, man, let's just bug out and
call it even, okay?
RIPLEY
(to Vasquez)
No good. How do we know it'll
effect their biochemistry? I say
we take off and nuke the entire
site from orbit. It's the only
way to be sure.
BURKE
Now hold on a second. I'm not
authorizing that action.
RIPLEY
Why not?
Burke senses the challenge in her tone and backpedals
flawlessly into conciliatory mode.
BURKE
Well, I mean...I know this is an
emotional moment, but let's not
make snap judgments. Let's move
cautiously. First, this physical
installation had a substantial
dollar value attached to it --
RIPLEY
They can bill me. I got a tab
running. What's second?
BURKE
This is clearly an important
species we're dealing with here.
We can't just arbitrarily
exterminate them --
RIPLEY
Bullshit!
VASQUEZ
Yeah, bullshit. Watch us.
HUDSON
Maybe you haven't been keeping up
on current events, but we just got
out asses kicked, pal!
Ripley faces Burke squarely and she's not pleased.
RIPLEY
Look, Burke. We had an agreement.
Burke moves in, lowering his voice. He takes her aside
from the others.
BURKE
I know, I know, but we're dealing
with changing scenarios here. This
thing is major, Ripley. I mean
really major. You gotta go with
its energy. Since you are the
representative of the company who
discovered this species your
percentage will naturally be
some serious, serious money.
Ripley stares at his like he's a particularly
disagreeable fungus.
RIPLEY
You son of a bitch.
BURKE
(hardening)
Don't make me pull rank, Ripley.
RIPLEY
What rank? I believe Corporal Hicks
has authority here.
BURKE
Corporal Hicks!?
RIPLEY
This operation is under military
jurisdiction and Hicks is next in
chain of command. Right?
HICKS
Looks that way.
Burke starts to lose it and it's not a pretty sight.
BURKE
Look, this is a multimillion
dollar operation. He can't make
that kind of decision. He's just
a grunt!
(glances at Hicks)
No offense.
HICKS
(coolly)
None taken.
(into mike)
Ferro, you copying?
FERRO
(voice over; static)
Standing by.
HICKS
Prep for dust-off. We're gonna
need an immediate evac.
(to Burke)
I think we'll take off and nuke
the site from orbit. It's the
only way to be sure.
He winks. Burke looks like a kid whose toy has been
snatched.
BURKE
This is absurd! You don't have
the authority to --
The same ideas are in play: "Yes, people are dying, but the grunts on the ground aren't qualified to handle this. We need to take this information to the higher ups."
Oh, and why are the mutant piranha where they are? Because, says Tyler, "four canisters of fertile piranha eggs sank right there." So the problem is being near to a nest of eggs nestled in the hull of a crashed ship, huh? You mean sort of like this?
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53958/
Moving on. Why doesn't Burke want to nuke the alien nest?
BURKE
Those specimens are worth
millions to the bio-weapons
division. Now, if you're smart
we can both come out of this
heroes. Set up for life.
Right. Because the aliens would be awesome bio-weapons. Hey, I wonder where the mutant piranha came from in Piranha Part 2?
Tyler: Maybe it's a new kind of species, you know. Something that never existed before.
Anne: Like a mutant strain or genetic engineering?
Tyler: Yeah, l guess. Anybody doing stuff to fish?
Anne: The Army was, but that was several years ago. They developed a sort of killer fish to screw up the rivers in Vietnam.
Tyler: Apocalypse Two. And Three and Four.
Anne: They escaped from their tank and killed a lot of civilians.
Bio-weapons that kill civilians! Like all the colonists on LV-246!
I could go on, but let's just wind this up with a couple of notable scenes. Anne and Tyler dive down to the wreck that holds the piranha nest and plant some bombs to blow up the baddies. They try to escape the wreck through a narrow duct, but Tyler gets caught. He dies, but while the fish attack him, Anne is able to escape.
Aliens: Vazquez, Gorman, Ripley, Hicks, and Newt are crawling through ductwork, trying to escape the aliens:
They try to crawl back, jamming together. Behind them,
the way they have come, a GRATING is battered in with a
FEROCIOUS CLANG and the deadly silhouette of a warrior
flows into the duct. They are trapped. Vasquez uses
her flamethrower, bathing the tunnel in fire. Hicks
snaps out his hand-welder and cuts into the wall of the
duct. Molten metal spatters him, as sparks fill the
tunnel with lurid light. Vasquez' flamethrower sputters.
VASQUEZ
(icy)
Losing fuel.
Between eye-searing bursts of flame Ripley sees the
glistening apparitions closing in. Hicks' torch feathers
out. Empty. Bracing his back he kicks hard at the
cherry-hot metal. It bends aside.
Beyond is a narrow SERVICE WAY, lined with pipes and
conduit. Hicks slides through the searing hole,
lifting Newt safely through as Ripley hands her out.
Ripley follows and turns to help Gorman. Vasquez'
flamethrower goes dry. She draws her SERVICE PISTOL.
Suddenly she looks up as a WARRIOR SCREECHES DOWN FROM
A VERTICAL SHAFT, right above her.
She fires with incredible rapidity...BAM! BAM! BAM!
Rolls aside. It lands on her legs and she snaps her head
to one side just as its TAIL STINGER buries into the
metal wall beside her cheek. She fires again, emptying
the pistol, kicking the thrashing shape away.
Acid cuts through her chickenplate armor, searing into
her thigh. She cries out, gritting her teeth against
the white-hot pain. Gorman sees Vasquez hit, unable to
move. Sees the creatures coming the other way...and
turns away from the escape hole. He crawls back to her,
grabs her battle harness and starts dragging her towards
safety. Too late. The approaching alien warriors have
reached and passed the opening. Vasquez sees him,
barely conscious.
VASQUEZ
(hoarse whisper)
You always were an asshole, Gorman.
She seizes his hand in a deadly drip, but we RECOGNIZE
it as the "power greeting" she shared with Drake...
something for the chosen few. Gorman returns the grip.
He hands her two grenades and arms two himself as the
creatures are upon them.
They die, but while the aliens attack them, Ripley and Newt are able to escape. Oh, and speaking of Newt, the little girl that Ripley feels compelled to save. There's this scene in Piranha Part 2 where the fish come flying out of the water and start eating everybody on the beach. There's a panic, and everyone's trying to get inside the hotel, but Anne pauses to rescue a little girl:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53965/
And finally...the big bang at the finish. We all remember the friendly computerized voice in Aliens, advising Ripley that she now has one minute to reach minimum safe distance before the whole place blows up. Yeah, here's the bomb in Piranha Part 2:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53966/
Anne planted it, just like Ripley started the meltdown. Now Anne has to swim far enough away not to get blown to pieces, just like Ripley has to fly far enough away not to get blown to pieces. And in both cases, who's flying the ship (or boat) that carries her to safety in the nick of time? LANCE FREAKING HENRIKSEN.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/30/53969/
Amazing.