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Alien: Earth creator addresses episode 7’s latest Xenomorph development: “I don’t want her to have [a Xenomorph as a] pet”

Emily Garbutt

17 September 2025

“One of the big question marks was if fans were going to go with this idea”

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Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley has addressed episode 7’s big Xenomorph development – and he wasn’t sure whether it was going to go down well with viewers.

In this week’s installment, titled ‘Emergence,’ synthetic Wendy (Sydney Chandler) manages to communicate with a Xenomorph and gets it to help them by taking out a group of Yutani soldiers, seemingly making a tentative ally out of the creature.
“One of the big question marks was if fans were going to go with this idea,” Hawley told The Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t want her to have [a Xenomorph as a] pet. But if it seems like an alliance has been struck, what are the interesting possibilities that we can pull out of that? And because this is a horror story, we have to assume that, ultimately, I wouldn’t bet on this working out.”

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