FX's Alien: Earth episode 5 functions as its own Alien movie, shedding light on the final, terrible day aboard the USCSS Maginot before it crash-landed on Earth in the very first episode. It's an episode that provides a slew of WTF moments and one hell of a brilliant performance by Babou Ceesay as the relentless investigator and head of security, Morrow, in a full-on Poirot mystery-solving moment.

"I love the description that you gave, because that's exactly how I felt, although I'd go for Columbo more, I'm a Columbo person myself," Ceesay told Mashable.

Both in production style and narrative, the episode feels like a one-hour film worthy of the Alien canon, and one that provides a clever pacing shift from the series linear storyline. Creator/writer/director Noah Hawley sends us flying d

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