In the Alien franchise , the grisly deaths are usually reserved for the flesh-and-blood humans. But a few of the synthetic beings in the franchise have met horrible and gory ends too. In Ridley Scott’s original Alien , they decapitated Ash (Ian Holm) and then immolated him. In Aliens , the Xenomorph Queen ripped Bishop (Lance Henricksen) in two. In this universe, synths are pretty close to human. So even though they’re robots (for lack of a better term), it’s all still pretty gross. Their “blood” is milky white and not red, but it’s still icky. Now, Alien: Earth just gave us our nastiest demise for a non-human synthetic yet, in episode six, “The Fly.”

Technically, the death in this episode is not of a synth, it’s one of the Prodigy Corporation’s new hybrids. Hybrids are what Pro

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