Warning: spoilers for Alien: Earth S1 E6 - “The Fly” are loose in the lab. Over the course of Alien: Earth’s previous five episodes, human, artificial person, and organism alike have been clashing.

The idea of isolation is prevalent through the Alien series. In space, no one can hear you scream, often because there’s nobody left to hear you scream. That theme also extends to the idea of what ...