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Ripley's escape pod from the first encounter with the alien flows silently through space. Another ship attatches itself to the pod. A laser beam cuts a hole in the outer door and humans in space suits enters. They find the cryotube with Ripley sleeping inside.
Ripley awakes in a hospital bed. A nurse attends her. Ripley experiences pain in the chest and becomes horrified. She pulls up her dress and reveals a moving bump. She screams as she realizes it's a chestburster.
Ripley awakes in a hospital bed. Burke enters the room. Ripley wants to know how long she has been in hypersleep. Burke is reluctant to answer and tries to divert her. Ripley is stubborn and wants to know. Burke finally tells her that she drifted around in space for 57 years. He calls the recovery of her espcape pod for a miracle. Ripley feels sick. [in the special edition, Ripley asks for her daughter, who was turning 11 during Ripley's last mission. Burke tells her that her daughter died 2 years ago, at the age of 66.]
The company is quite pissed that Ripley blew up the Nostromo and has hauled her ass to a meeting. They (at least pretend not to) belive her explanation of a monster on board and that she had to blow up the ship in order to kill it. They take away her flying license.
A little while after this, the Company and the rest of the world looses contact with Hadley's Hope. They know something's up...
Burke visits Ripley in her tiny apartment. Ripley tells she has gotten a new job at the docks, opperating loaders. She doesn't seem happy for it. Burke tells about the broken communication with Hadley's Hope. They are putting together a team to check things out and he wonders if Ripley would join them. After all - she has been on the planet before, and just in case the xenomorph stuff of hers were true, they'd need an expert... Ripley refuses. Burke gives her his number and tells her to call him if she changes her mind.
Ripley is pestered with nightmares - always the same - she awakes to find a chestburster working through her chest. She wakes bathing in sweat, rubbing her chest. She calls Burke to tell him that she's in on the mission...
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