O'Bannon's early Alien script: DVD version:Dell's Data Stick Examination

                              ROBY
                    Maybe it's time we took a look at Dell's
                    datastick. 

          Roby loads Broussard's datastick into one of the command consoles

          Pushing buttons, Roby brings up the HOLOGRAPHS taken automatically by
          Broussard's stick as he probed the tomb. They appear on screens around
          the bridge

          The first datastick image revcals a dusty stone floor. Roby clicks
          ahead , reveals stone walls carved with

          STRANGE HIEROGLYPHICS.

                              ROBY (CONT'D)
                    (startled)
                    Hieroglyphics ...?

          Primitive, religious pictures. Line after line, floor to ceiling.

          In the center of the chamber - the plinth

                              HUNTER
                    It's a tomb...!

          The data-pictures arrive at the "urns"

          This sequence of stills reaches its climax when the parasite leaps out
          toward the lends - Standard, Hunter and Roby mutter sharply at the
          sight, after which the datastick drops to a useless angel and starts
          showing a series of blurs.

          CLICKETYCLICKETYCLICK - Roby runs back through the slides in a blur,
          stopping on a strip of hieroglyphs.

                              ROBY
                    Look 
                        (points)
                    Those are symbolized aliens ... very
                    stylized ... but if you look closely, you
                    can see the creature we're dealing with

          They lean forward in their seats

                              HUNTER
                    That star shapes thing. The parasite on
                    Dell's face.

                              ROBY
                    And see right below it? The oval design 
                    with the markings? It's a dead ringer for 
                    the spore casings

                              STANDARD
                    Eggs ....

                              ROBY
                    Eggs.

          Broussard's datasticks moves along the pictures on the wall. The star
          shapes are shown in conjugation with other forms ... attaching
          themselves to freakish HYBRIDS. Gargoyles

                              HUNTER
                    Now that looks like the one that came 
                    out of Dell

          Worm-like things - like the one that hatched from Broussard - are
          emerging from the hybrids

                              HUNTER (CONT'D)
                    What, are those things?

          A pause

                              HUNTER (CONT'D)
                                                                        
                    Females?

                                                                                                  
                              STANDARD
                    Hosts?

                              ROBY
                    Living bottles

          Roby changes slides

                              ROBY (CONT'D)
                    And .... that's the big one

          The one that got Melkonis

                              STANDARD
                    So then ... the "tomb" ... must have been 
                    some sort of ... egg storage place ... 
                    fertility temple.

                              HUNTER
                    What comes after the big one?

          Roby searches through the paintings and carvings. Click. Click

                              ROBY
                    Nothing. It repeats

          After the big one: more spore casings 

 

(Source: Online version of the early Alien script by Dan O'Bannon)