When Ash says 'Kane's son...'

@cypher really 6500 times?

Just about that ;-) It's well over 100 at least :-P

i dont know if its already been mentioned but to me, Ash reminds me a lot of the concept of HAL9000 in 2001/2010 - where its sort of explained that HAL goes crazy and kills people because it was "lied to" or given conflicting/illogical orders - its developing AI couldnt handle the situation so it went crazy. im not sure if im explaining this the best way but if you are familiar with those films, to me this kind of makes sense in Ash- as though he goes a little haywire as a result of his mission and his own AI. it seems to me that in the Alien films the andriods arent merely logical computers but slightly more like Data from Star Trek - that perhaps they can develope personalities of their own and even perhaps "feelings." it sounds like this will be explored more by David in Prometheus. and even though Aliens is not my favorite of the films, its pretty good in its own right - and i loved Lance Henriksen's andriod. "i may be synthetic, but im not stupid." or in Alien 3 something like "i could be repaired but ill never be top of the line again, id rather be nothing." i think Ash is like this as well... but not as developed in that sense. just a potential way of seeing these things. of course i fully agree that Ian Holm's performance is excellent. really every member of the Alien cast brought a lot of "magic" to the film.

I finally noticed on my own that line while watching Alien for the millionth time. Another line that was hard to notice was Parker's last words: "Get out of the room!"