Wish this had been in the original Alien

The following excerpts are from the original script for Alien. The only reason I thought they might be of interest to this community is that in some ways they reflect what is going on in Prometheus, and they add a lot of substance to the characters who've remained an enigma long enough. "ALIEN" by Walter Hill and David Giler Based on screenplay by Dan O'Bannon Story by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett REVISED FINAL JUNE, 1978 EXT. PLANET - DAWN The trio moves through a dark limbo. LAMBERT This way. Lambert indicates left. Moves in that direction. The others follow. The storm growing. KANE It's close. They approach a towering rock formation. The transmission stops. LAMBERT It's gone again. KANE Did we pass it. DALLAS Not unless it's underground. Let's take a break. They shelter with the rock formation. Storm howls round them. Dallas adjusts headset. The signal starts. DALLAS I've got it again. Let's go. LAMBERT How about our break. DALLAS No. Let's move on while we've got the signal, again. Dallas gets up. They stand for a moment... Then move away from the rock formation. Fossilized into the other side of the rock is a shape. Fifteen feet tall. Unseen by the members of the party. INT. BLISTER - DAWN Ash receiving the video transmission. Notices something within the formation. Freezes the image. Enlarges it. Enlarges again. INT. BLISTER - DAY Ash still working on the video image. Enhances the enlargement. Transfers the image to cathode ray. The image reveals itself to be a giant form. Indistinct. Ripley's voice comes over. RIPLEY (voice over) How's it going. Ash quickly shuts off the video image. Hits the intercom. INT. BRIDGE Ripley at her console. Looking at Ash on her screen. Ash's video image not visible to Ripley. ASH (voice over) All right. RIPLEY Have you tried putting the transmission through ECIU. ASH (voice over) Mother hasn't identified it as yet. It's not a language. RIPLEY I'll give it a shot. ASH (voice over) Be my guest. She pushes some button. The noise is now heard on her speaker. EXT. PLANET - DAY Dust clearing. Three tiny figures against the landscape. EXT. PLANET - DAY Empty landscape. Then Kane comes up over a rise startled by what he sees. Suddenly the transmission is deafening. KANE Jesus Christ. Dallas and Lambert join him equally startled. THEIR P.O.V. - DAY A gargantuan construction rising from the rock. Clearly of nonhuman manufacture. EXT. PLANET - DAY Noise still at shrill pitch. All members of the party shouting into their voice-amps. KANE Some kind of spaceship. LAMBERT Are you sure. It's weird... DALLAS Ash, can you see this. INT. ASH'S BLISTER - DAY Ash looking at the craft on a screen. ASH Yeah. Never seen one like it. Neither has Mother. DALLAS (voice over) Keep checking for enhancement. ASH Whatever the transmission is, it's inside that. KANE (voice over) I'll go in and have a look. DALLAS (voice over) Hold on. Ash, I don't see any lights or movements. Do you. ASH I can't get any reading. EXT. PLANET - DAY ASH (voice over) It's putting out so much power I just can't get any reading. Dallas shuts off his receiver. Sudden quiet. A long moment. DALLAS It looks pretty dead from here. We'll approach the base. They move toward the ship. INT. BLISTER - DAY Ash still adjusting image of form in rock. It suddenly resolves. A skeleton. Fifteen feet long. He enlarges the image. EXT. STRUCTURE - DAY The lower part of the entrance filled with dust and pumice. KANE Looks like an entrance. DALLAS Yeah... Let's move inside... They climb up to one of the apertures and enter. INT. CHAMBER - DAY They move into a high-ceilinged chamber. Walls covered with shadowy lattices. Ghostly light filters dust-filled air. A few meters in an opening appears. Dallas leans over and looks into the hole. Only blackness. He unclips the light from his belt. Shines it down into the hole. DALLAS It just goes down... smooth walls. I can't see the bottom, light won't reach. Kane and Lambert come over. Dallas begins unclipping gear from his belt. DALLAS Let's take a look around here first. Kane and Lambert exchange a glance. Dallas shines his light about, sees... A large, glossy urn, tan coloration. Round opening at the rop, empty within. Then Dallas shines his light on nearby lattice... Moves closer. DALLAS Over here. They approach. Train their lights along the floor. A machine. On the mechanism, a small bar moves steadily back and forth. Sliding noiselessly in the grooves. KANE Still functioning. Lambert looks down at her direction finder. LAMBERT Automatic recording. Dallas snaps it off. RIPLEY Ash, tell Dallas Mother speculates that the noise is some kind of warning. ASH (voice over) I can't tell him anything. I've lost contact. The transmission around the ship is killing all communications. Pause. RIPLEY I'm going out after them. ASH (voice over) I don't think so. We can't spare the personnel. We've got minimum takeoff capability right now. That's why Dallas left us on board. RIPLEY I still think we should go after them. ASH (voice over) What's the point. In the time it take to get there. They'll know if it's a warning. Ripley looks steadily at Ash on her monitor. His screen, not visible to her, shows blowup of helmeted, skeletal head. Not human. This just illustrates that Ash was acting covertly behind the scenes over the course of the entire film. I thought it was interesting that there was an URN onboard the derelict as well. Everything old is new again eventually. I also included the link in case anyone would be interested in reading over the material. It's an entertaining and deeper glimpse into a universe we all know so well. http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_shooting.html