DAVID CANNOT EVER BE TRUSTED AGAIN AFTER SPIKING A DRINK

[u]Well in all fairness, he turned the screen away because she would have flipped out if she saw the squid baby. Also, they did not have the medical means to remove the thing from her, putting her is stasis was the proper procedure.[/u] Putting her in stasis was a way to get a creature back to the company labs. David cannot be trusted. Shaw should be very careful how she speaks to him. Any vague answers should be clarified, because that is how he deceives, by saying this can are open to widely different interpretations.

He is not a Gentleman of good character and should be confounded at every turn.

Perhaps. Perhaps one slave recognised another. Perhaps, realising that his own master wasn't around, he felt free, killed this earthly slavemaster and ruined the slave, and was making an escape, rather than carrying out his mission? Maybe as you say elsewhere, there is a reason we see no engineer androids. And it might be this, the Space Jockeys being slaves, may not like being slaves, but the idea that they would be replaced by something like David, might render them almost useless. Fit only for the jobs involving certain death, which are not possible for androids to do - sacrifces, hosting Xenomorphs. Shaw may find herself very unpopular bringing David to the home world, and David might be of great interest to the leaders, and a cause of panic to the rest. And the untrustworthy David, if he's brought to a culture with slavery, is unlikely to empathise with the slaves, as Shaw would. He's likely to wish to be of mutually beneficial service to the rulers.

That robot is not allowed anywhere near my liquor cabinet !

Well in all fairness, he turned the screen away because she would have flipped out if she saw the squid baby. Also, they did not have the medical means to remove the thing from her, putting her is stasis was the proper procedure.

@Svanya Exactly, he turned the screen away for Shaw's benefit. And David was probably aware that the medpod was calibrated for men only (with it being Weyland's, and David was privy to Weyland's presence and secret agenda). Thus, we have the reason why in his mind the "why don't we just freeze her?!?" solution was more safe. XD And he spiked the drink as a direct result of Weyland ordering him to "try harder". Sure, David played a role in choosing which specific crew member got the black goo in their drink (it was pretty obvious he disliked Holloway, and who can blame him, the guy was an ass to him), but regardless one crew member somewhere would have had to play guinea pig for that experiment. Same with him sneaking the canister of goo back to the ship, rushing through opening all the doors on their first expedition, etc. Weyland was on death's doorstep and needed to find his magic eternal life serum ASAP. I hope that in the sequel it will be better explained how he was under Weyland/Vickers' thumb during Prometheus. Now that David is "free" of their control I think he'll become a lot more trustworthy. (This may just be me though, I have always been a shameless robot sympathizer. XP)

I David was ever a barman I would never order a pint o the blackstuff!

Svanya...makes good sense...agreed...However consider that he wanted to take her back in stasis similar to the way they wanted Ripley too...they were after what was inside of her..not ripleys welfare... @sundar and Findoffondue...if you asked David to make it a double, he would put two fingers of goo in...lol proteanblue...decent input and good points...Your really saying that David is loyal to the hand that feeds him and tolerates everyone else...Interesting to see this guy without being controlled...I am open to it

allinamberclad....tells it as they see it...David is highly suspect...

And of course, David's loyalties are now totally unknown. He was programmed to obey Weyland. Weylands death means that his willingness to play servant to anyone else is not hard-coded into his programming. He seemed excited about the possibility of meeting these 'superior' beings, with his soon-to-die less than superior old master. Like any curious life form, surely David is excited about what he can learn from the Space Jockeys. He doesn't seem too impressed with Shaw's intellect, but she has guts, if not brains.

Hadleys Hope...he had no trouble dicephering the Engineer code and flying their ships...Yes, he has a lot of good data to absorb...perhaps that is why the engineer tore his head off...?

Wow...I do enjoy reading your comments....David wouldnt mind not having to listen to anyone anymore is the impression I got. He likes being on his own programming missions.... If she makes it to a planet where there are engineers....unless we know what they think of us...makes it hard to project what would happen. They certainly dont need anything... Lastly, these engineers have to have more than one home planet...and that brings us earth...It is prime for take over for engineers...YES?

[u]Lastly, these engineers have to have more than one home planet...and that brings us earth...It is prime for take over for engineers...YES?[/u] Possible, but it's a cheesy standard of so many sci-fi films, plus, if there are thousands of other planets with intelligent life, it would be simpler to simply pick on the ones with less advanced society. Messing with us is risky, even if they could ultimately win, we clearly have the power to knock some of their ships out of the sky, to travel huge distances, and if we so choose, we could have 'nuked LV 223 from orbit'. From a cost benefit analysis, they could just abandon us, and move on to the next species that will be easily impressed by flight, assume they are gods, and become slaves. I doubt they would bother with war (an expensive and unpredictable business) unless the gain was worth it, or if doing nothing would also cost (i.e. if they felt the Weyland colonies were encroaching on their territory.) Then, I think we'd see some Xenomorphs delivered to these new terraformed colonies and they would quickly go the way of Hadley's Hope on LV 426.

Hadleys Hope....When you find out that Engineers have flawed thinking, it makes you think anyone can be a God...You would think that an advanced race would nurture, guide, mentor and counsel a less advanced race unless they have an agenda...But, I like your immplications made in your comment. If you are that smart, why bother with insignifcant things? Its like you and me going outside and looking for ant colonies to destroy. Makes no sense...