Shaw Can Return – If They Want

That dissected body looks like its Shaw.

Probaly experimented on while she was in cryo sleep.

David is a treacherous individual and she should know better.

If the dissected body is the original Shaw, why is there a tomb with her name outside the building? :)

Great catch Ati!

I  imagine the Engineers city has vast amounts of cloning and experimenting labs? They must have plenty of cool 'toys' laying around?

Space mines to trap unsuspecting space travelers?  

MonsterZero, thank you! To tell you the truth, I thought this topic would generate more comments. Am I the only one who would like to see Shaw in the next movie?

Love to see more Shaw. Or just read a novel on just what did happen with her and David. BigDave has many great ideas in another thread.

The two of them could of had multiple adventures on many different worlds before arriving at this one.

Hope someone fanfics these angles/possible stories.

I was interested in Alien Covenant solely for the David/Shaw relationship. My disappointment in the lack of exploration and answers was... tremendous. I wasn't expecting the whole movie to be about them, but after the tantalizing glimpses we were allowed in the Prologue, I thought we might get at least a little back-story and some explanations about Shaw's fate.

And we got nothing.

I would pay a lot of money just to see what happened between the end of Prometheus and the beginning of Covenant (to David and Elizabeth). I sincerely hope we get a few decent answers in the next movie (if it gets made). 

with the level of technology and science involved, there's a lot of room to allow for Shaw being among the living.

The tomb has probably an symbolic character without any body buried in it.

Shaw was clearly killed by David (choked to death) as you can see that marks on her neck when Walter observed her remainings.

David tried the same choke-to-death with Daniels but luckly Walter intervened before this happened.

I mean i really like the story-arc of Shaw and expected more. Specifically her search for humanity's origins and maybe some more Engineer stuff.

But now it seems R.Scott just destoryed and interesting side-story-arc before it really started.

Gralen, creation of a symbolic tomb would be reasonable if you don't have the body of the dead person because he/she had disappeared or something similar.

But we have the body if the dissected one is the original Shaw.

We are facing a contradiction here. That's why I think it's possible that David used clones.

As sad it is, she is definitely dead.

Keep in mind she was together with the same David from Prometheus which killed her boyfriend and impregnated her with the trilobite-like alien creature.

It's logical he tries to continue his experiments and pretends to suddenly be a good guy to get her trust (in a programmed seductive way).

Then he lies to her about how long it takes to get to planet 4 (Paradise,etc) and make her entering the hypersleep chamber, so he can study the Engineers way of genetic-engineering which he combines with his programmed desire to 'create' life.

The end result is that he started his experiments on her again.

watching a:c again and something stuck out.

when david is showing oram around the shop of horrors he says to oram: "these are OUR successes"

which implies that he wasnt alone in their creation.

so david sees shaw as part of the creation.

is this because he used her body for parts or to create the eggs.

OR maybe shaw is somewhere else. she even knows of the experiments and played a hand in it - the only reason shaw would go along with such a thing is if she thought humanity was at risk if she never.

i think there is a small chance of shaw returning and i would want that but not nearly as much as i would like an engineer or a certain character in the fresco to appear

sounds a stretch in the predictable world of covenant though

No clones please.

"I'm going to do to you...what I did to her."

Pretty clear as day line delivered from David. He killed her. Made the monument in her memory (in some strange way he DID care for her) and then used her body for experiments.

End transmission.

 Maybe she was dying from the original alien infection inside her, so he killed her as an act of "compassion"

Still doesn't fit. That line really makes David out to be a malicious psychopath. There aren't very many endearing ways to make that line sound good. 

They tried to make him a sort of anti-hero. He comes across creepy and malevolent. Sorry, he was well written in Prometheus, that luster sort of worn off in AC.