We open with a pale white alien on a desolate planet. He drinks something and dies, with his body falling into a river and dissolving into the water.
Later, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) finds an ancient archeological site with a cave painting showing a tall being and a pattern of stars. She is very excited as this same pattern is found in many places and many cultures.
We then cut to years later on board the Prometheus. The robot David is running the ship while the crew is in hypersleep. They arrive at their destination and the crew awaken. They include executive Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron), who is paying for the mission. Shaw briefs everyone on the reason for the mission - she thinks that aliens created life on Earth and that the constellation of stars drawn in the cave painting shows where the aliens come from - the planet they are arriving at. She calls the aliens Engineers, as she believes they engineered humans.
They take the ship down and find an ancient structure. They they find it abandoned and dead - but the body of a giant alien is still there, along with a room full of weird cases which seem full of black slime. The alien looks just like the "Space Jockey" from the original movie Alien.
Most of them head back to the ship as a big storm arrives, taking the skull of the alien with them, but two of the expedition are cut off and left behind and have to spend the night in the structure.
The alien skull turns out to be a helmet - the head inside appears like the same pale skin humanoid species as the alien we see at the start of the film. They try to reanimate it but the procedure goes wrong and the head explodes with goo, almost contaminating the ship.
David, meanwhile, has been acting on orders from some unseen source, apparently acting at odds with the crew. He gets a sample of the black goo and deliberately infects Shaw's boyfriend, who has sex with Shaw and infects her.
Back in the structure the cases have leaked black goo all over. There are worm like things in the goo that kill the two scientists left behind. After the storm clears and the team come back they are horrified to find the dead bodies. Shaw's boyfriend collapses, sick, and they run back to the ship. But Meredith refuses to let him in because the infection is raging through him, and he begs her to kill him. She uses a flamethrower on him until he collapses.
Shaw comes aboard and finds that she is pregnant with an alien, a result of her infection. David tries to force her to keep the creature but she uses a robot surgeon to remove the horrible squid-like creature. Worse, her boyfriend's charred body gets up and starts attacking everyone like a zombie until eventually they manage to stop him by running a truck over him. Shaw leaves the squid thing locked in the infirmary and warns them all that they have to go. The Engineer aliens are warriors, and the various monsters are things they have created as biological weapons.
It turns out that the source of David's secret orders is the company head himself, Peter Weyland. He is very very old, and hopes the Engineer aliens might be able to restore his health with their advanced knowledge. Under his orders they all go back to the ship and revive the last surviving Engineer, who's been sleeping in a hypersleep tube.
But it goes wrong - the Engineer rips David's head off and hits Weyland with it, activating his ship as Shaw escapes. Apparently the Engineers created life on Earth (this appears to be what the one we saw at the beginning was doing, seeding Earth with his own DNA), and now they intend to destroy earth with their monsters.
As his ship lifts off - it's identical to the one the Nostromo finds - the Prometheus captain takes off and smashes it, bringing it down. Meredith escapes the crash in a lifeboat which contains the infirmary Shaw used, with the squid monster still there, but she is then killed as the alien ship comes down, leaving only Shaw - and David's head, which is still functioning.
The Engineer pilot also survives the crash and chases after Shaw, into the lifeboat. She releases the squid monster and it jumps on him, shoving a tube into his throat. Shaw escapes with David's head and they find another alien ship. She takes off, determined to find the alien home world and ask them why they decided to destroy Earth.
Later, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) finds an ancient archeological site with a cave painting showing a tall being and a pattern of stars. She is very excited as this same pattern is found in many places and many cultures.
We then cut to years later on board the Prometheus. The robot David is running the ship while the crew is in hypersleep. They arrive at their destination and the crew awaken. They include executive Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron), who is paying for the mission. Shaw briefs everyone on the reason for the mission - she thinks that aliens created life on Earth and that the constellation of stars drawn in the cave painting shows where the aliens come from - the planet they are arriving at. She calls the aliens Engineers, as she believes they engineered humans.
They take the ship down and find an ancient structure. They they find it abandoned and dead - but the body of a giant alien is still there, along with a room full of weird cases which seem full of black slime. The alien looks just like the "Space Jockey" from the original movie Alien.
Most of them head back to the ship as a big storm arrives, taking the skull of the alien with them, but two of the expedition are cut off and left behind and have to spend the night in the structure.
The alien skull turns out to be a helmet - the head inside appears like the same pale skin humanoid species as the alien we see at the start of the film. They try to reanimate it but the procedure goes wrong and the head explodes with goo, almost contaminating the ship.
David, meanwhile, has been acting on orders from some unseen source, apparently acting at odds with the crew. He gets a sample of the black goo and deliberately infects Shaw's boyfriend, who has sex with Shaw and infects her.
Back in the structure the cases have leaked black goo all over. There are worm like things in the goo that kill the two scientists left behind. After the storm clears and the team come back they are horrified to find the dead bodies. Shaw's boyfriend collapses, sick, and they run back to the ship. But Meredith refuses to let him in because the infection is raging through him, and he begs her to kill him. She uses a flamethrower on him until he collapses.
Shaw comes aboard and finds that she is pregnant with an alien, a result of her infection. David tries to force her to keep the creature but she uses a robot surgeon to remove the horrible squid-like creature. Worse, her boyfriend's charred body gets up and starts attacking everyone like a zombie until eventually they manage to stop him by running a truck over him. Shaw leaves the squid thing locked in the infirmary and warns them all that they have to go. The Engineer aliens are warriors, and the various monsters are things they have created as biological weapons.
It turns out that the source of David's secret orders is the company head himself, Peter Weyland. He is very very old, and hopes the Engineer aliens might be able to restore his health with their advanced knowledge. Under his orders they all go back to the ship and revive the last surviving Engineer, who's been sleeping in a hypersleep tube.
But it goes wrong - the Engineer rips David's head off and hits Weyland with it, activating his ship as Shaw escapes. Apparently the Engineers created life on Earth (this appears to be what the one we saw at the beginning was doing, seeding Earth with his own DNA), and now they intend to destroy earth with their monsters.
As his ship lifts off - it's identical to the one the Nostromo finds - the Prometheus captain takes off and smashes it, bringing it down. Meredith escapes the crash in a lifeboat which contains the infirmary Shaw used, with the squid monster still there, but she is then killed as the alien ship comes down, leaving only Shaw - and David's head, which is still functioning.
The Engineer pilot also survives the crash and chases after Shaw, into the lifeboat. She releases the squid monster and it jumps on him, shoving a tube into his throat. Shaw escapes with David's head and they find another alien ship. She takes off, determined to find the alien home world and ask them why they decided to destroy Earth.
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