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Alien Harry Dean Stanton1
Brett
Biographical information
Born
Died

2122

Rank Engineer
Serial/ID number ID# 724/R4-06J
Physical description
Gender Male
Species Human
Hair color Brown
Eye color Brown
Chronological and political information
Affiliation

Weyland-Yutani original logo Weyland-Yutani

Status

Deceased

Behind the Scenes information
First appearance Alien
Last appearance Alien: Isolation
Portrayed by Harry Dean Stanton

Brett was the engineering technician who served aboard the commercial towing vessel Nostromo and a good friend of his engineering chief, Parker.

History[]

While returning from a job in the Solomons, the ship passed through the Zeta II Reticuli system when the Nostromo's onboard computer, "mother", awakened them from cryosleep prematurely. During breakfast, Brett and Parker complained about the "bonus situation", stating that they were unsatisfied with the share percentage they were receiving for their work. When the ship's captain, Dallas, ordered the crew to respond to a distress beacon, Brett and Parker angled for full shares. They reminded Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, that rescue work was outside their job description.

The Nostromo crew responded to the beacon and landed the ship on a planetoid, which later came to be known as Acheron. The weather conditions on the planetoid's surface were extremely violent and the ship suffered extensive damage while trying to land. Brett and Parker noted that it would take anywhere between seventeen to twenty-five hours to affect repairs.

While Brett worked on repairing the damaged drop-ship, three of the other crew members explored the planet's surface and first officer Commander Kane was injured by an alien embryo, which had attached itself to his face. Despite quarantine procedures, both Kane and the embryo were brought on board. A small alien creature subsequently burst out of Kane's chest and disappeared into the ship. It quickly grew into a seven-foot, adult-sized Xenomorph and began hiding in the air ducts of the ship. The rest of the crew had yet to realize how large it had grown.

Dallas charged Ripley, Parker and Brett with the task of hunting the creature down. While Parker brought along a net, Brett carried a cattle-prod with him. Ripley used a tracking scanner designed by their science officer Ash to get a lock on the alien's location. While exploring the cargo bay, the scanner locked in on a signal, but it only turned out to be Ripley's cat, Jonesy. The cat ran off and Parker and Ripley sent Brett out to recover it. They needed to catch the cat or else it would just continue to send out false signals. Brett found Jonesy in the maintenance bay, but unfortunately for him, he also found something else. The Xenomorph descended from the upper workings of the bay and speared Brett with its secondary jaw. It then wrapped its tail around him and dragged him up into the cooling ducts.

Trivia[]

BrettEgg

Brett turning into an egg in a cut scene, in Ridley Scott's director's cut of the film.

  • In a deleted scene, while escaping from the Nostromo Ripley stumbles upon the creature's lair, where she finds Brett deceased and Dallas alive but both cocooned in the walls and slowly dissolving into a slurry to provide nutrients for the alien eggs in which they are enclosed
  • . At Dallas' urging, Ripley hesitantly incinerates both him and Brett with a flamethrower.
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