List of Alien Characters - Alien 3

Alien 3

• Ripley

Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the main character of all four Alien movies. The escape pod containing her, Newt, Corporal Hicks and Bishop crash lands on Fiorina 161 after an onboard fire on the Sulaco. She soon finds that she is the only female on the prison colony. Ripley discovers she has an Alien Queen embryo growing inside of her and that Weyland-Yutani will arrive at the colony to retrieve it. At the end of the movie, Ripley commits suicide by jumping into a gigantic furnace in order to prevent the company from getting their hands on the Alien Queen.

• Aaron

Aaron (Ralph Brown) is Superintendent Andrews' assistant and serves as a prison guard. He is not a religious man because he believes that so long as he has a job he does not need faith, although he seems to have a lot of faith in Weyland-Yutani. At his arrival, several prisoners catch a glance at his personal file, discovering his IQ is only 85, which they began using as a nickname for him. Aaron will often respond by telling whoever said it to not do so again, but this is always ignored. Aaron has a very strong trust in Weyland-Yutani, his employer. He usually acts as Andrews' parrot, echoing his opinions without stating any of his own. After Andrews died, Aaron attempts to take charge but the prisoners promptly refuse to allow him to do so. Ripley later tries to convince him several times that they do not care about him or any other employee, and in fact care more about capturing the two Aliens. He and Morse often got into heated arguments, especially after Morse let Golic out, who in turn allowed the alien to escape from the toxic waste dump they had contained it in. When Ripley tells him to send the rescue ship away, he sternly refuses, explaining that he wants to leave and see his wife and children again. Aaron eventually assists Ripley with the bio-scan she performs on herself aboard the crashed EEV and is one of the few people to know she is subject to Alien gestation.

After the scan is performed, Weyland-Yutani immediately sends a message to the prison stating that the rescue ship will arrive in a matter of hours to pick her up. At this point Aaron slowly arrives to a conclusion (that Weyland-Yutani does not care about him or the prisoners and only cares about the alien) that he exemplifies near the end of the film. When the prisoners decide to lure the alien into the lead, Aaron calls them crazy and locks himself into his office. It is apparent that while in his office he continued to think about the recent events and loses most, if not all, of his faith in Weyland-Yutani. When Michael Bishop lands with his team and tries to convince Ripley to leave with him, Aaron strikes Bishop with a large metal rod, nearly ripping his ear off. One of the soldiers accompanying Bishop immediately pushes Aaron out into the open and shoots him several times in the back. Aaron falls from a great height, landing on his back. He takes one last breath before dying with a look of disbelief on his face.

• Harold Andrews

Superintendent Harold Andrews (Brian Glover) is the warden of Fury 161. He often begins his addresses to the prisoners with the line "this is Rumor Control, here are the facts...". Andrews often mocked the prisoners behind their backs, calling them "Dillon's God Squad". He becomes increasingly annoyed with Ripley as she leaves the infirmary, and also takes this frustration out on Clemens, who he has never trusted. When Murphy is killed in the ventilation fan, Andrews further places blame on Ripley, suggesting that Murphy was concentrating more on her than he was on his work. When Golic returns from the scene of Boggs' and Rains' death covered in blood, Andrews believes that the "simple bastard" has murdered them. He does not believe Ripley's story concerning the Alien and her past involvement with the creature. He also tells Ripley that there are no weapons of any kind available to fend off her creature. Andrews quarantines Ripley to the infirmary having heard her story once he knows that Weyland-Yutani find her to be a high priority. Andrews attempts to organize a search party for Boggs and Rains in the mess hall when Ripley bursts in screaming after Clemens' death in the infirmary. Andrews becomes increasingly frustrated with her and orders Aaron to escort her back to the infirmary as not to cause a panic. The Alien then reaches down from an overhead air duct and pulls Andrews into the ceiling. A shower of blood rains down from the air duct, and the prisoners run amok in a panic.

• Jonathan Clemens

Jonathan Clemens (Charles Dance) was the medical doctor of Fury 161. When Ripley crashes into the oil sea, he nurses her back to health and begins showing her around. He even starts a personal relationship with her, much to the annoyance of Andrews. Clemens performs the autopsy on Newt as Ripley requested. He asks what they are looking for in the body of a girl who had obviously drowned, and Ripley tells him that they are investigating a possible case of cholera. Clemens firmly responds by stating that there has not been a case of cholera reported for 200 years. He knows that Ripley is hiding something from him, and to show that he would not lie to her, he explains why he has a bar code on the back of his head. When Clemens was on a residency, he got drunk after a long shift. The same night, there was a boiler explosion, causing forty injuries. Clemens was called back and, by prescribing the wrong pain killer dosage, was responsible for the deaths of 11 men. He was sentenced to Fiorina 161 and served his time, but chose to stay behind with the other inmates after they refused to leave. When Clemens ends his story, Ripley again lies about what has been going on around the prison. As Clemens injects her with a serum, the Alien lowers itself down behind him and lashes out through the curtains. After a very brief struggle, the Alien releases its inner jaw into Clemens' skull. Ripley and the mentally unstable Golic, strapped down in a bed, are the only witnesses.

• Dillon

Dillon (Charles S. Dutton) is the religious preacher of Fury 161 and acts as cleric to the prisoners. He not only leads them in prayer but stirs them to action in rousing speeches. He has a history as a murderer and rapist of women, but like the remaining prisoners, he has somehow managed to find God while incarcerated. He tries to keep the peace amongst the inmate population, attempting to appease Boggs and Rains' misgivings over Golic, and violently beating the men who plot to corner and rape Ripley.

Dillon is one of few prisoners who Ripley speaks to shortly after her arrival, and he asks her if she has any faith, and that his men have faith enough to accept and tolerate anyone. He delivers an eloquent eulogy during the funeral for Newt and Hicks, which touches Ripley. He later reprimands Boggs and Rains for their highly negative opinion of Golic, which they display openly. When prisoners try to rape Ripley, Dillon intervenes and beats them severely with a crowbar. After the Alien kills Andrews, Dillon leads everyone in a prayer, declaring that the apocalypse has come. After the attempt to trap the Alien in the toxic waste dump, he leads the survivors in a sermon that acts as an ode to the prisoners who died to ensure their victory.

After Golic escapes and frees the Alien from confinement, Dillon displays passionate anger towards Aaron and Morse, who are despairing. He tells Morse to get all the remaining prisoners together so they can formulate a new plan. Dillon and Aaron are then informed by Ripley about the Alien embryo within her. Dillon is disgusted with her after she asks him to kill her and the alien inside her, and refuses to grant her request. He promises to take care of her in a "quick, easy and painless" fashion once the Alien that is slaughtering the inmates is destroyed. Ripley explains to him that the Alien, if allowed to escape, will destroy all humanity. Dillon responds apathetically, stating that the prisoners have (or had) their own separate world on Fury 161. Shortly afterwards, Dillon gathers the prisoners together to bait the Alien into the leadworks foundry and kill it with molten lead. The strategy to draw the Alien into the mould quickly falls apart, and he is forced to improvise as the Alien attacks sporadically in the maze-like hallways and corridors. After the piston is activated, he entices the beast to attack him, in order to keep it in the lead mould. When Ripley reminds him of their pact and begs him to kill her, he only replies "God will take care of you now." He is eventually killed fighting the Alien in the lead mold, hoping to stall it long enough for Ripley to pour the lead, which she does, moments after he is torn to pieces.

• Golic

Golic (Paul McGann) was found guilty of 32 accounts of murder and dismemberment and 13 accounts of arson. It is implied that Golic went mad after he recalls that, as a young man, "girls liked me... for a while." He is something of an outcast in the prison, although he considers Morse a friend. Others dislike him, believing him to be a crazy and unpredictable. He goes out on trips to forage supplies from abandoned areas of the prison with Boggs and Rains, who find him intolerable. The only survivor of the alien's ambush in the tunnel, where Boggs and Rains were "slaughtered like pigs!" Golic is found in the cafeteria eating cereal, his face covered in blood, acting as if nothing happened. Assuming he turned on his fellow inmates, he is promptly strapped down to a bed in the infirmary, under close supervision by Clemens and Ripley. After his isolation, Andrews talks of Golic's unspeakable crimes, brutal even when compared to the crimes of the other men. In the medical ward, Golic speaks to Ripley about how he used to be a normal person. He utters an almost-mute "magnificent" after seeing the alien butcher Clemens.

In the theatrical version, after the alien kills Clemens and deems Ripley unfit to kill (as she was carrying a queen embryo at the time), Golic is no longer seen in the film and it is unknown whether he meets his demise at the hands of the Alien or not.

In the extended cut of the film, Golic persuades Morse to unstrap him in the infirmiry after hearing that the Alien has been trapped. He then knocks Morse out with a fire extinguisher and goes to the waste tank containing the creature. Prisoner Arthur has been left guarding the door, and Golic asks to see the beast, but is refused entry. Golic then brandishes a razor and cuts his throat, opens the door and is killed himself by the creature. Golic seems to think the alien is a holy creature, and frequently talks to it via what seems to be telepathy. It is unknown if the Alien was actually communicating with him or if he was imagining this because of his lunacy.

• Morse

Morse (Danny Webb) is loud, argumentative, cynical, and Golic's only friend. He can be physically distinguished by his short stature and many gold teeth. At first, he blames Ripley for bringing the Alien to the planet. After Andrews's death he and Aaron often clash in heated arguments. Golic, who has been restrained in the infirmiry since the death of Boggs and Rains, convinces Morse to let him loose. Golic then subdues Morse out and goes in search of the creature. Approaching the waste tank, he cuts Arthur's throat and opens the door, only to be killed himself. After Dillon's death, Morse helps Ripley get to the top of furnace so that she may throw herself into it, killing herself and the queen. While helping her, he is shot in the leg by a Weyland-Yutani soldier. He is the only resident of Fury 161 to survive. At the end of the film he is seen being led away by Weyland-Yutani personnel, and smiles as he realizes his success. He is vocal about his initial skepticism of trying to survive the encounter with the Alien, stating that although it killed many of his friends he wants to wait for Weyland-Yutani firepower to show up- in the end, however, he agrees to Ripley's course of action. According to the novelization of Alien Resurrection, it is likely he wrote about his experiences, invoking the android Call to take action.

• Boggs

Edward Boggs (Leon Herbert) is a large inmate who is assigned to accompany Rains and Golic on a routine foraging mission through the tunnels of the prison complex on Fiorina 161. He and Rains are both very vocal about not minding the dark tunnels, but they do firmly state that they feel uncomfortable around Golic, stating that he is crazy and smells bad. Dillon is the one to remind them that he is now one of the brothers as well. Boggs and Rains have no choice but to go with Golic. As the three are measuring the size of a large compartment, the candles they have lit to see in the dark start blowing out. A perplexed Rains goes back to light them again, but he does not come back. Boggs and Golic venture out to see what is happening after hearing his screams, though they arrive too late. The two of them find the bloody body and Boggs is subsequently lifted to the ceiling and bitten in the cranium by the Alien. His blood sprays all over Golic's face, who screams in terror and runs down the hallways.

• Rains

Rains (Christopher John Fields) is one of the first inmates to see Clemens bring Ripley back inside from the beach where he discovers her. He vocalizes his distaste for Golic with Boggs when they are assigned to go on a routine foraging expedition in the tunnels, but is reprimanded by Dillon for his attitude. As the three of them measure the size of a pitch black compartment, they realize their candles are being blown out. Rains takes a torch and investigates, believing that someone is fooling around. He paces down the tunnel and is alerted when some barrel containers are knocked over, with fleeting shadows being cast on the wall. While searching a small alcove, he hears something dripping next to his feet and looks down to see the alien, which prolongs his agonising demise. Boggs and Golic hear the commotion, but upon seeing what is happening, abandon their foraging mission and run down huge sewer tunnels for several minutes before arriving where they started, finding Rains' mutilated corpse sitting against a wall.

• David

David (Pete Postlethwaite) is an older, more educated inmate who knew about the hazardous materials stored in the facility's toxic waste dump. He also explains to Ripley why they call Aaron "85." He was killed by the Alien during the "bait and chase" plan to trap it in the furnace. While he was looking through the small window of a door he had managed to close between him and the creature, he thought he was safe. Unbeknown to David, the Alien found another way into the corridor and sneaked up behind him.

• Kevin

Kevin (Phil Davis) is a jittery and nervous inmate, almost violently so. He first appears as the inmate who assists Clemens with the autopsy of Newt that Ripley requests early in the film (in the theatrical cut). He alerts Clemens to the odd searches Ripley is performing on the body. He later argues with David about the alien and its capabilities shortly after they witness it killing Andrews. Later on, Kevin is one of the prisoners acting as bait to lead the Alien into the lead mold. After he closes a door, cutting himself off from the creature in the corridors, he warns everyone that the alien is very "pissed off." When the Alien eventually catches him, it pulls him onto the ceiling where Dillon eventually finds him and pulls him down. Dillon and Ripley drag him towards the furnace, but Kevin soon bleeds to death on the floor of the piston chamber. After he dies, Ripley suggests they leave the body, but the Alien quickly returns, takes the body, and causes the piston to start too early.

• Junior

Ted "Junior" Gillas (Holt McCallany) is a younger and more silent prisoner, sentenced for aggressive sexual crimes. He is easily recognizable via the teardrop tattoo he has below his right eye and the welding goggles he often wears. He led a group of prisoners who attempted to rape Ripley and in turn was assaulted by Dillon for doing so. He later sacrifices himself during the quinitricetyline accident to allow Ripley and the remaining prisoners escape. He succeeds in helping them in their plan, which was to trap the alien in the toxic waste dump. After briefly looking at Ripley, who is trying to distract the alien so he can escape, Junior decides to sacrifice himself and reach redemption for his rape attempt. He runs inside the waste dump, the alien follows, and the door is closed behind them. He is heard screaming shortly afterwards.

• Gregor

Gregor (Peter Guinness) was one of the prisoners who assisted Junior in the attempted rape of Ripley at the junkyard. When Dillon makes it to the scene and attacks Junior, it is evident that Gregor was severely beaten as well. The Assembly Cut shows him to be badly burned in the fire and thus explains the white bandaging he wears for the second half of the film. After the failed attempt to trap the alien in the toxic waste dump, Gregor joins the rest of the inmates and uses himself as bait to lure the Alien into the lead mold. As he runs down a hall away from the Alien, he has a head on collision with Morse and the two fall to the floor. They both stand up and, assuming that the other prisoner is the alien, attempt to attack each other before recognizing each other. Finding some humor in this situation, the two of them share a lighthearted moment, laughing and fooling around. As the two giggle at their predicament, the creature charges up from behind Morse and slays Gregor.

In the assembly cut, Gregor's character is expanded upon and he is shown to be agnostic.

• Frank

Frank (Carl Chase) has served many years in his life sentence and is a good friend of Murphy. It is hinted that he was sentenced to Fiorina for killing women, as he states that the only way to have a good relationship is to treat women abusively. He is killed by the alien when it grabs him. As a result, he drops a paintbrush full of quinitricetyline, which in turn causes a massive explosion that kills several.

• Jude

Jude (Vincenzo Nicoli) appears to be of central European descent, possibly Slovak. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in the first degree without a weapon. When the prisoners band together to trap the Alien in lead, Jude carries a pair of scissors to use as a weapon against the beast. In one of the film's only scenes of comic relief, he is reprimanded by Morse for carrying them the wrong way. As more and more inmates are killed off, Jude eventually is chased towards the end of a corridor where Dillon is waiting for him. Dillon calls for Jude to run faster, but the Alien catches up quickly. Jude does reach Dillon, but is pulled back into the corridor before the door can finish closing and is gored by the Alien while screaming for help.

• Eric

Eric (Niall Buggy) is the jittery inmate who serves as the cook on Fiorina. He is killed by the Alien during the plan to trap it in the furnace. He uses a meat cleaver as a weapon against the monster, and his body is found by Ripley.

• Troy

Troy (Paul Brennen) is a prisoner who serves as a technician and handyman with Fiorina's equipment. He was addicted to tobacco and was almost always seen chewing it. Troy was a quieter prisoner and when he did speak he was almost always complaining. During the attempt to trap the alien, he and Arthur sifted through batteries to find some that worked and he loudly complained about how few were in working condition. In the film's bait and chase climax, he was grabbed by the alien and "stuck" to the ceiling while trying to assist the other prisoners.

• Arthur

Arthur (Deobia Oparei) is a large Jamaican inmate. He is present when Andrews gives his second 'Rumor Control' speech in the mess hall, where he sees the alien for the first time. Arthur is seen again later when the group are trying to decide who is in charge now that Andrews is dead. While the prisoners prepare to capture the Alien, Arthur and Troy are seen checking flashlight batteries. After the explosion, Arthur is in a search party for surviving prisoners, though they find none. He is then put on watch duty to guard the door of the waste tank. In the infirmary, Morse releases Golic from his strait jacket after he begs to be let out. While Arthur is on duty, Golic approaches the waste tank. Arthur does his best to reason with the insanely babbling prisoner, but is caught by surprise when Golic swiftly slits his throat with a razorblade. Looking at Golic in stunned disbelief, Arthur bleeds to death on the floor while Golic screams a panicked, maniacal apology.

• Murphy

Thomas Murphy (Christopher Fairbank) is a prisoner who is younger than most of the prisoners on Fiorina. He spent most of his early life on the run from the law. A conversation between Frank and Murphy in the assembly cut implies that he has been sentenced to prison for sexual deviance and probably abuse as well. He appears to have a shorter prison sentence than most and often volunteers to help in efforts (like finding survivors from the EEV) in attempts to shave a few months off of his sentence. He is the first person killed by the Alien. He is first introduced in the theatrical cut searching the EEV for survivors with his dog, and later mourns over it after the alien emerges from it (though he thinks a human did it). Later, he is seen cleaning the giant air ducts of the prison. He steps on the aliens shed skin and is clearly disgusted by his find. He hears noises coming from a hole in the wall, and goes to investigate, believing it to be his dog, Spike. He soon realizes it is not his pet pooch but a juvenile Alien. Before he can pull his head out of the hole, the alien spits acid into his face. He stammers backwards in agony and accidentally tumbles into a large spinning fan, killing him instantaneously. In the theatrical cut, Murphy's dog Spike is the victim of the facehugger, resulting in an Alien with more mammalian features. However, in the assembly cut of Alien³, the dog was not the creature attacked and impregnated.

The song Murphy sings while cleaning the vent shafts is "In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans.

• William

William (Clive Mantle) is a large but panicky inmate. He is revealed in the Assembly Cut to be agnostic. William was a member of the group of prisoners who tried to rape Ripley. He was later seen agonizing over who would direct the prisoners after Andrews' death. He and Gregor are later paired together during the attempt to drown the alien in hot lead. He was killed in an offscreen death.

• Vincent

Vincent (Jerry Sayer) is one of the inmates who uses himself as bait to try to trap the Alien in the lead works. At one point, David rounds a corner and finds a corpse on the floor, calling out "I think I've found Vincent!" He is the first inmate to be killed during the plan to lure the creature into the leadworks. The role is not listed in the film's credits, as Vincent is primarily an extra who is killed in the bait and chase sequence.

• Bishop (android)

In the opening scene of Alien 3, a fire aboard the Sulaco causes the four survivors from Aliens to be launched in an Emergency Escape Vehicle (EEV) while still in hypersleep. Ripley is the only survivor when the EEV crashes on Fiorina "Fury" 161, the site of a penal colony. The prisoners indicate that Bishop was smashed beyond repair, but Ripley partially repairs his speech and memory functions. He reveals the events that followed the conclusion of Aliens, including that an Alien facehugger was aboard the Sulaco and that a fire was the cause of the passengers' ejection. He then asks Ripley to disconnect him permanently, saying, "I can be reworked, but I'll never be top of the line again. I'd rather be nothing." Ripley complies with his request.

However, in the novelization by Alan Dean Foster, Ripley desires to keep him functional, musing "Sorry, Bishop, but you're like an old calculator. Friendly and comfortable. If you can be repaired, I'm going to see that it comes to pass..."

• Michael Bishop II

The "designer" of the android Bishop, Michael (Lance Henriksen) is a scientist in the employ of the Weyland-Yutani corporation. Ripley meets him in the furnace and first assumes that he is a droid sent by the company, the same model as Bishop, but he reveals who he really is. He also tells her that he and his medical team will extract the alien queen inside her and destroy it. Ripley believes that he is a liar and backs away towards the furnace. He lets his cover slip and pleads that it is a magnificent specimen and that he must have it. She willingly sacrifices herself by free falling into the giant lead smelter, much to his despair.

• The Alien

The Alien egg inside the dropship contained a facehugger that impregnated Ripley with the Alien Queen and a dog with a typical embryo. The result is an Alien also referred to as "the Runner"' (played by Tom Woodruff, Jr.), which walks on all fours like its host. In the Assembly Cut, the creature is different from previous appearances: it's bigger and darker, described by the producers as a "super facehugger". This kind of creature is capable of implanting a Queen embryo in a host and a normal alien in another, creating the basis for a new nest.