- Alien: Earth ends with a major power dynamic shift.
- The final episode of the show's first season aired on September 23, 2025.
- Fans are wondering what happened to Wendy as a Xenomorph is loose.
The Alien: Earth finale leaves me wanting more in the best way. It delivered on the scary. It had a few reveals, and set up some tantalizing story possibilities for the future. Let's break down what happened and what it means for the future of Wendy and her science fiction Lost Boys.
Leading up to the finale, the characters were scattered across the island where our story takes place, pitting human/synthetic hybrid children against lethal aliens in a lab setting. Wendy, Joe, and Nibs were trying to run away. They weren't the only ones on the loose. A Xenomorph, AKA the titular alien species from Alien, got out and started terrorizing the island. The only one the creature listens to is, apparently, Wendy herself. Meanwhile, Slightly and Smee were on a secret mission given to them by a potentially nefarious man named Morrow that resulted in the death of the scientist Arthur. Morrow also arrived on the island with soldiers from the Weyland-Utani corporation tasked with taking back the Xenomorph, eyeball monster, and other alien life that arrived on Earth via Morrow's doomed Weyland-Utani spaceship.
Did Wendy and her brother escape Neverland Island?
They did not. The Prodigy Corporation soldiers/security found the would-be runaways at the end of the penultimate episode. The Lost Boys are locked in one cell. Joe and Morrow are locked in a separate cell. Fed up with people telling her what to do and who to be, Wendy uses the power she has over technology to "haunt" the lab by messing with Kirsh, a synthetic, and sending unsettling footage of the Lost Boys from when they were 100 percent human, real, living kids to all of the available screens. She traps soldiers in an elevator. She flickers the lights, unlocks their cage, and sends the kids set out to round up the adults. She can even freeze other, more robotic synthetics in place. How is Wendy able to control so much? It appears that as long as something is connected to Prodigy's network she can access and control it.
By the end of the episode, the Lost Boys have control of the island. They lock Boy K, Sylvia, Kirsh, Morrow, and Atom Eins (who reveals himself to be a synthetic in the episode... but like... we could kinda tell, buddy) in a jail cell. Wendy calls her Xenomorph buddy and the new baby to guard the cell on her command. They're in charge now. Well, mostly. Besides the major power dynamic shift, there are a few loose ends that set up adventures for a potential Alien: Earth Season 2.
Did the creepy eye monster find a new home?
One of the breakout characters on Alien: Earth is a creature called an "ocellus" that looks like a single eyeball with squid tentacles. In the finale, Boy Kavalier planned to "feed" Wendy's brother Joe to the monster. Lucky for him, Joe's not as weak and unintelligent as Boy K assumed and manages to hold the ocellus off. Wendy arrives just in time to help him escape that particular fate. Even though she's worried that he'll side with humans over synthetics like her, she keeps him on her side.
Meanwhile, the ocellus scampers down to the beach, where it finds Arthur's dead and bloody body. This poor guy already had a facehugger impregnate him with a baby Xenomorph that burst out of his chest. Now he's the new parasitic host for the creepy eyeball. The scene ended before we got to hear him speak, which is a bummer. I really, really, really can't wait to hear what that alien has to say and whose side he chooses.
What's going on with the Peter Pan of it all?
Throughout the season, Alien: Earth has played with allusions to J.M. Barrie's adventures about the Boy Who Never Grew Up. Some are intentional references within the context of the show. For example, the children were named by Marcy/Wendy with gentle prodding by Boy K after Lost Boys in a metaphor/marketing campaign because the Prodigy leader is a fan. Others are baked into the world, like how they're being chased by a morally questionable grown-up with a hook hand and one of the girls' given names is Jane, like Wendy Darling's daughter.
At the end of the episode, Wendy refutes the way Boy K identifies with Peter Pan. (He did admit to killing his own father in the episode, which was a wild and not very Pan-like lore drop, even if the original story is darker than we remember.) "You were never a boy," Wendy says. "You've always been a man. A mean, angry little man." He's not Peter Pan and they're not children. They're another thing entirely and deserve respect.
Who's coming to the island at the end?
There are more representatives from Weyland-Utani en route to the island at the end of the episode. They're going to want their aliens back. They may even want the synthetics back as well... if they can manage to catch them. Until next season! We are getting a next season, right??
