A S H
"I can't lie to you about your chances but, you do have my sympathies.."
Science Officer on The Nostromo,
Ash was the science officer on the Nostromo. He was somewhat new to the crew and pretty much kept to himself. He was secretly told by the company to go to LV4-26 to obtain an alien lifeform for the company's bio weapons division. The mission stated that all crew was expendable. Ripley was suspicious of Ash's secret orders and couldn't find out anything more than it was classified. After Dallas was killed ripley took over as captain of the Nostromo. Ripley accessed mother's files and found out about ash and his mission. Ash knew she would interfere with his mission and he tried to kill Ripley. But Parker came to the rescue killed Ash by knocking off his head with a fire extinguisher, revealing he was indeed an android.