B U R K E
"I work for the company, but really I'm an okay guy.."
Company Advisor, Wetland Yeutani,
After Ripley had been found 57 years later. Burke was assigned to help her with her court case. Ripley was charged with the illeagel detonating of an M-Class Freighter. The company reps didn't beleive Ripley's story but the heads of Wetland knew. Burke was told that the aliens were on LV4-26 and he told the colony "Hadley's Hope" to go and retreive a speciman. This winded up killing the whole colony off besides Newt. When they lost contact with the colony on LV4-26 Burke was ordered to follow Gorman to the planet to investigate and they asked Ripley to go to, to end her Nightmare. She went and Ripley checked the mainframes and found out that Burke had ordered the colonists to get a speciman. This angered Ripley "Your not gonna weasel out of this one Burke. I'm gonna make sure they nail you to the wall. Right to the wall.." Burke knew he was in danger and he still had no speciman so he planned to put two of the live facehuggers in with Newt and Ripley while they were asleep and lock them in the room. Then when they knew they had been infected, would have had no choice but to let burke freeze them. Then burke could rig the freezer up so he passed ICC coorinteen. Ripley woke up and heard the facehuggers and Lit her lighter next to the sprinklers, setting off the fire alarm. Hicks, Vasquez, and Hudson found heard the fire alarm and went to the room and saw the facehuggers and saved them. "I saw we grease this rat-f*ck son of a b*tch right now" As Hudson said. But Ripley wanted to keep him alive so he could be prosocuted. When the aliens broke into their room Burke fled and locked the doors behind them. Planning to kill all of them, he ran and locked all the doors behind him, trapping them. But the marines were able to weld the doors open. As Burke entered one room, and alien was there waiting for him.
Note* In the laserdisc version of aliens there is a scene where when Ripley goes to look for Newt, she finds Burke cocooned up against the wall. He pleads with her to kill him. Ripley, in a hurry, hands him an M40 grenade. And Burke detonates it, killing himself. This scene was cut because it didn't make sense time wise and disrupted the flow of the movie. Burke was cocooned and impregnated be an alien in less than 5 minutes, and most people beleive that it takes longer than that.