R I P L E Y
"Ash are you kidding? This thing bled acid, who knows what it's going to do when it's dead."
Warrant Officer On The Nostromo
Ripley was the Warrant Officer on the Nostromo. She was the smart thinker through the whole first movie. She didn't think it was a good idea to allow Kane back on the Nostromo because he might infect the crew. She was terrified when Dallas died. After that she became captain of the ship. She thought that they should corner the alien into the airlock and blow it outside. Lambert disagreed. She thought it would be safer to escape in the shuttle. Ripley accepted this plan and sent the others for coolent and they bother were killed. Ripley saw them dead and with her cat jonsy escaped to the shuttle. But the alien had followed her onto the shuttle without her knowing. Ripley saw it, and got in a spacesuit, opened the hatch on the shuttle and shot the alien with a harpoon gun. Sending the alien out into space. There it was killed when Ripley threw the shuttle's thrust on and the alien got blasted away.