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Podcast: FRUMESS
Episode: Should the NEW Sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien feature Ash the Android (Ian Holm)?
Description: There is a new Alien film coming. Should Ash come back?
Ash from the film Alien (1979) portrayed by actor Ian Holm serves as the secondary antagonist of the first film. The character is the science officer of the Nostromo, who breaks quarantine by allowing Kane, a member of the crew, back on board after he has been infected by an alien life form. It is later discovered that Ash is not human, as he appears, but is a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2 android, a sleeper agent who is acting upon secret orders to bring back the alien lifeform...