Originally, there was no subplot with the Company betraying the crew. When David Giler and Walter Hill re-wrote the first draft by Dan O' Bannon and Ronald Shusett, they wanted to find ways to make the plot more interesting. They initially added a third act twist, where the ship's CPU had a hidden directive. Mother was supposed to allow the facehugged Kane into the ship, despite Ripley's objections. Although the Company had programmed Mother to reroute the Nostromo, and investigate the origin of the species, the computer functioned under its own special protocol. As Mother states in the final scenes, she was not keen on betraying the crew, but she took a neutral place by allowing the creature to enter the ship, gestate and evolve. When Ripley scolds Mother, the CPU retorts that her allegiance lies only to science. The data for this "key-product" would be fascinating for the scientific world. The producers and writers finally realized that this revelation would be too reminiscent of HAL 9000 in 2001: Odissea nello spazio (1968). They kept Mother as the CPU, but incorporated Ash as the seventh and final character, who was always intended to be the spy. He was written as an android, and much of his attitude echoes the scrapped Mother storyline (he opens the hatch to allow the parasite to enter the ship, despite the quarantine rules. In the Director's Cut, he monitors the stain inside Kane, but lets it incubate, he wants to keep the dead facehugger for further studies, and he repeatedly expresses his wonder for the new fascinating species). Ash even had extra dialogue about the key products found in space, and the orders by the Company, but Ridley Scott ultimately decided to streamline the death scene of him, and make it more foreboding for the remaining crew.
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