Alien 3 (1992) - Trading Card #6

Datalog: Approx. 0:1000 Hours, Day 1

I demanded to see Newt. Medical Officer Clemens led me to the morgue to view her body. He said Newt had drowned in her crytotube when the ship malfunctioned. Her body was intact, but I had to find out for sure exactly how she died. Clemens would have to perform an autopsy on Newt's body.

I was both flabbergasted and, to a point, delighted at just how much Alien 3 rubbed Newt's death in the viewer's face. Performing an on screen autopsy driving home that the kid was truly D-E-A-D dead was a cannonball into the deep end of the dark and dour narrative pool. It just might be my favorite scene in the movie, just because it dared to go there.