Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Bishop delivers it in the soft, polite voice of a man giving a weather report, and the calm is what makes it land: the group has just run out of time as well as options. The line is used as the classic opener for terrible news, and the scene is where the android Ripley distrusted turns into the one who steps up.
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In context
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Aliens (1986), on LV-426. The survivors have barricaded themselves inside the colony facility, and Ripley has just found out that Burke ordered the colonists to the derelict ship to profit from the alien eggs. Before she can expose him, the android Bishop reports that the dropship crash damaged the power plant's cooling system, which will soon overheat and explode, destroying the colony. Bishop then volunteers to travel to the colony transmitter and remotely pilot the remaining dropship to the surface.
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- Wikipedia: Aliens (film)Plot summaryReference checked
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