Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | TV | September 19, 2025
As Alien: Earth heads into its season finale, The Eye (or T. Ocellus if you nasty) has been the show’s MVP and Chekov’s gun. There’s no way that thing wasn’t going to infect someone with wild results, and Episode 7 teed that action right up.
Despite a Xenomorph running around the island under the direct control of a very pissed off Wendy (Sydney Chandler), Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) becomes immediately obsessed with The Eye after learning that it orchestrated Tootles/Isaac’s demise in Episode 6.
Clearly, the creature is more intelligent than anyone realized, and that’s horrifyingly proven when it uses the sheep’s body to stomp out the next two digits of pi before plopping out a defiant turd and bleating at Kavalier through the glass. Is this the worthy debate opponent the boy genius has been searching for? There’s only one way to find out: Find a human to “feed” to the creature. While Atom (Adrian Edmondson) suggests one of the “mold scrubbers” — Oh, that’s what those weird guys in the background have been doing. — Boy already has a specific candidate in mind.
Let’s walk through the menu.
Sylvia
Thanks to some foreshadowing early in the season, Sylvia (Essie Davis) is the prime suspect as Boy already made it a point to insultingly note that she’s not smart enough to have a worthy conversation with, but she’s in the ballpark. Boy was hoping Wendy’s super intelligence might scratch that particular itch, but with a body-snatching eyeball monster at his disposal, why not see if he can upgrade the good doctor?
Tootles/Isaac
This is a pervasive internet theory that I’ve seen bouncing around based solely on the fact that Tootles’ eye is missing after the bug attack. Of course, the big obstacle is, can T. Ocellus even interact with a synth? It most likely needs an organic subject, and Noah Hawley has said that The Eye only made a move for Nibs (Lily Newmark) because it didn’t know that she isn’t human. That said, Boy and Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) did have a telling conversation about restoring Tootles, so the missing eye socket theory might not be a total lark.
Joe
Joe (Alex Lawther) has been a pain in Boy’s butt even before he arrived on the island, so why not kill two birds with one stone? Get rid of Wendy’s annoying brother and have a chat with a super smart alien that can poop on demand? That’s a win-win all around, except for the part where Wendy controls a freaking Xenomorph. Then again, after what Joe did to Nibs, I wouldn’t be surprised if Wendy feeds him to The Eye herself.
The Inevitable Victim: Boy Kavalier
Let’s be real, Boy will try to “feed” one of the people above (or some other poor schmuck) to T. Ocellus, and it will go south with a quickness. Either The Eye is going to infect Boy instead, which is a high probability given his ego has made sure the creature knows who’s running things, or whoever it infects will be more interested in other pursuits than chatting with a Peter Pan-obsessed weirdo.
Think about the first thing The Eye did when it infected a human host on the Maginot: It called out to the Xenomorph. Not only that, but it tried to fight the damn thing by jumping on its back and biting it. I’m guessing the two have some sort of rivalry, considering they came from the same planet.
Boy might think he’s finally meeting his intellectual equal, but he’s more likely to end up in the middle of an evolutionary grudge match that doesn’t give a sheep turd about how “smart” he is.
