The spaceship Covenant is transporting frozen embryos to a human colony on a faraway planet when they receive a distress signal from Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), from the Prometheus expedition, which disappeared 10 years prior. The crew is brought out of hypersleep to answer to the signal, which leads to the death of the Covenant's captain, Branson (James Franco). His wife, terraforming researcher Daniels (Katherine Waterson), is deeply affected by the accident, while Branson's first officer Oram (Billy Crudup) is made captain. The Covenant is piloted by Daniels's friend Tennessee (Danny McBride) and the crew is aided by an android, Walter (Michael Fassbender).
The Covenant follows Shaw's signal to Paradise, an uncharted forest planet and homeworld of the Engineers, the ancient extraterrestrials that seeded life on Earth and then sought to the destroy it. The Engineers' secret weapon, the black ooze, has spread through Paradise, turning it into a wasteland. The Covenant's crew ventures into Paradise on a transport shuttle, and two of its members are exposed to spores released by plants infected by the ooze. One of them is quarantined aboard the transport shuttle, where a monstrous "Neomorph" bursts from his back and kills a crewmember. While trying to kill it, another crewmember accidentally shoots the shuttle's fuel tank, causing it to explode.
Another Neomorph bursts from the other infected crewmember's throat and chases the remaining crew into the forest, where they are ambushed by more Neomorphs and all but Daniels, Tennessee, Oram and Walter are slaughtered. They are rescued from the Neomorphs by David (Michael Fassbender), the sole survivor of the Prometheus crew. He reveals that Shaw sacrificed herself to crash the Juggernaut spaceship against Paradise's surface, exposing the Engineers to the black ooze to prevent them from destroying Earth, which also left him stranded on Paradise.
David leads the survivors back to the Engineers' derelict citadel, where he's been living ever since. Walter spends time with David, who regards Walter as his brother, but comes to mistrust David upon realizing he is not behaving in accordance with their programming. Walter learns that David's mind has been warped by the numerous modifications that their creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), made to his programming during the Prometheus's expedition, and that David is obsessed with creating the "perfect organism". David exposed numerous lifeforms on Paradise, including Shaw, with the black ooze and, after several failed attempts, has created an alien egg, which produces a facehugger that latches itself to Oram.
Daniels and Tennessee realize David is controlling the Neomorphs and flee back to the Covenant with Oram and Walter in order to escape. Together, Daniels, Tennessee and Walter manage to detonate explosives to destroy David's laboratory, with the Neomorphs and David himself apparently perishing in the explosion.
The four return to the Covenant, where a xenomorph bursts out of Oram and begins slaughtering the remaining crew until Daniels and Tennessee manage to lure him into an airlock and eject him into the void of space, where it dies. The duo are the sole survivors of the massacre and place themselves back in hypersleep to continue their voyage to the colony, unaware that David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise, and that it was Walter who died in the explosion. David secretly plants alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting to continue with his experiments.
>>82490124
These are old as fuck, come on you fucking asshole, TELL ME WHAT REALLY HAPPENS TO SHAW AND TALK ABOUT THE HOLOGRAM, YOU FUCKING TALK ABOUT THE SHAW HOLOGRAM
>>82490147
she ded
Do the Aliens have eyes?
>>82490418
No shit dumbass, that's not what he asked. He asked how
>>82490418
OH YEAH I DIDN'T KNOW THAT! YOU FUCKING RETARD TELL ME HOW SHE DIED, OH RIGHT YOU'RE COPYPASTING ANCIENT SPOILERS
>>82490555
david kill her with ooze
>>82490829
Fuck you, fuck this board
>>82490886
it sad
The birth of xeno kino
real spoiler shit: what piece of the Prometheus score does David play on a flute for Walter before they kiss?
>>82491874
Do they actually kiss? Because that's pure kino
>>82491819
kinomorph
>>82491819
Xino
>>82490124
we know Shaw crashing the ship doesn't infect the planet, because the trailers clearly show David carpet bombing the engineer townsquare with the ooze thermos.
>>82494411
>ERIK NO
>I'm sorry Charles, it's them or us
>>82490133
>Shaw dies off screen to ooze experiment
How the fuck did she not see that one coming?
>>82490124
>the planet is called Paradise
can this shit BE any more hamfisted?