Can an episode of TV be a movie? The answer, pretty definitively, is "no, they’re two entirely different things." But it’s hard not to watch the hour-and-a-bit-long fifth episode of FX and Hulu’s Alien: Earth,

Earth," we learn that Wendy (Sydney Chandler) has some sort of connection to the Xenomorphs acquired by Prodigy. She can hear them "speaking" when no one else can, and she feels their pain on a visceral enough level that it causes her to faint.

Alien: Earth takes a detour with episode 5, In Space, No One..., and delivers what creator Noah Hawley himself described as a “mini Alien movie.