Sim, Brett estava se transformando em um ovo.
A existência desta cena foi mencionada pela primeira vez em O Livro dos Estrangeiros , um livro dos bastidores da produção do filme. Dois pedaços de arte conceitual da cena são descritos assim na página 97:
An arresting sequence omitted from the final version: the Alien weaves cocoons around its victims' bodies. Objective: more Alien eggs.
A cena também aparece na novela do filme de Alan Dean Foster.
'Kill me,' the whisperer pleaded with her.
'What . . . what did it do to you?'
Dallas tried to speak again, failed. His head turned a little to the right. Ripley swung her light, turned it upward slightly. A second cocoon hung there, different in texture and colour from the first. It was smaller and darker, the silk having formed a hard, shining shell. It looked, although Ripley couldn't know it, like the broken, empty urn on the derelict ship.