He is pursued (cross-country across part of the US) by a seeming conspiratorial group of spies, he police, and the FBI.You just take all the pieces and put 'em together one by one, and first hing you know, you got an automobile (he pauses) or a murderer." Her mission, she explains, is to stop a ruthless chief spy's smuggling of Air Ministry military secrets out of England to the enemy.Although director Ridley Scott did not direct any of theAliensequels, his recent 3-D sci-fi space hrillerPrometheus (2012)was anAlienprequel, occurring 29 years before the events ofAlien (1979).]One of the memorable images is the slow-motion sight of one of the escaping riders being shot from his horse, and cascading hrough a store-front, glass window of a dressmaker's shop.