" He told Hermione that he wasn""t intending on returning to school the next year, but was planning on locating R...I demand an answer, Mr.Secretary.There will be no covering up, sir, no covering up.You are not going to get your hands on his list.And I deeply regret having to say...When the Secretary of Defense argues back ("throw hat lunatic out of here...get that man out of this room"), he points from the front of the room (from right to left) toward Iselin in the rear of the room, but on a TV monitor, his arm extends from left to right - in a reverse angle - to symbolize the disorienting and unreliable media image.Donald Pleasence passed away during re-editing and reconstruction of the film following test screenings, similar to the situation withBrainstorm (1983)and Natalie Wood, causing filmmakers to revise the ending to make it appear like Pleasence""s character wouldn""t survive into the next sequel.In the film""s exciting conclusion, she stripped down to her skimpy underwear, then donned a space suit when she realized the alien was present, opened the airlock hatch, and jettisoned the creature into outer space - and then blasted it with white-heat exhaust before entering hypersleep with Jones for the long journey home in theNarcissus("This is Ripley, last survivor of theNostromo, signing off").