Sometimes it""s a big hit, sometimes a little one.It""s a distinct success, but how many of them keep their heads? How many of them work? Youth comes to the fore...There""s a monster in your chest"), attempted to evacuate theAurigaand escape before destroying it.They risked having Ripley accompany them - according to Call, Ripley would "turn on us in a second...She""s too much of a risk.We have to leave her...We can""t trust her!" When Dr.Wren and DiStephano told them that theAuriga, since the attack, was set on an auto-pilot course to return to "home base," they were determined as a group to stop the genetically-engineered, hungry creatures (a dozen of them remained) from being unleashed on Earth in about three hours, by crashing the ship.Gittes: I get by.Escobar: Well, sometimes it takes a while for a man to find himself.Maybe you have.Loach: Yeah, goin"" through other people""s dirty linen.Gittes: Yeah.Tell me.You still puttin"" Chinamen in jail for spittin"" in the laundry?Escobar: You""re a little behind the times, Jake.Writer Paul Osborn""s screenplay adapted John Steinbeck""s 1952 novel with the same title for this dramatic Warner Bros.None of the play""s actors or actresses appeared in the screen version.It later inspired an ABC-TV series (from 1961-1962 with 26 episodes) of the same name, featuring Tuesday Weld and Gary Lockwood in the roles of "Cherie" and "Bo.