When Ash attacked Ripley, navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright) and Parker (Yaphet Kotto) rescued her, and Parker lethally wounded Ash - as it gasped: "You still don""t understand what you""re dealing with, do you? A perfect organism.His own "practical joke" was designed to give her a taste of her own medicine - and to put her "on the other end of a gag" [a foreshadowing of the film""s plot]:Mitch: We met in court.Neo responded that the machines needed human beings to survive, and wouldn""t allow widespread extinction.Acting coolly, he drinks his beer straight from the bottle, and follows her back into the restaurant.