When an escape pod detaches from a compromised colony spaceship, the sole four survivors, stranded in deep space, must determine what has happened and if someone among them is infected by a mysterious organism. Alien: Containment is one of six short films produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 1979's Alien.
It’s the night shift in a colony greenhouse, and Julie, a botanist, does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have triggered her sensitive lab dog. Despite her best efforts the lab unexpectedly goes into full shutdown and she is trapped inside. Little does she know, an alien specimen has escaped the mysterious cargo, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as the creature searches for a host.
While on a routine supplying operation at the mining colony of High Lonesome on the distant exomoon, LV-422, the supply-ship crew-member, Welles, finds the whereabouts of his hungover and disoriented colleague, Harper, who has been missing for the last twenty-four hours. As they reunite with the unsuspecting colonists, Rolly and Springer, more and more, Harper's condition deteriorates, leading to a bloody encounter with something vicious. Will they survive the endless night shift?
As a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony, Lorraine longs to make a better life for her daughter and grandchildren. When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, Lorraine is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and facing her fears to fight for the safety of her family.
Drifting on an inevitable collision course, the four crew-members of the crippled and inoperable deep-space plasma-harvesting vessel, USCSS November, are making for the spaceship's small escape pods. Equipped only with a faulty motion tracker, and with a formidable intruder after them, the team's chances of survival are limited; however, sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction. Could there be more than one threat aboard?
Drifting in deep space all alone after an immediate evacuation due to a chemical leak, Hope, an abandoned crew-member aboard the damaged commercial transport vessel, Otranto, has been trying to keep herself busy for the past twelve months. Hoping that, sooner or later, someone will come to her rescue, in the meantime, Hope makes an unexpected discovery in the off-limits laboratory, B-11a. Now, something nightmarish is lurking in the spaceship's dark corridors. What happens if the ship returns to Earth?