Alien: Romulus, the seventh installment in the main Alien franchise, hit theaters on Friday, August 16, and fans are eager to know how it ends and what happens to the Xenomorph offspring, or baby. The film is set between Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) and James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) within the franchise’s timeline. Co-written and directed by Fede Álvarez, Alien Romulus centers on an orphaned girl named Rain, her adopted synthetic brother Andy, and their friends as they encounter Xenomorphs in an abandoned, dilapidated space station.

This is what happens at the end of Alien: Romulus.

Rain and her adopted android brother Andy join the crew of the mining transporter Corbelan in hopes of finding cryogenic pods on what they initially believe to be an abandoned Weyland-Yutani spaceship hovering over the mining colony planet Jackson's Star. The crew also includes Rain's ex-boyfriend Tyler, Tyler's pregnant sister Kay, Tyler's cousin Bjorn, and the ship's pilot Navarro. They all hope to leave Jackson's Star for a distant planet called Yvaga III, where the quality of life is far better than their current home. Since it takes nine light years to reach Yvaga III, they need the pods. The others make it clear early in the film that they need Andy, since he is a Weyland-Yutani android with access to the spaceship's computer. Rain, not about to let her brother go it alone, tags along.

The group eventually discovers that the floating structure is a space station, not a spaceship. Although they find what they were looking for, their actions bring the frozen facehuggers back to life. After Rain plants a chip from one of the damaged androids on the station into Andy, he begins to follow the Weyland-Yutani directive. Rain also reactivates Rook, the station's android science officer, in hopes of calling him for help, but he too follows the company's directive above all else. When the situation becomes truly dire, he refuses to let Rain and the others leave with samples of experimental fluid taken from the Xenomorphs.