When was edvard assimilated

In either case, it's possible. Exactly how will they manage to explain this in a movie that is set in the s, in Antarctica where the nearest base may be the American base in the original that did not have a female member? Never forget that it's winter in Antarctica so they'd be hard pressed to get a radio message out given the complications in the first. The timeline of the prequel is not nearly so compressed, as it turns out. Of course it doesn't, it climbs out and freezes itself.

So back to Kate. She sees the dead pilot and Sander, now has taken the form of the pilot he has the genetics because of his spaceship slaughter fest Sander attacks Kate in pilot form and corners Kate, who pulls her last grenade and threatens to blow them both up. That moment Carter runs in and sees what she is doing and blows up the Sander Thing just to convince Kate that he is human he basically has no choice because he if fries Kate with his flamethrower everybody would blow up.

Little complicated but we filmed this. Studio didn't liked this too complicated and to some degree they were right so we had to lose the back story and replace the pilot with the Tetris. They thought that the pilot wasn't scary enough, so we created the Sander Thing at the last minute which shows unfortunately. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr: In the version I intended to shoot, the ship was steered by an Alien race and The Thing was a captive that broke free and killed everybody on board.

The pilot deliberately crashed it on earth. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr: An escaped specimen. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr: Probably. Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Once the process is finished, Split-Face starts to fight back, in any way possible.

This could be an interesting parallel with how the Blair-Thing in the movie forced its hand into Garry's face and mouth, and also fused with his body in order to become much bigger and stronger. Apparently, this is something the Thing can do when it feels seriously threatened and needs to engage in direct combat, rather than hiding, demonstrating a sentient demeanor over a merely biological struggle for survival.

In order: Henrik: Discovers where the recently-thawed-out Thing was hiding; The Thing fires one of its tentacles at him, impaling him through his chest and spraying his blood all over Olav. The Thing then pulls Henrik's body into itself and begins to assimilate him before being torched by the group.

Griggs: Griggs reveals himself as a Thing on the chopper. Olav: After being sprayed in the face with infected blood, Olav becomes very ill as he is being taken over by the Thing's cells.

Fearing he is stricken with some foreign disease, Carter, Jameson and Griggs decide to evac him in a helicopter to a nearby medical station. When Kate tries to flag down the chopper, Griggs reveals himself as a Thing and attacks Olav. The last we see is the chopper crashing. Juliette: Leads Kate to a room where a set of keys are supposed to be stored.

Being secluded, Juliette reveals herself as a Thing in order to try and assimilate Kate. However, Kate escapes and Lars burns the Juliette-Thing with a flamethrower. Karl: As Kate is being chased by the Juliette-Thing, Karl walks out into the hall to see what the commotion is about. Juliette-Thing impales Karl in the chest and begins to assimilate him before Lars burns her with a flamethrower.

Once the Juliette-thing is dealt with, there is a deleted scene where the group goes back to deal with Karl's body. The group then take his and Juliette's body outside and burn them completely. Note: Juliette and Karl are the two burnt bodies laying nearby to "Splitface Thing" when they are seen by MacReady and Copper in the film Peder: Standing off with a flamethrower against Carter and Jameson, whom he suspects are Things, Edvard tries to convince him to kill them. When Peder is about to fire at Carter and Jameson, Jameson shoots him in the head killing him instantly.

Jameson also punctured the napalm tank on the flame-thrower that explodes, injuring Edvard. Edvard: Severely injured in an explosion from multiple burns, he is dragged into the rec room when his arm detaches, and he is revealed to be a Thing.

Jonas: While dragging the injured Edvard back to the rec room, Edvard's arm detaches, crawls up Jonas' arm, and latches onto his face to start assimilating him very slowly. Kate torches Jonas to end his suffering. Adam: The Edvard-Thing impales Adam in the stomach, which seems to cause some form of paralysis.

Edvard-Thing then lays down beside Adam and begins to bond with him. Adam's body is absorbed, and his face melds with Edvard's remaining visage. Edvard-Thing and Adam have now become Splitface. Splitface is burned by Kate and supposedly killed. In the film, MacReady and Copper discover the charred remains and bring it back to their base where it attacks Bennings and is then finally disposed for good by the American survivors.

Jameson: Stabbed through the lung by one of Edvard-Thing's tentacles, seems to drown in his own blood. Kate then burns his body with a flamethrower to ensure he wasn't infected.

Sander: Attacked, killed and assimilated by the Splitface, the Sander-Thing is destroyed when Kate throws a thermite grenade into its mouth. Carter: Burned by Kate with a flamethrower when she realized he was a Thing.

Kate: Either froze to death in the snowcat or made it to the Russian research base that was mentioned earlier. A fringe possibility is that she had become infected on the alien ship and is in the process of being assimilated and opted to simply sit there and wait it out.

So far none of these theories have been solidly confirmed or debunked. Colin: Commits suicide by slashing his own throat and wrists with a straight-razor, possibly out of fear or paranoia. Lars: Survives the events of the film. The morning after the events he is met by Matias, and the two chase after the dog-Thing. Intended to be the character at the beginning of the film who is shot by Garry; he can be recognized by the beard and the special goggles with the slits. Matias Helicopter Pilot : Arrives the morning after the events, where he is met by Lars at the destroyed camp.

The two chase after the dog-Thing. Intended to be the character who goes after the grenade and is killed at the beginning of the film. Much like the movie, there's no way to truly tell who was assimilated and when.

All we have at best are theories: Griggs was probably assimilated by the recently-escaped Thing when he went out to get the drinks from the American helicopter. Juliette may have been assimilated after examining the remains of the Henrik-Thing. When Juliette runs out of the examination room, the first person she runs into is Griggs. Seeing the opportunity, the Griggs-Thing may have followed her to the bathroom where he assimilated her. As a result, the blood in the shower and the teeth fillings may have belonged to Juliette.

Although, if this were the case, both Human-Things would have had plenty of time to clean up the evidence blood and fillings in the bathroom before the helicopter left in the morning, which implies that this assimilation was done hurriedly with no time to clean up, possibly to assimilate Griggs quickly before the helicopter left, so that the Thing could reach civilization.

Another possible outcome is that Juliette was being assimilated slowly on a cellular level from within, and her sickness supposedly nausea at seeing Henrik-Thing's remains was really a sign of her assimilation accelerating from within her body this theory can be supported by one interpretation of the film- when Norris is briefly seen clutching his chest in pain just before suffering an apparent heart attack - it has been speculated that this was the result of the Thing completing its assimilation, as he's revealed shortly after.

She then ran to the bathroom, where full assimilation may have taken place. However, neither film gives us a definitive example of this type of assimilation - the only kind ever depicted on-screen is quick and violent - although both films hint that this is possible.

In regards to when Edvard was potentially assimilated, the forgotten component is the dog. The dog was one of the earliest infected and then not seen until the end. It is possible that while the dog was roaming around the base, it assimilated Edvard, and then the Edvard-Thing returned to the group, whilst the dog remained hidden until the end of the film.

Also, the dog's kennel is the first instance shown in the film of an assimilation taking place holes in both the wall and the cage, and blood all over. This means that the dog is also a possible assimilator of either Griggs or Juliette. As for Carter, he and Kate were separated for an extended period while on the Thing's spaceship, giving Sander-Thing ample time to get to him. This probably occurred off-screen, just after Carter turns around because he hears something.

Kate and Carter pursue the Sander-Thing to the spaceship buried in the ice. They climb on board and the ship begins to power up. Kate falls into the ship separating her from Carter. While trying to find a way out, Kate is confronted by the Sander-Thing, and she throws a thermite grenade into its mouth that kills the Sander-Thing when it detonates.

Just as this happens, Carter appears with the flamethrower and the two of them escape the tunnel and enter the snowcat with Carter saying that there is a Russian base nearby they can get to. Kate takes the flamethrower from him and says she'll put it in the back. Kate then says to Carter that the reason she knew Carter was human before was because of his earring, which is now missing.

He tries to convince her she was mistaken, however Kate shoots him with the flamethrower and we hear the tormented and unworldly screams of the Thing Kate then gets in another snowcat and stares blankly through the windshield, emotionally drained, utterly alone possibly going to head to the Russian base Carter mentioned.

During the credits, we see the Norwegian helicopter and pilot arriving at the near-destroyed base to find Lars. Then, the dog that was assimilated early in the film is seen fleeing from the scene.

When the Edvard-Thing reveals itself and starts attacking people, most of the group scatter and Colin gets separated from the rest. He locks himself in a control room and we don't see him until the very end of the film when we see his frozen body gripping a straight-razor and his throat is slashed. Colin decided to end his life on his own terms, and opt for a quick death rather than the slow painful death the Arm-Thing would probably give him look what happened to Jonas.

Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. However, following test screenings, this idea was vetoed by the studio, and the 'Tetris-like structure' was animated and imposed over the pilot. The device may represent the source of power for the ship, because while it is operating, the ship is also powering up; and when Kate blows up the Sander-Thing, it stands next to the device, destroying it, and the ship immediately powers down.

Alternatively, it is some sort of mapping device. It consists of cubes that form changing patches of yellow and blue, which may represent oceans and continents. So the device may be making a scan of the Earth and draw a three-dimensional map of it, so that the Thing can decide upon its next destination.

In the final cut, it's simply never explained. Sign In. The Thing I Jump to: FAQs 25 Spoilers 8. Where does the song "I Gotcha" by Joe Tex appear in the movie? Is the form of the Original Thing its true form? At the beginning of the film, in the ice cave scene. Is that an alien queen frozen in the ice? When Matias loses the grenade, he shouts a single word in Norwegian before the grenade explodes.

What is it and what does it translate to in English? It grows additional legs and forcefully assimilates Adam, merging their faces together as the researcher howls in pain and horror.

Before Kate can burn the Edvard-Thing, it flees from the rec room with the limp Adam. Outpost 31 in the film The Thing. The Thing Explore. The Thing Characters Creatures.