Leon had drawn the short straw and was stuck being the videographer for the autopsy of their new alien. Being in the operating room was a bit too up close and personal with the squishy stuff for Leon's taste. He tried to distract himself by fiddling with the settings on the camera, and idly wondering how much something like that cost. As the scientists finished arranging their equipment and began to carefully remove the alien's exoskeleton, Leon focused in on the chest area. Too engrossed in what was being revealed, no one noticed a slight movement of the alien's digits. The first sign of danger was when one of the alien's tentacles wrapped around Leon's neck. As the tentacle tightened around his throat and his consciousness began to dim, Leon thought that this was oddly reminiscent of his last date...
Arthur was escorting Nathan and Harold to the alien autopsy, Shaw and Hersh trailing along in their wake. Arthur had been filling them in on the information they had gathered about the aliens as they made their way to the observation room. Sadly, the aliens didn't seem to have many exploitable weaknesses to offset their formidable technology. As they approached their destination a wild-eyed scientist came running down the hall screaming "It's alive! It's alive!"
They rushed into the observation room, but couldn't make out many details in the laboratory through the glass as the room had become enveloped in smoke from a number of small fires. Suddenly with a loud THWACK! Private Tao was mashed up against the window and forced to act as spokes-puppet to convey the alien's demand to be released.
Nathan stepped forward to negotiate, trying to see if there was some way to compromise with the invaders. The alien's unhelpful reply was a command to "DIE! DIE! DIE!"
Then Nathan began to jerk and gyrate, clutching his head and moaning. Arthur's theories about the aliens' telepathic powers seemed to be confirmed. Frustrated over how to help him, Shaw turned to Hersh.
"Is that glass bullet proof?" She asked grimly.
"No Ma'am" Hersh replied.
With that the Agent and the Colonel drew their weapons and let the alien have it. Each had two weapons and were firing steadily with both hands. When the alien had finally fallen into a twitching heap on the ground, Shaw stayed with Nathan while Hersh went to check things out. He rolled the alien over with his toe and then emptied the rest of his ammo at the alien's head right between the eyes. Satisfied by the resulting splatter that this time the thing was really dead, he holstered his weapons and went to cut Private Tao loose from the tentacle.
Of course if one of his men was going to be half strangled by an alien, it would be Tao.