Chapter 23

Teresavägen (First floor)

Henry and Nina Ruther have invited a bunch of friends to their big apartment and they serve lots of good food out on the balcony and everyone is having a good time until one of the guests is attacked by a smaller beast. It is Oscar who is attacked by the beast and Nina and Henry have known Oscar for many years and he was the first one they invited. Another guest named Harald tries to pull the beast off Oscar's face but the beast has a long tail and it starts to strangle Oscar's throat when Harald pulls the beast so he has to let it go. After a short while, the beast detaches itself from Oscar's face and Harald grabs the beast's tail and throws it away, and the beast lands by a tree near the apartment building's large backyard. There is a large backyard behind the apartment building and it even contains a larger soccer field and there are several younger guys playing on the soccer field but the little beast does not crawl away towards the soccer field but stops at the tree and stops moving.

Oscar doesn't seem to be conscious as the beast comes off his face but Harald runs and fills a bucket with water and pours it over Oscar's face as he comes out onto the balcony again. The effect is immediate and Oscar wakes up again and starts flailing his arms but Harald and Nina are quick to calm him down and Oscar gets up from the floor and sits on his chair and continues to eat his food as if nothing has happened. Oscar seems to be unharmed even though the beast was all over his face and Nina and the guests are relieved but Henry senses that something is not right.

Henry saw that Oscar's throat was moving quite violently on a few occasions as the beast sat over his face and Henry gently felt Oscar's neck and he felt that something was moving through Oscar's throat at high speed and it couldn't have been just air. Henry sits down next to Oscar and looks at him searchingly.

- How do you feel? You don't feel dizzy or something?

- No. I feel great. Such good food you two have cooked.

- Well, Most of the food was already cooked when we bought it, but thanks. Listen uh, I was thinking maybe you should go to the hospital for a little check-up but I'll have to call the emergency services first and see what they think.

- Why would I go to the hospital?

- Because you had some kind of beast over your face a while ago and it might have infected you with something. It's the little beast that's by the tree closest to the grill that was stuck to your face.

Oscar stands up and looks at the Facehugger that stuck to his face. Oscar looks down at the ground below the balcony and sees the open egg that the Facehugger came out of and he looks at Henry and grins.

- Good joke, Henry. Very funny. I have also seen the Alien movies. Where did you get the Facehugger and the egg?

Henry hasn't seen any of the Alien movies and he hasn't seen an egg either and he leans over the balcony and sees the open egg and he can see that there is another egg right next to it but it looks closed. Henry steps away from the balcony railing and stands next to Oscar.

- I didn't know that the beast came from an egg. What is a Facehugger?

- But stop, you know exactly what it is.

- No, I don't actually know that.

- Well, I'm not going to go to the hospital because I've been attacked by a toy from a movie.

- I don't think that beast is a toy. It appeared to be a living animal.

- A facehugger is not an animal. It's a parasite from outer space. But they only exist in the world of the movies.

- A parasite is certainly an animal and that was a real parasite.

Oscar shakes his head and holds out his hands in a warding off gesture towards Henry. Oscar doesn't want to listen to this nonsense and he gets a cold beer from the bucket full of beer bottles and lots of ice to keep the beer cold. Oscar opens the bottle and pours the frothy beer into a large glass and continues to eat the food. Henry stands some distance away and watches Oscar. Nina is sitting nearby eating her food and the other guests are talking to each other while eating. Nina looks at Henry.

- Why don't you sit down and be a little social with our guests? You don't have to stand and stare at Oscar like that.

Henry sighs and sits down and eats some food, but it can be seen that he stares at Oscar very often. When Oscar has finished eating, he pushes the plate away and starts talking to some of the guests and they have a great time and they laugh at regular intervals when something funny is said. Normally, even Henry would have laughed at some of what was said, but he can't shake the feeling that something is wrong.

Oscar feels he has to go pee and he gets up and excuses himself.

- Sorry, have to make room for a little more drink. Coming soon.

Oscar enters the apartment and goes into the toilet and locks himself and relieves himself. When Oscar is finished, he flushes after him and starts walking towards the balcony. Suddenly, Oscar feels a very strong blow in his entire chest and the strange thing is that it feels as if the blow came from inside his body. Oscar stops and presses his hand to his chest, but it feels like it usually does. Oscar makes a snorting sound and shrugs his shoulders and goes back out onto the balcony and he sits down next to Nina. Nina doesn't like beer so she drinks a cider instead and the glass is still half full because NIna isn't one to drink a lot of alcohol. Henry doesn't sit where he sat before, but he sits further into the balcony and has a heated discussion with one of the guests and they talk about salary increases and the increased tax.

Suddenly there is a loud gnawing sound from Oscar's chest and he stops himself and turns to Nina.

- Do you hear that sound?

- What? What sound?

- That sort of gnawing sound.

Just when Oscar mentions the sound, it suddenly disappears and it doesn't seem like Nina heard the sound before it went silent and Oscar thinks that maybe it was just imagination on his part.

- Ah never mind the same. It was nothing.

Nina gives Oscar a quick glance and she continues to drink her cider. Suddenly, Oscar feels incredibly cold throughout his body and he begins to shiver and shake from the cold. Oscar's feet thump against the ground and he shivers with cold, and Nina turns to look at him.

- Uh, what are you doing?

- I'm incredibly cold.

Nina suddenly looks worried and she looks away at Henry, trying to get his attention. On the other side of the table sits Glen and he has not yet noticed that Oscar seems to be freezing. Glen is showing Marko a card trick and Marko gets very interested and wants to try the card trick so Glen gives him his deck. Glen turns and looks at Oscar.

Suddenly, Glen sees that Oscar's chest is being pushed out by something and what is pushing out the chest is seen through the skin on the chest and looks almost like a long eel or snake. Glen is so taken aback that he backs off so violently that the chair he's sitting on almost overturns. Glen sees Oscar's chest being squeezed once again by something snake-like and he wishes this is just a bad dream but at the same time he knows it isn't. Henry notices that something is happening and he gets up from his seat and starts to walk towards Nina and Oscar.

Suddenly, Oscar's chest explodes in a huge shower of blood and small body parts and in the middle of the chest, the snake-like Chestburster begins to crawl out. The blood lands on the entire table and on several of the guests, but most of the blood lands on Nina and Glen, who are closest to Oscar. Glen watches as the Chestburster coils like a long snake in Oscar's chest and he is so sickened by what he sees that he vomits on the table and the floor. The blood and vomit on the table flow together into an unsightly mass and none of the guests want any more food. The chestburster gives its birth cry and pops out of Oscar's chest with a wet sound and lands on the balcony floor. The chestburster immediately begins to move forward across the floor in great writhing snake-like movements and Henry tries to step on its tail but the tail is very hard and twists under Henry's feet. Henry runs into the apartment and the shocked guests remain in their chairs watching as the Chestburster approaches them.

Henry has not run into the apartment to escape but to get some weapon so he can kill the Chestburster and he has an idea of what to get. Henry and Nina have a very old iron hoe hanging on the wall in the living room and it is very heavy because it is made of iron. The iron hoe belonged to Henry's great grandfather and Henry got it when his grandfather died and it has been hanging on the wall ever since. Henry walks over to the iron hoe and lifts it down from the wall and he can feel its weight. The two ends of the hoe are not very sharp, but since it is so heavy, Henry hopes that they will be able to make large holes in the Chestburster's body. Henry takes a good grip on the iron hoe and goes out onto the balcony. The chestburster coils around on the floor like a long snake and it begins to approach Nina.

Henry runs up to the Chestburster and swings the iron hoe and slams it at the Chestburster and the left end of the hoe penetrates the chestburster's skin and makes a large hole in its skin. The Chestburster screams in pain but Henry pulls on the iron hoe and the left end digs through the Chestburster's skin, damaging it even more. The yellow blood sprays right up to the ceiling and when it lands on the balcony, the cement on the balcony starts to smoke and corrode. Henry shows no mercy and continues to pull on the iron hoe and the Chestburster stops screaming and moving and appears to be completely frozen. Henry has managed to kill the chestburster but at the same time there is another problem. The chestburster's yellow blood flows out over the balcony corroding the gray cement and the corrosive blood begins to approach the table and the guests and Oscar's dead body lies in the way of the guests. The whole balcony starts to crack and Henry realizes that there is a high risk that it will collapse and he warns the guests.

- Everyone run in as fast as you can. The balcony will collapse.

- But Oscar's body is in the way.

- You must walk over his body. I don't have time to drag him away. You must hurry.

The two closest guests get up and leave the balcony and the others sitting further away also get up and approach Oscar's body. They don't really want to walk over his corpse, but they have no other choice. Oscar's erect chest is pressed down as the guests step on it and there is a cracking sound as the hard bones in the ribcage crack even more. Nina makes her way into the living room and now only Glen and Harald are left out on the balcony. Suddenly, the entire balcony begins to tilt backwards and large parts of the corroded floor fall to the ground below the balcony. Harald makes his way into the living room and now only Glen is left. Glen approaches the entrance to the living room and Henry steps forward and holds out his hands to Glen.

- Grab my hands. The entire balcony will collapse.

Glen stands and hesitates for a few seconds but then he stretches out his hands towards Henry and Henry takes a firm hold of Glen's hands and begins to pull him. The cement floor where the table is stands loosens and the plastic table falls to the ground under the balcony and all the drinking glasses and food holders break with loud crashes while the food is scattered in all directions. It cracks even louder in the balcony and just as it is the cement disappears where Glen is standing and he falls but as Henry has a firm grip on his hands he soon stops falling and his body dangles over the broken balcony. Henry pulls Glen's body up bit by bit and soon he's in the living room. Henry lets go of Glen's hands and they both lie flat on the living room floor, exhaling. Finally, Glen and Henry wipe their sweaty foreheads.

- Phew!. That was close.

- Thank you for saving my life.

- Technically speaking, you would probably have survived the fall, but I think it was unnecessary for you to injure yourself.

- It was good that the iron pick that you got from your grandfather was used for something meaningful.

- Yes, grandfather would have been proud.

Glen and Henry look at each other and shake their heads. It wasn't like this as planned, but now it turned out like this. Henry gets up and walks over to Nina.

- We still have a lot of food and drink in the fridge in the kitchen. Shall we go out into the kitchen and continue our rather ..nice evening?

Nina nods and all the guests as well as Henry go out into the kitchen, but no one is hungry anymore and the great enjoyment does not occur. Many of the guests sit and think about Oscar's fate and feel that it is wrong to continue having fun. The guests start to leave Henry and Nina's apartment and they are left alone.

Restaurant Milord (Near T-Centralen)

The woman who was attacked by a facehugger in Gamla stan has just been served her fish soup and the soup is so hot that it is smoking heavily and the woman takes a large spoon and puts it in the soup and picks it up. The spoon is full of soup and the woman gently blows on the soup in the spoon so she doesn't burn her mouth and then she puts the spoon in her mouth and the good taste of the soup fills her mouth with its aroma.

It includes a very good bread with sea salt and the woman breaks off a piece of the bread and dips it in the soup and the soup tastes even better when the sea salt is mixed with the fish flavor. The woman is sitting enjoying the taste when she suddenly feels a strange movement in her chest and she stops chewing the bread and frowns. The woman opens the top buttons of her blouse and looks down at her chest but she sees nothing unusual except that part of her bra has slipped to the side and she straightens it and continues eating.

A few seconds later, the woman again feels a movement in her chest, and the movement is significantly stronger than the first one she felt. The woman gets irritated and presses her hand hard against her chest and she is very surprised when she feels a faint twisting movement through her chest. It almost feels like when an eel squirms and the woman looks suspiciously at the soup. Could there be something wrong with the soup? The woman sits and thinks for a few seconds and realizes that what she is feeling can have nothing to do with the soup and she continues to eat the bread and the soup.

Suddenly the woman feels something hit her ribcage and the funny thing is that it feels as if the blows are coming from inside her body and she becomes very confused. The blows to the ribcage stop and the woman looks around the restaurant confused and she doesn't know what to do in this situation. It takes a few seconds but then the blows return from inside the woman's body and they are harder now and it really hurts all over her chest. The blows are so hard that the woman can hear a thundering sound from her chest and she knows right away that this is not normal.

A waiter walks around the restaurant asking the guests if the food is to their satisfaction and he is soon at the table where the woman is sitting. There are two men sitting closest to the woman's table and they are having a lively discussion about a famous reality show that has received a lot of criticism because one of the participants in the reality show has died during the recording and the two men are discussing whether it is morally right to show a reality show where one of the participants has died. The two men are talking so loudly that they don't hear the rumbling sound of the woman's chest even though they are sitting close to her table. One of the two men suddenly has to visit the toilet and leaves the table and the other man remains. The waiter comes to the table and asks if the man sitting there is satisfied with his food and he is. The waiter moves on and is now at the woman's table.

The hard blows in the woman's chest have just stopped when the waiter arrives at her table and she has started to eat again. The woman looks relieved and the waiter smiles at her. The waiter is just about to ask if the woman is satisfied with her food when the womans chest is suddenly pushed out very much and both the waiter and the woman can see a snake-like shape just under the skin of the chest, but after a few seconds the shape disappears and the woman's chest look as it should again. The waiter thinks he must have seen it wrong and asks the woman if she is happy with the food and she is.

Suddenly, the woman's chest explodes in a large explosion of blood and small body parts found in the chest region and the snake-like creature inside the woman's chest becomes fully visible, its slimy head glistening with blood. The chestburster screams its birth cry and curls out of the woman's chest in one long movement and pops out of the chest with a wet sound and lands on the floor. The chestburster coils towards the waiter with snake-like movements and approaches him quickly, but the waiter doesn't react until the chestburster bites him on one of the feet. The chestburster's teeth are sharp as steel and easily chew through the waiters feet and it begins to snake its way up the waiters body in long snake-like movements and when it reaches his stomach, it sinks its teeth deep into his stomach. The waiter feels when the little monster starts to eat his intestines and he tries to tear the monster from his stomach but it is incredibly strong and stays put. The waiter staggers towards the table where the two men are sitting and the man sitting at the table starts to get up.

The chestburster lets go of the waiter's intestines and jumps to the guest's stomach instead, sinking its teeth deep into the man's stomach. Meanwhile, the waiter falls and his body lands right on the table where the man was sitting. The chefs out in the kitchen hear the commotion and they go out into the dining room to see what is going on and it is a surreal scene that meets them. The blood from the woman has splattered all the way up to the ceiling and several of the waiter's shiny intestines are hanging out of his stomach and they can see that one of their guests is being attacked by some beast that looks like an eel or a snake. None of the chefs have seen the Alien movies so they don't know what kind of creature it is that latches onto the guest and eats him alive. However, they quickly understand that the guest and perhaps the other guests will die if they don't manage to get the beast out of the restaurant and they start looking for something to harm the beast with. One of the cooks fetches a large iron pot and approaches the Chestburster. The Chestburster continues to eat the guest's body and the chef hits the little beast with the large iron pot and the Chestburster loses its grip on the guest's stomach and falls to the floor. The chestburster moves with quick snake-like movements and approaches the exit and none of the guests try to stop it. The restaurant's door is open enough for the Chestburster to squeeze through the door and it doesn't take long for it to disappear down the street.

Äppelvägen (Tegelbacken)

The two children have eaten their rosehip soup and also stood with Janne and Astrid and watched several apartment buildings burn at the beginning of Gamla stan but now it is time for them to get to bed and they go and brush their teeth carefully. Janne and Astrid are still out in the kitchen and Astrid puts the plates in the dishwasher while Janne wipes the kitchen table one last time before it's bedtime for the adults too. Janne decides that he will put the children to sleep because he hasn't done as many chores as Astrid has done and she thanks him.

Janne goes into the children's bedroom and cleans up some toys that are on the floor and he sits on the edge of the bed and flips through the book he is going to read to the children. It is a simple children's book about the adventures of a small dog. Suddenly Janne feels a strong movement in his entire chest and it feels exactly as if something is kicking or hitting from inside the chest and he quickly gets up from the bed and takes one hand to his chest and the movement stops. Janne wonders what it was that he felt and he can't explain what it was. Janne pulls down the blinds so that it becomes dark in the room and the two children enter the room and lie down in their beds. The oldest child smells the father and wrinkles his nose.

- Dad smells strongly but not of smoke.

- I think I took too much perfume. Are you ready to hear the continuation of Tages the dog's adventure?

- Yeah

- Then we'll see. "Tage walked along the street looking for his master and it seemed that he was missing but then Tage realized that maybe he could smell his way to his master and he put his nose to the ground and began to sniff eagerly"

Astrid hears when Janne starts reading to the children and she finishes cleaning the kitchen and goes out into the living room and starts cleaning there. The children have pulled out most of Jannes and Astrid's vinyl records and put them in a sloppy pile on the floor, and Astrid is starting to put them in their proper place. The other door leading out of the living room is closed, but Astrid can still faintly hear Janne reading to the children. When all the vinyl discs are in place, Astrid goes to the sofa and makes sure that the cushions are placed in an acceptable manner.

Suddenly the farthest door to the living room opens and the oldest child enters the living room.

- Mom, Mom. Come quickly! There's something wrong with dad. You must come.

Astrid can hear that Janne is no longer reading to the children and at first she doesn't think it's anything important but she sees that the oldest child looks panicked so she goes to the children's bedroom and she soon sees that Janne is lying on the floor next to the bed, twisting as in convulsions and his hands are tugging at the T-Shirt he is wearing. Astrid remembers that Janne has said that this T-Shirt feels very tight around the neck and Astrid thinks that it has now become so tight that he can no longer breathe. Astrid runs to the kitchen and gets a pair of rough scissors and runs back to the bedroom and starts to cut open Janne's T-Shirt. Janne continues to writhe on the floor and his face starts to turn blue and Astrid cuts his T-Shirt open as fast as she can and finally it no longer presses against his neck. It seems that Janne can breathe again and his body relaxes.

Suddenly, a loud gnawing sound is heard from Janne's chest and Astrid is so surprised by the sudden sound that she jumps backwards and hits her back in the children's bed. Astrid looks for an explanation for the sound but can't come up with a suitable one. The gnawing sound stops as quickly as it started and Janne opens his eyes and looks into Astrid's and he looks surprised. The younger child is still in his bed, looking down at his father. Janne faintly remembers that he felt as if he was suffocating while reading to the children.

The gnawing sound is heard again and it is much louder this time and Astrid watches with horror how something from inside Janne pushes his chest up and at the same time she can see strong movements from inside his chest and she associates the movements with how a newly caught eel moves in a fishing net. Janne is still lying on the floor and he can easily see how something from inside his chest pushes upwards and he can also feel a twisting sensation in his entire chest. Both Astrid and Janne realize that something is wrong, very wrong. Astrid grabs the eldest child and pulls him away from his father.

- Go to the window and stay there. There is something seriously wrong with dad and I don't want you to get hurt and you, have to get to the bottom of the bed. It's for safety.

The younger child moves so that it is furthest against the wall, while the older child remains where Astrid has placed it.

Both Astrid and Janne once again see when Janne's chest is pushed up and this time it is pushed up so high that a shape similar to an eel or a snake can clearly be seen through the skin and Astrid holds Janne's hand tightly.

- Oh honey. What is happening to you?

- I don't know. I've never experienced anything like this before.

Astrid feels a compelling need to get something that she can damage what is in Janne's chest if it manages to get out of there and she lets go of Janne's hand.

- Wait here, honey. I'll get a weapon in case whatever's in your chest gets out.

Janne nods quietly and Astrid runs into the kitchen looking for something sharp and she sees the large wooden rack with knives. Astrid stands and chooses between the knives and chooses the big meat knife because it is so big and sharp. Astrid can hear Janne moaning as she goes back to the children's bedroom. There is no longer any gnawing sound from Janne's chest and there are no longer any abnormal movements visible on the chest, but Janne continues to moan. Astrid puts the meat knife down on the floor and squats next to Janne.

Suddenly Janne's chest explodes in a geyser of blood and small body parts and Astrid is showered with blood and in the middle of Janne's chest a small monster appears and Astrid can see that it was this monster's form that she saw through the skin on Janne's chest earlier . The chestburster screams out its birth cry and gets out of Janne's chest and approaches the children's bed at record speed. Astrid stands up violently and chases after the Chestburster and it has already started to climb into the children's bed. Astrid can see that the little monster has a long tail and she grabs its tail and pulls the monster away from the bed. Astrid slams the snake-like body to the floor and she feels the strong tail slip in her hands but she slams the monster's body to the floor once more but when she is about to lift the monster again the slippery tail slips out of her grasp.

The chestburster begins to approach the eldest child and Astrid picks up the large butcher knife and holds it in a firm grip and approaches the chestburster. Astrid takes aim and puts the meat knife right into the chestburster's body and its skin breaks. The chestburster is still moving forward despite the flesh knife penetrating its body and with each movement it makes, the damage in its skin widens. The yellow blood splashes out from the chestburster and some of it lands on Astrid's arm and she feels the skin start to burn and she can see that the skin is even smoking where the blood landed and she quickly understands that this monster's blood is corrosive. The yellow blood also lands on the floor and it begins to smoke and corrode bit by bit. The chestburster finally stops moving and the yellow blood pulses out of the monster and the damage in the floor is increasing but the monster is defeated and the oldest child is safe. The yellow blood has made a small hole right through Astrid's arm and she runs out into the hall and calls 112 and asks for an ambulance. The ambulance is close and can pick her up soon.

Astrid puts some clothes on the children and calls the neighbor and asks him to look after the children while she is at the hospital, and he is happy to do so. The neighbor goes into Janne and Astrid's apartment while Astrid goes down to the ground floor and waits for the ambulance. In the meantime, the holes in the floor in the children's bedroom have become so big that the chestburster's body falls through the holes and lands in the apartment that is below Jannes and Astrid's, but the people who live there are in their summer cottage in the country so they don't know what is happening in their apartment .

Pergatan (Skanstull)

Miranda is tossing and turning on her sofa as she sleeps and she neither hears the gnawing noises from her chest nor feels the chestburster move impatiently in her chest. The chestburster has started to squeeze out Miranda's chest and she mumbles irritatedly in her sleep.

- Dont touch my chest.

The chestburster presses even harder against Miranda's chest and she wakes up feeling a very heavy weight in her chest. Miranda is lying so that she can see the back of the sofa and she has her TV behind her. Happy exclamations are heard from the TV set and Miranda turns to see what TV program is being shown. It's a competition show for new chefs and the contestants joke about the food they cook. Miranda is not particularly interested in food shows, but she is still amused by the jokes of the contestants. Miranda sits up on the couch and she feels the weight in her chest shift and she gets slightly confused. It didn't feel like that before.

Miranda's cell phone buzzes and she knows she's received a text and she takes her cell phone out of her pants pocket and unlocks her phone to find she's received 12 texts while she's been sleeping. Most of the text messages are from her brother and she opens the latest one and it says:

"Where are you? This thing with the Alien monsters is serious. Please answer"

Alien monsters?

Miranda has seen the first three Alien movies even though it was quite a while ago and she still remembers how the monsters looked and they had very sexual overtones to say the least.

Miranda scrolls through her text messages and finds the first one she received from her brother and it says:

"Alien monsters are invading our city. The Prime Minister has issued a state of emergency in Kungsträdgården so don't go there. Several Alien eggs have been placed in Gamla stan so avoid going there"

Miranda sees that the message was sent before she even got home and it must have been when she was in Gamla stan and now when she sees the message she faintly remembers that she saw an Alien egg when she was in Gamla stan but the memory is very fuzzy and weird. Miranda remembers how sore her throat felt when she got home and she doesn't even want to think about what that might mean.

Have I been attacked by one of those, now what are they called? Well that's right, Facehuggers are their name.

Miranda feels very restless in her whole body and she gets up from the sofa and starts to walk around the apartment and she first goes to the bathroom and looks at her face. Surely it looks like something has hurt one side of her face? The more Miranda looks at the small injury on her face, the more certain she is that she has been attacked by a facehugger and she panics because she remembers what happens to the victims in the movies who are attacked by a facehugger.

Miranda goes out into the living room again and the whole TV screen shows the image of a smiling presenter.

"I hope you all have a nice evening"

Miranda's chest explodes in a great geyer of blood and small body parts and the Chestburster has so much power as it pushes out of the chest that it instantly pops out with a wet sound and lands on the floor as blood continues to spurt from the open chest. The chestburster immediately starts moving forward and it doesn't take long until it comes out into the kitchen but it finds nothing nutritious there and it moves out towards the hall and then the bathroom. The chestburster continues to move and ends up in the bedroom but finds absolutely nothing nutritious anywhere and it needs to be nourished.

The chestburster feels a strong energy from the ceiling and begins to squirm up the wall with strong snake-like movements and soon it is at a ventilation opening and its body is so narrow that it can squeeze it in there. The chestburster moves quickly through the ventilation drum as it searches for the energy it felt and it is not long before it finds a ventilation opening that leads to an apartment where 4 people live. Two of the people are sleeping in the same room as the vent is and the Chestburster slides down the wall and when it's down on the floor it approaches the sleeping people quickly. The sharp steel teeth of the Chestburster penetrate the first person's skin and the Chestburster's teeth tear away soft human flesh. The person attacked by the Chestburster wakes up but he is too weak to stop the monster from eating him and it is not long before his old body is an empty skeleton and the Chestburster moves towards the next victim and the sharp steel teeth penetrate the next person skin. Blood splatters everywhere as the person is eaten alive.

Knäckvägen (Hornstull)

The handball has just started and Max hopes it will be an exciting match. Both handball teams are known to play well and there can be very even scores between the two teams. Max opens the first bag of chips and starts eating the chips. Lisbeth is still sitting in the kitchen with her solitaire.

Suddenly, Max feels a violent movement in the entire chest region, and the violent movement causes him to start coughing violently. When Max looks down at his chest he sees that it even looks distended and he takes one hand and presses against his chest and feels a movement reminiscent of an eel moving in a fishing net. The movement stops as suddenly as it started but it feels as if there is a greater weight on the right side of the chest. Max sits still for a few seconds but he doesn't feel any more movement in his chest and he takes a big handful of chips and shoves them into his mouth and opens his cold beer. Max takes a big gulp of the beer and washes down the chips.

There is a hard cracking sound from Max's chest and it hurts so much in his chest that he can't make a sound. The cracking sound is heard again and the pain gets even worse. Max has hurt his ribcage once and it hurt less than this pain. It feels as if something inside is ripping his chest apart, but at the same time it's totally insane. How could something inside Max eat his ribcage and how on earth did it end up there? Max feels a metallic taste in his throat and he recognizes that taste. It's blood.

The cracking sound and pain go away but the taste of blood gets stronger. Max's body trembles and he makes an involuntary noise and the noise is loud enough or strange enough for his wife Lisbeth to hear and she puts down her deck of cards and gets up from the kitchen table.

- Is there something wrong, honey?

Max takes several deep breaths and tries to calm his nerves, but his panic is still very clear when he answers.

- It almost felt like something inside me was eating at my chest.

- But that is impossible. It must be something else. Should I call the health care service?

- Yes, thank you. It tastes like blood from the throat too.

- Okay, I'll call 112 instead.

Lisbeth goes out into the hall and takes out her phone and calls 112, while Max remains on the sofa watching the handball. Suddenly Max feels his chest being pushed out and when he looks down at his chest he sees a shape through the skin and it looks like an eel or a snake. There is a whimpering sound from the creature and Max's chest is pushed out even more and his back is arched back. Max can hardly breathe but he gasps out the words.

- What..is...what...is...happening..to...me?

The pressure stops and Max can breathe again. Lisbeth goes into the living room and she talks to someone on 112 and she tries to describe what is happening and how Max seems to be feeling. Lisbeth asks Max how he is and he replies that he needs an ambulance immediately. Lisbeth walks up to Max and feels his pulse while she continues to talk to 112.

Suddenly Max's chest explodes in a geyser of blood and small parts of the chest and Lisbeth is drowned by all the blood that sprays right at her and she drops the phone. When the blood stops gushing Lisbeth can see a small monster in Max's chest and it looks like an eel or a snake and has an elongated bald head and Lisbeth can see that its teeth appear to be made of shining steel. The chestburster screams out its birth cry and it echoes in the apartment. Lisbeth stares at the Chestburster in shock and it pops out of Max's chest with a wet sound and approaches Lisbeth but she jumps away and runs out into the hall and opens her front door. Meanwhile, the Chestburster lands on the floor and the bag of chips that Max ate from lands next to the Chestburster and it sinks its sharp teeth into the bag and eats all the chips.

Lisbeth stands and knocks on the neighbor's door and shouts for him to open and the neighbor opens his door after a few seconds and he sees that she is covered in blood and is deeply shocked so he lets her in and tries to find out what happened. The Chestburster has eaten all the chips but it is still hungry and it slithers its way through the apartment with powerful snake-like movements and slides out the open front door, pausing for a few seconds. The chestburster can feel the energy from the people living in the apartments and it knows that the energy it senses means food and it moves towards one of the apartments but not towards the one that Lisbeth entered but the one next to Max and Lisbeth's apartment.

The chestburster moves up the apartment door with powerful snake-like movements and it pushes open the mailbox with its elongated head and slides down through it and into the next apartment. The person who lives in the apartment is sleeping because she has a night job at a bakery and she doesn't start work until 3.30am. The chestburster snakes its way through the apartment with the help of its powerful tail and it enters the woman's bedroom and begins to climb onto the bed. When the entire Chestburster is up in bed, it sinks its steel-sharp teeth into the woman's skin and begins to pull away the soft flesh. The woman wakes up because it hurts so much but it's too late, way too late

Tetesvägen (Zinkensdamm residential area)

Cera steps in through her cat flap and her belly is so thick she has a hard time getting through the flap but she squeezes her body through it and walks over to her food bowl and sees it's empty. Even though Cera ate the rat, she still feels hungry and starts meowing.

Håkan is in the bedroom but he still hears Cera meowing in the kitchen and he goes out into the kitchen to greet his beloved cat. When Håkan comes out of the kitchen, Cera stands and looks into the laundry room and she can see and hear that the dryer is running. Cera likes to lie on the dryer lid because it is warm and shakes so nicely.

Håkan picks up the cat's empty food bowl and takes out her favorite food and pours the food into the bowl and then places it on the floor. Cera walks over to the bowl and starts to eat her food while Håkan goes into the living room and turns on his TV. A handball match is currently being shown on the current TV channel and Håkan sits down on the sofa and watches the match while Cera continues to eat her food in the kitchen.

When Cera has eaten all her food, she goes into the living room and jumps on the sofa and goes forward and presses her body against Håkan while purring loudly. Håkan is mostly focused on the handball but he pats Cera's soft fur and soon reacts that something is different and he turns his eyes from his TV to look at Cera. He can see that she has a small injury on her back and on her face but what he notices the most is her huge stomach. She has never been this fat before, not even when she had kittens, and Håkan wonders what has happened to the cat. Håkan murmurs quietly.

- That belly really doesn't look normal. Where have you been rooting, Cera?

Håkan's and Cera's eyes meet and they look into each other's eyes for a few seconds but then Cera looks away and starts to lick her fur as she continues to purr. Håkan takes one hand and gently feels the underside of Cera's stomach and he can feel a kind of squirming movement that reminds of how an eel can move. Håkan presses harder with his hand and the movement increases rapidly and a low crunching sound is heard from Cera's stomach. Håkan knows that this cannot be a movement from the cat's bowels or something else natural and he decides to call a vet and ask for advice. Håkan calls the number of the nearest emergency vet but is met only by an answering machine and he chooses to call the next number. Meanwhile, Cera continues to lick her fur.

There is a very strong movement in Cera's stomach and she makes a moaning sound and stops licking her fur. It looks like something inside Cera is pushing against all sides of the stomach and there is a whining sound from inside the stomach. Another strong movement is seen in Cera's stomach and blood begins to drip from the lower part of Cera's stomach and the speed of the dripping increases rapidly. Håkan presses on the part of the stomach where it is bleeding.

- What the hell is in your stomach, Cera?

Suddenly, Cera's stomach explodes in a geyser of blood and gut parts and a smaller creature on four legs lands in the couch next to Håkan. The creature is completely black and has a skin reminiscent of a beetle and its head is elongated and curved like a long banana. Some of Cera's intestines hangs over the creature's head as well as its long spine-like tail. Cera is no longer moving and Håkan realizes that she died when this creature was born from her stomach or rather burst out of the cat's stomach. The creature has no eyes but it still seems to be staring at Håkan and its jaw opens and a smaller inner jaw shoots out at Håkan's face and he jumps up from the sofa but the creature's inner jaw scrapes against his arm and it starts to bleed. Håkan walks away from the couch but the creature starts to follow him and jumps onto the floor.

Håkan continues to back away from the creature but steps on an extension cable lying on the floor and loses his balance and falls backwards to the floor. The creature quickly climbs onto Håkan's lying body and he watches as it approaches his face. The large jaw opens and the inner jaw protrudes with great force. The blood splatters on the window and the fine light yellow curtains. The inner jaw shoots out again and more blood splatters onto the window and curtains. The creature runs around the living room for a while but then squeezes out through the cat flap and leaves the villa.

Secure Video Täby

It's almost midnight and it's time for Hugo to go through what has been filmed in the culvert in the Karolinska hospital since the previous day, and as usual he starts his A1 program which will identify movements in the culvert. There are usually very few people moving in the part of the culvert where the surveillance camera is located.

The program works for a few minutes and then it pings and there are five time stamps when movements have been recorded in the culvert and the first occurs at 07:00 when several workers move from the changing room to the elevators. The second movement recorded is at 9am and it is a parking attendant who seems to be listening for something but he soon disappears from view.

The third and fourth movement takes place at 10:10 a.m. and 10:31 a.m. respectively, and is all the more interesting because there is a person cycling through the culvert and away to the elevators. The fourth movement is when he returns after about 20 minutes. It's just that when he comes cycling the first time, he comes from a direction that should be impossible because there is a large fence at that part of the culvert. Hugo also reacts to the fact that there is a long wooden cart on the bicycle and that large amounts of slime are dripping from the back of the wooden cart. Hugo has heard about all the little monsters that have been born from patients' chests as well as from some doctors chests as well and he suspects that it has a connection with this person who comes on a bicycle with the big wooden cart.

The fifth movement is several of the staff going to the large dressing room.

Hugo saves only what has been recorded between 10.10 to 10.31 and burns the film onto a DVD and he deletes everything that has been recorded on the hard drive. Hugo sits and thinks for a while but then sends the saved footage to the police by email and writes that maybe it's something they should look at.

Benjamin and Lennart are still sitting with the saved clips from Kungsträdgården when they receive a message that there is a very interesting film clip from the culvert at Karolinska hospital and they open the email and save the film file and they immediately see that it is exactly the same person who placed the eggs in Kungsträdgården and they also know what has happened at Karolinska hospital. Now they have proof that it is the same person who has been involved at the hospital as well and they are redoubling their efforts to try to find information about who the person is but so far they are finding nothing of value.

Disclaimer: Facehugger, Chestbuster, Alien, Alien Warriors, Alien Queen belong to Disney/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation