- The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.
- In 2104, almost eleven years after the disastrous expedition to the distant moon, LV-223, in Prometheus (2012), the deep-space colonisation vessel, USCSS Covenant, is on course for the remote planet, Origae-6, with more than 2,000 colonists in cryogenic hibernation to build a new world. Instead, a rogue transmission entices the crew to a nearby habitable planet which resembles Earth. As a result, the unsuspecting crewmembers of the Covenant will have to cope with biological foes beyond human comprehension. Now, what started as a peaceful exploratory mission, will soon turn into a desperate rescue operation in uncharted space. Is there an escape from the treacherous, mysterious planet?—Nick Riganas
- It is the year 2104. The spaceship Covenant is headed for a remote planet in order to colonise it. The ship's captain is killed in a freak accident, leaving the Executive Officer in charge. He makes the decision to investigate a nearby planet in order to colonise it, as a possible substitute for their original mission. This has dramatic and far-reaching consequences.—grantss
- The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.—Twentieth Century Fox
- In a prologue, business magnate Peter Weyland speaks with his newly activated android, who chooses the name "David" after observing a replica of Michelangelo's statue of David. Weyland tells David that one day they will search for mankind's creator together. David comments on his own unlimited lifespan compared to his creator's limited one.
In 2104, 11 years after the 'Prometheus' expedition, the colonization ship 'Covenant' is bound for a remote planet, Origae-6, with a crew of 15, two thousand colonists in stasis and 1,140 human embryos aboard. The ship is monitored by Walter, a newer android model that physically resembles David. A stellar neutrino burst damages the ship, killing 47 colonists. Walter orders the ship's computer to wake the crew, which includes several married couples. The ship's captain, Jake Branson, is burned alive when his stasis pod malfunctions. While repairing the ship, the crew picks up a radio transmission from a nearby, habitable planet. Against the objections of Daniels (Branson's widow), the new captain, Oram, decides to investigate the new world, Planet 4.
As the Covenant remains in orbit, an expedition team descends to the Earth-like planet's surface and tracks the transmission's signal to a crashed alien ship. Crew members Ledward and Hallett are infected by alien spores that spew from fungal plant life. Oram's wife Karine helps the rapidly-sickening Ledward back to the lander where Maggie, the pilot, quarantines them both inside the med-bay. A small, pale, alien creature (neomorph) bursts from Ledward's back, killing him. It quickly attacks and kills Karine. Maggie attempts to kill the creature with a shotgun, but triggers an explosion which kills her and destroys the lander. The neomorph escapes while a similar creature bursts from Hallett's mouth.
The neomorphs attack the remaining crew members and kill one. The crew manages to kill a neomorph, with Walter losing his left hand, before David, who survived the 'Prometheus' mission, scares away the other. He leads the crew to a temple in a city full of corpses of humanoids (Engineers). David tells them that upon his and fellow 'Prometheus' survivor Elizabeth Shaw's arrival at the planet, their ship released a black liquid bio-weapon which annihilated the native population and that Shaw died when the ship crashed in the ensuing chaos. After the crew members tell David of their mission, they attempt to contact the 'Covenant' but are prevented by a powerful, hurricane-like storm. David and Walter establish a brotherly bond when David teaches his counterpart how to play the flute, unlocking one of Walter's latent higher functions.
The surviving neomorph, having grow rapidly to human size, infiltrates the structure and kills crew member Rosenthal. David tries to communicate with the creature by exhaling near it's mouth, but is horrified when Oram kills it. Oram questions David who reveals that the aliens are a result of his experimenting, with the black liquid (formed from the blood of the first Deacon) and a facehugger egg found in the Engineer city, in an attempt to create a new species superior to himself, just as he believes himself superior to the humans that created him, and the humans to be superior to the Engineers. He shows Oram an egg-like pod and tricks him into peering inside when the top opens. Oram is attacked by an alien facehugger. Another alien creature (the more classic xenomorph) later erupts from Oram's chest, killing him. As the creature shakily stands erect for the first time, David begins to communicate with it, holding his arms up, a gesture the little creature repeats.
As the others search for Oram and Rosenthal, Walter, who has found Shaw's dissected and preserved corpse, confronts David. David explains that he believes humans are an inferior species and should not be allowed to colonize the galaxy. When Walter disagrees, David disables him, stabbing him in the neck with his flute. David then attacks Daniels, threatening to use her in his experiments like he did with Shaw. Walter recovers (being an upgraded model capable of self-repair) and confronts David while Daniels escapes as they fight. A facehugger attacks security chief Lope, but he is quickly rescued by crew member Cole. The now fully grown Xenomorph appears and kills Cole, while Lope escapes and meets up with Daniels. Pilot Tennessee arrives in another lander to extract Daniels, Lope, and Walter, who claims David has "expired". As they lift off, the xenomorph leaps onto the ship and tries to break inside. Daniels, on a tether, tries to kill or dislodge the intruder, convincing Tennessee to use the ship's giant claw. The ploy works and the xenomorph is crushed in the mechanism. They return to the Covenant.
In the ship's infirmary, Walter is stapling the damage to his face. Daniels assists him. The next morning, Daniels and Tennessee find out that another Xenomorph burst from Lope's chest, killing him, and is loose on the Covenant. It matures, and kills crew members Ricks and his wife Upworth while they have sex in the shower. Tennessee and Daniels lure the creature into the Covenant's terraforming bay, trapping it in the cabin of a large construction vehicle. The creature escapes the cabin but is impaled on the leading spikes of a second large vehicle and falls back toward Planet 4.
The 'Covenant' resumes its trip to Origae-6, and the surviving crew re-enters stasis. As Walter helps Daniels into her pod. Seemingly at peace, she asks Walter if he'll still help her build the house she and her husband had plans for, faltering and looking panicked when Walter doesn't understand what she's talking about. Walter smiles and she realizes he is in fact David. Helpless, she beats against the inside her pod but falls asleep as David calmly shushes her. David walks to the bay containing the colonist pods and cooler for the embryos. He regurgitates two facehugger embryos and places them in cold storage alongside the human embryos. Posing as Walter, he orders up "The entry of the gods into Valhalla" from Wagner's Das Rheingold before recording a final log from the ship, stating that all crew members except Daniels and Tennessee were killed by the neutrino blast and that the ship is still on course for Origae-6.
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