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Bjorn was a scavenger from Jackson's Star, the cousin of Tyler Harrison and Kay Harrison, and the adoptive brother of Navarro, played by Spike Fearn in Alien: Romulus. He joined the plan to lift cryopods from the derelict Renaissance Station above LV-410 in 2142 so the group could reach Yvaga III. Hatred of company synthetics, born when a mine sealed his mother inside, put him at odds with Andy from the start. After a Facehugger attacked Navarro, he forced her back onto the Corbelan IV and left the others behind. He died when the acid blood of a newborn Scorched Xenomorph burned through him.

Biography

The Salvage Plan

Bjorn at the Jackson's Star trailers in a light t-shirt in Alien: Romulus

Bjorn lived on the mining colony of Jackson's Star on LV-410 under Weyland-Yutani control. He shared a household with his cousins Tyler and Kay, and he treated Navarro as a sister. The cycle before the salvage, a gas leak closed a mine shaft, and a company synthetic sealed the tunnel with his mother still inside so a larger group could get out. That death fixed his hatred of synthetics. When the hauler picked up a company beacon above the colony, he pushed the plan to board the derelict and take its cryopods for the nine-year run to Yvaga.

Rain Carradine came to the trailers with Andy after Tyler called her. Bjorn told her to hand the synthetic over and stay behind, then mocked Andy as damaged company goods that Rain's father had pulled from the trash. Tyler shut him down and promised Rain she would not even have to leave the ship. The group still needed Andy, because only a Weyland-Yutani synthetic could speak Mother and open the station. Bjorn went along once Rain agreed to come.

Searching Renaissance Station

Bjorn inspects a shock baton with both hands on Renaissance Station

Navarro flew the Corbelan IV up to the station while Bjorn, Tyler and Andy crossed in through a synthetic hatch. The first cryopods they found held fuel for only three years of stasis, far short of the trip. Tyler ejected an escape vehicle with the pods for Navarro to catch, then led Bjorn and Andy toward a cryo fuel store. On that walk Bjorn told Andy he would not be going to Yvaga, because the independent system allowed no synthetics. Andy accepted staying behind if Rain made the crossing.

Before they reached the fuel, Bjorn found a shock device and talked about amping it until it could fry a synthetic. Tyler made him stop. When they pulled a tank free, the cold burned Bjorn's hands and an emergency lockdown sealed the room. Andy lacked the clearance to open the door. Rain and Navarro left the hauler with a module taken from the wrecked synthetic Rook, hoping its credentials would raise Andy's access.

The Facehugger Attack

Bjorn threatens to fry the Facehugger with a shock baton as Rain and Andy stop him

The new chip froze Andy while it rebooted him. In the water at their feet, frozen Facehuggers began to wake and went for Tyler and Bjorn. Bjorn threw one off and later used the shock baton to make another release Tyler. When the door finally opened the group fled, but one creature got through, threw Navarro to the floor, and locked onto her face. Bjorn reached for the baton again, ready to fry it.

Andy, speaking with a new clarity, warned that the current would clamp the creature's tail and break her neck. He could see its bladders swelling in time with her breathing and judged that it was feeding her oxygen. Rook told them not to help her and to run, or else to end her life at once. Bjorn refused to leave her behind. Rain then asked whether cryo fuel could freeze the root of the tail so they could pull the Facehugger from her face. The others froze the tail, unwound it, and pulled the creature off while Navarro woke gasping.

Forcing The Undock

Bjorn after forcing the Corbelan IV undock, gripping a bulkhead aboard the hauler

Rook put the odds against Navarro at sixty to forty, the chance that the creature had already finished its work. Andy then told the group they could not let her back on the ship. Bjorn took that as a threat, struck Andy with the shock device, and pulled Navarro and Kay toward the hauler. Back aboard he ordered Navarro to undock. She pulled the Corbelan IV away from the airlock and left Rain, Andy and Tyler behind on the station.

Over the radio Rain begged him to come back for them. Bjorn refused until she shut Andy off, because he believed the synthetic had tried to kill Navarro. Navarro was by then visibly unwell at the controls. She collapsed into a seizure that crashed the hauler into the Romulus hangar, and a Chestburster killed her in the wreck. The crash knocked the station off its axis and cut the time before it hit the rings from about a day and a half to under an hour.

Death By Acid Blood

Bjorn recoils as Xenomorph acid burns through his chest aboard the Corbelan IV

Kay woke in the wreck of the hauler and found the newborn hidden inside a cocoon on a lower deck wall. Bjorn joined her there and drove the shock baton into the growth, trying to kill whatever had come out of Navarro. The creature inside screeched, and its acid burned out the baton before he could pull free. Its tail then lashed from the cocoon and struck him in the eye. Acid fell onto his hand and chest, melting his fingers and burning deep through his body.

He shouted for Kay to stay back so she would not share the burn. The acid reached his heart and killed him on the deck of the wrecked Corbelan. The newborn left the cocoon as the Scorched Xenomorph, scarred by that fight, and later dragged the bodies of Navarro and Bjorn into the vents. Tyler, Rain and Andy were still elsewhere on the station when he died, racing the shortened countdown to the rings.

Personality And Traits

Bjorn was impulsive, quick to anger, and ready to bully Andy from the first meeting at the trailers. He mocked the synthetic as trash, threatened him with the shock baton, and told him he would never see Yvaga. That hostility came from the mine that sealed his mother inside, and he expected every company synthetic to make the same cold choice. He still used Andy when the group needed Mother's access, and he dropped him the moment Andy blocked Navarro's return to the ship.

Loyalty to Navarro overrode every other bond. He refused Rook's order to leave her, struck Andy to get her out, and undocked while Rain and Tyler were still on the station. After the crash he went after the cocoon to protect Kay, and he ordered her back when the acid began to fall. That same temper that kept him fighting for his sister also put the rest of the crew in danger and ended with his own death. He was the father of Kay's unborn child. After she injected the Z-01 compound, that child was born as the Offspring that later killed her aboard the Corbelan IV.

Behind The Scenes

Spike Fearn during a behind-the-scenes interview on the Corbelan set for Alien: Romulus

Spike Fearn played Bjorn in Alien: Romulus, directed by Fede Alvarez and written with Rodo Sayagues. The film opened on 16 August 2024 and is set in 2142, between Alien and Aliens. Fearn grew up in North West Leicestershire and trained at The Television Workshop before roles in Aftersun, The Batman and Back To Black. He told Esquire that Bjorn was his biggest part to date, and that a claustrophobic crawl through an air tunnel on set left him shaken for the rest of the day.

In press for the UK release he said he enjoyed the rare chance to play someone horrible, and co-star Archie Renaux joked that he did not have to dig far for it. Alvarez later confirmed off screen that Bjorn was the father of Kay's child, after viewers noted a close moment between the cousins before his death. The film itself never names the father. Practical Xenomorph suits and animatronics stood on set with the cast for the cocoon and acid beats.

Famous Quotes

  • "He's not your brother. It's just Wey-Yu damaged goods... that your dad found in the trash."
  • "No, you're not going to Yvaga."
  • "I could probably fry a synthetic with one of these... if I just amp up the juices."
  • "Shit. I'mma fucking fry this thing."
  • "Navarro, undock!"
  • "Sorry, I can't do that until she turns that psychopath off."
  • "Stay back, stay back, please."

Conclusion

Bjorn was the Jackson's Star scavenger who hated synthetics after a mine took his mother, pushed the Renaissance salvage, and broke with the group the moment Andy blocked Navarro's return. He got her off the station, then watched a Chestburster kill her in the crashed hauler. When he drove a shock baton into the newborn's cocoon, its acid blood burned through him. Kay lived a little longer. Rain and Andy flew on toward Yvaga without him.

Appearances

  • Alien: Romulus (2024)

External Sources

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