"It sounds like you've met other aliens before," says Palmer, impressed. "I've met one before, back on my Earth. Unfortunately, it was, as you put it, hungry. I was almost on the bad end of the cutlery."

Palmer's willing to give the Thing that it wasn't necessarily evil, but it's still very dangerous. "The aliens I've met here are more friendly. The Fallen are the first ones who were hostile, but in a different way from the Thing. The Fallen hate humans. I don't think the Thing hates anybody. Just wanted to eat me, and then everybody else."