Dallas
Background
Dallas is the First Officer of the commercial towing vehicle, the Nostromo.
During the events of Alien (1979) played by Tom Skerritt
Dallas and his crew are returning to Earth from outside the Outer Rim Territories when they are woken up from hibernation by their ship. They are required to investigate a transmission they receive that may be a distress signal. They land on the planet LV426, and while investigating a spaceship, Kane is attacked by a Facehugger. Dallas ignores the laws regarding quarantine and brings Kane into the ship after Ash ignores Ripley and lets them in. The Facehugger eventually becomes unattached from Kane's face and he appears to recover. While eating their final meal before going back into hibernation, Kane starts choking and screaming and a Xenomorph erupts from Kane's chest. After Brett is killed by the Xenomorph, Dallas comes up with a plan to force the Xenomorph through the air ducts to the air shaft and then to shoot it into space. As he is trying to find and trap the Xenomorph, Dallas is ambushed and attacked by the Xenomorph. Ripley eventually finds Dallas cocooned and after he begs her to kill him, she burns him to death with a flame thrower.
