Aliens: Who is the alien in Hill Street Blues season 1 episode 4, Can World War III Be an Attitude? (originally aired January 24, 1981)?

 

 

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 Aliens: Aliens' attack on the colony complex references the police station from Hill Street Blues season 1 episode 4, Can World War III Be an Attitude? (originally aired January 24, 1981)?

 

a) Who is the alien?

a.i) A talented mechanic and car thief named Malibu who is good at fixing things is fixing the toilets at the police station while he talks to the cream Alsation dog as an act of community service

 

a.ii) He finds a panel in the wall and can't help opening it up

 

a.iii) He sees that it leads into somewhere that he can make an escape through

a.iv) He quickly leaves with his bag of tools

a.v)  He puts the panel back behind him

 

b) In Aliens, we will find them crawling in the space above the ceiling about to come down and attack