But thanks to some frantic editing, a lot of action and the pressing matter of a matured Xenomorph weighing on Alien Covenant’s final act, the truth would have to wait for the very end of the film’s harrowing finale.
The moment that Walter and David’s robot fight in the third act started, there was a sneaking suspicion that the maladjusted version of Michael Fassbender that survived Prometheus was going to pull a big switcharoo.
Cue the opera music and a sense of overwhelming, but well earned, dread.
Lo and behold, the moment that Daniels was tucked into her cryopod, David revealed how he disguised himself as Walter, and went off to execute the next phase of his plan to destroy humanity.