We now have some clarity on what was originally supposed to happen to Noomi Rapace’s character in the Prometheus sequel Alien: Covenant. Indeed, when Ridley Scott returned to the sci-fi genre to make the Alien prequel Prometheus, Rapace was the new face of the franchise, filling the shoes of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in a way. Prometheus ended with Rapace’s Shaw and the disembodied head of Michael Fassbender’s David heading off to find the home planet of the Engineers, but Scott’s version of what happened next changed wildly throughout development. In the finished version of …