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| “ | It attacks its prey, copies it perfectly and then hides inside it. | „ |
| ~ Kate Lloyd |
| “ | That's exactly what it wants. Not to mention you'd be giving it a way out of here. A way to spread. lt's like a virus. So what do we do with any virus? | „ |
| ~ Kate to Adam Finch. |
Kate Lloyd is the main protagonist of the 2011 sci-fi horror film The Thing, which acts a prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 film of the same name.
She is an American Paleontologist who was stationed at Thule Station in the artic, and would join her group in discovering an alien and its spacecraft. When the alien starts assimilating her colleagues, Kate works on stopping the Thing and later prevents it from leaving in it spaceship. It's unknown whether she survive the incident, as she was left alone in a snowcat with a Russian outpost being miles away. Though Kate succeed in preventing the Thing's escape, the alien would later assimilate into a dog and attack another American outpost.
She was portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who also played Wendy Christensen in Final Destination 3, Lucy McClane in Live Free or Die Hard & A Good Day to Die Hard, Ramona Flowers and Future Ramona in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Michelle in 10 Cloverfield Lane, Huntress in Birds of Prey, Danielle Zakarweski in Gemini Man, and Hera Syndulla in Ahsoka.
Biography[]
Background[]
Kate Lloyd was born approximately around the late 1950s-1960s in the United States, and would go off to Columbia University to study paleontology. Before 1982, Kate graduated from the university and was a Ph.D. candidate, and became known for her work in studying prehistoric findings on frozen ground. She would also have dental fillings, indicating she has below average hygiene, which would save her during the Thule Station incident.
The Thing[]
In 1982, Kate is contacted by her friend, Dr. Adam Finch, who asks her to join his research team at the Thule Station in Antarctica. Though not given the full details of the crew's discovery, Kate is persuaded to join and meets with Dr. Sander Halvorson, who leads the expedition of finding an alien spacecraft. The crew then find an extraterrestrial creature frozen under the ice of the spacecraft, and Kate leads the excavation of the alien lifeform to be taken back to the station. While there, Kate's control over the discovery is dwindled by Dr. Halvorson, who refuses to follow Kate's warning about damaging the creature by taking a tissue sample. As a result, the alien escapes from the block of ice due to the ice gradually melting while in storage, and the thing kills a dog and Henrik Larsen. The alien is burned, and Kate and Sander perform an autopsy on the corpse, finding that it was trying to assimilate Henrik's body.
After doing further analysis from Henrik's blood cells, Kate deduces that the alien consumes it's target and proceeds to intimate it, and tells the crew that the thing can shapeshift its prey. Lloyd later learns that the thing cannot replicate metal material, as she finds dental fillings in the bathroom and was attacked by the Juliette-Thing. When tensions arise when Sam Carter and Jameson return after their helicopter crash, Kate convinces the group to force the two into a shed and perform a test on who has dental fillings. Carter and Jameson escape and accidently cause a flamethrower's fuel tank to explode, which causes Edvard Wolner to be knocked unconscious. Edvard is then revealed to be a thing, and proceeds to kill Derek and Jones and assimilate Adam, and manages to escape before it can be killed. Kate and Carter work together to stop the Thing and it's smaller offspring's, and Lloyd saves Sam from being assimilated by the split-face thing.
Kate and Sam initially think their ordeal was over after burning the corpse of the split-face thing, but notice the Sander-Thing escaping in a snowcat. Kate and Sam deduce that the thing is returning to its spacecraft and is attempting to leave, and the two decide to stop the creature. Reaching to the spacecraft, Kate and Sam are separated, but Lloyd encounters the Sander-Thing and kills with a grenade. The two escape to their snowcat while the spacecraft explodes, and Lloyd states that she doesn't know what to do next. Sam informs her that their is a Russian outpost miles away from them, but before they leave, Kate notices that Carter's left earring is missing. She correctly deduces that Sam is actually a thing by asking him which earing went to his ear, and the creature chooses the wrong one. Kate then burns the Carter-Thing, and goes into Sander's snowcat for warmth, leaving her fate unknown.
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Trivia[]
- Despite her young age and "pretty, and bright-eyed" appearance, Kate appeared to have poor or below average hygiene and had several fillings.
- According to interviews with her actress, Kate was inspired by Ellen Ripley from Alien, as both are level-headed individuals who fight against an alien in the sci-fi horror genre. She also bares some similarities to R.J. MacReady from the 1982 film.
- In the original script for the prequel written by Ronald D. Moore, Kate was described as in her "mid-twenties, pretty, and bright-eyed". As in the final version of the film, Kate was the central protagonist and a palaeontologist, as well as Thule Station's last survivor (not counting Lars and Matias), killing Carter after discovering he'd been assimilated.
- Kate's fate is left mostly ambiguous (similar to MacReady, Childs, and Nauls), though it is possible that she survived with enough fuel in Halvorson's snowcat to make it to the Soviet base, where she would have been taken back to civilization. However, since Carter was the one who knew the location of the Soviet base, this seems unlikely. Moreover, Eric Heisserer (the film's writer) revealed in an interview with Bloody Disgusting that Kate does not survive in the script he wrote.
- Fans considered Lars as the true hero for the films because of him knowing what the Thing was and appeared in both films trying to finish the creatures.
External Links[]
- Kate Lloyd on the The Thing Wiki