LogFAQs > #986447018

KogaSteelfang posted...

Kirsh was very close to losing everything too. If Arthur had lasted a bit longer, Morrow would e taken him, the xenomorph, and 2 hybrids and left. Kirsh only succeeded because they had to go to plan B and advance to the lab. It really like pure luck that things worked out in his favor.

It's possible that Kirsch, when he was with Slightly and Smee to help them get away, was using that as an opportunity to weigh up Arthur's condition and get a sense of how close the chestburster was to coming out.

Imminent chestburster - let 'em go, maintain surveillance and re-capture chesterburster later.

Chestburster likely to stay dormant longer, stop Slightly from taking Arthur to Morrow.

His plan/ agenda seems to revolve around drawing Morrow into the facility by dangling a Xenomorph in front of him, which meant some controlled chaos had to be allowed to play out.