What happened to the engineer at the beginning of Prometheus?

Contact with the alien goo seems to have a range of effects: the engineer at the beginning more or less crumbles to dust; it seems to cause worms to mutate into snakelike creatures; one crew member becomes a marauding zombie-like monster while another apparently absorbs the substance into his DNA, resulting in …

What did David say to the Engineer in Prometheus?

Anil Biltoo of the SOAS Language Centre in London, who served as the Linguist Teacher on Prometheus, has revealed exactly what it was that David said in an interview with The Bioscopist (via Ropes of Silicon): “This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life.”

What was the engineer’s reaction to Prometheus?

The team from Prometheus greeted the Engineer peacefully. The reaction of the Engineer was violent and hostile. If you extrapolate this reaction to the larger Engineer population, they don’t appear to be friendly to Earth humans.

How did the engineer get awakened?

The Engineers missed their mission date 2000 years ago, when human technology was not very advanced. He’s awakened, on a military base, on his ship, by an intruding force obviously of a technology far advanced from the one he was getting ready to go wipe out on Earth at the start of the common era.

Did the Engineer kill everyone because of David?

I think the Engineer killed everyone because of David. The android might have represented an affront to their bio-engineering sensibilities, or to their standards of morality. David has basically surpassed his creators, and he is communicating with the Engineer — not the frail humans.

Who was the most interesting person aboard the Prometheus?

For me, perhaps the most interesting person aboard the Prometheus was the android, David. I’m still confused by his seeming fascination with the movie, Lawrence of Arabia.