Alien: Specimen
A tense, claustrophobic short about a botanist's isolated struggle to contain an unknown biological threat while her dog senses danger she cannot yet comprehend.
During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.
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