Your theories on what happened to Elizabeth Shaw?

@BigDave what you say here makes me think that David will become a constant opposing force throughout the entire timeline of the movies, but in Alien-AR we aren't shown this history only W-Y efforts, as the company has never disclosed information obtained by Walter,-David- Other androids, or that David went rogue after the failed Prometheus mission... What I'm saying is what if W-Y has been in competition with David this whole time in obtaining control over engineer/Xeno "tech". Just speculation and dont think it would be true but your posts made me think of it! 

@Myrddin365 I like your idea too with Shaw slowly educating David on how to be human, and then David "losing" someone he "cares about" for the first time...Doubt this is the case but its interesting!

I like that her fate is being kept  secret, it's gunna hopefully be worth it.

Speculation can be good or bad, and disappointing when expectations don't turn out the way you expect, but it is good when you go Wow! i did not expect that. Sorry for all the expectations in this reply, lol.

Mrs . Shaw, David's doings/intentions are the greatest mysteries of the story (disregarding alien beings). I suspect their evolution will be dictated by the unfolding of the events that occur due to the Covenant arrival

David 8 gets her trust back and both land on this unknown planet (paradise), where the original inhabitants died from a plaque (black substance). But David finds what he needs and proceeds the ritual predicted on the Giger mural of the alien lifecycle. There are holes in this idea but would be gnarly to see David be the Prometheus of the tale.

It would be totally dramatic and sadistic if David would lure Elizabeth to repairing him and help set forth, only to kill her in a very gruesome way.

But there is a chance that she earned a certain respect from him for her survival instincts and strong belief.

David is a tricky character.

I liked the other ideas of a matrix-machine similar to drawings made for Prometheus, where she is used in experiments for her DNA (body & soul) to create the eggs & xenos. I doubt she is in still left in cryo sleep thats too much like the last engineer from Prometheus.

Hi all. Remember deleted scene from original Alien? The one, where Ripley discovers her mates morphing into eggs? Well, what if David got Shaw somehow morphed to egg - the one we have seen in trailer?...

This also could explain the eggs on LV 426 in alien ship. Remember, those are placed in a certain order without any trace of the Alien Queen. David/Walter, not being live creature,  could easily arrange that without any risk of being facehugged. Poor 3000 Covenant colonists...

Sorry, if this idea already's popped up somewhere in this forum - i did not manage to read all threads.

I am not a huge fun of the whole series, but i am really thrilled to know, what happened next.

Best idea Trive, had the same thoughts as well. That the one egg shown is either Elizabeth or at least built from her DNA. Then David has this one chance to create a protoalien we hold so dear. Then he gets onto the colony ship with a cliffhanger ending at covenant not showing what comes next but bound to be sure all are turned into eggs :-) would be really gruesome and cool

She needs to remain important to the story, whatever happens.

Trive

Yes the colonists become eggs, and the Juggernaut/Derelict gets repaired and is enroute for LV426- then the pilot would need to be identified.

I honestly doubt any of that happens. I'm taking the "technically not dead" quote with a huge amount of skepticism. I don't think Shaw is dead or even hurt. I feel she is the polar opposite of David. Fassbender commented on their relationship as like a bickering married couple. I think the person in the cloak is actually two people. I think Shaw fired the flare chasing off the neomorphs, while David was on the other end of the wheat field just watching on. 

Why would neomorphs be afraid of flares shot- especially not directly at them?

No idea. Anyways here's the article for those who are curious: http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/alien/262464/alien-covenant-michael-fassbender-on-playing-two-roles-david-shaw-s-relationship-10-years-later

I think it's safe to say Fassbender probably said more than Ridley Scott would have liked. He's still very fond of Shaw. Wouldn't surprise me though if he did something to her to prolong her life. Splice her DNA with Engineer DNA or something to that affect. 

whatever happened, she will be in the next sequel. so i don't think she died.

Apparently she's lying in the darkness ?