How should I understand the dialogue between David and Weyland in Alien: Covenant's prologue?

There is a dialogue between David and Weyland when they were talking about who created who at the beginning of Alien: Covenant. David then said:

Allow me then a moment to consider. You seek your creator. I am looking at mine. I will serve you. Yet you're human. You will die. I will not.

But what did he mean? Why did he say that to Weyland?

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Best Answer

David is demonstrating the irony of the situation.

Humans are seeking their creators, David already has done so.

David serves humans, despite them being inferior (as they will die, but David won't).

This is the beginning of David's contempt for humans, and introduces his motives for his actions in the remainder of the movie: creating the aliens by mixing humans and the evolutionary plague made by the Engineers.

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Is it the same David in Alien: Covenant?

After Peter Weyland is killed, David is freed from servitude, allowing him to conduct experiments to engineer his own variants of the Alien creature....David8Fassbender as David in Introducing the David 8 - The Next Generation Weyland Robot.First appearancePrometheus (2012)Last appearanceAlien: Covenant (2017)7 more rows

What does David say to the Alien 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."

Is it David or Walter at the end of Alien: Covenant?

At the very end of the film, just as Daniels is going back into cryo-sleep, Walter reveals himself to actually be David (both played by Michael Fassbender), informing us that in the battle between brothers, the wrong one won.

Is David from Prometheus in Alien: Covenant?

In both Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Michael Fassbender plays David, an android who is seemingly designed to help human space crews.

Deleted Engineer Dialogue FULLY TRANSLATED from the Script of Prometheus

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