Why did they allow Anna onto the helicopter?
At the end of Predator we see Anna is on the American helicopter when Dutch gets there.
Why did they allow her on? As far as they were concerned, she was a random stranger at best and a guerilla fighter at worst. Did she explain that the military unit had been attacked by a superpowerful alien and Dutch would be along to vouch for her once he had wiped all the mud off and taken down some expert level booby traps?
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Don't forget that Dillon (Carl Weathers' character) knew that there was more to their mission that what Dutch originally thought. It's plausible that he explained what was going on to some superiors, who authorized the chopper to pick ANYONE up assuming they came out alive.
As for Anna possibly being a guerrilla fighter, unless she had a grenade on her person and was willing to blow herself up with the chopper (sorry, da choppaaa!), the people on the helicopter could easily overpower her. Besides, once the CIA had her in custody, she was able to give some insight into what the Predator was (as Gary Beusey's character explained in Predator 2).
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She was an obviously-distressed unarmed woman.
Why would you rule out altruism? Soldiers--especially soldiers from Western democracies like the USA--routinely render aid to civilians out of the goodness of their own hearts.
She was at the landing zone.
They were called to a specific location and she was there. She was unarmed and afraid. She spoke English well enough to communicate that she had been with Dutch and his men and knew what became of them. Further she could describe the threat they were up against.
The real question is why was she still on the helicopter the next day. That suggests that they returned to base and came back, bringing her with them, which would be unlikely for numerous reasons.
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