When all was said and done the real villain in Ridley Scott's imperfect "Prometheus" wasn't an alien engineer, nor was it a proto-zenomorph, nor was it even the big bad corporate wolf Peter Weyland. It was that black goo gone wild. Released when human intervention changed the atmosphere in the engineer's storage facility, this stuff was potent enough to turn a worm into a ghost cobra from hell and turn Fifield into an even bigger a-hole than he already was. No small feat that. An infected Charlie Holloway knocked up Elizabeth Shaw and, well, we all know how that worked out.
So just what was/is this biological warfare agent the engineers were apparently planning to set free on earth? Below is one of the extras from the Prometheus DVD release, and as you can see, it's a "classified" document outlining the virtues and hazards of the goo. I'm guessing that these are the results of David's analysis of the samples he brought back to the ship. The same samples he used to infect Holloway.
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