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So you're tellin' me...

posted 14 years ago by ikkyle
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that the hospital has technology to show someone's body and can detect anything out of the ordinary, but the government doesn't have that, so instead they just hope they're right and drill a hole into someone's chest? It just seems to me that if this is supposed to have happened in a technologically advanced world far into the future they would have some better way of detecting clones if they were that big of a problem. I mean come on, that drill looked like something from the inquisitions. Don;t get me wrong I think it was an ok movie, I just don't really get that.

[–] LeeSir 13 years ago

They couldn't know otherwise because the bomb is self building.

[–] sschind 13 years ago

Built by the same type of nanobots that rebuilt the Red Dwarf and its crew. Now that was a good Sci Fi show.

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[–] Rayvio 12 years ago

the only reason the scan would have worked is because he had already been scanned a few years ago and so the data could be compared. the bomb was already shown to be disguised and undetectable without extracting it, but he'd hoped that a scan showing a 100% match of every detail in his body would convince them that he was human
he tried to tell them in the 'interrogation' but Hathaway wouldn't listen. it's hinted at (and apparently made more clear in the original story) that the war has caused them to be more willing to risk the sacrifice of innocents to keep the overall losses down, as demonstrated by Hathaway sleeping fine after ten died to save many and his shooting the human shield

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[–] Philo89 11 years ago

The Impostors are programmed that if they are discovered, they detonate. So running the scan, if it reveals the bomb, sets off a nuclear bomb. Even if they ran the scan without showing the subject, it's pretty easy to figure out that if they start drilling, they know you're a replicant, and so boom.

The only way to disarm one is to get the bomb module out of the chest before it detonates, and the only way to do that is for the suspect to believe they are human while this thing is drilling into their chest. Split-second timing, but the bomb is yanked out before the identity trigger can go off.

That's my take on it.

[–] gunslinger92557 10 years ago

Yeah that sounds about right to me too.

[–] Technomage001 10 years ago

One thing though when they shot the wife they acted like the threat was over. Which makes the vivisection scene feel just thrown in for dramatic effect.

[–] howard_w13 10 years ago

One thing though when they shot the wife they acted like the threat was over. Which makes the vivisection scene feel just thrown in for dramatic effect.

Yet only moments afterward when Spencer realizes that he really was a replicant the entire security force just stands around like dimwits and watch him detonate.

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[–] ILJtheFirst (2139) 3 years ago

It's not like anything could be done to protect themselves or get away. Humans are a hella long way from the technology to move a human out of the blast radius in a few seconds. Those guys are heroes. If I remember correctly, the finale happens in the lonely forest.