The cow scene (SPOILERS)

I get annoyed when people say things in movies "make no sense". But I've got to say, I'm really feel like that's the best response I have for this. We're certainly given no answers and it feels entirely extraneous to the plot.

I think it was just intended to look weird and make us confused. The big problem is that once they start giving us answers none of it is very satisfying.

In another thread somebody pointed to this interview by the director: http://www.geekadelphia.com/2014/06/12/an-interview-with-william-eubank-director-of-the-signal-interview/

In it he says:

I have to ask about the scene with the cow….

There is a character back there in the room that opens up. They are hoping to test him on the cow. It’s one of the few times where I break my own rule of following a perspective of the character, when we are REALLY supposed to be running around with Nick. There is always that debate when you are in the editing room when you asking will people get this or understand it. It’s just too great and the cow’s performance was so strong, I needed it in there.

There is a character in there that breaks out.

lol I suppose it's an inside joke then. The movie is confusing enough but they wanted to throw in a completely irrelevant scene to make it even more confusing. I get it.
I wish they would make a sequel (or sequels) to shed more light on all these unexplained plots.

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FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
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Aliens abduct cows. Inside alien movie joke for a long time. And to this story? It shows it isn't just humans locked downstairs... Nor just cows...

I don't believe that this scene is the point where Jonah escapes...at least not the point where he heads up and out of the facility. He's still down there somewhere.

As Nic enters the elevator with Haley, we see Dr. Damon pass a worker. Damon looks at this worker with interest (turns his head to see him). I'm pretty sure that this worker, who appears to be wearing glasses, is Jonah. We are seeing Jonah in disguise as a worker. Damon sees him, but makes no effort to stop him any more than he tries to stop Nic. This solidifies the notion that they are all meant to "escape".

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The cow scene is a sanity test after Jonah's alien tech hands are attached. The hands, like Nic's legs, are superhuman. Their use can be very destructive - as seen by the damaged hallways and such - damage from Jonah trying to get them off - not from retalition. The entire reason Jonah is allowed to "escape" to the next level of the experiment/maze/puzzle is from his passing the sanity test. He does not become homicidal nor does he enter a psychopathic, delusional state. He makes the most logical conclusion he can and remain sane - its the govt, in area 51 - wrong of course, but its a conclusion that lets Nomad/Damon continue to the tests in the control environment he needs - the subjects unaware of the true nature of their situation (a sentient creature aware its the subject of an experiment makes the experiment invalid)

I think the cow scene was a test for Haley. We know she can hear noises others can't and we know something to do with her nervous system was done to her. Maybe they gave her psychokinesis and they switched on the noise and sudden darkness triggering her power making her throw the chair. Just a theory. Apart from that we don't really know what her power was.

Alien abduction... Fishburne and co where they abductees!