Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A polite exit is a strange thing to make a legend of, but Mass Effect fans did: it is the sound of a conversation wheel closing, repeated across a hundred hours of dialogue until players could hear it in their sleep. The Citadel DLC cashing it in as a joke at Shepard's own expense shows how well the habit stuck, and fans still use it to duck out of anything awkward.
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"I should go" is Commander Shepard's way of excusing themselves from a conversation in Mass Effect, a polite exit heard over and over as Shepard makes the rounds of the Normandy's crew. The series knew it: in Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC (2013), Shepard's clone seals the squad inside a vault in the Citadel Archives and taunts them on the way out with the same words. Shepard then asks whether they really always sound like that, and a squadmate confirms it.
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- Mass Effect Wiki: Citadel Archives: EscapeI Should Go sectionReference checked
- Mass Effect Wiki: Ashley Williams/Unique dialogueCitadel Archives, vault exchangeReference checked
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