A row of gray masks hanging from pegs, with an orange glove reaching toward a bright open doorway.

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Isabel

Act normal? That’s your big plan Max? Don’t you realize it’s only a matter of time before they find us and turn us over to some government agency where they’re gonna test us and prod us, and, oh yea, exterminate us.

— Roswell • 1999

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Sarcasm meets fear here: telling someone to act normal is dismissed as no real plan. The speaker argues that discovery is only a matter of time, followed by testing, prodding and eventual extermination. Panic and dark humour turn a hopeful strategy of blending in into an obvious dead end.

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