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Flashing her makes no sense

posted 8 months ago by avortac4 (3478)
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When K flashes the coroner woman, he doesn't tell her a cover story.

So now the woman is in police station without remembering... what? The evening? 24 hours? It's not explained. In any case, she finds herself in the police station without memory of how she got there or why. What's next?

She goes to ask the cops, probably, and someone tells her something, I presume. Fine. She goes back to the Morgue, and.. ?

I mean, she must be either flashed every time something like this happens, or she eventually bumps into a dead body that isn't an 'Earthian corpse' (I hate the word 'Earth-Ling' - who made us all Chinese?).

Either the M.I.B. made sure to take that corpse away from her (somehow without flashing her, because otherwise she wouldn't be in the police station..), or the corpse is still going to be there, waiting for her to return, and re-discover it, so she goes back to the police station and so on..?

No matter how I try to piece this together, it just doesn't make sense - the pieces do not fit together. Did the writers even think about all this?

As we all know, the M.I.B. can't seem to prevent the 'alien corpses' ending up exactly at that morgue (you'd think they would have some kind of system/infrastructure in place for this type of stuff), so it means that sooner or later, she would find out about it all, and would have to be flashed again.. and again.. and .. how many flashes can one human brain endure anyway?

It's not the only thing that doesn't make sense about this movie (why flash the cop you are going to hire anyway, for example? It would just kill his possible motivation to know more or be hired by the M.I.B. organization, but movie's gotta movie..), but the whole morgue thing is definitely one of the biggest clumps of nonsense about this movie.

The M.I.B. has the tech to be completely infiltrated into every government level, area, infrastructure, agency, operation, system and so on, so why the heck would they let regular people take 'alien bodies' to a normal morgue.. it makes NO sense.

[–] Batfleck (1538) 7 months ago

1.the flash erases a certain time period, what the agents tell them in their post flash stunned empty canvas brain fills in events for them. but theres nothing to say they HAVE TO say anything to fill it in.

2.They cant control every single local police station in all of the united states, there are 17,985 of them. they would have to monitor every single death and make sure the body brought to the coroners was actually human. but yes i agree not removing the body after makes no sense.