How would you do it?

Well first i tell everyone to go to sleep by 10pm. Then in the middle of the night, I activate this really cool feature we had installed on all these new apartment complexes (they were constructed during the cold war, so in the event of a nuclear war, the doors and windows seal up tight and basically turns the whole structure into an above ground bomb shelter, more or less).

The hard part is getting the people out. We basically have to escort them out one by one. It took all day just to do one half of one building. I don't know why we didn't invest in some knockout gas we could have sprayed through the whole building. Anyway as you can see, we didn't do a very good job as we keep having to expand the containment area.

I guess we are supposed to accept that the 'gluing' or whatever, & then are supposed to follow the 'what would happen/what if' storyline from there.

But I too was wondering how that could be done (?)

If there was some vaporous glue you could release that would then solidify, that wouldn't explain how it would *know* just to seal doorways & such.

If we could accept that the hazmat folks came around during the night & lathered it around the doors without being noticed by anyone ~ if they could do that, then why not release some kind of sleeping gas into the apartments at the same time so they wouldn't have to do deal with awake, rebellious folks, or do that *instead* of the gluing & then go thru the apartments & carry folks out, etc.?

Of course, there was the 'we had to hurry because this struck so fast' explanation given in the movie (although the maybe-vaccine then would be kind of a stretch), & that is also bolstered by the fact that they were setting up the tents on the fly after the apartments had been sealed, they obviously didn't have the 'keep calm' message set up right away, & the artist's phone reception wasn't fooled with until that morning, several minutes after he awoke.

So...maybe we are just to *assume* they had just enough time to rapidly superglue everyone in, in the dead of night, without being noticed, & to try to make sure the tenants stay put while they were busily trying to take care of everything else.

Maybe they *did* release some kind of knock-out gas first, just had enough time to glue doors shut, & then could set up their sniper, tents, etc., while people were 'coming to' in their sealed apartments.

That *could* also explain why artist-dude slept in (and not just because his alarm clock was without power).

But could a superglue work that fast?

And maybe I missed it...did anyone in the movie speculate about being put to sleep (ala 'gas') the previous night?



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