When John Murdoch and Mr. Hand are fighting on the rooftop, Mr. Hand says this to Murdoch. There was no more mention of this later. Anybody want to guess what it means?
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Oh, right. I thought they meant the people in the city were all dead - vessels for memories, that is.
shareThe Strangers are using human cadavers as surrogate bodies - 'vessels', to allow them to move around Dark City. So every time someone dies, the body becomes a potential vessel for a Stranger.
Except for Bumstead.
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You can even see it when Mr...Book, I think, dies. There's a reddish alien thing that separates from the body before being destroyed.
shareI used to be so confused by that scene because They show two guys acting like their heads were cut off, its fast cuts, like he's got no head, then he does again. But then I realized that one who still had a head was just in pain, like a shared pain among all strangers, and that the 'alien' came out of the other one who's head was partially gone.
It's Mr. Quick who gets killed on the billboard -- "No more Mr. Quick!" Mr. Book was the "senior" Stranger whom John defeats in the aerial battle at the end of the film.
shareyes, Mr Quick's parasite comes out when his head is sliced open at the billboard, but Mr. Book's parasite is also revealed in the finale when John hits him back with the dagger and pushes him into the water tower (they don't like water), killing Mr. Book -- his parasite creature comes out (this time as a reddish, poor animation thingie unlike Mr. Quick's) and vaporizes...
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