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Leaving the MIB

posted 14 years ago by drek258
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I wonder what happens when you leave, we see them having their ID taken, birth records destroyed, everyone completely forgets who they are including parents and friends and even have their fingerprints burnt off. You have to wonder how they return all of that as in the second film J erases that guy's memory and then just leaves him there in the cafe, I wonder what happened to him from there as probably as his house has probably been sold on and his previous life had moved on without him.

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[–] CortneyAkana 13 years ago

Remember how K is working at a post office with other none threatening aliens, I think the MIB prob. set them up with something like that: A new unassuming/boring life.

Something tells me the people of Earth are gonna need me.

[–] lorilya 13 years ago

We saw in the first movie what happened to Agent K, though it both being hinted at plus shown in one of the tabloid headlines. The tabloid said something like "MAN AWAKENS FROM 30-YEAR COMA: Returns to Girl He Left Behind" and as it says in (some draft of) the script, "A large photograph shows a smiling KAY, arm-in-arm with ELIZABETH RESTON, his long-lost fiancee, in her back yard in Tempe, Arizona."

So his cover for how he went away was being in a coma (although I don't know they would have pulled it off so it wasn't noticed that it was the wrong body, possibly one of those robotic human traveller suits they had like for the little alien) and Agent K clearly must have gone back to his fiancee, having "woken up from the coma."

Probably they had some sort of a cover story for the others, too.

[–] Slynge 13 years ago

What do you mean "the wrong body"?
It was Kay's long lost fiancee. He became a Man in Black after the first encounter on that evening where he hands the flowers to the alien. Jay even comments that "I guess she never got them" or something like that.

[–] robertwnielsen 11 years ago

Slynge,

J says, "So, you were the guy in that picture you showed me with the flowers. And, I take it she never got those flowers!" (Yes, I know this movie a little too well!

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