( Bad news, Julie: Jack is, quite frequently, hyper-literal to a fault. Blame it on the brain damage, the lack of sleep, and the prescription medication.
He does obligingly raise his hands as she levels the gun at him — though maybe a bit more calmly than a normal person might. Not because they're in the Horizon, that part doesn't even occur to him. No, it's because he's been held at gunpoint more times in his life than he can count. At this point, he's figured out freaking out about it won't actually help anything.
Her question is met with a long, puzzled moment of silence.
He has absolutely no idea what she's talking about, and eventually just breaks down and asks: )
I'm... sorry, are you robbing me right now? I can't tell. Usually this is the kind of thing that ends in a robbery, but you're not really giving me robbery signals, so I'm confused.
( The fact that money means absolutely nothing here does not occur to him either. )
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He does obligingly raise his hands as she levels the gun at him — though maybe a bit more calmly than a normal person might. Not because they're in the Horizon, that part doesn't even occur to him. No, it's because he's been held at gunpoint more times in his life than he can count. At this point, he's figured out freaking out about it won't actually help anything.
Her question is met with a long, puzzled moment of silence.
He has absolutely no idea what she's talking about, and eventually just breaks down and asks: )
I'm... sorry, are you robbing me right now? I can't tell. Usually this is the kind of thing that ends in a robbery, but you're not really giving me robbery signals, so I'm confused.
( The fact that money means absolutely nothing here does not occur to him either. )