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Now I want Men In Black mode, where your job is to identify the threat posed by the popup and shoot accordingly:

Alien doing pull ups? Fine. 8 year old girl holding a Quantum Physics book in a dark alley? That's sus...

Having re-watched that movie recently, he's not wrong -- that's a deeply odd book for an apparent 8 year old girl to be holding. And with the amount of aliens that look like humans across the movies...

Typical cop assuming any behaviour they can't explain must be malevolent.

They call it entrapment - the officials put him in a position where be believes he's required to shoot in order to pass a test, but he sees no reason to. So finally he has to go with his gut and shoot the most probable target, even if he would have if not placed in that situation with those expectations.

I always thought he passed the test there, and the guys that just mindlessly shot failed.

Well of course he passed - they immediately after offer him the job and neuralize everyone else.

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