Feeling no emotion enabled them to hunt down their former friends with the intention of changing them too, without feeling remorse or sadness for doing so.

It is generally accepted in psychiatry that an absence of emotion is what identifies a sociopath among his or her peers this also could be said of the people who were changed by the pods and were recreated in every way but in the emotional sense. How did the absence of emotion change the people of Mill Valley? As well as this, Miles himself was initially skeptical about what he was hearing, and had noticed no apparent changes in Wilma's Uncle Ira, so when Mannie dismissed the claims as some sort of group delusion or mass hysteria, Miles was pleased to hear his skepticism supported by a professional whose opinion he trusted, rather than being concerned that Mannie had an ulterior motive he believed him to be giving an honest, and extremely likely, professional opinion. The majority of their initial communication about the influx of patients claiming that friends or family members were not who they were supposed to be had taken place over the telephone which meant that Miles was not able to look Mannie in the eye or read body language as they were speaking, preventing him from identifying the telltale lack of emotion that identified those already changed. Miles trusted Mannie as both a friend and professional associate and as Mannie was seemingly the same person that he had always been there seemed no reason not to doubt him. Why do you think Miles did not consider that Mannie might already be the 'enemy'? We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.

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