With how careful everyone is around this place not to say the wrong thing, Alcide has to wonder what the repercussions are. He feels like he's walked in on some kind of Hitler like cult where if you don't follow the leader, the Computer in this case, you wind up dead or worse. He knows there's worse than dead. He just doesn't know what that translates to in this place.

Alcide nods and starts walking with her. "Why's everybody here actin' so weird. Like all this is normal? I take it I didn't get the speech most people did?"