Basically when the thing was imitating Palmer, who was tied up, it waited for McCready to take a sample of it's blood an
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Globalcharmer — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 12:36 AM)
Read the original story. The Things knew that they were Things, not human.
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BlablaBlackSheep — 2 years ago(May 01, 2023 07:35 AM)
There wasn’t much else It could do. Looking at it from The Thing’s perspective, it didn’t know what Mac had planned until it was already tied up. The Thing knew it was trapped with no escape and waited until the last possible second to reveal itself and try to take out as many humans as possible before inevitably being destroyed. It was cornered.