Bernie Mac died because the government had made clones of him, showed them to him, and he had a heart attack. They couldn't use the clones because the public found out he died.
If captured, we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them.
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And if the truth is terrible, the answer is that, terrible or not, it is still the truth. And then the truth can be changed.