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From: wgr@rti-sel.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: HBO-Brother From Another Planet (?)
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 14:54:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 14:54:51 1986
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Reply-To: wgr@rti-sel.UUCP (Bucky Ransdell)
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC
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Summary: 

-- SPOILER WARNING --

>Yup, I think that's right. These other slaves show up (not exactly clear
>how they knew to go there), bad guys see that they're outnumbered and
>suicide, the brother points up, questioning "Are you from up there?",
>other guy shakes head, points down indicating "No, we're Earth people,
>now." Does anyone have a different interpretation?

Apparently the other escapees had their eyes on the brother (not literally)
for a while.  In an earlier scene where the guy with the beard and hat 
watches him walking down the street, and it seems to me that the fellow in 
the blue coveralls might have been the one running the floor polisher in the 
office building where the brother confronted the dope-dealing businessman.
They knew the "bloodhounds" were after him all along.

As for the meaning of the thumbs up / thumbs down gestures, I interpreted it
as "Can we go home now?" / "No, we have to stay here", although I think
someone on the net a while back thought the brother was asking if the
bounty hunters had gone to heaven.