Yet none who heard the order appreciate its irony. Some stand with guns, some patrol rooms with knives, and all are ready to slash and shoot and murder the intruder in a bloody font of insta-death.
So they follow orders and do what they’ve been trained to do. All who hear him probably think it’s good advice, wisdom dispensed to survive an impending attack by you, a relentless killer. It’s a perfectly reasonable thing for him to say to his henchmen.
“Follow protocol and we’ll all make it out alive,” says a boss character in one of Hotline Miami’s later missions.
