[ snapped: ] It's a lot less implausible than your story!

[ he quickly catches himself, looking abashed, but doesn't back down from the statement. ]

--I'm not trying to be rude or anything, Sue, really, but Katie and I have dealt with a lot of weird stuff that had to do with clones and fakes before! How do you know for sure that there wasn't just some mix-up and people got confused? Anything's possible, right?

[ except a world where Reed Richards killed thousands of people and his own family. surely that can't be true. Alex still can't wrap his head around very idea. ]