How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Men in Black.
Quote #4
ZED: You will dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MiB Special Services. You'll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you. From now on, you'll have no identifying marks of any kind. You will not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone. You are a rumor, recognizable only as déjà vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist.
Of course, Jay does exist, but everything from his new identity to his lack of fingerprints to his new attire is designed by the agency to perpetuate the deception that's at the heart of its mission. This scene is more of a makeunder than a makeover.
Quote #5
KAY: (Neuralyzes Beatrice.) All right, Beatrice. There was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus.
JAY: Wait—wait a minute. You just flash that thing, it erases her memory, and you just make up a new one?
KAY: A standard-issue neuralyzer.
A good lie leaves no room for doubt. The Men in Black require that their lies be the official narrative, so they erase those annoying truths from people's memories and replace them with their own story. When you consider the agency as a symbol for government, this fact can get really scary really fast. On the other hand, we wouldn't mind if they zapped our memories of Zoolander 2…
Quote #6
KAY: There's always an alien battle cruiser or a Corellian death ray or an intergalactic plague that's about to wipe out life on this miserable little planet. The only way these people get on with their happy lives is they do not know about it.
The gathering crowd has only seen a smidgen of what the Men in Black see before lunch, and they look like they're about to go mentally unhinged. What would happen if they knew the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? So help them God, indeed. Haven't all of us lied at some point to spare someone's feelings, even over something minor?