Lincoln says, “It’s stupid is what it is. Time’s a-wasting. You either run or you find other ways to fit in and get by. Ain’t no use in holding on to ways that are dead. It just brings death closer”. Why does what Lincoln says upset Miig so much?

In one particularly heated moment, Lincoln says that the resistance in Espanola is “stupid,” since “[y]ou either run or you find other ways to fit in and get by.” Miig interrogates the pair about what they mean by finding other ways to fit it. In the end, it is clear that rather than go on the run, Travis and Lincoln turn in their fellow members of the Anishnaabe and Cree Nations to the Recruiters in exchange for whatever small comforts they may offer them.