Corrected entry: It's been said before, but it bears repeating until someone gets the idea. Mr. Gray traverses thousands of lightyears for the sole purpose of destroying humanity, manages to convert himself into a fungus cloud to infect humans or move around more easily, but *cannot* lift a sewer cover before he's vanquished.
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Correction: While I also found this to be a contrived way of delaying the climax until the heroes arrived, there is a (weak) basis for this. Mr. Grey travelled to Earth with the help of spacecraft, and the dust cloud is one of the forms he assumes (in addition to his true alien form, the form of a stereotypical "grey" alien, etc). However, while his is inhabiting Jonesy's body, he is confined to the limits of Jonesy's physical form. You will see in several places that Mr. Grey / Jonesy has a noticable limp from the accident six months prior. Mr. Grey must live with Jonesy's limitations, which include a weakened body and atrophied muscles from being laid up after the car creamed him.
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