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When Jerome (Vincent) calls Eugene, he says "I need you to be yourself for the day" and Eugene says "I was never very good at it remember?". What does he mean by that?

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Despite being genetically superior, even among genetically enhanced people, Eugene is never comfortable in his own skin. His injury was actually self-inflicted because of his own existential crises. He has everything but did not have a sense of himself. He feels awkward even after his “injury” and jumps at the chance to give his identity to someone else with more drive and vision. Eugene spends his life as a hermit and when called upon to be himself, the police are coming over, he says he is not very good at it.