"Oh. That's... disturbing. That they can just do that."

Judging from Tommy's lack of complete panic though, Alec assumes its something that's happened before. And that it's not permanent, which means they just need to push through to the other side of whatever this is. Of course that's oversimplification of the situation, but sometimes the simplified view adds the most clarity.

"Well, I guess we should see why they wanted to give you a taste of normalcy, right?" The sooner they get through this, the better. Probably.