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The children soon " pair off ," but one of the boys, David, loses his partner after she dies at birth.

As a result, he shows human compassion while still resembling the other children and retaining some degree of psychic powers.

This leads to David not fitting in well with the rest of the alien offspring.

Their leader, Mara (" daughter " of a local physician, Dr. Alan Chaffee ; her mother, Barbara, commits suicide by walking off an ocean cliff ), considers him less important due to his expression of emotions.

Because of his childhood loss, he understands what the other children do not: pain.

He and his mother Jill McGowan ( the local school ) share a brief conversation about this, with David understanding that if he feels pain, he can understand others ' pain also.

When the other children experience pain, they simply use their powers to inflict the same pain on the adult responsible for the pain.