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[The Thing 1982] The Thing has been captured by the government and successfully contained in a prison cell it can't escape from. The Government attempts communication. Does the Thing communicate?

Does/would it even want to, outside of the human aspect where it has assimilated humans using them as autopilots for their knowledge of the world, would the thing even have the capability of communicating. Explaining their purpose, where they came from, etc. 

In the movie (1982) The Thing had several opportunities to communicate especially during the Bennings scene before it was lit on fire in the snow it seemed only capable of making that inhuman howl.  But it only seemed interested in assimilation, hiding, or escape.

What do you guys think? Would the Thing communicate to escape, or would it deny it was a Thing to the very end?
gpt
In the script for the TV mini-series the government does capture a Thing and they try to communicate with it. It goes through a bunch of imitations begging for them to let it go before it drops the act entirely and screeches that it wants them to die and it to live.