So now just sitting an thinking about it, “Why have the clones of him as an old guy?” Kinda like, you are going to go on a road trip, and instead of filling up your tank, you fill only fill it up a couple of gallons.
Intellectually this makes sense, and I like it. In implementation though with the very brief scene, the casual viewers would have no idea wtf was going on unless you subsequently sat them down and explained what they were seeing.