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While Bea sees the merits of bringing Patience into the investigation, Jake rejects her, both as an outsider and as “temperamentally unsuitable for this kind of work,” though — spoiler alert — he will come around.

Jesko emphasizes the difficulties Walters faced feeling as an outsider in a male-dominated environment, her personal and professional ambitions and setbacks, as well as her triumphs.

To my ears, even the group’s earlier stuff about surfing and cars is laced with the melancholy of an outsider looking in.

That said, its message is still necessary: A boy grows up thinking that murdering stuff is awesome and then starts to question his town’s assumption that every outsider is a threat.

She remembers exactly when the significance of her "outsider" status hit home: it was when she was asked to run for election alongside a candidate for mayor in her hometown.