When Benjamín Esposito and Irene Menéndez Hastings go to confront the evil governmental officer who has released the murderer, the officer boasts about his powers and the differences between Benjamín and Irene recalling their last names: Irene is a Hastings (her cousins are "feudal lords" in the remote province of Jujuy) and Benjamín is an Esposito. Esposito in Italian means "orphan". In Spanish the word "expósito", which has almost the same sound as Esposito, also means "orphan", however the synonym "huerfano" is far more common in use, making the reference somewhat obscure yet not imperceptible (the etymology is the same as the word "exposed" and refers to how orphans would be abandoned, left exposed to the elements), so the comment on the name is a complex trans-cultural and ethnic dismissing.

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