Halfway through the second season, Dick is angry with his brother, Cassidy ("Beaver") and looks ready to attack him until Cassidy makes a never-explained reference to a "Sally" that stops Dick in his tracks and seems to uncharacteristically intimidate and terrify him. Showrunner Rob Thomas later explained this exchange in an interview with the Newark Star-Ledger: "There's a strange moment that is never answered and there was no way to answer it but meant a lot to me, where Dick looks like he's going to punch Beaver for setting him up with the cross dresser, and Beaver warns him, 'I'll get even; remember Sally.' It just hangs there. No one knows who Sally is. We had in our head that Sally was a pet of Dick's that Beaver disappeared after Dick did something to upset him. Beaver has a dark side; he can take care of himself, if you're paying attention. It's tough to get that in there without pointing arrows at the bad guy." Killing and/or torturing animals is one point of the "Macdonald Triad," the three behaviors that in combination are taken by psychiatrists as a strong warning indicator of incipient sociopathy in children (the other two being fire-starting and bed-wetting after toddlerhood). Since Cassidy helped make homemade "action movies" that included amateur explosions and pyrotechnics, he seems to have been attracted to fire-starting as well, so these references in combination are subtle foreshadowings of Cassidy's criminal insanity.
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