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Yes it’s something specific from his character’s childhood where he’s told-before all of the burnout and sadness-that he is special, but isn’t it also what each of us is desperate to hear? That we are somehow different from everyone else? When Octavio tells Peter, in a pre-recorded message, that he’s “special,” it makes him cry. There are some caveats to each, but essentially, the understanding is that there are universal aspects to every character that will somehow resonate with us.
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Grant) tells us that Peter is us, and that later, Simone, Janice, and Fredwynn are also us. That, of course, ties back in to the series’ first episode where Octavio (Richard E. A truncated version of the game played throughout the season, Jason follows a whimsical set of clues and ends up talking with Janice (Sally Field), who assures him that “your pain, whatever it is, is 0% unique.” Simone gives him a postcard that will take him on a short journey to self-discovery, one that she also experienced, as part of the journey’s “pass it forward” philosophy. We meet Jason in recovery from alcohol addiction, where he meets Simone (Eve Lindley), who is also a different version of her character from the rest of the season.
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In the finale, we discover his story, and that he is Peter, who is actually Jason Segel … as Jason Segel. It tells, initially, the story of the clown-face boy, a strange figure who has occasionally appeared to Peter (Segel) throughout the season like some kind of Lynchian spectre. In this final episode, “The Boy,” Dispatches really set itself apart in a very meta hour that felt at times like an entirely different show.