Writer's Note:

So this was a little writer's trick of mine. During my post-office hours encounter with the Serbian cleaning woman, in which she tearfully showed me the picture on her cell phone which evidently meant a great deal to her, she also read me a note she had written in broken english trying to explain who she was, which for some reason she felt the need to do despite the fact that we barely had any exchange that extended beyond "hi". I couldn't understand much of what she said, but it affected me greatly that she took so much time to share something with me. For the purposes of Downsized, I split that encounter into two different scenes-- this being the second-- and added in a little sexual attraction, because it's fun. By the way, that is Maura from Episode 1 in the picture on Connor's desk, if you didn't notice. Yes, it's all starting to intertwine now...