In one episode, Woo literally turned into an alien, reminiscent of a scene from the movie "Alien". Woo's transformation into an alien was a reference on her not fitting in with the other lawyers as well as a reference on her citizenship. Patton points out that the assumption is often made that a second-generation White immigrant is an American citizen, but that same assumption is not granted to non-Whites - in this case, Woo. Woo is not constructed as American (because an American is constructed as White), nor is she constructed as human. Woo, the only non-Euro-American member of the law firm, is constructed and seen as foreign or alien.