the boys' shower room

The other thing that comes down the male line: the name. Incandenza is tracked back "paternally from an Umbrian five generations past," and the joke of the sighting is that the inheritance has nearly worn out — Hal is the last one who still looks the part, the dark Pima-cheekboned phenotype the dead father wore as a young man, while Orin got the Moms's Nordic build. Paternity as a diluting signal across generations, the ethnic look flickering out even as the surname persists. Pairs with scene 170's name-transmission line (Himself's middle name Orin, his own father's father's name).