Well, I was just passing through, so I had no sense of the "local culture". Thanks.
By the way, the reason I was looking up information on this episode was that I was trying to identify the actress who played pseudo-Mena / Cassie. Turns out to be Ally Ioannides, who I thought was very good in the role — wouldn't mind…

Thanks for the explanation. It still leaves me wondering whether "gendering" is a neutral term or is deemed something to be avoided (which was the impression I got upon encountering the term). Is it considered wrong to use in fiction the reasonable possibility that some women might be more intuitive in certain areas…

"Gendering"?? Pardon my ignorance, not being a graduate of some Women's Studies program or other, but is that a thing? … and a bad one at that? Am I intuiting correctly that "we" now believe writers should stay away from ever assigning behaviors and storylines based on their characters' gender? I for one don't look…