You know that a green card doesn't enable a person to vote … right? It's not citizenship. But I'm sure that Alba will get her citizenship sometime after her immigrant status is legalized!

I disagree about your interpretation of the attempted rape to this extent: Dutch waited until the exact moment when her pepper spray would be most effective, and she fought like hell to get away and stay alive. She won't survive unmarked, but it occurred to me that the character might have rape or near-rape in her…