The DPA and the testing — Jodie's powers as invasion as much as gift, the inability to be close to people without the connection producing information she did not ask for. Feeling everything people hide is the game's account of what makes human relationships impossible for her: the specific barrier between people that requires the choice not to look, which Jodie does not always have available. The sessions with Nathan Dawkins are the exception — the relationship built on the exposure rather than despite it.