"This is a special moment for Chancellor Merkel, as somebody who grew up in East Germany, who understands what it is like to be under the shadow of a dictatorial regime, and to see how freedom has bloomed in Germany,"
VOA: standard.2009.11.03
They had never heard of him and, all of a sudden, you saw somebodyspecial.
Eventually, Claire decides she's somehow privy to murders that somebody else is about to commit, and that specialsomebody is inserting these visions into her head.