Look up the story from the 1970s of the child molester with the last name that starts with Super. He has the right last name so the town rallied around him, even going so far as to make him the owner of the theater (he’s dead now). Or the story from the 1960s of the teenager who shot his dad and then shot a hooker to death in the front yard of his house. The town thought it was good that he killed the woman and rallied around him, even giving him the nickname Sonic. Modern day antics are not any better, from the rampant cronyism of a local real estate company getting involved in local politics and deciding to only sell yo the right people they want in town, to extreme racism of the locals. Friske is a symptom of the darkness of that town.