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Isaac is from Cleveland, Ohio and a business major at the University of Arizona. As he explains in the season premiere, he is an artist and a musician with a history of juvenile delinquency, having been put on probation for robbing 15 houses and shooting off fireworks through someone's window. Given the choice between nine months in jail and a "treatment center", he chose the latter, in order to reevaluate his direction in life. He is JewishIn Episode 16, he reveals that he used to take a lot of LSD, from which he still suffers from occasional hallucinations of birds, and that when he sees a black bird, he interprets it as a premonition that someone has died. He claims such a premonition in the same episode, before learning of his grandfather's death. Despite his fear of commitment he enters into a relationship with an Irish woman named Noirin during the season.