Hospital cafeteria scene-quiche (daddy issues?)

Perhaps I am reading too much into this, but is there something symbolic about Kessler's choice of lunch? He says he thought that the quiche was pie, and he also chose cole slaw, yet he claims to hate cole slaw. So why buy it for lunch? Does this represent his dislike of his daughter? Like how he is having lunch with her because he feels he has to, even though he doesn't want to? It's a bitter pill for him to swallow?

And Laurie (or Lori?) seems to have an Electra complex. She is drawn to McCann because he is like a younger version of her father, a father who was never there for her. First she shows contempt towards McCann, but then after discussing the obscene phone call, she asks him out to the party. It's as if the memory of the obscene phone call opened up old wounds, and the fact that she needs a father figure to protect her.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten