Possible Clues:

• The woman's quote about one who doesn't conform
• Present from jerk is beyond belief perhaps
• Charlie supporting either crackpot or dissident
• Galileo, for one
• Cite her conversion as a dissenter
• Apostate's nervous twitch after present
• That woman's name recalled one with unorthodox views
• Unbeliever
• One with unorthodox beliefs
• Dissenter in this position joining spasmodic movement