13 Reasons Why (TV Series)

Tape 7, Side A (2017)

Dylan Minnette: Clay Jensen

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• Clay Jensen : [to Mr. Porter about Hannah about the day of her suicide]  She walked out of school went home and put some things in order. She returned her uniform to the Crestmont where I worked with her. She didn't say anything. She dropped it on the counter and walked away. She dropped a package off with a friend, then took another to the post office. Then she went back home, put on some old clothes, she went into the bathroom, filled the tub, opened the box of razor blades she took from her parents' store that morning. She got into the tub still with her clothes on, slit her wrists and bled to death. And she died alone. And you could have stopped it and I could have. Justin Foley could have and a dozen other people, at least, but we didn't.

• Clay Jensen : It has to get better. The way we treat each other and look out for each other. It has to get better somehow.

• Kevin Porter : It's powerful and painful just to imagine what Hannah's last days were, to try to understand what led her there, but if she wanted to end her life, we weren't going to stop her.

  Clay Jensen : I cost a girl her life because I was afraid to love her.

  Kevin Porter : You can't love someone back to life.

  Clay Jensen : You can try.

• Tony Padilla : What about going through the cycle like Hannah wanted?

  Clay Jensen : It's time we stop thinking about what Hannah wanted and start thinking about what she needs. And Jessica. And every other girl who "practically begged" Bryce to fuck her.

• Kevin Porter : [to Clay]  So what's on your mind today?

  Clay Jensen : I wanted to talk about Hannah Baker. She pushed me away. I was thinking about how hurt I was and I didn't even for a minute stop to think that she was hurting too.

  Kevin Porter : Look, Clay. Whatever happened to Hannah, between you and her, with other kids, she made that choice to take her own life.

  Clay Jensen : But why? Why did she make that choice?

  Kevin Porter : We can't know that for sure.

  Clay Jensen : What if we could? What if we knew what we did wrong?

• Matt Jensen : [to Clay]  You disappeared again. There are consequences when you disappear.

  Clay Jensen : I didn't disappear, for fuck's sake. I was at a friend's house.

  Matt Jensen : A friend who beat you senseless?

  Clay Jensen : I told you. I wiped out on my bike.

  Matt Jensen : What, did you land on Mike Tyson?

• Kevin Porter : [after Clay reveals that Bryce raped Hannah]  It can be very dangerous to accuse someone of a crime like that.

  Clay Jensen : I have his confession.

  Kevin Porter : How do you have his confession?

  Clay Jensen : I asked him for it. I took Hannah at her word which is what you should have done. I believed Hannah, and I accused Bryce of rape and then he beat the shit out of me and admitted it.

• Clay Jensen : [to Jessica]  Are you... I promised myself that I wasn't going to say something stupid like "are you okay?" or "how are you doing?," because, like, "how the fuck do you think," right? But how are you?

  Jessica Davis : How the fuck do you think?

• Clay Jensen : [to Jessica about the tapes]  I'll burn these. I'll light them on fire and let them burn until they're... I don't know, melted plastic and ash. It's your call. But if you want to fight if you want him to pay you for what he did, these tapes can help. They're proof.

  Jessica Davis : You want me to tell the whole goddamn world what happened to me?

  Clay Jensen : I want you to do what you want to do. Whatever's going to make this better for you, if anything can.