Clay opens his bedroom window and begins to climb out,
Jessica brushes her wet hair, Justin smokes his bong, Alex cries as he clings
to his guitar, and Clay jumps out of his window all while Hannah contemplates
the idea of stalking. Why? Hannah takes the listener to the window of her
very own stalker. She records her racing
heartbeat as she stands outside his window. Clay pictures her there as he stands in the
very same spot. Marcus walks up to him
and explains that he and the others all threw a rock through the window as he
tries to convince Clay to quit listening to the tapes. Marcus claims that Hannah just wanted
attention and that no one deserves what she was doing to them, no one except
the subject of tape 3, side A, Tyler Down.
After
Clay passes up another opportunity to kiss Hannah out of fear, Hannah hears the
camera click for the first time. Then,
the click continued, following her, until she was frozen in fear. In the present, Hannah’s mother cries out to
her husband that she has to know why Hannah is gone. Clay’s father helps him nurse his first
hangover as he explains that he has rescued him from his mother’s sentencing. The parents attend a suicide awareness
meeting led by the school counselor that is interrupted by Hannah’s
mother. Again, she brings up the
bathroom walls as she blames the children of the parents present at the meeting
for Hannah’s death. Bryce and the gang
brag and hate on Clay for his drunken adventure. The school principle and counselor look at
the bathroom walls and decide to have them painted. The show’s traditional back and forth scenes
reveal bits and pieces leaving the audience with a whiplash of interactions.
In the
past, Hannah finally reveals her stalker fear to a classmate. The two work together as they devise a plan
to catch the stalker as Clay confronts him in the present. Of all the things done to Hannah at this
point, none of them were illegal. Tyler
crossed the line, and everyone that listened to the tapes hated and punished
him for it.
I am
taken back by the ruin of Hannah’s mother.
As Clay gets himself caught in her devastation, the reality of her
desperation becomes so clear. It reminds
me of how all of us were left after Daniel Janes committed suicide. Some of us blamed others, some of us blamed
ourselves, but the division was heartbreaking.
Daniel’s mother blamed all his friends.
She almost didn’t allow us to go to his funeral. She needed someone to blame, just like
Hannah’s mom. Like Hannah, Daniel never
left a note. He called Mike to tell him
he loved him. He took me to a river bank
for a long talk. Those were his
notes. Those were his goodbyes.
Hannah
and Courtney Crimson devise a plan to set the stalker up. The two get drunk and Courtney ends up making
a move on Hannah. When Hannah realizes
the stalker is watching, she uses a light to expose him and save herself from
Courtney. The two realize that the
stalker is Tyler, and Courtney freaks out.
Unlike Hannah, Courtney is devastated by the experience because she
realizes that she is gay. In an attempt
to shield herself from the backlash of the picture Tyler sends to the school,
she throws Hannah under the bus.
The
episode ends with Clay posting a picture of a naked Tyler through the window to
the entire school. When Tony texts him
to ask what he is doing, Clay replies, “Making my own justice.”
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