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00:21It was Tesla.
00:24You're rotten all the way through, just like your mother.
00:28He really called the police.
00:34It's finally over.
00:37Nobody wants me anyway.
00:39Mom left.
00:40Nolan doesn't want me.
00:42Everyone at school thinks I'm trash.
00:44The doctor already said I'm dying.
00:55Another life?
01:01This life has already been ruined enough.
01:03Why should I let them take the last part of it too?
01:10Why does the person who dies have to be me?
01:15I didn't even get to graduate.
01:18I never made it to college.
01:20Mom never came back.
01:21They took all of that from me.
01:23But that doesn't mean I have to hand over my life too.
01:32Mom left me.
01:34Nolan hates me.
01:36Everyone at school thinks I deserve to die.
01:39But I didn't do any of it.
01:41I didn't push Aunt Clara.
01:42I didn't make my mom cheat.
01:44I didn't throw the cheat sheet.
01:45And I didn't steal that dress.
01:47My life has already been miserable enough.
01:49If I die because of what other people did wrong, then none of this was worth it.
01:58I want to live.
02:00I want to live.
02:12Again.
02:25I'm not going back.
02:31I'm not going back.
02:34As long as I can still breathe, I can move a little farther.
02:39Get to shore today.
02:41Tomorrow can wait until tomorrow.
02:504.13am, 17 miles down West Shore Road.
02:54Found by a truck driver.
02:55No ID.
02:56Caller says she woke up once and only said, don't take me back to Lacey.
03:03Severe hypothermia and an upper GG bleed.
03:05Start reheating IV fluids and get imaging ready.
03:08Sweetheart, can you hear me?
03:20We need your name, date of birth, and an emergency contact.
03:24Is there anyone who can come be with you?
03:37Do you remember your name?
03:39Do you remember your name?
03:40I remember.
03:40I just don't want to use it.
03:42Then I'll register you as Jane Doe for now.
03:45Any family?
03:46No.
03:47Friends?
03:48A boyfriend?
03:49A teacher?
03:50Anyone you trust?
03:53No.
03:57The tumor in your stomach is very serious.
03:59And now you're bleeding.
04:01Even if we start treatment right away, I can't promise you'll survive.
04:09Then let's try.
04:12Tessa Monroe died in Lacey.
04:14I didn't.
04:18I didn't.
04:38Okay.
04:39Bye, you mister.
04:45Bye.
04:47Bye.
04:48Bye.
04:49Bye.
05:11You made it past the worst prognosis we gave you at the beginning, but you'll still need regular follow-ups,
05:16and the diet and medication may stay with you for years.
05:20That's okay.
05:22Yours sounds pretty good to me.
05:29Vergy Fitz, he has a range of extensive tears.
05:33Take it down.
05:34Bye.
05:36Bye.
05:40Bye.
05:41Bye.
05:46Bye.
05:49Bye.
06:03Bye.
06:04pulled me out of the ocean I swam back myself but the hospital the nurses they
06:14saved my body but I'm the one who decided to turn around and swim back
06:25so Nolan everything that came after that has nothing to do with you
06:38I lied that day during the AT I saw the cheat sheet come from somewhere else I knew you didn't
06:43throw
06:43it at the hospital I watched Brielle humiliate you and I walked away at the bar they talked
06:54about ruining your life and I sat there and did nothing on prom night I was the one who called
06:59the cops you looked awful you were throwing up blood taking painkillers and I still told you to
07:08stop faking it I kept telling myself your mom killed mine so everything that happened to you
07:16was deserved now I know that was just the easiest excuse I had I remember
07:27I know saying I'm sorry doesn't undo any of it then don't use it to try
07:34you know you were wrong now that's yours I remember what happened to me that's mine
07:39both things can be true what can I do today leave
07:54I don't want to talk about this anymore today
08:09and one more thing your apology doesn't mean I have to cry forgive you or even give you any kind
08:15of reaction I know you don't owe me anything
08:2410 years ago you never would have said that
08:40come in
08:45I'm not here to make you forgive me I want the school discipline the scholarship and what happened
08:50at prom looked at again and then what if those decisions can be reversed they should be
08:59and I'll be honest about the part I'm responsible for
09:03do you think fixing everything from 10 years ago one piece at a time will prove you weren't really that
09:07bad
09:12don't turn my life into your redemption project
09:15I didn't survive so I could wait around for you to make it up to me someday
09:20I understand
09:22no you don't
09:24you always like deciding things for me
09:26you decided I was responsible for my mom
09:28you decided I was faking being sick
09:30you decided I was guilty
09:32don't decide now that I need you to clear my name
09:38then I'll only deal with my part
09:41I was a witness during the A.C.T. and I lied
09:44I was the one who called the cops at prom
09:46I'm going to correct the lies I told
09:48you won't owe me anything for it
09:50if that's really all it is then do it yourself
09:53don't come here every day to give me updates
09:57okay
10:08I won't have anyone touch your work
10:10your address or any part of your life
10:13and I won't make decisions for you again
10:15I don't know if you have anyone
10:15I'm going to look at you
10:19I'm going to draw my background
10:27and what you're doing
10:27you need
10:56She's alive, isn't she?
11:00Yes.
11:04Ten years.
11:06Everyone said she was dead.
11:08Why did she get to suddenly come back now?
11:10She didn't come back.
11:11I found her.
11:13I went looking for her.
11:14Then why did you go looking?
11:16Don't forget, her mom killed your mom.
11:22Whatever her mother did has nothing to do with Tessa.
11:27That's not what you used to say.
11:29You said she was disgusting, just like her mother.
11:31You said she ruined all our lives.
11:33I was wrong.
11:35And that's supposed to be enough?
11:37What about us?
11:38What about our wedding?
11:44I don't know.
11:46She doesn't want you, so now you're coming back here and having second thoughts about me?
11:50This isn't about whether she wants me.
11:53I realize we've spent the last ten years living on the same lie.
12:00She was dead for ten years and it never affected us.
12:03Now she's alive and suddenly everything has to fall apart?
12:10I've been with you for ten years.
12:12After she disappeared, I was the one who went to New York with you.
12:16Stood by you while you built your career and got you through every anniversary of your mother's death.
12:22I'm not pretending those ten years didn't happen.
12:25But spending ten years together doesn't magically make something wrong become right.
12:50The wedding's off.
12:53Because of Tessa?
12:55No.
12:56You're still lying to me?
12:59She doesn't even want you.
13:01And you're going to throw away our ten years for a woman who wants nothing to do with you?
13:06The fact that she doesn't want me is how I know this isn't about getting her back.
13:16For ten years, I kept telling myself Tessa deserved what happened.
13:20I used that one sentence to cover every single thing I did wrong.
13:24And you kept helping me believe it.
13:26So now everything is my fault?
13:28No.
13:29I lied during the ACE-AT.
13:31I walked away at the hospital.
13:32I called the cops.
13:33What you did is yours.
13:34What I did is mine.
13:37Did you ever love me?
13:43I thought I did.
13:46But now I can't tell how much of it was because being with you let me keep believing
13:50I hadn't done anything wrong.
13:54She comes back and suddenly you don't want any of this anymore?
13:57Tessa didn't come back.
14:00I just finally don't want to build a marriage on a lie anymore.
14:08Tessa Munrio, you were gone for ten years.
14:11Why did you have to come back now?
14:13I was helping you back then.
14:15When you hated her, I was always the one standing beside you.
14:19I understand now that standing beside me didn't mean we were right.
14:39Nolan called off the wedding.
14:41Happy now?
14:44I didn't know until today.
14:46Don't play innocent.
14:47You stayed away for ten years and now you just happened to let him find you?
14:51You want him back.
14:56Brielle, I stopped competing with you ten years ago.
15:00You're really going to stand there and say you don't love him?
15:03I loved him when I was 18.
15:05I don't anymore.
15:09That's impossible.
15:10You grew up together.
15:12You wrote him that letter.
15:13You even, yes, I loved him for real.
15:16That's why what he did hurt so badly.
15:19But something hurting me doesn't mean I have to stay stuck there forever.
15:24Then why is he leaving me because of you?
15:27That's a question for him, not me.
15:33I'm not trying to take what you spent ten years building.
15:37Whether Nolan is yours now or not has nothing to do with me.
15:41You think that makes you look noble?
15:43It's not about being noble.
15:45I have a life to live.
15:54I'm not going back to that competition, Lacey.
15:57Please leave.
16:11Was she always like that?
16:19She used to say one thing and I'd spend the whole night wondering what I'd done wrong.
16:23I don't do that anymore.
16:31Mr. Pierce, a lot of the records from those disciplinary cases were destroyed years ago.
16:36We can't overturn an administrative decision from ten years ago just because you regret it now.
16:41I'm not asking you to overturn it because I regret it.
16:44I'm here to admit that I was part of the false testimony behind it.
16:51During the ACE-AT, the teacher asked me who threw the cheat sheet.
16:54I saw that it wasn't Tessa.
16:56I said it was anyway.
16:58You're admitting you deliberately lied at the time?
17:02Yes.
17:08Mason, you knew too, didn't you?
17:11The whole school had lost its mind back then.
17:13Everyone thought her mom got Aunt Claire killed.
17:15Nobody wanted to be the person defending Tessa.
17:17I'm not asking what everybody thought.
17:19I'm asking what you knew.
17:26Tessa didn't steal the prom dress.
17:28Someone put Brielle's backup dress in her locker ahead of time and cut it up.
17:32Who set it up?
17:34Brielle.
17:38Will you say that on the record?
17:39I will.
17:40The bathroom, the cheat sheets, the dress.
17:43Whatever I can personally confirm, I'll say it.
17:48If you're both willing to accept responsibility for false statements and related bullying,
17:53the district can open a formal review hearing.
17:59Open it.
18:01Enough people were afraid of the trouble ten years ago.
18:21Two girls did the bathroom thing.
18:24The SAT cheat sheet was deliberately tossed across her desk.
18:28The prom dress was stage two.
18:31Back then, we told ourselves we were just teaching her a lesson.
18:35She broke her leg, got acid burned on her arm, lost her scholarship and ended up walking into the ocean.
18:41You call that teaching her a lesson?
18:45I know.
18:46Anything I say now sounds awful.
18:50Is there evidence the acid incident was intentional?
18:52No.
18:54The lab was chaos.
18:55I can't honestly say that one was deliberate.
18:58Then leave it out.
18:59We only pursue what we can prove.
19:09This alone can't identify a specific person.
19:13But combined with the witness statements,
19:15it's enough to show the original investigation was seriously inadequate.
19:21Nolan, you saw it.
19:23It wasn't me.
19:26She didn't have no evidence.
19:32Her strongest witness was me.
19:34And I was the one who used my own words to shut down her last way out.
19:38You were 18, too.
19:43Being 18 explains why I was stupid.
19:45It doesn't erase what I did.
20:12Mr. Pierce, do you admit that you knowingly gave a false statement
20:16that directly caused Tessa Monroe's exam to be invalidated?
20:20I do.
20:22You understand this could affect your public reputation
20:24and your professional standing today?
20:29Her future was destroyed by our reputations 10 years ago.
20:32I don't get to be scared of mine now.
20:34I also confirm that the prom dress was deliberately planted in Tessa's locker.
20:38She did not steal it.
20:45The committee's decision is as follows.
20:48Tessa Monroe's cheating, theft, and related disciplinary findings are vacated.
20:53Her original academic record will be restored,
20:55and the district will issue a formal correction
20:58regarding the procedural failures in the original investigation.
21:04Ms. Monroe, the school will issue you a formal apology.
21:0918-year-old me needed to hear that.
21:12The person I am now only asks that you never make another student
21:16prove she was innocent by surviving what you did to her.
21:24And restoring the record is enough.
21:27Don't use my name for publicity,
21:28and don't turn this into some memorial event.
21:31Understood.
21:34At least you finally corrected the lie you told about me.
21:47Ms. Dawson, the district has vacated Tessa Monroe's cheating and theft findings.
21:53Witness testimony now points to your involvement in framing her.
21:56What's your response?
21:59A bunch of student pranks from 10 years ago
22:01are being twisted into something they weren't.
22:03We were all young,
22:04and Tessa was emotionally unbabled to begin with.
22:07She had already been diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer.
22:10Did you know that?
22:13Mr. Pierce, do you believe what happened back then was just student pranks?
22:22No.
22:26I didn't know she had cancer.
22:28That part is true.
22:30But I knew she didn't cheat during the ACE-AT.
22:32I had no evidence against her at prom.
22:34And I stood there at the hospital while she was humiliated.
22:37Nolan!
22:39Those are facts, too.
22:42Are you publicly admitting that you participated in harming Tessa Monroe back then?
22:46Yes.
22:51All you have to say is that none of us knew.
22:53Then this can go away.
22:57I'm not telling a second lie to protect the person I was 10 years ago.
23:06So you're saying all this now because you want everyone to think you're taking responsibility?
23:10No.
23:11I'm saying it because the person whose reputation should have never been destroyed was Tessa.
23:17No.
23:20Isak secures you for the art to go in.
23:24Do it!
23:24Do it!
23:25Do it!
23:25It's great!
23:26It's great!
23:26It's great!
23:27Now, but you seven take yourself!
23:29Miss Monroe, do you believe your classmates and the school should be held responsible for
23:33your suicide attempt?
23:35first let me correct one thing i didn't die
23:41second i don't need anyone to cry for the 18 year old version of me
23:45she climbed back onto shore by herself do you hate the people who hurt you
23:52it took me a long time to understand that staying alive isn't about waking up every day and counting
23:57what everyone owes me but that doesn't mean those things didn't happen and it doesn't mean people
24:01don't have to answer for what they did if what happened to me really scares you then don't let
24:08the next kid get locked in a bathroom laughed at by an entire school dismissed by teachers and
24:13classmates and still have to prove all by herself that she deserves to live
24:21today is the kids art show it's not my relationship story my ex-boyfriend and his ex-fiancé don't get
24:28to steal their spotlight
24:38every dollar of royalties from the first reprint under your real name goes into it
24:45yeah when i was 18 nobody opened the door for me maybe the next person can have someone who does
24:52is that the real reason you wanted your name back one of them the other is this
24:57tessa monroe was never their shame
24:59kind of thing is right i don't wanna sign up like me for Hor fig pendant bu thanks to
25:01really
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