13 Reasons Why/Tape 4, Side B

Tape 4, Side B
Season 1, Episode 8
Airdate	March 31, 2017
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← 1x07 Tape 4, Side A	1x09 → Tape 5, Side A
13 Reasons Why — Season One

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Tape 4, Side B is the eighth episode of the first season of 13 Reasons Why.

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Plot Overview

After joining a poetry club, Hannah is encouraged by student Ryan Shaver to reveal her most personal poetry, but Ryan ends up betraying her by publishing her poem in his school magazine without her permission causing everyone at school to make fun of it; in the present day, Tony tells Clay about what happened the night Hannah committed suicide and Clay ends up giving Hannah's poem to her mother.

Trivia

The Show

• Reason 8\Ryan Shaver: Stole one of Hannah's personal poems and published it in his school magazine without her permission.

Quotes

• Hannah Baker: [reading her poem] Today, I am wearing lacy black underwear for the sole purpose of knowing I am wearing them. And underneath that, I am absolutely naked. And I've got skin. Miles and miles of skin. I've got skin to cover all my thoughts like Saran Wrap that you can see through to what leftovers are inside from the night before. And despite what you might think My skin is soft and smooth and easily scarred, but that doesn't matter, right? You don't care about how soft my skin is. You just want to hear about what my fingers do in the dark, but what if all they do is crack open windows so I can see lightning through the clouds? What if all they crave is a jungle gym to climb for a taste of fresher air?
• Clay Jensen: Everybody wants to talk. No one wants to do anything.
• Hannah Baker: Some girls know all the lyrics to each other's songs. They find harmonies in their laughter. Their linked elbows echo in tune. What if I can't hum on key? What if my melodies are the ones nobody hears?
• Zach Dempsey: One thing. If one thing had gone differently somewhere along the line, maybe none of this would have happened.
• Hannah Baker: Dream big, they say. Shoot for the stars. Then they lock us away for 12 years and tell us where to sit, when to pee and what to think. Then we turn 18 and even though we've never had an original thought, we have to make the most important decision of our lives.
• Hannah Baker: Sometimes the future doesn't unfold the way you think it will. Shit happens and people suck. Maybe that's why I stopped writing and eventually started making tapes.