- Hannah Baker: It seemed like no matter what I did, I kept letting people down. I started thinking how everyone's lives would be better without me.
- Ryan Shaver: Good for Justin. And Bryce is a rapist.
- Courtney Crimsen: If you believe Hannah.
- Ryan Shaver: Seriously? You are the only girl here and that is the position you take?
- Alex Standall: Wanna know what's worse than being a rapist? Hiding behind one. Fucking justifying a fucking rapist, that's worse. You want to get the story straight? We all know the story. Everything Hannah said on the tapes is true.
- [to Courtney]
- Alex Standall: You're gay. So what? Tyler, you're a stalker. Ryan, you're an arrogant asshole. Zach, you're just an entitled idiot who does cruel, stupid things even though you probably have a decent heart. And Sheri's a fucking coward who got a kid killed.
- Marcus Cole: Alex, that's enough.
- Alex Standall: No, Marcus. You'll do anything to keep up your perfect reputation. And, yeah, I'm a fucking weak, pathetic loser who ruined the one good thing that I ever had because I wanted a rapist to think I was just like him. Hannah was my friend and we should tell the truth about her because I know that if I had still been friends with her, if any one of us had still been friends with her, she'd be alive.
- Courtney Crimsen: If we don't get our stories straight before these depositions, it's bad for all of us.
- Alex Standall: But what is the story exactly?
- Courtney Crimsen: Hannah was a liar. She was jealous and needy and emotionally unstable. She thought everyone was out to get her.
- Tyler Down: Aren't you describing yourself?
- Brad: [to Tony] I'm not gonna judge you, but you have to tell me what's going on or I can't be your friend or boyfriend or anything.
- Tony Padilla: I had a friend. Her name was Hannah. She killed herself. She left a job for me, secrets to keep. I tried, I tried to honor her memory. I tried to keep those secrets, but I don't think I did the right thing. Her parents are hurting. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I just... I wanted to take care of Hannah.
- Lainie Jensen: Clay, about the Baker trial...
- Matt Jensen: Can we just have one morning without discussing that?
- Lainie Jensen: The subpoenas go out today.
- Clay Jensen: Who's getting one besides me?
- Lainie Jensen: Sorry, Clay, I'm not at liberty to discuss it. The other day, you asked me if a person could be prosecuted if they hurt someone, but the victim couldn't come forward. You said it was hypothetical, but you were talking about Hannah, weren't you?
- Clay Jensen: I wasn't, actually.
- Lainie Jensen: Because if something happened to her and you were involved in any way...
- Clay Jensen: You think I hurt her?
- Matt Jensen: Lainie...
- Lainie Jensen: I don't.
- Clay Jensen: If I did hurt her, and I admitted it, I could go to jail.
- Lainie Jensen: W-Well, this is a civil proceeding, not criminal.
- Clay Jensen: But it is sworn testimony, so if I lied, it's perjury.
- Lainie Jensen: Why would you need to lie?
- Clay Jensen: If I knocked down a stop sign and a kid got killed, is that manslaughter?
- Lainie Jensen: Clay, what the hell are we talking about?
- Clay Jensen: I'm sorry, Mom. I'm not at liberty to discuss it.
- Hannah Baker: Here we are. Tape 12. If you've listened this far and haven't heard your name, well, I bet you know exactly what's coming now. Or maybe you don't have any idea. Could that be true? Could a person be that sick? Let's find out, but first we have to start at the beginning of the worst day of my life.
- Alex Standall: You guys would make shitty chess players. We're two moves from being checkmated.
- Marcus Cole: Not necessarily. Not if we bring Bryce into it with us.
- Ryan Shaver: Bryce the rapist.
- Courtney Crimsen: Alleged rapist.
- Ryan Shaver: Fuck off, Courtney.
- [as narrator]
- Hannah Baker: Life is unpredictable and control is just an illusion. And it makes us feel small and powerless.
- Justin Foley: Jesus! Fucking Hannah!
- Alex Standall: Yeah, fucking Hannah. Fuck her for killing herself.
- Justin Foley: Dude, this is all gonna come out now. Aren't you freaked?
- Alex Standall: No. I'm glad.
- Justin Foley: Seriously?
- [scoffs]
- Justin Foley: We're all fucked now.
- Alex Standall: We were fucked anyway.
- Tony Padilla: Hannah had secrets, Mrs. Baker.
- Olivia Baker: Hannah's secrets are what killed her and they do not get to stay that way.
- Clay Jensen: [to Bryce about Hannah] You raped her.
- Bryce Walker: What?
- Clay Jensen: You fucking raped her.
- Bryce Walker: Dude, don't talk about what you don't know about.
- Clay Jensen: Why did you do it?
- Bryce Walker: Thank you for coming. Get the fuck out of my house.
- Clay Jensen: Not until you admit it.
- Bryce Walker: Seriously, Jensen.
- Clay Jensen: Say what you did. Say it.
- Bryce Walker: What business is it of yours?
- Clay Jensen: She was my friend.
- Bryce Walker: She's dead. What does it matter?
- Clay Jensen: Say it.
- Bryce Walker: Calm the fuck down.
- Clay Jensen: I need what I need, for you to admit what you did. Here. Right out there. A week before she slit her wrists and died at home, you raped her.
- Bryce Walker: She came to my party. Mine. She got in the hot tub with me, without a suit on. Right? And she made eyes.
- [chuckles]
- Bryce Walker: I know that's hard for you to hear, that your crush wasn't pure and clean, but she fucking wanted it.
- Tony Padilla: [to Clay] Mind telling me why the switch?
- Clay Jensen: [sighs] I'm sorry. I'm not at liberty to discuss it.
- Tony Padilla: We had a deal that we would do this together.
- Clay Jensen: You said when I got to the end, we'll do what we have to do.
- Tony Padilla: Are you at the end?
- Clay Jensen: Almost.
- Tony Padilla: Are you going to pass them on?
- Clay Jensen: You and I both know Hannah wanted them to get to number 13, but if I give them to number 12, that's the end of it. Just give me a day. I have a plan.
- Tony Padilla: Clay...
- Clay Jensen: Do you trust me?
- Tony Padilla: Yeah.
- Bryce Walker: [to Clay] Gotta say, man, I did not take you for a stoner.
- Clay Jensen: Yeah, well I guess you never know what's going on in someone else's life, right?
- Hannah Baker: The way I see it, there are two different kinds of death. If you're lucky, you live a long life and one day your body stops working and it's over. But if you're not lucky, you die a little bit until you realize it's too late. I know some of you might think there was more I could have done or should have done. But I'd lost control and in that moment, it felt like it felt like I was already dead.
- Clay Jensen: [to Bryce] She got in the hot tub with you and that means she wanted it.
- Bryce Walker: Yeah. She did.
- Clay Jensen: But she didn't tell you so.
- Bryce Walker: She didn't have to. Girls play games.
- Clay Jensen: She didn't say she wanted you to fuck her.
- Bryce Walker: She never said no.
- Clay Jensen: And that's not rape?
- Bryce Walker: Why do you care so much?
- Clay Jensen: I just need to hear you say it.
- Bryce Walker: Jesus, Clay. I mean are you a virgin?
- Clay Jensen: What does that matter?
- Bryce Walker: I'll take that as my answer. Go get yourself laid a few times or try. And then come back to me, we'll talk like grownups.
- Clay Jensen: Did you rape Hannah Baker?
- Bryce Walker: You wanna call it rape, call it rape. Same difference.
- Bryce Walker: [to Clay about Hannah] She wanted me. Me. She was practically begging me to fuck her. If that's rape, then every girl at this school wants to be raped.
- Jessica Davis: [When Jessica finds Justin in her bedroom] Jesus! What the hell, Justin?
- Justin Foley: I'm sorry. I needed to see you.
- Jessica Davis: I'm gonna scream.
- Justin Foley: I texted and I called...
- Jessica Davis: I'm gonna call the police.
- Justin Foley: Jess, please, I was trying to protect you.
- Jessica Davis: Protect me? Seriously?
- Justin Foley: I thought if you didn't know, if no one found out...
- Jessica Davis: What? I'd be fine? I'd go about my life? You and I would get married and live happily ever after?
- Justin Foley: That's what I wanted, was for us to to be together. Forever.
- Justin Foley: You let him. You let him.
- Jessica Davis: No, I was drunk and I was scared.
- Justin Foley: So was I.
- Jessica Davis: Bryce was at the...
- Jessica Davis: Don't say that name!
- Justin Foley: I'm sorry, it's just that... Every time I was thrown out, when my mom was fucked up, one of her boyfriends was fucking with me, he was there for me. When I had no money, when I was starving, his folks bought my shit for school. Okay, when my mom was busted for possession, he got his dad to bail her out.
- Jessica Davis: They do that shit so they can own you.
- Justin Foley: No. Okay? Last year, I couldn't afford new shoes for basketball. I went through four pairs that season. When we got to playoffs, they just had, like, fucking holes. Bryce didn't offer to buy me new shoes. He pretended he had an extra pair.
- Jessica Davis: Justin, are you seriously trying to make excuses for what you did?
- Justin Foley: No. I just want you to understand...
- Jessica Davis: And I want you to understand what it's like to be raped, but I truly hope you never will.