The Crowded Room
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Danny: I can see why she liked you.
Jerome: Are you flirting with me?
Danny: What? No.
Jerome: Relax, man. I'm kidding. [chuckles]
Danny: - [chuckles]
Danny: What if I don't like who I become, you know, after the therapy?
Jerome: I-I spent my whole life trying to get right. Who I am. Black man. Gay man. Brave man. Coward. Troublemaker. Peacekeeper. Turns out, I'm all of them. Now, that doesn't make it easy. I've been beat up, spit on, kicked out of every place you can imagine. But I know who I am. And no one can take that from me. Ariana knew who she was. She was proud of it. That's in you. That's a part of you. She is a part of you. You do what the rest of us have to. You take the good parts of yourself and you love 'em. And the bad, you try to make better. Best we can do.
The prosecution found some girl, Annabelle Stone, a guy named Angelo Ruiz, that can tie Danny to that shooting in the house, and that he has a history of drug abuse and attempted murder. Now, if these witnesses pan out, this guy just signed Danny's death warrant.
Stan
Yitzhak: He never came here awake before.
Jack: The system is breaking down, I'm afraid.
Yitzhak: What system?
Jack: Us. The center cannot hold. The beast is slouching towards Bethlehem.
Please. There are voices in my head. There's other people in here. I'm begging you. Help me. Please.
Danny
I'm gonna make you a wager, Stan. When I look hard at him, and I'm gonna look at him real hard... I'm gonna find a history of violence. I'm gonna find that somehow he managed to slip through the cracks. He shot people in Midtown in broad daylight, and you want a pass? Rikers is filled with young Black and brown men who did far less. Where was their pass? Where was their plea bargain when they needed a break? Your client will get the benefit of the doubt because he has the privilege of a justice system that was built for people who look like him, but he's not gonna get a pass from me. So, no. I'm not just gonna plead him out. We're going to trial.
Patricia
Danny. Your mind is extraordinarily good at rationalizing. At unspooling narratives in real time. At making the improbable possible. You've had a lifetime of it.
Rya
I'm very sorry, Rya, but if you want the department to support your grant, you're going to have to find something else. Okay?
Dean Hughes
Dean Hughes: Rya, you're a great teacher. If any one of you deserves tenure...
Rya: Any one of us? A woman, you mean?
Rya: Maybe he's unaware of his actions when he's Jack. Or he thinks somebody else is doing them.
Matty: You're serious.
Rya: Matty, if I'm right, Danny may be innocent.
Matty: How the hell does that work exactly?
Rya: Because it's his other personality who's the criminal.
Matty: Right. Good luck telling that to a jury.
Rya: Do you know who lived with him across the street?
Candy: I don't know who was full-time. There was a girl there a lot. People come and go.
Bully: Danny, heard you got beat up by a girl.
Danny: Hear you choked on your own cock.
