
(Clay’s mom seems to think so, too, though she’s dealing with some slightly extralegal activities as she sneaks a peek at Sonja’s file on Clay.)īut back to Tyler: Is anyone else concerned that these kids have relatively unfettered access to guns? Alex’s dad, at least, blames himself for Alex’s suicide attempt given that it was his gun that Alex used, but Tyler is a whole different barrel of fish.

He knows what’s on the tapes, after all, so he knows Marcus lied on the stand. Porter, who straight-up says that he knows his time at Liberty High is limited and, as such, makes it clear that he isn’t particularly sympathetic to Marcus’s case.
After the bomb splatters Marcus in pink paint (and the surrounding students laugh and start to take pictures), he goes to Mr. With Cyrus, he cooks up a paint bomb, leaving it next to Marcus’s car for him to find, as well as painting the word “hypocrite” over the window. Tyler, who is leaning into his new punk phase to a degree that is beginning to concern me, takes action. As he explains to Bryce, it’s a lie that makes Hannah seem like the liar, and weakens any testimony against Bryce. Trying to put his hand between her legs is retold as merely trying to hold her hand, and he twists his pressuring of Hannah into feeling taken advantage of as he tells the boldest - and worst - lie of them all: that Hannah had asked him to set her up with Bryce.

Instead of confessing that he asked Hannah out as part of a bet, he claims he was trying support her, citing his role as student body president as why he felt responsible. Yes, his dad told him to look out for himself, but he also said the truth will set you free, whereas Marcus seems to be lying his way into a cage of his own making. Marcus, you scumbag! I get the impulse to cover your ass when trouble comes knocking, but the way that Marcus so blatantly lies when he’s put on the stand is infuriating.
