Though the defense lawyer tries to make out Mr. He tells the courtroom he believes Hannah was raped though he didn’t necessarily think so at the time and - much to the school’s lawyer’s consternation - names Bryce as the student who raped her. Yes, he failed Hannah and yes, that makes him partly to blame for her death, but nobody owns their role in her death as much as Mr. He takes to the stand in this episode for a heartbreaking interrogation. Porter that she was going to kill herself, so he didn’t take action and that is the truth he has to live with. In a nutshell, Hannah didn’t spell it out for Mr. Kevin Porter – the school counselor – is dealing with some serious guilt
It’s genuinely moving, even if, for an episode, it places the mystery of the polaroids and the trial on the back burner.ġ. Though the idea of their secret romance seemed far-fetched at first, Katherine Langford and Ross Butler sold those scenes of them together from that summer. It’s a lesson learned too late for Zach, but helps illustrate just why Hannah felt as lonely as she did, and why, at the end of that summer, she cut her hair and came back to Liberty a different person. Neither of them told each other how they felt - and that just made everything worse. He’s done keeping things under wraps thinking back, he realizes how much he hurt Hannah when he told her he didn’t want his jock friends to know, even though she was the one who said they should break up at the end of summer. She can’t understand why he kept his time with Hannah a secret, even from her, but he explains that they’ve been keeping things from each other for a long time now, just brushing things under the rug so everything seems fine. And just to wrap up, let’s get back to Zach, who, at home, argues with his mother about his testimony.