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He wasn't uncomfortable talking to her about it, from the beginning you can see he is peeling back layers until she breaks down. He probably could have gotten to her if he had more time and less interruption. His home situation was stressing him out, it caused him to miss some important cues in that conversation and try to rush the process. She felt like she had to make a decision then and there to call her parents, call the cops. The scene with Clay and Jessica was similar, except Clay didn't push her. He just told her he wanted to go after Bryce, but he would do whatever she wanted to do.
Well he admitted he made the list that way to try and piss off Jessica, so he probably thought that Jessica had the best ass.
She had an order that was based on the diagram she drew at the end of episode 12:
http://i.imgur.com/iqNB9Qk.png
Also she thought Clay hated her, so talking about the others first allowed her to explain why she freaked out on him.
They liked each other but only met up the one night in the park. It ended the next day at school when he showed Bryce the pictures on his phone, because then Bryce took his phone and sent one of them out to his contacts. Justin wouldn't have done that on his own. She still blames him for showing them, and for starting/going along with whatever alternative story they came up with for what happened that night.
the drug you are referring to is probably Rohypnol, AKA "roofies"
#1 this is to illustrate how he changed over the course of the story. One of the messages the show tries to get across by the end is to generally not be shitty to others, things that seem little to you could turn out to be a big deal to them. So he starts doing things he believes are helpful, like giving her parents the poem she wrote, going to see Jeff's parents, etc.
Although sometimes what you believe to be helpful may not have the intended effect. Tony thought he was helping Hannah not get smeared again by keeping the tapes secret to everyone not on the list, but by the end, he realized her parents needed to know about them to get closure and possibly prevent it from happening to someone else in the future.
She admitted she knew it was a bad idea, but that isn't always enough to stop a high school kid, especially when they are troubled and looking for acceptance. I don't think Zach was a problem for her anymore, that stuff happened the previous school year. Justin and Jessica were more complicated, she felt guilty for Jessica and she blamed herself as much as she blamed Justin. She definitely didn't like Justin, but probably wanted to be friends with Jessica again.
That episode also shows she didn't really see them as reasons until afterward when she got home and started writing down their names and making the tapes.
Wendy admitted she did that on purpose, because Lara was being smug about her marital problems with Chuck.
Lying is the one big no-no rule Lara has with Axe. She pretty much lets him get away with whatever else. I don't think that was something Wendy was aware of. She felt bad about it later, which is why she went to talk her into coming back.
Looking again, I believe "The Firm" is the best fit. Taylor got promoted, and now has access to all the documentation of the trades, similar to how Tom Cruise's character had access to all the case files at the firm. In "The Firm", he set up a small front company with an office in a nearby building, and used that cover to secretly copy the incriminating files, which he used as leverage to keep from getting killed or forced into being a witness for the feds.
"you need a Tom Cruise", means Connerty needs an insider, but they can't get at Taylor because there is no leverage. Taylor has no reason to cooperate, and is now ensuring even more due diligence is being done on the trades and the documents are on the up-and-up. Axe is now getting guys to set up separate entities to do the dirty stuff, but Connerty believes Taylor has knowledge of those deals as well. The only thing close to leverage he has is Taylor's conscience, which is what kept Tom Cruise's character from going along to get along.
"Ed Harris" could be referring to Axe or Chuck, depending on who said it.
It was a discussion about potential strategies the prosecutor could use to get at Axe, and what type of people would be needed to execute those strategies.
Just a guess on the actor references:
The Ed Harris one I think was from "Appaloosa", meaning if the feds can't catch someone doing something illegal, they could just make some new laws. Tom Cruise reference was from "A Few Good Men", the courtroom scene with Jack Nicholson, where he used his own ego against him.
Or it could be "The Firm", Tom Cruise was a subordinate to Ed Harris, but he did not realize at first he was working for a shady mob lawyer, when he found out, he turned against him, but not necessarily working with the feds. Because the feds were not looking out for his best interests.
There was no way for Taylor to fit into those strategies or any other that require no leverage, so Taylor is telling him in a roundabout way to come up with a different plan.
There is an interview with the story editor for the last episode (Nic Sheff). He is the one who wrote the suicide scene, and said he based it on his own experience- he had been suicidal due to addiction, and the one thing that stopped him from going through with it was realizing it would actually be a violent death. I've known counselors who are trained to ask a suicidal person to describe in detail how they would go about it, I'm guessing someone did that for him as well.
Putting her parents in the next scene was also intentional. People who are suicidal don't always think through what happens afterward, with the people around them, or have a distorted vision of what that would be like (example: she believed she was a problem for her parents). If she was like Justin's mom, it would not have the same impact because the audience mostly dislikes her, and the suicide would be seen more as a consequence of the way she treated her kid.
I know not everyone will agree with their choices, but the people who made this show truly believe they are doing the opposite of glamorizing suicide, and used those scenes to break through two of the most common suicide fantasies.
I looked at it again and confirmed, she was the first on his list:
http://i.imgur.com/zBCEqEF.png
I guess it was obvious, since he still had it in his pocket. He was just waiting to see if she said he was on her list.
They also have to deal with Paige being close to fully buying into the program without knowing the full truth about what that means. My favorite episode was probably when she was taken to meet her grandmother, meeting Gabriel was very similar to that episode. After struggling with the order to bring her in a couple seasons ago, her parents are mostly open to answering her questions and teaching her some techniques, but now they are realizing a lot of what they believed to be true was based on lies.
I was surprised to see her, was sure they killed her and were lying about it.
No. If Clay filled it out on his own, it probably would have, but Jeff took it and changed the answers to try and help him.
Seasons 3 and especially 4 are relevant to the Gus/Mike story arc.
That is how the show appears on the surface, especially in the early episodes. I think it is intentional. By the end, it is made very clear how bad an idea it is to commit suicide to get back at people.
He and Walt are both very smart. In Breaking Bad, they were adversaries- Mike was a hit man on orders to kill him, Walt would always put himself in a position where the hit would be delayed or impossible to carry out. They were pretty much equals, but Walt was able to extend the game long enough to catch Mike in a vulnerable position.
I think it is Gus, too. Gus had incentive to keep Hector alive, because he was still trying to gain power to pull off the revenge strategy we see in Breaking Bad.
Plus there were a lot of worse things happened because of the list. She was hurt by Jessica and Alex, but their friendship was probably not beyond repair at that stage. Slapping her in Monet's was a big deal because even though drunken Jessica apologized later, it destroyed an outlet where she felt safe to vent. Hannah was always looking for real friends because she (and most everyone, especially teenagers) needed those people in her life that she could work out her problems with, and also she needed to be able to help the people she cared about with their problems. What makes the story so tragic is that she still had people who care about her that she could go to, but she was no longer able to trust anyone enough to open up.