♻ 019 | audio

[tucky]

[filtered to Letty]

Can I talk to you?

[filtered to Roderick]

Can you come and see me? I'm in 603.

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[tucky]

Then why've I made so many bad choices?

[characterdefect]

Because even smart people have to learn.

[tucky]

I have never been called smart. I been called dumb a lot.

[characterdefect]

Maybe you've known a lot of cruel, nasty people in your life.

[tucky]

But not here.

[characterdefect]

That's why here's a good place for you.

[tucky]

Mm. There's people who are nasty here sometimes, but there's more people who are kind.

[characterdefect]

You still think I'm kind?

[tucky]

... Yeah. Sometimes. And sometimes you're cruel.

[characterdefect]

Yeah. That sounds like me.

It sounds like most people, to be honest.

[tucky]

Dillon said something to me when I first got here. He said I was mean and vindictive and dangerous, but I was sweet too, and I wanted to be someone better.

[characterdefect]

That's the difference between you and me. I don't want to be someone better.

[tucky]

But you'd be really good at it.

[characterdefect]

I like who I am, though.

[tucky]

You could still be the same person. Just the same person who doesn't kill people.

[characterdefect]

But that's part of who I am.

[tucky]

Maybe it's not. Maybe it's just something you do.

[characterdefect]

With respect, Tiffany, it's not.

You really ought to talk to Horatio, though. You'd agree about a lot. [This somewhat bitterly.]

[tucky]

[She shrinks back a little at his tone.]

I don't want you not liking me.

[characterdefect]

I like you. I just think maybe you don't understand me as well as I thought you did.

[tucky]

... I want you to love me, like you said you did in Paris. I want to be in your family. I want to understand you.

[characterdefect]

Then you need to lay off trying to change me for a little while. Okay? I can only take one person doing it at a time.

[tucky]

I'm not trying to change you. I want you to stop hurting my friends.

[characterdefect]

So make me a list.

[tucky]

... It's a long list.