Law & Order Special Victims Unit s21e17 Episode Script

1 In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous.
In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit.
These are their stories.
[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING.]
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER.]
Brad! Oh, my gosh.
- That was amazing.
- You were amazing.
[LAUGHS AND INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
You all sound quite pleased with yourselves.
[CHUCKLES.]
Which is astonishing, considering the appalling mess we just witnessed.
As of now "Moulin Boheme" is on track to being the worst ballet the National has ever produced.
Alistair? Sascha's taken a lot of chances on all of you, including gifting you, Ashley, with your first role as a principal.
But I can read your reviews now "Lackluster, labored, and dull".
Tina.
This is your first solo, yes? After all these years.
Delia, this is your first performance with us.
Unless things improve It will be both of your farewells.
- We open in one week.
- Start performing as if you belong here, or you will no longer be here.
Understood? [MURMURED RESPONSES.]
- [SIGHS.]
- What just happened? That's their idea of a pep talk.
Don't worry, you're amazing.
- Come with me.
- [SIGHS.]
- Where? - Shh, just come.
I'll make you feel better.
- Brad's on a roll lately.
- [SCOFFS.]
Always.
Hey, you looked great out there.
- [HINGES CREAK.]
- [CLANKING.]
[LAUGHS.]
Ha.
Why do they call it Studio X? 'Cause X marks the spot.
Mm.
[GASPS SOFTLY.]
[WHISPERS.]
We don't have to if you don't want to.
No, I want to.
Heels together, chin up, follow us.
And step to the side and plie.
Yes! Well done today.
See you all next week.
Bye, girls.
So cute.
Do the dads seem a little thirstier than usual today? They're harmless.
Delia, do you have a second? I know since I got into the National my schedule's been a little tricky, I just Yeah.
The thing is, we won't be able to do this again.
What? Why? I like you, Delia.
What you do on your own time is your business.
But I can't have that around the kids.
- What are you talking about? - One of the moms showed me the video.
Apparently, the dads have all found it already.
[OMINOUS MUSIC.]
So I'm sorry.
What video? [TENSE MUSIC.]
Okay.
[LABORED BREATHING.]
What is it? What is it? No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[CLICK.]
So, the man in the video, the other dancer, Delia he's your boyfriend? Brad and I just started seeing each other.
He's a nice guy.
Sweet.
Not like most of the jerks in ballet.
- There's no way he did this.
- W-What did he say? I texted him.
He hasn't answered.
He's been in rehearsal.
I need your help.
I have to get this taken down.
I mean, I already got fired from my teaching job.
[SOBBING.]
You know, my God.
- What if the National finds out? - Delia, Delia we are we are gonna do everything that we can to help you, believe me.
But to be honest, once these things go viral, it can it can be difficult.
- Isn't it illegal? - If you did not agree to be filmed, yes.
Are you sure Brad had nothing to do with this? Positive.
Then he won't mind talking to us.
- Delia and I are on internet porn sites? - How did that happen? We were hoping you could tell us.
- I have no idea, I swear.
- You didn't know that - you were being recorded? - No, neither of us did.
- Ask Delia, she'll tell you.
- We did.
She's wondering why you haven't texted her back.
Well, our rehearsals have been at different times, we're we're opening in five days.
If if I'd known that was why she was texting me, I, um [SIGHS.]
She didn't say.
She's embarrassed, humiliated.
I get it, this is terrible for both of us.
[SIGHS.]
C-Can you take it down? Well, as far as we can tell, the site that had initially reposted it is based in Cypress.
We're trying to find out how it got uploaded in the first place.
There must have been a camera hidden in the studio.
You think? Delia and I aren't the only people to hook up in there.
It's secluded, you know? It It locks from the inside.
Everybody knows about this? It's the company's worst-kept secret.
Rafael Barba and I go way back.
- He speaks very highly of you.
- And he of you.
- He is a fan.
- He gave me a bit of a heads-up about the issue.
I can't say I'm surprised.
That your dancers are having sex, - or that they're being taped? - Both.
One thing I've learned over the years I can teach them to dance.
I can't teach them not to be young and stupid.
So you've had problems before? Well, like everyone else.
Times have changed.
When I started as artistic director, we didn't even have an HR department.
You know, I hear you, but you should know that, um, we're maybe looking at more than an HR issue.
We're talking criminal activity.
Unlawful surveillance, posting on pornographic sites.
- Alistair, what's going on? - Not now, Jason.
I hope we can keep this private.
We open a new ballet this week ironically, starring Brad and introducing Delia.
Oh.
You keep me posted.
Give my best to Rafael.
Of course.
- Hey, CSU got anything? - A lot of bodily fluids.
Sweat, blood, semen it's like a petri dish in there.
What about a camera? Looks like a wall mount was ripped out.
So they knew we were coming.
Get me a list of - of anyone who had access.
- On it.
- [DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING.]
- Ballerina getting nailed in a tutu? That's a whole genre.
But what isn't? [CHUCKLES.]
Rule 34, am I right? You gotta be more specific.
Okay, well, this was posted two days ago.
And there's been an official complaint.
- You need to take this down.
- So it's revenge porn.
You still can't just waltz in here, flash a badge, and expect me to fold like a cheap tent.
- And why is that? - Well, in case they didn't teach you this in cop school, there is a little thing known as the First Amendment.
Well, I actually went to lawyer school, where they taught us about subpoenas.
So how about I go get one for every hard drive - in this dump? - We start kicking the tires, you don't think we're gonna find dozens of minors in your little video cache? Maybe we got off on the wrong foot.
[SIGHS.]
Let's start again.
I can scrub this from our site, but it's not gonna mean anything.
Nothing disappears from the internet.
No, it gets pirated, goes airborne, and then mutates like the Plague.
Well, for now, let's eliminate Patient Zero.
How did you get this? Well, yeah, that's my email, but I I don't even look at porn, so someone must have hacked me.
Oh, you were hacked? You don't watch porn? Really? That's the best you can come up with? Because you're a dancer, you had access to Studio X.
Now, are we gonna find - your prints on the camera? - I-I don't know anything - about a camera.
- Hmm.
I I mean, yeah, I've been in the studio, but either way, it wasn't me.
Brad's a friend.
How about Delia? Well, she's new.
I barely know her.
[TAPPING ON WINDOW.]
You get a little more time to work on your story.
[DOOR OPENS.]
TARU went through Jason's phone.
He uploaded the video to Pornmonger, but he didn't record it.
- So who did? - It was texted to him by Brad.
Along with other homemade sex videos.
So the nice, sweet guy twirling his baton out in front of the victim bandwagon Are you surprised? They were both in on it? Jason was always hitting on me, but Brad, he He's a gentleman.
Are you sure? - Sorry, Delia.
- From the looks of the video, he knew exactly what he was doing, where the camera was In ballet, the boys move the girls that's how it works.
Brad placed me on the barre, in front of the camera.
- How could I be so stupid? - You couldn't have known.
And you weren't the only dancer.
Brad, Jason, Edward Jenkins He's in the corps.
They shared your video in a group text, and there were videos with other women.
That's Beck Silva.
She's in the corps, too.
That's Grace Pressley.
Ashley Fallon.
[SOBBING SOFTLY.]
I feel sick.
Edward and I hooked up last year.
This was at his parents' house.
This one oh, my God.
That's Alistair's desk.
Edward kind of dared me.
Did you know he was filming you? No.
I'm on a visa.
I have to be careful.
Who's seen these? Did Jason post this on the porn site too? - Not to our knowledge.
- I can't have that happen.
I'm engaged.
My fiancé's family is very religious.
I don't think Jason wants to make things worse.
He's in a lot of trouble right now.
Not with the company.
There are 20 ballerinas to every male dancer.
These guys can't get fired.
[SIGHS.]
[BREATHES DEEPLY.]
- Yeah, so that happened.
- You knew? Did I know I was having sex with Brad? Yeah.
Did I know I was being filmed? I mean, not that time, but everyone's made a sex tape or two, right? Anyway, just thank God it didn't get posted like Delia's.
Captain Benson, is everything all right? - Uh, actually, no.
- Ashley? Uh, yeah, just heading to rehearsal.
Oh, good, you need it.
You too, Tina.
- Let's go, honey.
- Right behind her.
Mm-hmm.
This is Sascha Thomas, our choreographer.
- Captain Benson.
- I filled him in.
Yeah.
And I'm working around three male dancers being unavailable this afternoon because they're sitting in detention - at your station.
- They may be unavailable - longer than that.
- Oh, come on now.
There's no one sexier than young dancers.
Get enough of them in a room together, this is what happens.
Sascha, this is more than just boys being boys.
- Yeah, I get it, yes.
- [CHUCKLES.]
We'll make sure that whatever's been happening stops now.
And it won't happen again.
Well, depending on where this goes, they could be looking - at prison time.
- Hmm, well that does not work because we have a premiere in three days.
We're talking hundreds of jobs, weeks of rehearsal, millions of dollars on the line Piece of advice? Let's set aside some time for understudies.
Excuse me.
- Unlawful surveillance? - Mm-hmm.
It's obviously consensual.
The girls look like they're playing to the camera.
Well, they all say that they weren't aware they were being recorded.
Well, my clients say otherwise.
Maybe the girls have regrets now.
They swear they didn't know they were being filmed, and they absolutely did not want the videos shared Have you seen the texts between the boys? Here's a transcript.
Shall we read it out loud? All this proves is that they're idiots.
- [SCOFFS.]
- I should know, I'm Brad's mother.
Being an idiot is not illegal.
But dissemination is.
And they're definitely guilty of that.
- It's just guy stuff.
- A competition.
You know, with, like, points and everything.
We didn't hurt anyone.
Why don't you ask Delia? I mean, you're still rehearsing together.
Did you even talk to her about any of this? My mom told me not to talk about this to anyone because there's legal stuff involved.
My son feels terrible about this being distributed on porn sites and had absolutely no involvement in that.
He distributed it via text - to all of his dance buddies.
- First degree.
- An E felony.
- Clearly an overreach.
Maybe this rises to the level of misdemeanor harassment.
- Hmm.
- [SCOFFS.]
We all know the real felon here is Jason.
Surveillance, dissemination, it's all on him.
My clients can help you make that case.
Okay, so Brad and Edward are willing to testify - that Jason set up the camera? - Well, in exchange for bumping them down to misdemeanor harassment.
Can't we get them on misdemeanor dissemination? She's smart, she doesn't want that on their records.
Okay, so this is our best chance to get one of - the three boys on a felony.
- Yeah, with their testimony, we can get Jason on unlawful surveillance, dissemination, and toss in revenge porn for the hat trick.
Which is gonna be tough to prove because we have to show intent to harm, which, even so, is just a misdemeanor.
So texting the video to a friend is worse than posting it - on a porn site? - Tech lobbies, corporations, civil libertarians they got their fingerprints all over the state's revenge porn bill.
It's basically toothless.
But Jason doesn't know that.
And he hasn't lawyered up yet.
This might give us some leverage.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, well, what's Jason gonna give us that we don't already have? You never know.
- [DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING.]
- Revenge on Delia? Seriously? [LAUGHS.]
I get plenty.
Well, then why did you send the video to a porn site? [LAUGHS.]
I don't know.
I thought it was a goof on Brad.
Well, Delia didn't consent to being filmed.
Well, that's not what Brad told me.
- How was I supposed to know? - Because you're the one who installed the camera in Studio X.
- What are you talking about? - Yeah, your dance buddies told us the whole thing was your idea.
Okay, hang on, I I don't know who set up the camera, but it wasn't me.
Well, that's not what they said.
And they're willing to testify.
- Testify? - Mm-hmm.
- Like at a trial? - Yeah, like at a trial.
And with unlawful surveillance and dissemination charges, you're looking at felony jail time.
[SCOFFS.]
This is total crap.
I'm the fall guy.
Everybody in the company knew about it.
- Brad, Edward, Sascha.
- Sascha? Your choreographer? Jason, if you know more than you're saying, now would be your last chance to help yourself.
And start with Sascha Thomas.
[SIGHS.]
We showed him some stuff before.
He never said boo.
H-He would he would watch the videos like the girls were auditioning for him.
And he never told you to stop? If he liked something he saw, he'd ask a girl out, and if she said yes, he'd make me delete it.
[DARK MUSIC.]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING.]
There are no videos of me and Jason.
Because Sascha had it deleted? You know about that? Sascha's a friend.
With benefits.
After Sascha saw the video, he said he needed to make sure it didn't get out, or my career would be over.
- But not Jason's? - [SCOFFS.]
You kidding? There's a hundred other dancers who could be in my costume and my solo tomorrow.
Sascha said he'd make sure that didn't happen.
And what did he want in return? For me to do to him what I did to Jason in the video.
Tina, he pressured you.
He extorted you.
That's rape.
Like any of the other girls wouldn't do it.
Sascha saw all the videos.
He chose me.
[CLAPPING.]
Tina, that was your cue.
- Tina - Sorry, my solo.
Not the time.
Ladies.
Well, she says it wasn't rape.
- That's that.
- Well, from what I heard, rape culture is so much a part of this company, they don't even realize it anymore.
[EXHALES.]
Tina said the sex was consensual? It wasn't, she just doesn't wanna see it that way.
Sascha's her boss, he gave her the choice of losing her job or getting a solo, depending on whether or not she was gonna reenact that video with him.
It's forcible coercion, rape three.
In theory, yes.
But his defense attorney's gonna say the relationship was consensual.
At worst, transactional, one in which she was - a willing part of.
- Sascha? From what the other dancers said, this is happening - all the time at the company.
- Then we need to try to establish a pattern.
Are there any other - allegations against Sascha? - No official complaints lodged with the National HR department.
Yeah, the cone of silence in ballet is real.
I knew a few bunheads at LaGuardia rehearse nonstop, never spoke out of turn, never ate I mean, that kind of conditioning sticks with you.
Listen, this isn't just ballet.
It's churches, news organizations, movie sets.
When your boss is a predator, people are afraid.
- [CELL PHONE BUZZES.]
- Well, unless someone breaks ranks, we're stalled.
[GROANS.]
More bad news.
Cybercrime said somebody ran Delia's image through facial recognition.
Her identity has gone viral.
- Hey.
- Now anytime someone searches my name, this video comes up.
How long before my parents see it? Cybercrimes are tracking down the sites one by one, enforcing the court order.
Delia, it's just - it's not easy.
- In the meantime, we can help you get the links removed - from the search engines.
- No one knows who I am in the ballet world.
This is what I'm famous for? - The National's gonna fire me.
- Delia.
- They're not gonna fire you.
- They're too busy covering their own asses.
- I don't understand.
- So, it turns out that Sascha looked at the videos.
It's not just about the boys anymore.
So he knew? He didn't stop them? - Just the opposite.
- [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
So there was a video of Tina? That's why she slept with him? Everyone was wondering why she finally got her solo.
Delia, do you know of any other dancers that were involved with Sascha? Wait, you guys are going after Sascha now? No way.
I'm out.
- Hang on.
- No, I never should have come to you in the first place.
He's the choreographer.
He gets to do whatever he wants.
Not if you're willing to help us.
It's ballet! It's like my friend Hudson says, "Straight male, can't fail.
Gay men, it depends.
But girls in ballet? Do what we say".
- Five more minutes, Hudson.
- - How long you out? - Rest of the season.
Fifth surgery in ten years.
But no one leaves ballet until they're fired or crippled.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY.]
You here to talk to me about Delia? - Poor kid.
- You knew what was happening? - Honey, everybody knows.
- But no one says anything? It's a straight male world.
We just dance in it.
You dance? Uh, hip-hop, modern.
- I was a little - Statuesque for ballet? [BOTH LAUGH.]
Look, if you're here to talk to me about male dancers videotaping girls, I can't help you.
Actually, I'm here to ask you about your choreographer.
Sascha? What's to know? He's a pig.
Can you give me any specifics? You want me to be the Norma Rae of the National? While I'm hanging on to my spot in the company by a thread? - Talk to me in a few years.
- So that's it? These girls are just on their own? They know the drill.
You want this life, you pay the price.
- Hey, Kat, any luck? - Struck out again.
- So we're 0 for everyone? - [SIGHS.]
They've danced their whole lives, sacrificed everything to get to the National.
They have too much to lose.
Sorry.
Don't be.
Just need to find somebody who already lost.
That was a lifetime ago.
That was at the gala last year.
It's right after you got picked to be the principal.
How did you get my name? I quit the company a year ago.
No one from the National has even called.
We read the interview in your hometown paper, "The Suffolk Times".
How excited you were to get your first lead, and you never actually danced.
You're with NYPD, why do you care? Well, we're looking into a company-wide pattern - of of sexual abuse.
- You're actually investigating - those pricks? - We are.
How did you even find out about this? - Who came forward? - Delia Kelly, initially.
Oh, no, she was one of my students.
Sascha raped her too? Is Sascha the reason that you left the company? Well, he's the reason I'm here.
Jason made a sex tape of me.
Sascha got a hold of it, told me he could make it go away if I did to him what I did to Jason.
He wouldn't take no for an answer.
I just gave up and let him do it.
Rose, I'm I'm so sorry.
Few days later, he promoted me, told me that what happened was just between he and I, and that he'd do it again any time he wanted.
Did you tell anybody? I mean, any other dancers or friends or family? [SCOFFS.]
I told the one person who I thought could help me Alistair.
Alistair said he would help me, that I could do a lot better than Sascha.
And what did he mean? Every year at the gala auction, dinner with the prima ballerina is the top item.
But what's expected is not just dinner.
Alistair said if I'd let him auction me off, he'd get Sascha to back down.
Then he told me if I said no, he'd leak Jason's sex tape, fire me immediately for cause, and blackball me with every other company.
So that's why you left.
I didn't even dance the premiere.
I couldn't go on that night.
And Alistair was right.
I've never danced since.
Okay, so the highest bids at every gala auction are for a "Dinner for Two with a Ballerina".
That doesn't prove these women are being sex trafficked You said that you wanted a pattern, and we have one.
- Go ahead.
- So the male dancers are secretly recording the women having sex with them.
Sascha is using the tapes to blackmail these women into reenacting these videos, right? So if they consent or if they just fail to fight him off, - they get solos.
- Yeah, but none of these women - are willing to testify.
- Rose Sullivan is.
She told us that Sascha coerced her, when she went to Alistair with it, he doubled down, blackmailed her, and told her if she didn't sleep with the highest bidder, that she would lose her job.
We're looking at sex trafficking here.
Okay, maybe did she actually go through with it? No? [GROANS.]
So the board's gonna circle the wagons, the dancers aren't talking, and these donors sponsoring ballerinas they certainly won't.
So at the end of the day, this is Rose's word against Sascha and Alistair's.
All right, you got any ideas or are you just gonna keep playing the "I'm the ADA, I need more" card? - Rollins.
- You know what would be helpful? A confession.
How about that idea? I don't see that happening.
Or we catch him in the act.
This year's gala is tomorrow night after the premiere.
We put in a UC, and we get Alistair on tape - promising to deliver the goods.
- Huh.
- How about Hasim Khaldun? - Your transit-groper cop? - He could pass as an oil heir.
- Or a venture capitalist from Silicon Valley.
He's He's a chameleon.
- [DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING.]
- You clean up nice.
I'd rather be in jeans on the E train.
How was the ballet? The last ballet I saw was "The Nutcracker" when I was ten.
This was better.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- [SIGHS.]
So did Sascha walk you through the night? Briefly.
He's prepped Alistair that there's a potential "Diamond Tiara" level tier donor - waiting to meet him.
- Hey, Diamond Tiara.
- How much is that? - If you have to ask - Okay, here.
- What's this? That's the key to your hotel suite.
Break a leg.
Or whatever it is they say.
[DINNER MUSIC PLAYING.]
Nick.
Alistair, meet our newest benefactor.
- Nick Khan.
- Pleasure, Nick.
The Kendricks could not stop singing his praises.
Oh, they took a leap of faith in me and my company.
I'm glad it worked out for all of us.
- You're in from Palo Alto? - Yup, and not looking back.
Took six years, but just had a windfall with a cybersecurity app we sold to Google.
- Hit my number and walked away.
- [SOFT LAUGHTER.]
- He's pretty good.
- I'm buying it.
Let's hope they do.
Aha, look! Sarah and Padma.
I'll go kiss their rings.
I have to admit, we don't see many donors from the tech world.
And I have to admit, up until tonight, - I had not seen a lot of ballet.
- [BOTH LAUGH.]
- Did you like what you saw? - Yeah, it was awesome.
I'm assuming Sascha mentioned, but I'm looking to establish a presence here in New York as a benefactor - in the performing arts world.
- He did.
May I suggest, instead of seeding start-ups, you make one quality high-profile investment.
That's my plan.
I've spoken to some donors from past years, and I'm willing to step up to the level they did to receive the benefits they got.
They mentioned sponsoring one of the primas.
There is no more gratifying entrée into our world.
Ashley was mesmerizing tonight, wasn't she? Like I said, I don't know a lot about ballet, but I couldn't take my eyes off of her.
Private dinner for two with the prima will be the final item on the auction.
I've been told it's more than dinner.
One of the great traits of ballerinas wherever you lead, they follow.
[SOFT LAUGHTER.]
Can I, um, can I make a preemptive bid? Would a six-figure commitment take Ashley off the auction block? It would take Ashley anywhere you'd like to go.
I have a suite reserved at the Park Milano.
Saoirse can run your credit card.
Oh, I was hoping Bitcoin would work.
[CHUCKLES.]
That's not a problem.
- That's an admission.
- It's more like an innuendo.
Ashley still needs to show she's willing to play for pay.
So he's a trafficker, and we're going after the victim? She has not been cooperative so far, right? We need the leverage.
I know you wish there was a better way, but Yeah, I do.
Hope you don't mind me getting you out - of the gala early.
- Oh, no, not at all.
So you're a ballet fan? Not, uh, not really.
Uh, champagne? Japanese whiskey? I'm good.
Well, you're very generous to support the company this way.
And you're very kind to let me sponsor you, with, um, all that that entails.
So we're clear, this is just for one night.
- And safe sex only? - Absolutely.
You're in charge.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Then unzip me, Nick.
[DOOR THUDS.]
- NYPD.
- W-What the hell? Ashley, I'm Sergeant Khaldun.
- What is going on? - It's up to you.
This is not my idea.
I - Then tell us whose it was.
- [BREATHING HARD.]
Am I under arrest? We all want to avoid that.
But you could be looking at prostitution charges.
You can't be serious.
Ashley, we know this wasn't your plan.
Whose was it? I can't say.
If we call Alistair Woodford and tell him you were picked up in a police sting, about to service a sponsor, you think he'll protect you? He didn't give me any choice.
We need to know how this works.
Every year, at the gala, dinner with the prima goes to the highest bidder.
Mm-hmm.
Everybody knows it's more than just dinner.
This year I was on the auction block.
How did he get you to agree to this? Same way he got everybody else.
He had a video.
Me, Brad, and Jason.
- Does Sascha know about this? - He gave Alistair the video.
What did Alistair say to you, exactly? He said I'd already worked my way through the dancers and the choreographer for my career, so compared to that, this was a small ask.
And if you refused? The video would be made public.
He said, after that The only way I'd be able to make a living was in porn.
[SWITCH FLIPS.]
That's enough for an arrest warrant.
Better idea.
We pick him up now.
See you Monday.
Hey.
Alistair Woodford, Sascha Thomas.
Captain Benson, what is this? Give it a second, it'll come to you.
You're making a major mistake.
Not my first, won't be my last.
[HANDCUFFS CLINKING.]
- You vouched for him.
- Don't worry.
- He's under arrest too.
- Whatever I did, I did to subsidize art.
That man's your rapist! So you knew? And you used it as leverage.
That makes you a sex trafficker.
Get him out of here.
So Alistair and Sascha took a deal? Felonies, both of them.
They'll do prison time.
- What about Jason? - He'll do a few months, and we're still working to get the video taken down.
Uh-huh.
What happens to the National? Well, Brad and Edward were fired, although they're filing a suit for wrongful termination.
Of course they are.
Boys in ballet.
From day one, they get all the breaks.
I bet they'll get their jobs back.
[SIGHS.]
Maybe, but maybe not.
You heard that the new board hired an all-female artistic team? Yeah, good for them.
Hey, have you, uh, do you ever consider going back? I spent my whole life in that world.
To leap high, to spin in midair, to feel the rush of an ovation.
It's the only dream I ever had.
But now, I imagine dancing onstage And the only thing I can think about is everyone in the audience leering at me on the internet.
And that that's never going away, is it? [GLASSES CLINKING.]
[EXHALES SOFTLY.]