Script of Episode 5   “Heroes”

16:50-18:52

CLAIRE: Hi.

NOAH: Your mother told me lost control of the car.

CLAIRE: That’s what I told her happened.

NOAH: Is there something you want to tell me?

CLAIRE: I ran the car into the wall on purpose.

NOAH: You could’ve killed yourself.

CLAIRE: I wasn’t thinking about me.

NOAH: Well, what were you thinking about? You’ve got to start trusting me.

CLAIRE: I lied to you.

NOAH: About what?

CLAIRE: I lied to you when I said…

              I lied to you when I said nothing happened at the bonfire.

NOAH: What happened to you?

CLAIRE: He tried to… He tried to force me.

NOAH: The quarterback?

CLAIRE: He threw me down, and I hit my head, and I woke up somewhere else.

I think Noah should be consoling her instead of the other way around. Why does Claire feel compelled to apologize to her father besides lying to him?

CLAIRE: I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I lied to you. I didn’t know what else to do. I’m can’t prove anything.(hence not legally a crime if no evidence) He was going to get away with it again. I’m not the only one.

Please, you can’t say anything.

I can’t believe that he leaves it at that instead of suggesting retribution for the crime. It is one of the many reasons I think he gains power over Claire. He has now become her confident the protector of her secret and thus has power over her. By keeping quite he is also giving Brody power a code among criminals. One can also conclude he is keeping the secret to protect his own reputation or out of guilt thus a coconspirator.

NOAH: No one is going to know. No one’s to know anything.

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NOAH: Hello, Brody. I’m Claire’s father.

BRODY: I know who you are.

              You’re the guy I’m going to sue.

The rapist still has rights and thus power even though he is in the wrong. He can say she is lying and defaming his character and thus looks like a liar or slut either ways she loses.

NOAH: I’m very sorry about the accident.

BRODY: It wasn’t an accident.

NOAH: What makes you say that?

BRODY: Because she crashed my car on purpose. She’s a freak! She’s not human!

Name calling is another way the perpetrator takes more control by reducing his prey/victim to the standing of an animal or non-human.

NOAH: I put more stock in her humanity than I would in yours.

            You tried to rape my daughter.

BRODY: I didn’t touch her.

NOAH: Well, it’s her word against yours and from my perspective she’s the more reliable witness.

BRODY: You don’t know your daughter.

NOAH: I know her better than even she does.

This statement is clearly a statement that he has some kind of unknown power over her that she herself is unaware of. Mainly of her origins and the source of her “powers” he was hired and told to pretend to be her dad until the time was right.

BRODY: I don’t have to listen to this.

NOAH: Shh! Claire is a very special girl.

(This statement shows that he sees himself as protector of her like she is a little girl that is weak and innocent but this isn’t true. Claire is very mature and is fully capable of taking care of herself, however, men clearly have power over her in various aspects.)

It is confusing to her and she doesn’t need some punk making her life any more difficult.

(Noah doesn’t realize it but by his very actions he is making the situation worse. By denying what has happened and erasing Brody’s memory. He is robbing Brody of redemption and raping Claire again by first hiding the truth and secondly by not erasing her memory of the rape.)

Do you understand me?

I should kill you.

But instead I’m going to do you a favor. (A favor to the criminal)

You already threw away this life.

I’m going to give you a second chance. I’m going to let you forget all the terrible things you’ve done. And maybe this time when you wake up in your new life you’ll make something decent of it.

Shh!

Hollow him out.

Take everything.

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CLAIRE: Hi, Brody. I know you probably don’t want to see me right now or hear what I have to say, but I have to say it.

            What you did to me, what you tried to do was wrong.

            But what I did to you was wrong, too, and I’m sorry.

            I think that everyone deserves a do-over at least once in their lives.

BRODY: I don’t know you.

             Who are you?

CLAIRE: Brody, it’s me, Claire.

BRODY: Why do you keep calling me Brody?

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