Graduation

Graduation
Episode Information
Airdate	June 5, 2020
Written by	Brian Yorkey
Directed by	Brian Yorkey
Executive Producer	Brian Yorkey Tom McCarthy Joy Gorman-Wettels Steve Golin Michael Sugar Selena Gomez Mandy Teefey Kristel Laiblin Allen MacDonald
Produced by	Kim Cybulski
Run Time	1 hour and 38 minutes
Episode Guide
Previous	"Prom"

Graduation is the tenth episode of the fourth season of 13 Reasons Why and the forty-ninth and last episode of the series overall. It premiered on June 5, 2020.

This episode focuses on the students graduation after traumatic events and their respective plans for the future..

Synopsis

Strengthened by the struggles they've endured, the friends say goodbye to high school and look forward to the future in an emotional series finale.

Plot

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Cast

Starring Dylan Minnette as Clay Jensen Grace Saif as Ani Achola Christian Navarro as Tony Padilla Alisha Boe as Jessica Davis Brandon Flynn as Justin Foley Ross Butler as Zach Dempsey Miles Heizer as Alex Standall Devin Druid as Tyler Down Justin Prentice as Bryce Walker Timothy Granaderos as Montgomery de la Cruz Amy Hargreaves as Lainie Jensen Mark Pellegrino as Deputy Standall Tyler Barnhardt as Charlie St. George Jan Luis Castellanos as Diego Torres Deaken Bluman as Winston Williams Gary Sinise as Dr. Robert Ellman Co-Starring Austin Aaron as Luke Holliday James Cretan as Eric Mason Guccione as Toby Yaya Gosselin as Graciella Padilla Keon Mottakhaveri as Chad Ross Turner as Mr. Wood

Guest Starring Steven Weber as Gary Bolan Josh Hamilton as Matt Jensen Kate Burton as Doctor Michele Selene Ang as Courtney Crimsen Tommy Dorfman as Ryan Shaver RJ Brown as Caleb Brandon Scott as Coach Kerba Bryce Cass as Cyrus Reed Diamond as Hansen Foundry Benito Martinez as Sheriff Diaz Matt Passmore as Officer Ted Inde Navarrette as Estela de la Cruz Brandon Scott as Coach Kerba Anne Winters as Chlöe Rice Alexander MacNicoll as Peter Standall Veronica St. Clair as Heidi Yadira Guevara-Prip as Valerie Diaz Gary Perez as Arturo Padilla Robert Gant as Todd Crimsen Alex Quijano as Steve Crimsen Meredith Monroe as Carolyn Standall Joseph C. Phillips as Greg Davis Andrea Roth as Noelle Davis

Quotes

Clay: "Thank you for saving my life. Like, more times than you know. I love you."

Justin: "I love... I love... love you... you too, man."

Clay: "I'm sorry. Are you afraid?"

Justin: "Yeah. I am. Will you hold... Will you hold my hand... bro?"

Clay: "Yeah."

―  Clay and Justin's last conversation.

“	It comes down to one question. Will you survive high school? Will I survive? Because I know too many people who didn't. In the past two years, three people who I loved have died. And two... two other people who I thought I hated, also died. But I learned that hate is too simple. Jessica's right. Hate is easy. Love and understanding are harder. But they are how we take care of each other, how we survive. My dad loves to tell me stories about when he was in high school. The stories usually involve chess club and obscure bands with funny haircuts, because the '80s were a strange, strange time. But he always gets one thing right. He knows high school can hurt. That it can be painful. That there are days when that's all it is. And he once told me that he's living proof... you can survive. You can get through it. He's living proof, and so am I. And so are all of you. And the thing is, for me, for us, this class, this... this generation, high school actually is life or death. We show up every day not knowing if this is the day we die. If this is the day someone shows up with a gun and tries to kill us all. We practice what we'll do if that happens. Life or death. I suffer from anxiety and depression. But mostly anxiety. I sometimes think all of us kids do, in some way. And how could we not, with the world the way it is? We hear a lot of promises that things will get better. And... and, look, maybe they will, maybe they won't. And what I think I've learned, what I wanna say to you is whatever happens, keep moving. Get through it. Choose to live. 'Cause even on the worst day, there are people who love you. There's new music waiting for you to hear, some... something you haven't seen before that will blow your mind in the best way. Even on the worst day, life is a pretty spectacular thing.	”
	— Clay's graduation speech

“	I just wanna be clear. I don't actually see ghosts. I just, like... imagine people and what I would say to them.	”
	— Clay to his hallucination of Justin

Clay: "This is where I first listened to my tape. And this is where we lay them to rest."

Tony: "Rest in peace."

Zach: "Come on, people. Let's pile on the closure dirt."

―  The group burying the tapes

Clay: "I really didn’t grow with much positivity in my life and if I had the influence around me, they were definitely bad. My mother was a drug addict. Her revolving door of boyfriends, mostly drug addicts too. I had a best friend I used to look up to, but then he hurt people close to me and now he’s dead. There was a time in my life I truly had nothing but the clothes on my back and the regret of the people I’d hurt. And then a person came into my life. A person named Clay Jensen. Even when I was puking all over his room, he was there. He’s always been there which is why even though I’ve never had a proper family, I know what it feels like to have one because Clay gave that to me. Because he’s my... he's my..."

Hallucination Justin: "He's my brother, he’s my positive influence, he’s the reason I am alive and able to write this college essay in the first place‬."

Clay: "I miss you. How am I supposed to do this without you?"

Hallucination Justin: "Clay, it's like you said. You'll survive."

―  Clay reading Justin's college essay about a positive influence in his life

Trivia

• Hannah's thirteen tapes are returned to Clay, who has them buried at the same place he had listened to his tape. He and the others- Alex, Courtney, Ryan, Tyler, Jessica, Ani, Tony, Zach- bury them; finally putting closure on what their actions had done to Hannah
• Justin is the fourth and final hallucination that Clay sees after Hannah, Bryce and Montgomery.
  • Clay also sees a hallucination of Hannah for a final time. In her dark plum-colored prom dress, she smiles and vanishes for good. Footage from "Tape 3, Side A" was re-used for this scene.
  • Clay addresses in this episode that he doesn't see ghosts, but their appearances are part of his imagination.
• During the graduation scene, Justin Prentice and Timothy Granaderos can be seen sitting among the graduating students in the background.
• The graduation scenes were shot at the beginning of filming Season 4 instead of at the end because they had to take place during summer. Because the cast didn't know who would die, every actor filmed graduation scenes and the production would later edit out the character that died.
• Clay is seen giving a girl, Heidi, his e-mail address: 'percyakr2161@gmail.com'. Fans found out that you can send questions to this address and will get a response from "Clay". The social media team eventually stopped replying as people started to send inappropriate or rude messages.
• Winston finally learns the truth from Alex about Bryce's murder, but decides to leave it alone as he still loves Alex too much to ruin his life.
  • At the same time, Sheriff Diaz closes the investigation into Bryce Walker's Murder for good.
• Katherine Langford was asked to return, but was unavailable due to the filming of her new show Cursed.
• Marcus, Sheri and Mr. Porter are the only characters with tapes made for them to not return in this episode.

Multimedia

Soundtrack

Song	Artist	Album	Scene
Theme Song: "Oh In This World Of Dread, Carry On" by Eskmo
"The Shape of a Storm"	Damien Jurado	In the Shape of a Storm	Zach arrives at the hospital and hugs Clay.
"Salesman At the Day of the Parade"	Rogue Wave	Descended Like Vultures	Clay walks around the school sad while Justin is in the hospital.
"Half Gate"	Grizzly Bear	Shields	Everyone sits in the waiting room during Justin's last hours.
"Washing of the Water"	Peter Gabriel	Us	Justin passes away.
"Unbelievers"	Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City	Liberty High's class of 2019 graduates.
"Here Comes a Regular"	The Replacements	Tim	The group buries Hannah's tapes.
"Take Care"	Beach House	Teen Dream	After burying the tapes, the group looks over town.
"Half Light II (No Celebration)"	Arcade Fire	The Suburbs	Clay packs for college; he and Tony say goodbye to Clay's parents and Caleb and drive off.
"Trouble (Remastered)"	Lindsey Buckingham	Law and Order	End credits.

Images

• Promotional
• Screencaps

Dr. Ellman giving Clay therapy

Clay in a therapy session

The Jensen family listening to Justin’s diagnosis

The doctor sharing Justin’s diagnosis

Justin in the hospital with Jessica next to him

Clay trying to talk to Justin about his diagnosis

Alex visiting Justin

Winston talking to Tyler about reporting Jessica and the friend group for (covering up) murder

Tyler talking with Winston

Winston talking with Tyler

Clay talking with Jessica about Justin’s diagnosis

Jessica telling Clay that Justin was ashamed

Charlie telling Jessica and Clay that Zach can’t come

Charlie finding Zach outside the hospital

Charlie trying to convince Zach to visit Justin

Zach sitting outside the hospital

Winston meeting up with Alex

Alex revealing that he killed Bryce

The Jensen family watching Justin on a ventilator

Mr. Jensen telling Clay that Justin will never be able to breathe without it

Clay starting to panic

Clay yelling at Zach

Charlie, Zach and Mr. Jensen watching Clay run away

Clay telling people at the sheriff’s station that he has a gun

Sheriff Diaz trying to calm Clay down

Officer Ted and Tony

Clay crying in Sheriff Diaz’ arms

Dr. Ellman talking with Clay in therapy

Clay in a therapy session

Tony in an interrogation room

Clay in an interrogation room

The Jensen family sitting beside Justin

Alex and Charlie convincing Zach to stop drinking and visit Justin

Zach Dempsey

Zach hugging Clay as he goes to visit Justin

Tony coming home to see his dad on a video call

Caleb

Mr. Padilla telling Tony to go to college

Jessica getting a hallucination of Bryce at the hospital

Clay telling Jessica that Justin’s awake

Clay attending school

Clay being told that he has been voted class speaker

Foundry telling Clay that he’s the class speaker at graduation

Clay in a therapy session

Dr. Ellman talking with Clay

Mr. Jensen talking with Clay

Clay at the hospital

Clay and his dad sitting beside Justin

Coach Kerba offering Zach a coaching job

Zach talking with Coach Kerba

Jessica sitting beside Justin

The doctor telling the Jensen family that they’re going to take Justin off the ventilator

Clay realizing this means that Justin will pass away

Mr. and Mrs. Jensen

The waiting room

Jessica seeing Justin in the hospital bed

Justin asking Jessica to sit with him

Jessica saying goodbye to Justin

Clay saying goodbye to Justin

Clay saying goodbye to Justin

Clay holding Justin’s hand

The waiting room filling up

Justin passes away

Clay holding Justin’s hand

The church

Clay and Tony talking before the funeral starts

Ani and Jessica arriving at the funeral

Pastor giving a speech

Caleb at the funeral

Tyler crying at the funeral

Scott at the funeral

Alex speaking at the funeral

Winston at the funeral

Deputy Standall helping Alex off the stand

Zach speaking at the funeral

Chlöe listening to Zach’s speech

Clay still sitting when everyone leaves the church

Jessica Davis

Jessica sitting next to Clay

Jessica and Clay looking at Justin’s casket

Ani, Zach, Charlie and Alex at Monet’s after the funeral

Ani and Zach at Monet’s

Charlie and Alex at Monet’s

Alex telling Winston why he killed Bryce

Winston telling Alex that he won’t turn him in

Caleb offering to buy Tony’s garage

Tony talking with Caleb

Caleb and Tony kissing

Sheriff Diaz

Diego and Jessica getting the results of their STI tests

Jessica talking with Diego

Diego talking with Jessica

Clay finding a package in front of the house

Clay opening the package

Mrs. Baker’s letter for Clay

Dr. Ellman in his office

Clay getting upset in a therapy session

Principal Bolan speaking at graduation

Ani at graduation

Clay and Jessica at graduation

Charlie and the Standall family at graduation

Jessica giving a speech at graduation

Mr. and Mrs. Davis at graduation

Zach at graduation

Scott and Chlöe at graduation

Clay speaking at graduation

Clay giving a speech at graduation

Mr. and Mrs. Jensen at graduation

Alex at graduation

Courtney and Ryan at graduation

Clay and Jessica throwing their graduation caps

The students throwing their graduation caps

Ani and Jessica’s family after graduation

Jessica and Ani ask Estela to take over H.O.

Estela telling Tyler about H.O.

Ryan flirting with Winston

Chlöe, Scott, Foundry and Zach talking

Foundry talking with Clay

The Standall family

Tony and his sister

Charlie, Alex, Jessica and Tyler

Ani, Tony, Ryan and Courtney

Clay seeing hallucinations of Justin and Bryce

Clay hallucinating Justin

Clay hallucinating Hannah

Clay walking towards Hannah

Heidi approaching Clay

Clay talking with Heidi

The tapes

The group burying the tapes

Jessica’s hallucination of Bryce

Jessica talking to Bryce’s hallucination

The group

The group looking over town

Clay looking at Justin’s diploma

Justin’s diploma

Clay talking with his hallucination of Justin

Clay’s hallucination of Justin

Clay visiting Dr. Ellman

Dr. Robert Ellman

Clay taking one last look at Justin’s bed

Justin’s empty bed

Clay leaving the outhouse

Clay and Tony saying goodbye to the Jensens and Caleb

Clay waving goodbye

Clay and Tony driving off to college