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The last scene of the play was a very heavy scene and had a lot of elements and steps to it. It was a scene between Tom and Melissa a little while after he had given the Order the order to leak her information and an sexually explicit video of her. They were both sitting in a coffee shop. He says he is sorry and is looking for Melissa to tell him that everything is alright. But Melissa sees right through him and asks him why right now he wants to make things better. Why is it that just right after things went badly for him, he actually starts to apologize to other people. It seems like he is not really motivated by empathy but by a desire to feel better about himself. I loved the moment where Melissa tells Tom that he didn't ruin her life like he said; her life is much more than he can ruin. I think it was very powerful that she didn't accept the apology but showed him every aspect of what he did wrong and still said her life is bigger than his longing for recognition and revenge. I liked how the show was not a case of a straight white guy making a mistake and being forgiven. It is a story of him learning something and paying some consequences for it, but he doesn't get forgiven because he paid the consequences. Someone who did that to someone else shouldn't be easily forgiven, no matter how penitent he is. He won't get the gratification of forgiveness, so he has to live with what he has done. Return to the review.