The Basement

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  • Tracy moves into the basement

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  • Saul unofficially moves into the basement

  • Dean moves into the basement

  • Saul begins moving his electronic to the basement to work on them

  • Dean uses the basement as a stable place to sell drugs from

  • Gertrude gets kicked out of her house

  • Tracy is discouraged by Dean's drug dealing

  • Gertrude becomes close friends with Tracy Street

  • Bill connects wtih Dean through a friend

  • Dean begins attending countless auditions

  • Saul begins painting when he's not working

  • Dean begins to feel as though he is being haunted by his ex-boyfriend

  • Dean becomes physically abusive to Tracy

  • Robert meets Tracy

  • Tracy becomes more isolated, having nowhere to go during the day

  • Saul begins to display jealousy of Dean & Tracy's closeness

  • Dean deals with post traumatic stress from a childhood of being abused

  • Robert begins going to open mic nights

  • Tracy encounters Dean’s "friends" more often and learns of their drug connection to him

  • Dean becomes cockier the better he does in school and in the drug trade

  • Robert falls in love with Tracy

  • Robert gets clean for Tracy

  • Tracy distances herself from her father, who is hell-bent on her return to school

  • Robert begins writing more, claiming Tracy as his muse

  • Gertrude feels the need to reconnect with Robert

  • Gertrude begins breaking into wealthy homes and stealing women's clothing

  • Robert makes nice with Gertrude but sense lingering animosity from her

  • Tracy starts to become closer to Dean’s friends and her own through her isolation

  • Gertrude finds new peace in her friendship with Robert

  • Saul becomes dispondent over his brother's return from Grenada and more officially moves into the basement

  • Robert confronts Dean, ending up in a fist fight that neither one wins

  • Tracy dancing less, her sleep and waking times become erratic

  • Gertrude starts to remedy the mess she’s made in school and pay legal fines

  • Saul stops working and spends more time in the basement, become internal and keeps unhealthy hours

  • Tracy begs Dean to stop dealing drugs due to the risk of police raid or worse

  • Analisa goes off her medication

  • Robert begins having an affair with Tracy

  • Dean hones his craft and constantly amazes Tracy, who he sees less and less

  • Saul begins to feel as though two halves of himself are fighting for control of his whole

  • Dean secretly threatens Tracy’s father to let her be herself and live her own life

  • Bill is offered the chance to interview for a key role in his firm’s future

  • Tracy begins to form close relationships with people coming in and out at all hours

  • Robert urges Tracy to leave Dean but is rebuffed

  • Dean is offered a serious role in a major Broadway production

  • Robert gets into a fight with Tracy that ends with him having hit her

  • Robert disappears to get his head straight and focus on school

  • Gertrude makes things right with her family and starts staying home more often

  • Analisa meets Bill

  • Dean takes his own advice and begins to let Tracy go

  • Analisa lands a contract with Maybelline

  • Dean accepts himself, feeling unexpected and sudden catharsis

  • Robert graduates high school early

  • Analisa meets Tracy & Saul

  • Bill gets the job he was after and finds out he will be embezzling from customers

  • Bill finds out Analisa is schizophrenic

  • Tracy starts a fire in the basement by accident

  • Saul is upset by Tracy's accident and feels to blame due to his exposed wiring everywhere

  • Dean visits Stewart's grave and has a shit attack

  • Dean disappears

  • Analisa begins hallucinating, becomes depressed

  • Bill spends time wooing Analisa

  • Analisa begins ending up in strange places

  • Gertrude goes out with Robert and does numerous drugs, ends up committing other crimes and leaving him convulsing in an alley

  • Saul fantasizes about killing Dean for what he does to Tracy

  • Analisa begins spending time with Saul

  • Saul learns of Analisa's Schizophrenia and adopts a caretaking role in her life

  • Analisa begins writing Bill love letters

  • Analisa becomes increseaingly paranoid

  • Saul get his job back and finds a studio apartment

  • Tracy begins dancing more and learning more about herself

  • Saul & Tracy have a falling out and Saul decides to focus on taking care of someone who actually wants his help

  • Bill learns of Dean’s intentions to blackmail him

  • Bill threatens Tracy

  • Analisa pursues Bill, his coldness confirms her fears of being too much for him

  • Bill's sanity begins to lapse

  • Analisa decides to let go of Bill and becoming devastated, she trashes the house and admits to Saul she hasn’t been taking her medicine and that she needs help

  • Tracy, despite beginning to reclaim her confidence, realizes gone slightly mad

  • Analisa moves into Saul’s apartment to find her center and be with someone who can help her care for herself

  • Bill's employers learn of his attempted blackmailer

  • Bill burns down the house