Janea Kroll (Sofia Bryant) The Code 1x9 Smoke-Pit (2019)
Janea on Zipple: [last year]I’m in my room, thinking of you Trig. I can’t wait to see you!–[six months ago]I hate sneaking around like this. Like, I’m a senior. I’m almost 18. We should be able to have sleep overs and stuff.–[today]Trig, I can’t see you today. Maybe not for a while. My Dad’s asking questions, he wants all my passwords. If he finds out about us, I’m dead.
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Janea Kroll: Julian gave a Marine Corps presentation at school. It was pretty cool, so I asked some questions right after.
Trey Ferry: What kind of questions?
Dad/Dominic Kroll: Janea doesn’t have to join the military. She’s a good student and she was on track to get a scholarship before this recruiter started working on her.
Mom/Naomi Kroll: She’s still on track for a scholarship, Dom.
Dominic Kroll: These schools have no choice but to let you in but you’re putting grown men in a position to prey on kids. – This Staff Sergeant Lucas started texting our daughter. Then they moved to Zipple. Those messages disappear and God knows what they were saying but he clearly pressured her into a physical relationship.
Trey:[—] Janea. Your relationship with Sergeant Lucas, did it turn physical before your 18th birthday?
*Janea nods*
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Janea Kroll: I wanted to talk to you without my Mom and Dad in the room. My father puts pressure on me. It’s hard not to say what he wants to hear.
Trey: Should we talk in private?
Janea Kroll: It’s OK. He should hear this too. I’m not going to help you ruin Trig’s life. (Trig?) Julian. It’s what some people call him. Nothing happened with us, not when I was 17.
John ‘Abe’ Abraham: Janea, what Julian did with you, it was wrong. We think there were others, too. I understand that you care about him–
Janea Kroll: I did not have sex with Trig when I was 17. And even if I did, I wouldn’t say so in court. You can keep going after him if you want. But I’m not gonna help you do it.
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Abe: Janea.
Janea Kroll: I don’t wanna talk to you.
Abe: I won’t be long. Just, hear me out for 2 minutes and I’ll never bother you again. Staff Sergeant Lucas, Julian, he’s gonna be back on his post.
Janea Kroll: I heard.
Abe: We believe he attacked a woman in Richmond last year. Hit her in the face more than once. But we can’t proof it.
Janea Kroll: Seems like a running theme with you guys.
Abe: One thing that’s not up for debate, Julian believes in pretty disgusting things. [White supremacy]He posted that stuff under the name Trig725. He admitted he wrote all that. As if the name didn’t make it obvious. He’s proud of that stuff, Janea.
Janea Kroll: I don’t understand. If he thinks these things, how could he—?
Abe: The thing with these guys, maybe they don’t always connect the stuff they write with the real world. Maybe he thinks you’re—
Janea Kroll: One of the good ones?
Abe: I don’t know. That stuff you’re reading, that’s the real Julian. That’s the guy you’re protecting.
[Janea presses rape charges]