Harvey Guillén

He lies, he invents, and he becomes whoever he needs to be to survive.

First, he exaggerates his credentials on job applications.

And when that doesn't work, Stephen starts running insurance scams.

He fakes slip and fall accidents and sells counterfeit Rolex watches.

The schemes get bigger as he gets more confident.

And it works.

Well, for a while.

But in 1990, Stephen gets caught, convicted of fraud, and sentenced to six months in jail.

Six months, that's it.

If Stephen had just done his time and walked away clean, none of what comes next would have happened.

But Stephen spent his whole life hiding.

Now that he's finally living openly, he can't stand the thought of going back into a cage.

And what he can't stand even more than that is being away from Jimmy again.

Only a month into his sentence, Stephen gets some devastating news.

Jimmy's dying of AIDS.

This is the early 90s, before the medications that would turn HIV from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Stephen's heartbroken.

His first real love is dying.

And Stephen's locked in a cell, helpless.

He refuses to accept that.