Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: June 19, 2014

Featuring: Lindsay Mendez Anthony Ramos

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: Lin-Manuel Miranda

[NAOMI]
I didn't say yes. I didn't say I'll think about it. I can't tell you my real name, but yes, I can confirm that I did get asked to the prom

[NARRATOR]
The undercover officer who played Naomi is 25 years old, a new recruit at the Palm Beach Police Force

[NAOMI]
My assignment: to pose as a senior and find out who's buying, who's selling. Mostly pills and weed, you would not believe how easy it is to get pills and weed

[NARRATOR]
What's the hardest part?

[NAOMI]
Pssh—the cafeteria. Imagine hundreds of teenagers yelling and running full speed. And the lack of deodorant. Let's just say I would drink at the end of the day. Seriously, these kids need to learn there are consequences in life. If I'm doing my job and I'm doing it right, I am making life safer one school at a time

[NARRATOR]
So he asked you to prom?

[NAOMI]
Right. I gave every excuse. I said it's too expensive, which is totally true, by the way. I told him, look, I'm just a transfer, I wouldn't feel comfortable with all your friends. And it's true you make friends on the job, then it ends. You meet kids who are sensitive, smart, and defenseless. Those are the ones you remember, the ones that you think about after you're gone

Seriously, these kids need to learn there are consequences in life. If I'm doing my job and I'm doing it right, I am making life safer one school at a time

[NARRATOR]
Meanwhile—

[JUSTIN]
What the heck I gotta do to be with you?

[STUDENTS]
What the heck I gotta do?

[JUSTIN]
Tell me who I gotta be for you to be with me

[NAOMI]
Do you smoke?

[JUSTIN]
What?

[NAOMI]
Do you smoke weed?

[JUSTIN]
No, I don't. But if that's what you need, I can find some for you. I can be your supply

[NAOMI]
You would do that for me?

[JUSTIN]
I can be your guy. Oh, yes!

[NAOMI]
Seriously, these kids need to learn there are consequences in life

[JUSTIN]
I'll get whatever you need!

[NAOMI]
If I'm doing my job and I'm doing it right, I am making life safer one school at a time

[NARRATOR]
What are you thinking as you're trying to get this pot to sell her?

[JUSTIN]
I'm thinking, what the heck am I doing? Cause I don't hang out with guys like that

[NARRATOR]
So what did you do?

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning American writer, composer, playwright, and actor. He created and starred in two hit musicals, In the Heights and Hamilton (2015), an epic adaptation of Ron Chernow’s biography of the American founding father. Miranda also co-wrote the music and lyrics for Disney’s Moana (2016). The film’s main theme, “How Far I’ll Go”, was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Personally, Miranda has received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton), three Tony Awards (Best Original Score for both ITH and Hamilton, Best Book of a Musical for Hamilton), two Grammys (Best Musical Theatre Album ITH, Hamilton), and an Emmy (Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for “Bigger”). He was the recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant”. He has a star on the Puerto Rican Walk of Fame and will receive a Hollywood star in 2018.

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