Illustrator Jimmy Craig’s ‘They Can Talk’ series is a popular collection of comics that imagine what animals might say if they could talk. Source Source 2

“The thread that is the one that we couldn’t finish out is Collin in the halfway house keeps getting reminded to clean the bathroom,” said Casal, who worked on the film for a decade with Diggs. “That’s pulled from a story that [happened to] one of the people Collin’s based on…In the real story, he had done a six-year bid in federal prison, got out, he did a year of halfway-house probation, and on his last day, he forgot to clean the bathroom, and they sent him back to jail for seven months,” he continued, eliciting gasps from the audience.

“For somebody on probation…that’s a trap,” said Diggs, a Tony and Grammy Award winner for “Hamilton” (his director from the musical, Thomas Kail, was in attendance). Law-enforcement officials are “actively trying to send you back [to prison], and make money off of you when you’re in there, and when you’re out of there.” Casal described the many minuscule oversights that can resulted in more incarceration time as “idiotic” and “a minefield for you to climb your way through.”

With their friend’s experience in mind, Casal said, “we originally had an ending when Collin avoided everything, and he went back to jail in the last scene” for neglecting his janitorial tasks. “And then we realized ya’ll couldn’t take it,” he conceded, to laughter and applause.