Created by Nyswaner, Fellow Travelers is based on the novel by Thomas Mallon. Bomer plays charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a young man who’s brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Alladin), Lucy (Williams) and Frankie (Ricketts) – as they cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s while facing obstacles in the world and within themselves.
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00:00 Mr. Fuller, we believe we have reason to ask you a series of questions.
00:04 What reason?
00:05 We're not at liberty to say. Please have a seat.
00:08 Have you ever attended meetings affiliated with the Communist Party?
00:14 No.
00:15 Our country is under threat from Soviet spies, but there's another risk to national security.
00:20 What is your marital status?
00:23 Single, but there is a special lady in the picture.
00:26 Hulk is stunning.
00:27 Have you ever had inappropriate physical contact with another man?
00:33 No.
00:34 You're such a damn good liar.
00:37 Do you like it this way?
00:40 All this pretending.
00:42 You're everything to me.
00:44 If I was everything, you wouldn't be going where you're going.
00:47 You should be careful.
00:49 Everybody lies about something.
00:51 We must beware of these communists.
00:55 We're not weird. These people are dangerous to this country.
00:58 I look out at that city and think about what it denies us.
01:01 We lie about who we sleep with.
01:03 Not who we sleep with. It's who we love.
01:06 Have you ever been in love with another male?
01:12 I have loved you my whole life.
01:14 My great, consuming love.
01:24 Mr. Fuller.
01:25 Answer the question.
01:27 [Music]
01:32 (upbeat music)
01:34 [BLANK_AUDIO]