Greenhouse Academy S2 E1

## Plot

We start off with a flashback that takes place 20 years ago, with a young Ryan attending the Greenhouse. However, that would make her 21 or 22, not a teenager. She goes down the trail, and notices her compass goes crazy near the cave area. In the present, Marcus tells her to hang in there, just a little bit more. I would've loved an entire episode that took place in the past. We could've seen past Judy or past Louis. The downside is that we wouldn't get an immediate resolution on the season 1 cliffhanger. Then again, this is Netflix. Their shows are designed to be binge watched. Ryan is presumably in a medically induced coma to heal from the explosion. Except it's been ten months. Eric brings Brooke to the cave, and locks her in a cell. He leaves, and she calls for help. Daniel tells his mom that it's over between him and Brooke, and she likes Alex now. *You* broke up with *her*, you pathetic little–! Ugh! However, he seems to have finally realized that he has no one to blame but himself for his actions. Brooke is amazing, and he was stupid enough to drive her away. He tells Judy what Brooke said about her making the taser barb evidence disappear. Jason sees a government car parked outside. He touches the hood, and feels that the engine is still warm. He hears Eric talking to someone, presumably Judy, on his cellphone. He says that everything went smoothly, and the delivery was made. He leaves, and Jason says hi to Judy as she's walking. Marcus brings Brooke some food. He says he never meant for this to happen. He's known her since the day she was born. She begs him to let her go, saying she won't tell anyone. He says he can't, and apologizes. She says that's a lie, and he knows it. Judy comes in, saying they need to talk. The next morning, Daniel is back to being an unapologetic jackass, saying that Alex is Brooke's rebound guy. They almost get into another fight, but Sophie tells them to calm down. Aspen tries to bond with the other Ravens, but no one likes her. Max tells everyone that his *Warcraft* guild got stuck in a cage, and the only way to unlock it is to answer a riddle. The problem is that none of them can figure out the answer. Aspen offers to help, and says she loves riddles. "Who are the three who fall asleep in Amsterdam and wake up in Paris?" She doesn't know the answer. Max tells Jackie that Emma would've loved this riddle, and she says she already hates it. So do I, because Aspen is talking. Leo finally talks to Hayley. He wanted to tell her about Aspen, but it never seemed like the right time to bring it up. Then things got complicated after they kissed. He was afraid of telling her because he thought it'd ruin everything. She says she's not mad, and they're good, but the face she makes after he walks away speaks volumes. Marcus was still the groundskeeper 20 years ago. Ryan was known for discovering things, and then asking him questions, or borrowing stuff. She asks him if an object in the Earth can have magnetic polarity. Every object has a certain level for polarity. It's just a question of how you measure it. She asks him if he's ever encountered something unusually magnetic in the area. She promises to tell him everything, but she wants to check something first, and asks for a wrench, gloves, a flashlight, and a pickax. While digging at night, she puts the pickax down, and it's pulled to a rock wall. In the present, Brooke realizes that Eric is working for Judy too. She tells her that she deserves to be sitting in the cell just for breaking Daniel's heart. Jackie asks Max if he and his guild friends can just find a cheat code to get out of the cage. They could, but that'd be cheating. He doesn't want to listen to Aspen any more than anyone else does though. Leo tells Aspen that she's taking this too seriously. However, his line about waving the white flag makes her realize what the answer is, and she kisses him. She shows him the Dutch flag. There's a red, white, and blue stripe in the horizontal position, like they're asleep. The French flag has the same three stripes, but in the vertical position, like they're awake. The answer is red, white, and blue. Leo and Aspen kiss again, and I bet Hayley wishes she had heat vision just as much as I do right now. It turns out that Louis came up with the riddle. What…? He says when the kids are engaged, they don't even need him or Jason. Except they're still teenagers, so they totally do, if only for advice and emotional support. He wants to show it to Brooke. Apparently she was obsessed with riddles as a kid, which explains why she was the one who figured out bits and pieces of the conspiracy, and why she kept pursuing it. Louis calls her, but she can't answer, obviously. Jason leaves. In the past, Ryan shows the meteorite to Marcus, and that it's incredibly magnetic. He tells her that she's going to be really famous. Louis apparently had to work hard to convince her to attend the Greenhouse, just like her daughter. A very young Jason discovers them. He was always a brat in one way or another. He says they shouldn't be here, since it's super late, and says he's going to tell his dad. But doesn't that mean that he shouldn't be out either? Man, Louis was always terrible at watching kids, even his own. Marcus was in prison once. Ryan scares Jason away by telling him that the Greenhouse cliffs have dark magic, and when he gets his Louie out to call his dad, it sticks to the wall because it's made of metal. Ryan assures Marcus that Jason is so scared now, he won't tell Louis anything. Marcus apologizes for not telling her about his past. She says it's none of her business. He asks her if she wants to know why he was in prison. She knows he's a good person, and that's all that matters to her. I know that too, but I still wanna know! In the present, Judy tells Marcus that he knows what to do to Brooke. Whatever it is, it involves the bag he used on the park ranger. They see Jason on the security camera. Judy talks to him outside. He knows she knows where Brooke is, and says that family is where he draws the line. Oh, so you actually do have some moral principles and care about a select few others. Well, it's too late for that! Judy says that she's sure Brooke would love to see that her own brother is working for her too, which gets him to back off. We flashback to one year ago, a day before the Athena launch. Judy and Marcus talk. He says it's wrong. Ryan's mission is to have all the magnetite in orbit, but he's been ordered by Judy to make sure only part of it makes it onto the spacecraft. He's not comfortable with this. He's been taking bribes from her. She says they can't afford to lose all of the magnetite. He asks why they would lose it. She asks him where he was on January 28, 1986, and says that accidents happen. She's referring to the *Challenger* disaster, which occurred because NASA had violated its own safety rules. All 7 people aboard the shuttle died. Marcus wants to tell Ryan about this, but she says no. He asks her why she brought up the *Challenger* disaster, and wants to know what she's not telling him. She's paying him enough not to have to tell him everything, and tells him to not make her regret trusting him. He basically calls her a hypocrite, because she's betraying Ryan. It turns out that he was convicted of treason, but he says he was framed. This is never brought up again. His kids don't know anything about his past, including his real name. Now she's blackmailing him to force him to cooperate. He did what she said, but he also went to visit Ryan. He didn't warn her directly, but made her promise him that if anything went wrong, she would immediately pull the titular escape mechanism on her pod. He tells her that he knew she was special the first day he met her, and he'll always take care of her. How old is Marcus compared to Ryan? Because I think I'm hearing things I shouldn't be hearing. Like, an "I want my beloved to be happy" situation, or lost Lenore. I mean, we the audience know they're both married with kids. The day of the launch, Marcus took a boat into the ocean, and saw the rocket explode. He found Ryan's escape pod. Alex is worried about Brooke. He texts Eric. She finally comes back, but she completely ignores Alex and talks to Daniel instead. Judy clearly messed with her mind, literally. She says she made a mistake, and kisses Daniel.