Greenhouse Academy S4 E1

## Plot

Continuing right where the previous episode and season left us, Coach Davies and the kids hear the explosion. Alex knows it was an explosion and leaves, even though Davies thinks it was a sonic boom. He finds Leo unconscious outside the cave. Brooke and Daniel are still trapped in the secret room. The door is so solid that their Louies don't have reception. Carter and Ryan see paramedics take Leo to the hospital. Alex tells them what happened. They have to do a head count of all the teachers and students. Ryan calls Hayley, but she doesn't answer. Search and rescue personnel try to clear the rocks. Davies tells Ryan that everyone is accounted for except for Brooke, Daniel, and Hayley. They aren't answering their Louies and no one has seen them in awhile. Suzanne and a few others are searching the grounds while Davies does a sweep of the building. He hears Brooke and Daniel calling for help and gets them out. At first, Carter, Ryan, and Alex are relieved, but then they see them by the trail and realize that Hayley is still trapped in the cave. I have two things to mention. One, why is it suddenly so windy? It kind of undercuts the dramatic moments when everyone's hair and clothes are blowing everywhere. Two, Selina Giles is still an amazing actress who portrays an amazing yet vulnerable and emotional character who clearly can't handle all of the stress that her new job and this other conspiracy is causing her, and she's already been through so much. Seriously, cut these characters a break. Except for Alex, who once again feels like an extra this season. At least Becca's importance is drastically reduced. All of the kids have been called for an emergency meeting, but Coach Davies and Suzanne claim that there's nothing they need to know right now. Max and Emma want to tell Ryan about the magnetite and Enzo, but Parker and Sophie don't want to. They overhear Becca saying that Leo was frozen, like the guy Enzo found in the woods. When Max tries to tell Suzanne that he has to speak with Ryan, she snaps at him and tells him no. Yeah, now that we know she's evil, subtlety has gone out the window with her character, and she acts so obviously antagonistic. Meanwhile, Leo is at the hospital. His oxygen levels are extremely low, and his liver is getting worse. His kidneys are starting to shut down. The doctors have no idea what's wrong with him. Carter chews out Brooke and Daniel for doing what they've been doing for three seasons now, taking matters into their own hands whenever something weird happens and not telling an adult. Sure, a number of adults have betrayed them before, but they can trust Carter and Ryan. Speaking of which, she breaks down crying again over Hayley. She leaves to tell the rest of the students what's going on. Alex asks Daniel if this is why he ran out of practice. He knew something was wrong, but he didn't think that Hayley would go into the cave with Leo. He admits that he's supposed to be in there instead, and wishes that he was. Ryan tells everyone that the cave collapsed, and they think Hayley is in there. Leo got out in time, but he's sick, and they don't know why. She asks them to send Leo and Hayley good thoughts and prayers, but for once, I agree with Becca when she asks what good that will do. Still, now they know about Hayley, so you'd think everyone would head down to try and help the search and rescue team like Alex, Daniel, and Carter have been doing all day. Max, Sophie, Parker, and Emma tell Ryan about Enzo and the magnetite. If Hayley is infected too, then they have to get to her as fast as possible. However, the cave is made of limestone, and using heavy equipment on it will just cause the cave to collapse again, which would definitely kill Hayley. Carter tells Daniel to just listen to the guy in charge of search and rescue. Hayley is still alive, but she's been unconscious for over ten hours, and her veins are black. Somehow, she doesn't have brain damage after being unconscious for so long. Ryan tells them about the poisoned magnetite, so the team decides to use the drills. Hayley finally wakes up, and slowly pulls herself out of the rubble. She sees a mouse stuck inside with her. It leads her to strange glowing water. When she drinks it though, the very real water runs down her arms, which gets rid of the black vein makeup. Actually, this might be entirely intentional, because after a *very* trippy dream sequence about her parents, Daniel, Leo, and the mouse with what looks like fish eye lens, she wakes up and sees that her veins are no longer black, and she can move more now. The water cured her. She can faintly hear the search and rescue team. Their drilling will cause the cave to collapse on top of her again. She yells at them, but they can't hear her. Daniel tells them that if she was calling out to them, they wouldn't even be able to hear her, but they keep drilling. Just before the cave collapses again, Hayley crawls into a tunnel that the mouse found. She uses it to escape. By the next morning, she's covered with dirt and exhausted, but she's alive.