Greenhouse Academy S4 E8

## Plot

Um… episode 2 of season 2 was already called *The Client*. Daniel tries to sneak into the school, but fails because it's broad daylight in front of tons of guards at the entrance, and the bushes offer zero cover. He tells the guards who he is and asks to speak to Carter, but they refuse. One of the guards tells him that Daniel said something about an attack on the school, and he finally checks his phone and sees that he has four missed calls. He calls Hayley… and Eric picks up. He threatens to kill Leo and Hayley unless Carter does exactly what he says. He calls all of the guards to a room where he claims to have stored weapons just in case, but he locks them in. Suzanne shows up, and he tries to tell her what happened, but she tases him and knocks him out. The client and seven other men in masks approach the school, and Eric shows Hayley and Leo that he just got paid five million. And he was promised another five million to kill them. Max checks his Louie, and he and Emma learn that the target is the conference, and Suzanne is working for the bad guys. Before they can tell Ryan, the client attacks. I don't know how his voice modulator works with a ski mask on, but whatever. They can leave if they pay him at least one hundred million dollars. I'm surprised they don't call his bluff about the virus, considering that they're in the room with them, and they're just wearing regular ski masks, which wouldn't protect them from the virus. Daniel shows up at the beach and fights Eric, who has armed a bomb to kill Hayley and Leo. He fights him, and he dies when he accidentally falls over the cliff. It took four seasons for them to finally kill someone off. Louis tells the others to pay nothing, but the client punches him, and Brooke calls him a monster. There are only forty five seconds left on the bomb. Hayley and Leo tell Daniel to leave without them, but he refuses. He can't disarm the bomb, so he grabs a rock to try and break the locks to the chains. Everyone hears the explosion, and the client thinks that Hayley and Leo are dead, along with any hope of a cure for the virus. However, they show up with Daniel before anyone can pay the client. Everyone fights back, and then Carter and the guards come in and capture everyone… except for Suzanne and the client, who escaped. Max and Emma were able to break the detonator. If you're wondering how the guards got out of the locked room, I assume that either Carter regained consciousness at some point and let them out offscreen, or they broke the door down or escaped some other way. As they unmask everyone, it's revealed that Jason went along with the attack after all, which shocks everyone, especially Brooke and Louis. A few days later, he apologizes to Brooke in the hospital. He didn't mean for it to go that far. He tried, but the client was like this force that couldn't be stopped. He was smarter than everyone. Jason doesn't think they'll be able to find him, or Suzanne. As for him, he'll be discharged in a few days and probably spend the rest of his life in prison. He asks Brooke to forget about him and move on with her life like Louis, and just tell him that he's sorry. Brooke and Alex kiss and get back together. Leo and Sophie decided to hold another conference just for the Ravens and Eagles. It's a redo of their camping trip from the season 3 premiere. Hayley has transferred back to the Ravens. Brooke and Sophie make up and become best friends again, just like the season 2 finale. Sophie and Parker kiss. Finally! Ryan and Louis talk about everything that happened. Jason told the police where he and the client lived, and the police found the other samples of the virus there. They still haven't been able to find the guy behind it all though. Ryan has resigned, because she knows she's not cut out for this job, but Louis is. Wait, seriously? Everyone's okay with that? After all the bullshit he pulled that almost got Sophie killed? In his hospital room, Jason cries and calls himself nothing, worthless, and pathetic. However, his whole demeanor suddenly shifts as he tells himself that the rumors of the attack brought the market down for three minutes and the stocks they shorted made five hundred million dollars. We flashback to earlier moments of the series… where it's revealed that *Jason was the client the whole time*. What?! The?! Actual?! Fuck?! Now *that* is how you do a good twist! Jason's harsher moments in season 1 can be explained away by his client persona slipping through, and there was actually ample foreshadowing in hindsight in seasons 3 and 4. I think he either made up the CIA thing to try and clear his guilty conscience or get a lighter sentence. However, the implications of this development are… uncertain, to say the least. Does Jason have dissociative identity disorder (DID)? Because if he does, how did the client persona emerge in the first place, and is he even aware of it? Does it have something to do with his mother's death? I shouldn't have to tell you guys about the stigma behind individuals with mental health issues, and entertainment media only makes the problem worse when they portray individuals like Jason as *always* being the scary, violent bad guys, or weirdos with no friends. Sure, there's also Kevin from *Split* and *Glass*, but he's more of a tragic character, some of his personalities are malicious, and he still dies at the end of the second movie. Literally the only show I can think of where the exact opposite happens is RWBY, where Weiss's butler and friend Klein has DID because he's the seven dwarfs to Weiss's Snow White, which actually caused a real life individual with DID to come up to the CRWBY during RTX and thank them for it, because before that they had only ever seen people like them portrayed as villains. So, yeah, this twist kind of pisses me off for that reason. Plus, a guard frees Jason and he drives off with Suzanne, meaning that they're free to spread more terror in the future and are karma houdinis once again, with no one any wiser. I wonder if Suzanne knows about Jason's condition, or his employees, or do they just not care as long as they get paid? I'm just saying, rich and powerful individuals aren't always the most sane individuals. When their plans fall apart, they tend to freak out, while their employees have common sense and try to get out of Dodge while they still can, particularly if their boss's behavior already unnerves them, like trying to murder a helpless baby. Man, I hate Gabriel. I wonder if this means we won't see the client's actor anymore. I really liked him. This does explain away my problems with some of the acting of Jason's actor in seasons 3 and 4 though, at least from an in-universe perspective. I'm not really seeing Jason, I'm seeing the meek, timid side of his personality that actually has some semblance of a conscience and morality, fighting with a harsher personality for dominance, and continually losing. It's really sad, and if I'm being totally honest, kind of pathetic. Like a child trying to fight a monster, but it's not awesome. Leo and Hayley run out to the cliffs, and they kiss. At least one of my OTPs is fixed. Other than that, the status quo is back. Two couples are back together, a new one is formed, Brooke and Sophie are best friends, Louis is the headmaster again, etc. They've basically reset the status quo to the end of season 2, and for all we know, they could keep doing this over and over and over again. One trick stories don't tend to last very long though. Sure enough, this was the last season, either because of the pandemic making production harder or impossible, or just because of Netflix being Netflix.