Greenhouse Academy S2 E12

## Plot

The police storm the Greenhouse. There are only two minutes left on the bomb. No one can hear Hayley and Ryan call for help. There's no reception, and Marcus is still unconscious. Brooke can't reach Hayley. Jackie and Leo touch base with her and the others. Before they can look for Hayley, the police come in and stop them. They're securing the premises. There's a minute and a half left on the bomb. The team, Alex, Brooke, and Sophie distract the cops. Jackie picks the lock on a door, and Daniel and Leo get out. There's a minute left on the bomb. Leo and Daniel reach the cave, but they can't get in. Marcus starts to wake up, and he's able to hit the button to let them in. They can't defuse the bomb, and even if they could, there's no time. It's behind a glass door. There's a special key that opens it, and the bad guys took it with them. There are less than twenty seconds left. Hayley realizes that the triangle thing in her mom's safe was a key. She took it with her, and gives it to them. With ten seconds left, they bring the bomb outside and throw it as far as they can. It explodes harmlessly. In the fakest looking explosion ever. I know this show has basically no special effects budget, but still, they were able to pull off an earthquake earlier. The explosion is probably so small because it wasn't connected to the magnetite. Alex reunites with his mom, and the police arrive, along with Carter. Everyone testifies to the police. Jason is arrested, which devastates Louis and Brooke, but considering he didn't know the full scope of the conspiracy, and helped in the end, there might still be hope. Marcus is also arrested. While he has a prior conviction, he helped the most and was being blackmailed. Judy, however, is most likely going to spend the rest of her life in prison. Daniel talks to her. She turned herself in. She decided that it was better to see him every few weeks in prison than to be free and never see him again. Hayley introduces Ryan and Carter to Jackie, her best friend. Louis and Brooke reunite with them. Jackie leaves to find Max. Brooke officially becomes Alex's girlfriend. Jackie finds Max in the computer lab… with Emma. I am both happy and sad. She leaves so they can catch up. Louis gave Alex and Hayley the week off. Seriously? After everything they've been through, you're only giving the two of them time off? And just a week? Cancel everything for the next month at the very least! You all need a shit ton of time to reconcile everything that just happened! All of the arrests and feelings of betrayal and trauma alone is going to take awhile to move on from. Or at least it should, if the show's goal was realism, but it's clearly not, so let's just move on, shall we? Sophie keeps getting calls from major networks, asking for an exclusive interview. She tells Brooke that she's not gonna fall for that trap anymore though. Brooke and Alex say goodbye for the week and kiss. Emma kisses Max. Hayley says goodbye to Jackie. Leo says he'd be happy if they were together. He tells her that he loves her. Again, love can't happen that quickly. She doesn't say anything, and hugs him. Before the family can leave, Daniel says goodbye to Hayley. She gives him the triangle key. Then they kiss. Um, what? No, seriously, WTF just happened? They *don't* have feelings for each other! They kissed *once* to pretend to be a couple! Love doesn't happen that quickly! Kyle is in a parking garage, and gets a call from the larger scope villain. He didn't pay him, because there's no need to. The police show up and arrest him. The man behind all the money is presumably never caught or identified, at least onscreen. Ryan and her family return home, and it's very emotional. Max finds Jackie at the beach. He's been looking everywhere for her. She says she's happy for him and Emma getting together. He tells her they're not together. Emma wanted them to be a couple, but he said he wasn't interested. He told her he wanted to be with Jackie. He said she was great, but he was in love with Jackie. Okay, I'm super happy for them, and I totally wouldn't mind a threesome with Emma, or her coming back to the Greenhouse, but again, love isn't that simple. But I don't care this time, because they kiss! And… that is now part of my new screensaver. Leo is playing his guitar, and Daniel is shooting hoops. Hayley presumably texts one of them to come over, and they both leave. Someone answers the door and enters Hayley's room, maybe to have sex or something, I don't know. Later on, her light is the only one still on. It turns off too though, and Alex is still shooting outside, like how the series first started after the eight month time skip. Yes, this show really does have the guts and the stupidity to end on a manufactured cliffhanger like that. At least "*Caught On Fire"* is playing. The show caused that song to get stuck in my head, along with *"Alive"*, which is sung by Dallas Hart, who played Leo, and is basically the show's theme song. I think that season 1 took place over the course of two months. According to some dialogue, season 2 took place over the course of a week. Yes, in two months, two kids learn bits and pieces of a conspiracy, and are both promptly taken care of. During the next seven days after that though, nine kids are able to find out about and stop the bad guys' plans, which have presumably been in the making for months, maybe even years, and save the day.

## Review

I liked most of this episode, even if the bomb stuff was super unrealistic and anticlimactic, Hayley's romances made my head spin, and loose threads were left dangling. It's mostly just an epilogue. The only reason I'd want a season 3 would be to resolve that stupid cliffhanger at the end, find out who the man behind the money is, and learn more about a character's backstory. Literally, I'd take any character at this point, even Eric, Kyle, Perry, or Chief Diggs. And then well over a year later, I found out that they actually made a third season set to air on October 25, 2019, twenty months and three weeks after the second season came out, and over two years after season 1 came out. Seriously, when and where did they even film this third season? On one hand, I'm excited, but they also replaced the actresses for Emma and Brooke. The reason Grace Van Dien was replaced was because she was cast in a show called *The Village* that aired during the 2019-2020 television season. At least her replacement, Danika Yarosh, looks somewhat like her. Dana Melanie is replacing Aviv Buchler as Emma, despite looking nothing like her, skin tone included. A third season means we might find out more answers about characters' backstories that I actually care about, like Judy or Marcus, but if there's a love triangle between Hayley, Leo, and Daniel, or worse, Max, Jackie, and Emma, I will just… ugh. I despise love triangles. A fourth and final season also came out. It ended with the villains being Karma Houdinis again, new couples and friendships were formed, old ones got back together, the status quo returned, etc. Personally, I'd like to pretend that the show ended here, since even if we don't have answers for everything, it mostly wraps everything up. Except the stuff with Hayley and Daniel, that was stupid.