"There's something about that back-to-school feeling and the sense of tenuous peace and forced cheer despite the obvious nefarious forces at play in the background. Mysteries are cropping up, dating back to the founding of the school, kids are teaming up with Good Professors to expose Evil Professors, and the headmaster is singling out the protagonist for dangerous tasks designed to kill her."
"Most of "Justice Never Forgets" is about our heroes trying to keep their heads down during the fallout from Cate's attack. That might work in a normal year, but not now, with Vought News intent on calling the incident a "hate crime" and cynically appropriating it for political propaganda purposes. (Sounds familiar!) Our beloved sophomores each have a different idea of what to do: Jordan wants to run away, like always,"
"His first sit-down with Marie is deliciously passive-aggressive on both ends until he bluntly acknowledges their prior encounter at Elmira, poking at her guilt over Andre's death and even handing her his medical records. That's how Marie and Jordan find out that Andre had the same condition as his father. During his escape attempt, he knew expending so much energy would destroy his brain. In a way, it was suicide."
Marie, Jordan, and Emma attempt to stay low after Cate's attack while campus life and vlogs pressure them to appear fine. Vought News seeks to label the incident a "hate crime" and exploit it for political propaganda, intensifying scrutiny. Jordan wants to flee; Emma contemplates murdering Cate if she wakes; Marie favors investigation and heeding Starlight, pursuing Project Odessa. Cipher manipulates interactions, exposes prior encounters, and provides medical records that reveal Andre shared his father's fatal condition. Andre likely destroyed his brain during a desperate escape attempt, making his death effectively suicide.
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