Hey guys, as some of you may have realized, I’ve stopped my Savages fanfiction, based on my focus on my final year of high school. However, to those who were interested in what would have happened at the end, here’s a rundown.
Episode 7: The Psychological Warfare[]
In this episode, The Savages would have prepared for a school wide revolt at James A. Masters High School, by Trae’s demand. Although Trae influences this revolt, Trae goes through a lot of emotional problems in school and at home. At school, he fails a class exam for the first time, with his English teacher, and he becomes heated. Once Mr. Baxter confronts him for his disrespectful behavior, Trae lashes out, vandalizes and damages school property and exits out carelessly.
Felix invites students to his neon lights party, and he hesitantly invites Trae, but the two go head to head in a very intense confrontation with each other. Once Felix makes a very disrespectful comment about Trae being a bastard child, Trae reaches his boiling point and he is therefore suspended from school for the first time. However, his parents do not approve, especially his mother. Trae goes borderline psychotic after his mother compares him to his deadbeat father.
Zachary, meanwhile, faces problems with anxiety. We discover that he takes a cocktail of prescription pills from his parents in order to relieve stress. However, this situation gets worse once he feels certain side effects that may affect his physical ability. Because Trae remains concerned about Zachary’s well-being, he visits Zachary’s home for the first time, only to discover that Zachary is having a severe panic attack that he cures on his own. Once Zachary reveals his battle with anxiety, the two connect with each other and… therefore… kiss for the first time. However, Trae becomes unsure of his reaction and leaves Zachary’s home. Meanwhile, Joe continues to manipulate Nate into believing that he is better off without the Savages, and he convinces Nate to quit and sabotage Trae’s infamous plan to revolt. Therefore, Nate takes action by bluntly confronting Sydney, Trae, Alex, and Carl for their position in the Savages. Once Nate decides to quit, Alex and Carl immediately target Joe as the main purpose for his exit.
The episode also introduced Kalleb Banks more, where we notice his antisocial personality and his pessimistic views about school and the students in the school. At Felix’s party, things go awry once an altercation between Brian and Vik breaks out. Meanwhile, The Savages confront Rose De Vil, threatening her to give them the rights they deserve in the school, but Rose refuses. The next day, all hell breaks loose, and Trae takes his plan to the biggest point yet. After Trae leads a long school riot, with new additions from Iesha Bennett, the Savages and the students vandalize the school property, attack each other, and attack the helpless teachers. Once the issue gets out of hand, police immediately approach the school, once the students protest outside in the rain. Trae is the main target for the police.
After Nate attempts to sabotage their plan, Trae and Nate get into a major altercation, forcing Nate to be arrested, and Trae to be shot down. After the police officer shoots him, we discover that the police officer is Zachary’s father.
Episode 8: The Beast Unleashed[]
Trae’s shooting makes total news coverage, from Action News on ABC, The View, and The Real, and other programs that tackle James A. Masters High School’s controversy. Although Trae was shot, he’s not dead. Trae was unconscious, and he was sent to the hospital with his remorseful mother and stepfather by his side. Prior to the chaos beforehand, Zachary remains distraught, and The Savages worry if Trae’s injury will be the demise of their clique.
Carl and Alex target Felix when he continues to belittle Trae after the shooting. Once the two confront him, they get into a major altercation that leads to suspension. Meanwhile, Rose De Vil is fired from her job, by Jennifer Gordon, the superintendent, for not handling the riot and the video scandal well.
Alex and Gina officially begin dating each other, but Gina warns him before they agree to date. Meanwhile, Sydney and Carl finally target Joe and seek their revenge for keeping Nate under his wing. Joe, however, believes that The Savages is finally under his control after Trae’s shooting. Nate returns, and he and Joe plot to take The Savages down one by one.
THE BIG REVEAL[]
The reveal of who is the video scandal culprit is the biggest twist of all. Once Trae is removed from the hospital, he doesn’t return to school, only to recover. At first, it would be believed that Dirty Dan was the person behind the video scandal of Brian and Vik. Here are the hints behind that:
- TripleDz stands for D.D.D. – Dirty Dan Daniels
- The password for the YouTube account was 3xxxSS; which would be Sexxx scrambled up. Sexxx, would refer to The Sexxx Symbols.
- Another “obvious” thing is Dirty Dan’s nervousness after Rose confronted him about the video scandal, and how he approached Kalleb about it.
After Dirty Dan is “revealed” to be the video scandal culprit, he is suspended and expelled from school.
BUT, we realize that Dirty Dan Daniels was framed.
The entire cliffhanger of the season finale would revolve around the fact that TRAE and KALLEB were the dynamic duo that masterminded the entire video scandal of Brian and Vik.
Here’s how this would have went down: • Kalleb recorded the entire video of Brian and Vik in the locker room, while Zach witnessed it.
- After Kalleb recorded it, he gave the entire video to Trae to sync onto a blank DVD-R disc.
- Trae was the masked figure who gave the DVD to Kalleb during the assembly, and Kalleb “pretended” he didn’t know what it was.
In The Wild Ride, after Dirty Dan cursed Kalleb out in the hallways for trying to be his friend, Rufus witnessed the entire situation. It is revealed that Dirty Dan knew that Kalleb and Trae were involved with the scandal all along, because Dirty Dan and Kalleb had a sexual encounter with each other, and Kalleb blackmailed him.
Trae avoided Dirty Dan as a way to make sure he wouldn’t tell ANYONE about the scandal at all. Once Dirty Dan confronted Kalleb in the hallways, Kalleb had a plan. While the Savages were stranded, and Trae and Joe were conversing, Trae received a phone call from Kalleb, in where they quickly plotted to make Dirty Dan the target of the video scandal.
- Kalleb was responsible for making a sockpuppet YouTube account, posing as Dirty Dan.
- Kalleb was ALSO responsible for taking pictures of Sena and Mr. Baldwin, Kyler and Alyssa, etc. to expose them all.
Trae was the mastermind, and he usually made obvious quotes that made him a possible suspect. - “Everyone has a motive,”
- “I have my sources,” to Zach when he asked Trae how he knew all of the school rumors.
- “People will do anything to instigate.”
- Trae’s gestures and dialogue made it obvious that he was involved.
It is also revealed that Rose De Vil knew that Trae was involved in the scandal all along. Rose, in a way, protected Trae from the consequence, because the two made a compromise. Trae encouraged Rose to join the Savages to take down Rose’s former boss, or he would tell the superintendent of Rose’s affair with Coach Radnor.
It is also revealed that Rose is secretly pregnant with Coach Radnor’s child.
Trae’s Motives for the Video:
- Trae was involved in order to fully protect Zach. We realize that Trae was just as in love with him, like Zach was in love with Trae.
- Trae and Brian – revealed in Season 2 – had an affair that ruined their “friendship” before the Savages, and Trae seeked revenge to prove that Brian was a closeted gay.
Kalleb’s Motives for the Video:
- It is revealed that Kalleb is actually RELATED to Brian Gustin and Sena Demir as well. The three are half-siblings, and Brian and Sena often mistreat Kalleb and belittle him at school and at home. Kalleb decided to take part in ruining their reputations.