Green Light (episode)

Green Light is the seventh episode of the fourth season of Moriah Blake, and the eighty-second episode overall. It is the first episode in which Karli Junge-Smith appears.

Plot
In the cold open, Scott is seen reading from a copy of The Great Gatsby, before burning the book along with several suits, a Phantom of the Opera mask, and several other items he attributes to his freshman year persona.

Two days after the events of Homecoming II, Frau Junge asks Scott McCrimmon why he has stopped acting like himself, and insists that he attend the Advanced English teachers' screening of the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby. He does. Others who attend are Ashley, Austin (although he does not attend Moriah Blake), Patrick, Robin, Devin, and Esther, the latter two of which have apparently become quite close since the homecoming dance.

Scott is inspired by seeing the movie and, the next day, returns to his suit-wearing "rich kid" ways, which leads to Ashley kissing him in public and admitting to the camera that she is too afraid to break up with Austin. It is revealed that Robin broke up with Patrick, who enters into a stream of constant activity to keep his mind off her. Scott goes to see Frau Junge and thanks her. Her eighth-grade daughter, Karli Junge-Smith, is seen for the first time, talking to her mother.

Principal Johns and Bradford again meet to discuss Moriah Blake's financial situation. For the first time, Johns mentions the idea of a talent show to raise money for the floundering school. Bradford likes the idea, and the two of them discuss it until Johns leaves to say a general goodbye to the students leaving the school, as he apparently does every day.

Later, the camera crew follows Scott back to his house, where he is seen picking through the ashes from before and finding a piece of the cover of Gatsby. He gives us a deep reflection on the nature of his life, and we see that he has hung up a green light on a tree.

In the tag, Principal Johns discovers that Bradford has never seen The Phantom of the Opera, so the two of them set up the projector used for the screening of Gatsby and watch the 2004 adaption of Phantom together.

Title
The green light is a motif and symbol used often in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, which is in turn a motif often used in Moriah Blake. The green light makes many appearances in the show as well, most notably in Leif Erikson, and in Scott's final speech in Graduation Day.