Dr Zim meets Jacob again and puts him to the test. He arranges for Jacob to return to Greenford House. Here, he is taken off all his medications and allowed to confront himself, to see what has happened to him. Then it's back to being Jayden Conner, the drugs and the sex work, whether he likes it or not.
Jacob is looking back from 2033 at his early days of being pimped out by Marcus and living as his submissive. Was this what he really wanted? Should he have run away from Dr Zim when he had the chance and gone back to his conventional job in a bank in the City of London?
Jacob has been doing the sex work for about a month now and serviced several clients. One of them pays for a service Jacob isn't prepared to deliver. Marcus canes him and teaches him a lesson; if the client pays, he's got to provide. Perhaps Jacob wishes he'd stayed in his old banking job?
Jacob begins his new job as a sex worker and has his first client. It's a long way from being a trainee banker in the City of London. Still, it's not like he has any say in the matter.
Having now left Greenford House, Jacob settles into a new life, submitting to Marcus and scrubbing floors to earn his keep. His declassing is becoming a routine way of living now?
Jacob's declassing now seems to be entering a new phase, the possibility of his introduction into the outside world with a new identity, new job, new home, everything. If this happens, will Jacob ever find himself again?
Jacob's de classing takes an alarming turn and he descends even further into his new identity. Is there ever going to be any way back for him? Or is he going to be trapped in the new life that's being mapped out for him?
Jacob is now released into the community on day release under his new name of Jayden Conner. He has a new job, quite unlike the old one at the bank. He also has a new sport, football, and is learning how to fit into the team, or else!
Jacob gets some more training in how to be Jayden, all good practice for when he 'goes back' to his trade as a sex worker. He's also interviewed by the police. For some reason they don't believe he's Jacob Ellis.
A Committee is going to review Jayden Conner’s case. The day before the 28 day review, Dr Zim prepared a confidential assessment which he uses as the basis for his presentation. Jacob doesn't really stand a chance does he? His declassing is becoming institutionalised.
The hospital becomes a strict classroom of conditioning. Trapped in a cycle of sedation and isolation, Jacob faces relentless daily drills to erode his past, and is obliged to answer to his new name, Jayden. His speech patterns change, and even his own biology is weaponised against him to make his submission complete.
The psychological and physical re-formatting begins. Sedated, restrained, and trapped within the hospital, Jacob's resistance fades against the "truth' of his body. Every word he speaks is weaponized to prove his "delusions." His declassing has reached a sinister new level.
Jacob discovers the terrifying velocity of the legal and medical machinery that has been turned against him. Stripped of his clothes and name by the police , his physical de-classing accelerates before he is loaded into the back of a psychiatric transport van. He should have been careful what he wished for.
Young City of London banker Jacob gets to meet Dr Zim and his de-classing starts to take a serious turn. He really should have been careful what he wished for.
Jacob Ellis was a pristine, highly anxious 23-year-old grinding his life away as a trainee banker in the City of London. Desperate to escape his middle-class existence, he has a secret, underground fantasy of absolute "de-classing"— he should be careful what he wished for.