What Happened To Sweetpea in Industry Season 4?
Sweetpea spends Industry Season 4 going from an underestimated grad to the person who literally risks her body to expose a massive financial fraud, and then quietly falls apart when no one’s looking.
Across the season – and especially in Episode 5, “Eyes Without a Face” – she pushes herself to prove she belongs in this brutal world, only to realise that being “essential” at work doesn’t magically protect you from violence, misogyny, or loneliness.
When we first met her in Season 3, Sweetpea was the sharp, cheerful Gen Z addition: filming social videos before the desk opened, juggling Siren (the OnlyFans‑style platform) with her Pierpoint job, and throwing lines like “Respectfully, you make it hard to give a f**k” at Rishi like it was nothing.
In Season 4, that same energy is still there – the quick jokes, the hustle, the loyalty to Harper – but it’s layered with something heavier.
The leak of her nude photos has quietly wrecked her job prospects; she tells Kwabena she’d been rejected from other firms because she’s now seen as “risky,” no matter how good she is.
You really feel that thing of: your skills are excellent, but your reputation, which you didn’t even fully control, walks into the room before you do.
That’s why Tender becomes more than just a trade for her. Exposing Tender isn’t only about being right; it’s about clawing back dignity.
She wants something so big, so undeniable, that it drowns out the “City Tart” email chains and the men scrolling through her photos in bathrobes. It’s grimly fitting that the season gives her both victory and trauma in the same hour.
Investigating Tender: From Ghana to the Bathroom Floor
In “Eyes Without a Face,” Sweetpea flies to Accra with Kwabena to dig into Tender’s finances, and that’s where everything shifts.
She’s the one who’s prepared: she has the schedule, the questions, the obsession. He’s half‑teasing her for being “on her Erin Brockovich shit,” but she’s not wrong – she’s doing old‑school, knock‑on‑doors reporting inside a world that usually hides behind spreadsheets.
Over the course of the trip, she figures out that Tender’s whole empire is basically smoke and mirrors: fake acquisitions, empty offices, novelty cheques for tens of millions that have more presence than the companies they supposedly represent.
The crucial thing she uncovers is that the very first acquisition was never real, which means every deal stacked on top of it is a lie.
The “thing” – this supposedly brilliant fintech play everyone is obsessed with – is nothing. Her line on the call back to London, “The thing is nothing,” hits like a thesis statement for the whole episode.
But getting there costs her. After meeting Tender’s Africa head, Tony Day, she’s cornered in a public women’s bathroom by a man who clearly intends to intimidate her into backing off.
The scene is nasty: he menacingly invades her space, then it explodes into real violence, her face smashed into the mirror, blood everywhere.
She stuffs toilet paper up her nose and walks back out like she’s fine, which is such a “finance world” response; it hurts – patch yourself up, get back to work, and we’ll deal with the trauma… never.
Later, hopped up on adrenaline and anger, she ends up sleeping with Kwabena. Different viewers will read that moment differently – messy, empowering, ill‑advised, all of the above – but it fits where she’s at.
She’s trying to reclaim control over her own body and choices in a world that keeps taking that away from her, from the photo leak to the bathroom assault. It’s not a neat feminist victory; it’s a very human, very complicated one.
Back in London: Victory, Boundaries, and a Breakdown
When Sweetpea returns to London, she’s technically won. She’s proved Tender is fraudulent, given SternTao a nuclear‑level insight, and forced everyone to take her seriously as more than the “Gen Z social girl.”
On the call with Eric and Harper, she’s calm, almost blasé about her own brilliance – when Harper praises her, she just says, “Yeah, I quite agree.” It’s not arrogance, it’s a rare moment where she lets herself acknowledge: I did that.
But the personal cost catches up. Harper shows up at her building, for once offering something like friendship instead of pure transactional mentorship.
She’s genuinely concerned – and also quietly wrecked from her own grief – and it’s one of the few moments in the series where Harper actually feels… soft. Sweetpea, though, puts up a wall.
She’s polite but firm: she wants hazard pay, not hugs. She admits she slept with Kwabena and refuses the chance to blur the line between boss and friend any further.
There’s a generational thing going on here, too. Sweetpea’s boundary‑setting feels very Gen Z: work is work, I want to be paid fairly, and I’m not automatically your friend just because we share trauma in a glass office.
It’s also self‑protection. She doesn’t quite know how to accept care without feeling like she has to earn it first, by being exceptional, by being useful. So she turns Harper away… and then finally collapses when she’s alone.
The last scene – Sweetpea fresh out of the bath, sobbing alone in her apartment – is maybe the most vulnerable moment Industry has given any character in a while.
No quips, no hustle, no performance. Just a young woman who’s done everything right, taken all the hits, and still feels like she has to process it by herself.
If you’ve ever held it together at work and then cried in the shower at home, that moment lands uncomfortably hard.
Where Sweetpea Stands Now
By the end of Episode 5, Sweetpea has become one of the most quietly important players in Industry Season 4: she exposes Tender, survives an assault, draws firmer lines at work, and yet is clearly not okay under the surface.
Miriam Petche has talked about this being a defining challenge for Sweetpea – a turning point where she becomes more direct about what she wants and what she deserves.
What happens to her in Season 4 isn’t a clean “rise” or “fall.” It’s a messy, painfully recognisable mix of professional success and personal damage, of empowerment and exhaustion.
She’s out for herself more now – asking for hazard pay, sleeping with someone who complicates office politics, refusing to play the grateful junior – and honestly, in the world of Industry, that might be the only way to survive.
If the show continues, Sweetpea feels like the character to watch: the one who’s seen exactly how ugly the game is, and still refuses to be small inside it.
Where to watch Industry Season 4?
You can watch Industry Season 4 on different platforms depending on where you are:
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USA & Canada: On HBO / Max (HBO Max), with new episodes streaming weekly.
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UK: On BBC One and BBC iPlayer (episodes arrive after the US airing).
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India: Streaming on JioHotstar (via OTTplay Premium), with Season 4 episodes released weekly.
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Australia: On Max and Binge, with a 7‑day free trial option on Binge.
Disclaimer:
This article contains an analysis and interpretation of events involving the character Sweetpea in Industry Season 4. Interpretations, character motivations, and thematic explanations are based on available episodes and viewer perspectives, which may differ among audiences. Streaming availability, episode release schedules, and platform access may vary by region, so viewers should confirm details with official broadcasters or streaming services.
