Has anyone else noticed that –A has a sweet tooth? In this
week’s episode as well as last week’s and countless others (like I have time to
re-watch them all), he or she ends the episode with a tasty treat in hand. It’s
also an interesting coincidence that Maya’s website is www.massugar.com. Anyways, I’m getting ahead
of myself. Let’s take this from the top.
At Spencer’s house, our blonde little broken record repeats
that she thinks Mona is on their side for the first of a million times this
week. Spencer does what she does best, naysaying, while Hanna fills the
audience in on the fact that she’s neither given blood nor gotten a block
against the court order for her sample. The Rosewood PD sure is patient. Emily enters
after talking on the phone with Nate, who she’s promised to meet at the
boathouse after telling him how much time she spent there with Maya. She agrees
to let the Liars break into the site after she unsuccessfully tries the
password.
Source: ABC Family |
When Aria arrives at Ezra’s apartment and enters with an
awkwardly sexual comment, she finds Ezra waiting for her with his mother. She reveals
that Ezra’s true last name is Fitzgerald, which he shortens to separate himself
from the famous author, though it wouldn’t surprise me if he was actually
related to F. Scott, as we’ll discover that his family is rolling in it. Dianne
invites them to a benefit at the art museum and the accept after Aria shows
such an interest. She clearly knows that Aria is in high school, but Ezra lied
about dating her while he was still working at Rosewood.
Source: ABC Family |
We then find Emily at Paige’s house, where she’s
inexplicably fixing her bike instead of planning a party while her parents are
visiting everyone’s favorite Dunder-Mifflin branch. She does tell Emily that
she skipped school, but insists that nothing’s wrong and doesn’t want to talk
about what happened at Jenna’s party. However, they agree to discuss the matter
after school the next day, which seems to also be when everyone else’s story
lines will explode.
At the coffee house, Hanna and Wren discuss Mona’s
situation, in which Wren explains to Hanna that the board feels as though Mona
would be better treated at another nut house in Saratoga. He also reveals that
she hasn’t been taking her crazy pills and has been instead giving them to a
visitor. Hanna immediately takes offense but he reassures her that she’s not
the only one who’s been seeing Mona. Though he has no pull with such senior
physicians, Wren agrees to talk to the board after hearing how much Hanna
believes in him. Suddenly their cuddly moment is interrupted when Caleb enters.
Hanna approaches him but he’s clearly hurt when he sees Wren and assumes that
they’re on a date, leaving without saying a word. Despite being so scorned, he
agrees to help Spencer hack into the site because he still cares about Hanna
and hates Mona for hurting her.
During her conversation with Caleb, Spencer receives an –A text
threatening Hanna, who shares the news about Mona when the Liars reunite that
day. For once they come up with an idea before I do (Hello, the password had to be "mayaknew" from Mona's code), as it totally slipped my
mind that the Milizopam in Emily’s flask and Lucas’ camera case could have come
from Mona. At this point, it’s still up in the air as to whether the website
belonged to Maya, or if Mona created it as a cruel joke.
After school, Aria goes to Spencer’s to borrow fancy clothes
when they find Mrs. Hastings’ briefcase in the kitchen. Spencer finds Garrett’s
oddly tiny case file, and Aria takes photos of the documents with her phone.
Meanwhile, Emily and Paige run in the woods, where Emily’s
chasing Paige for a change. When they stop, Paige confesses that she knew Emily
was drugged the night that Allison’s corpse was unearthed because she showed up
on her porch at eleven and was already out of it. Though Emily doesn’t remember
anything, Paige tells her that they kissed and that she bolted the second Paige
took her eyes off of her, probably because it was Tuna Surprise night at the
McCullers house. I kid. I actually really like Paige, who feels as though she
took advantage of the now extremely disturbed Emily. It was just a kiss, for
crying out loud!
Source: ABC Family |
At Radley, Hanna waits for Wren, who enters with bad news,
that he couldn’t sway the board into letting Mona stay. All is not lost though,
as he feels that Hanna could convince them at the advocacy hearing the next
night. At said hearing, Hanna starts her speech from cue cards, but tosses them
aside and speaks from the heart. She tells them how she and Mona came out of
loserdom together, and that she forgives Mona and understands that she could
have snapped just as easily, and Mona would be in her place defending her. The
board obviously took her seriously, because Wren finds her later in the hallway
to tell her that Mona won’t be leaving, to which Hanna responds with a big
smooch, leaving both parties shocked.
As Caleb helps Spencer with the password, she takes it upon
herself to comment on how expensive all of his new possessions are. Jealous,
much? I’m surprised she didn’t break into song: “Nails done, hair done,
everything did…” Anyways, once they get into the site they find a video of Maya
reading a book and making comments as though she’s filming a video journal.
Spencer immediately calls Aria, who tells her about her conversation with Bart.
What I don’t understand is what else Mrs. Hastings needed to know from him,
when he seems to have already told the cops everything she’d need to win the
case.
Source: ABC Family |
Later that night, we find Emily at the boathouse again in
what looks like the beginning to every slasher movie. She jumps when she hears
a noise, but it’s just Nate, the seemingly nice guy who can’t have her and will
eventually turn to murder. She tells him that she came back to help her make up
her mind about something, then asks him if he thinks it’s possible to act
without having a motive. He says no, that even drinking isn’t an excuse because
your actions are still your own. He gives her his jacket when she shivers and
she’s still wearing it when she gets to Paige’s house. At this point, I’m
screaming, “Check the pockets!” but I’m also distracted by my own excitement over
Emily and Paige getting back together. Emily admits that deep down, went
looking for Paige on purpose that night because she wanted to kiss her, which
she proceeds to do again. Yes, I’m holding a shield to protect myself from the
fiery darts that will inevitably be thrown at me by the fandom for writing
this, but I don’t care. I always thought Maya was bad news for Emily and Paige
was a total winner. Clearly I was right and I don’t mind rubbing it in!
While the reunited lovers swim, Spencer, Hanna and Aria are
up to their knees in uncomfortable videos on Maya’s website. Spencer’s about to
shut down the entire operation when Hanna begs to watch one last video, which
is Maya telling the camera that she’s going to face her fear of something. We
see police lights flash on her face and can assume that the video was taken
just before she got into the police car the night she was murdered. Spencer
rings Emily but she can’t be reached.
The final –A scene of the night shows our villain at the
bank, either cashing a check or making a withdrawal for a large sum of money,
which most likely came from Jason’s reward. He or she then takes a candy from
the teller’s stash, pointing to the sweet tooth I mentioned before.
Thanks for reading, Liars! Feel free to check out my previous reviews of PLL and other shows at WatchItRae.com or follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, where I post links of my articles when they go live. Stay tuned for a recap of next week's episode, "The Kahn Game."
What did you think of this week's episode?
Thanks for reading, Liars! Feel free to check out my previous reviews of PLL and other shows at WatchItRae.com or follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, where I post links of my articles when they go live. Stay tuned for a recap of next week's episode, "The Kahn Game."
What did you think of this week's episode?