Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Lana Turner We Love You Get Up
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 02.20.2012
LIAR MTG
Liars: "Oh my God, you have the coolest mom on the planet."
Hanna: "I know, but now it might really burn her, me, us, Mona, who knows."
Liars: "Why didn't you tell us about this?"
Hanna: "There's a lot I don't tell you guys. You may have noticed it causes a shit-ton of problems."
Emily: "Good thing you have the awesomest mom on the show."
Aria: "Hey! My mom is the best thing about me!"
Liars: "Valid. Actually, we all have great moms. So Hanna, how long do you think Mona has to live?"
Hanna: "Hours, not days."
Spencer: "Well, we can't tell her anything."
Hanna: "You're right. I'm going to eat my feelings now."
Spencer: "While you're downstairs, check to see if Garrett's still staking us out."
Aria, awesomely, blurts out her entire situation -- Ezra, Ella, the note on the car -- in one breathless sentence. Emily's jaw drops, but Spencer jumps right to the salient point, which is that Aria and Spencer have been commiserating about the loss of Ezra and Toby since the one episode where they broke up with their boyfriends (but both continued to fool around with them). Any other day I think she'd just snark at Aria for having ongoing Fitz drama because it's always so stupid, but today is not the damn day to reveal you've been keeping secrets.
Hanna: "Come downstairs! I was just checking my email and Caleb sent me more of that slowly decoding video!"
So when last we saw the video, everybody was fumbling with the mysterious Alison Box and talking about how much they hate her and how they're all in this over their heads and everybody was turning on everybody else. They heard feet coming up the stairs, and it seemed eminently possible that the NAT Club was about to kill Alison in her own bedroom...
But, as it turns out, it was not Alison stomping up the stairs -- it was MELISSA HASTINGS! Screaming "WHERE IS SHE?"
The Liars gasp and jump back, in that way they often do; Spencer writes one more motherfucker's name on her list for today.
What does it mean? We knew Melissa had NAT ties, over and above the Ian thing, and there was a whole point made in the Halloween episode about her ties to the Older Crowd that the NAT came from. But we also already knew she was covering shit up from that night, so this must be important for another reason entirely. My bet is, she knew about Alison and Ian and their habit of having sex in dirt.