Episode Report Card Angel Cohn: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crash and Burn
By Angel Cohn | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 07.20.2010
At Fitz's house, his answering machine goes off (he tries again to insist his name is Ezra, but I can't call him that and still find him remotely attractive), and we see that Aria is leaving a message, since he didn't answer his cell. Holly Marie Mom walks in with a box of flowers. Aria expectantly thinks that her dad sent them by way of apology, but turns out they are for Aria. Mostly forgotten Mike heads out to practice, telling Holly Marie Mom that Chad Dad is picking him up and staying for the game. He wants his mother to come, but since she's more worried about how bad it will look if she doesn't sit with her husband, than about supporting her son, she says no. Aria's very pretty flowers aren't from Fitz, they're from Sean. A thank you, because she hung out with him when Hanna disappeared.
Emily is laying in bed, and she wakes up sorta dazed and sees a dog, and Jenna in her doorway. Mom is there with a plate of cookies. They're from Jenna and her mom. Don't eat them! I'm sure they are poisoned, or something. I mean, you did steal her step-brother/boyfriend. Jenna weirdly says they taste better with milk, and then dispatches Nina to get milk. Jenna sits on Emily's bed like they are friends. Jenna says that she's worried about Toby and was hoping that Emily knows where he is. The dog is so cute and obedient. I can barely pay attention to the conversation, but Jenna thinks that Toby trusted Emily, and since he's a troubled teen, Jenna is afraid that he might hurt himself. Jenna says that the police are looking for the missing file and that she thinks if it falls into the wrong hands, it could be misconstrued. Emily says she thought Jenna would be relived that Toby was gone. Um, way to show all your cards there, Emily. Jenna picks up on this and says that her friends have shared it with her. She is worried that secrets have a way of getting out, like what Alison told her when she visited her at the hospital. What did Alison tell Jenna? Basically, Jenna wants the file, and says that she's kept quiet about a lot of things and if she doesn't get it... she hints that secrets will come out. Oh, Jenna. So manipulative.
Sweet Lucas sits on his computer looking at pictures from the homecoming dance, and smiling at ones of Hanna. Just then she shows up in her clothes from the night before. She's there to do a makeup picture, but says that the custodian didn't want to let her in. He says he told Carl twice, but 30 years of breathing floor wax must have made him forgetful. That and vodka. Hanna checks her appearance in the mirror and says that on three hours of sleep she looks terrible. He thinks she looks even better than the night before, though that's not really possible. She asks if he's sure Sean is coming... because he's kinda pissed at her for missing the big announcement. She spots the crown and says it looks smaller than she'd always imagined. He says that the girl who won last year had kind of a pinhead -- he knows, he took her photo, but it might have been perspective. He jokes that her head got bigger after she won... as the heads of homecoming queens are wont to do.