Episode Report Card Angel Cohn: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pump Up the Volume
By Angel Cohn | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 12.29.2010
Kate is regaling everyone with her sailing stories, and Isabelle thinks maybe the two girls could go out on a boat together, since Kate is such a great teacher. Hanna jokes that they could see who comes back from their little adventure. Kate doesn't get the joke, and dad isn't all that impressed. He changes the subject by saying that he talked to Sean's dad and worked everything out. Do you think he had to sleep with him? He says that he just paid the estimated bill for repairs and she's going to work off the bill by working at Sean's mom's dentist office after school and on weekends. Kate says that could be interesting, Hanna snaps back that she's fascinated by dentistry, particularly fake-looking veneers. Kate quickly shuts her mouth. Hanna's phone rings at this point, and it is Spencer with an S.O.S message.
Emily takes her photo booth pictures out to the trash, and rips up the pics before putting them into the garbage can. Toby spots her and says hello, and apologizes if she hates having him as a lab partner. He realizes that people think he's just a freak with a Chin Dimple. She wants to know if the Bens of the world and their stupid pranks and lies get to him, and he admits that they do, but he can't do anything about it. She apologizes, and he remarks on how many times they say "sorry" to each other. Which prompts her to say sorry again. Then she asks if he saw the pictures before she shut her book during chemistry class, and he says he didn't look because he didn't think she wanted people to see them. He wants to know if she swims because she likes to, or because she wants people to watch her. She says she just likes the way she feels in the water, and he says that she should forget about the idiots and just do what feels right to her. The idiots don't want her to change everything, they just want her to go away. He said he didn't like that when he tried it, so now he's back. He gives her a smile and waves as he walks away.
Mr. Fitz and Aria eat leftovers while sitting on his floor, because he doesn't have a table? Or he doesn't want to get crumbs on the sofa? Or so he can get a little look up her short, little, ugly, butterfly-printed dress? Something. He apologizes for acting weird in class (because that was the mature reaction) and says he was just pissed that she stormed out of his apartment the night before. She says that she's the fixer in the family, because she wants everyone to stay together and the same. He thinks that keeping things the same is just human nature. She talks about a wacky aunt that had her dead cat stuffed so she could talk to it. She realizes that she needs to stay out of her parent's problems, but that she needs to just tell them the truth. She hops up to go talk to her mom, but he wants her to stay.