Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 43 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Won't Stop, Can't Stop
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 01.21.2014
Emily: "So wait, this whole time A really is the same person that killed you?"Ali: "Funny story about that..."
Just then, Spencer -- who, come on, was always going to fuck this up -- knocks over a shelf full of bouncy balls and clattering tin buckets and whatever is super loud, so Alison peaces out immediately, getting onto a freight elevator and crying directly in Emily's face until she disappears.
The look that Emily turns on Spencer -- who is still, like, hopping around with one foot in a mop bucket and a lampshade on her head -- is so terrifying. It's about equal, in heat and intensity, to the time that Spencer made that one face at the police station. You know exactly the one I am talking about. You see it in your dreams. It's like that.
Emily: "Spencer Jill Hastings, make peace with your God."
Spencer: "Did she seriously just bail? Again?"
Emily: "She didn't bail, she spooked! You scared her! She has been under more pressure than even us, this whole time, and here you are creepin'..."
Spencer: "Sorry I assumed that -- like every other week of our lives -- you were walking headlong into your own murder as though it was no big deal. Sorry I was wrong this one time."
Emily: "Well, we're fucked. I have betrayed her now. She will never reach out..."
Spencer: "...Whoa, I get it now. She's dicking you around."
Emily: "Do what? No. I am completely rational. I am rationally digging my nails into my palms until they bleed, for example."
Spencer: "Nope. She's still playing games with us. She sucked you back in. She knew you were pulling away, so she came after you first. She wanted you to feel special, so you wouldn't give up on her..."
Emily: "That's sick."
Spencer: "Or it is awesome? Did you lose your Weakest Link status when I wasn't around?"
Emily: "You don't understand. Her fear and her regret and her sincerity were for the first time in our lives unassailable. She showed me a piece of herself, or of her growth, that we never even knew about."
Spencer: "Come on, she can 'trust' you but she's scared of the rest of us? Poppycock. That's the same shit she used to pull when she was alive."
Emily: "Hang on, you were eavesdropping that entire time?"
Spencer: "Focus! ...But not on me!"