Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 64 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Busy, Wondrous Labor Day Of Alison DiLaurentis
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 24 | Aired on 03.18.2014
Byron: "Please don't tell Aria about my affair with Meredith. I will give you all the sumpin' sumpin's I have!"
Alison: "I don't think you're A, I just want you to know that I have blackmail materials in case you are on the grapevine somewhere or I disappear."
Alison went back to the Barn, where Spencer was sleeping soundly along with the rest of the Liars, and waited for another text from A, and it never came, so she assumed that somewhere during her very busy night, she silenced the beast.
Spencer: "Wait, so did I kill a person?"
Aria: "No, honey. She just said you slept through the whole rest of Labor Day."
Spencer breaks down in relief, and even Aria is like, "You needed a win."
Who did not win on Labor Day though is Alison, who strode home high on her victory and saw her mom in the window of her house, coming home, and before she could even manufacture a way to get angry at Jessica before Jessica could get mad at her, somebody clonked her on the head with a big rock! Just like Jessica was, apparently, afraid of.
When Ali came to, Jessica was all, "What have you done!? What have you done!?" and shoveling dirt over her daughter's body. Ali couldn't quite pull it together to yell at her mom to stop burying her -- this part freaks her out to talk about, and all the Liars start crying along with her -- so then she was buried. But who was the person that she was protecting, that she seemed to know was coming for Alison, and then saw kill Alison, and then covered up for? (I have an idea! You know what it is! Everybody already knows what it is!) Because until it actually went down, she was still acting like it was Spencer specifically or a Hastings generally.
Emily: "Tell me that The Grunwald actually psychically heard you getting buried and drove here from Ravenswood to dig you up because her ESP is real."
Ali: "That part totally did happen. But then when we got to the hospital I was alert enough to realize that I was still in danger but not cogent enough to stay in a safe place, so I went wandering around town looking wack."
That's when Mona Vanderwaal, nerdy version, rolled up on her and was like, "Girl, you look like you just got clubbed and buried! Get in this car, I will take you to a remote location." She was very good about not hiding her hateful feeling of victory or her simultaneous opposite feeling of obsessive love, for once. Usually those things are both brightly written on her face but not tonight, because tonight was showtime. Like with any given episode, this is the best part of the episode, because Mona is wonderful.