Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 114 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Hell is Empty
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 08.27.2013
Also beautiful: the blonde chick, wearing the black hood, staring from the outside, who apparently finds this moment more notable than either of those two.
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CeCe has been identified -- thanks, I'm guessing, to that amazing sketch of her. Man, if Travis's powers of description are the cause here, I want him to tell me bedtime stories. That is some good wordsmith-ery. Anyway, nothing has really changed for the girls, who are still lounging around in their pajamas trying to get it up for Mona, and failing.
Spencer: "I mean, this has all the earmarks of a big A game, like the talking doll scenario or the Black Swan, but because this new A is so frenzied and fucked up and unhelpful I can't even..."
Aria: "She's going down for Wilden's murder, and she's taking us with her. That's the game. Not really a game so much as a shit storm, out of petty spite."
Spencer: "Yeah, but how crazy would you have to be, to think we would give a shit about Mona dying?"
Emily: "I kind of do."
Hanna: "I feel asleep outside her house."
Spencer: "Well, obviously you two. You're weak. I meant the rest of us."
Aria: "Yep, don't give a single shit about Mona Vanderwaal. Anybody, really. I kind of cared about Jenna for a while, but that's about it."
Package delivery! This time it's a black box like has magic things in it, a false bottom... There it is. They go straight to the sides, and pop it open: Empty.
Hanna: "This is lame. I want to go back to bitching about Mona."
Spencer: "No, it's not empty."
Hanna: "I'm looking right at it, there's no..."
Spencer: (Click! Pop!)
The box splits away into nothingness, revealing a crosscut handsaw scrawled in bright pink lipstick: "Watch me make a girl disappear! -- Kisses, A"
Hanna: "You were a magician at one point? That's hardly surprising."
Spencer: "Yeah, I took home a couple ribbons, NBD."
Aria: "Of course you did."
Spencer: "Okay, so this is all about magic. A magic show. Magic is about misdirection, believing something you know can't be literally true."
Aria: "Okay, and we're the audience?"
Spencer: "We're the doves and rabbits. We're part of the act. And Mona's the girl that disappears forever, and/or gets sawn in half."