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
Ian: "Into what, being your boyfriend?"Ali: "Eddie Munster, stick with me here. I am talking about those creepy texts and threats and weird dolls. You and/or Melissa need to cut it the fuck out. Clear?"
Ian: "Can I blackmail you back real quick? Because those tapes will get you in the hottest of water. They could bring down everybody, including your family."
Ali: "Then don't make me use them. And tell the NAT to leave me the hell alone."
"Well. I guess Ian was more flipped out than I thought, based on all the other stuff that happened later in my bedroom and yard that you already know about. But at that time, he ran off like a quote 'plucked peacock.'"
Hanna is so unnerved by that strange phrase that she drops some shit while retrieving some cookies, and then rejoins the group. Aria is still thinking about Holly Golightly, but it becomes beautiful because she knows so well how Ezra thinks, so now -- and this is a very admirable, Anita move, no matter how self-centered she's coming across -- she's suddenly considering Ali from his perspective: This person who absolutely believes she's incapable of being loved, so she has to get her power some other way. Wound, but don't kill, the right kind of darlings, to make them want to die for her. Transform into a beautiful, immortal object.
Ali: "Okay, so about Ezra. He tracked down Shana in Georgia, and he wanted to help find me and save me, because he thinks that will get you back."
Aria: "...I'll allow it. That gives us both a plausible out. But do you even want to be saved? You no-name slob?"
Ali: "Look, I am the worst. I absolutely deserve most of what has been done to me. But I also think that, as a person, I also deserve a second chance."
So after Ian, Ali went back to the Barn to check on the gals, and who was there but Spencer? Who was now on three drugs, making that scariest face she makes, and lying in wait for a fucking fight.
GABE
Peter: "Where is my wife? This darn cell reception."
Gabe: "Maybe here, I'll go check. Hey, why did you hire a private detective that summer?"
Peter: "It was lawyer business!"
Gabe: "I think it was Spencer business, based on this casefile..."
Peter: "Are you finding my daughter or arresting her? Which one?"
Gabe: "I mean, she was all hopped up on..."