Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Free At Last
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 02.26.2013
Hanna: "If A did this, and Wilden is missing, does that mean A has Wilden?"
Aria: "If I were you, I would tell your mom. She can handle anything. And if she can't, just give her another glass of wine and see if she can then."
Hanna: "You think our moms are the same, but I doubt very much that your mother would run over a cop, even if he threatened her kids."
Aria: "That's where you're wrong. Your mom did it in a panic. Ella Montgomery would do it with a smile."
(Ezra: "I still have nightmares of that time at the police station, and that was Ella being chill about it.")
Hanna: "I don't want to involve her until we know what we're dealing with."
Aria: "Honey, she's involved. She ran over the guy. On tape."
Hanna: "You're right. Get in your car and follow me."
Aria: "Where are we going?"
THE SWAMP
Aria: "Wow, this is an even worse idea than I could have imagined."
Hanna: "Shut up and push, Shusher."
Aria: "I'm serious, we should really rethink... And there it goes."
The car bobs around for a while, lights still going, and finally sinks. Was your first thought that probably there's some quicksand near the Lost Woods Resort they could've used? Because Ashley has never stepped outside of the Hitchcock movie that is her life, why not just go for it?
Because you don't fish in quicksand, and this car is immediately going to be found (the whole of the A-Tag is just a fisherman finding Darren's RWPD hat). Which means the car, Wilden, and Toby (and maybe Jason?) are all unknown quantities. I mean, everything is an unknown quantity, but with this show you can just assume that all men are terrifying and that all the girls are pretty great, but also secretly gross -- this is why it's the best show of all time -- but very rarely are there just things or people about whom it is completely unknown whether they exist.
Ian was sending out texts well after he died, and Melissa's pregnancy was longer as a lie than it was for real. Maya was in Schrödinger's Box (and Skinner's, come to think of it) for months before she turned up fully dead. Alison's still prancing around all over the place, despite having died a year before this show started. But these three particular things are they opposite: They either are or are not, instead of both. And the way the fans' minds work, they all go together: Wilden was in the trunk, or it was Wilden's body or Jason's body instead of Toby's, or Toby could be in the trunk and Jason is in Virginia... I should stop. This is how Spencers happen, and Monas. I am on cough medicine this week, did I not mention that?