Episode Report Card Angel Cohn: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pump Up the Volume
By Angel Cohn | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 12.29.2010
At a cupcake shop where Maya is working, Emily stomps up with the pictures and wants to know if Maya was the one that slipped them inside Em's chemistry textbook. Maya says she's not, but she doesn't care because she thinks they look cute. Maya thinks it isn't that big of a deal, but Emily is concerned that someone saw that they were kissing. Maya's not too pleased that Emily wants to keep their kissing a secret, so she goes back to work.
At house of Hanna, she and Melrose Mom are in front of a mirror primping away, anxiously awaiting the arrival of Hanna's dad. The doorbell rings and he walks in and is totally impressed by his daughter's transformation. He sees Melrose Mom, who is gussied up and clearly planning to go to dinner with them, and then has to break the news that he wanted this to just be a father-daughter evening. She seems to take it well, until they leave and then she looks pissed in the mirror. As Hanna and her dad walk down the front, he "jokes" that he's got a new sports car, so he hopes she's OK with him driving. She realizes that her mom called him and says if he's just going to scream at her he should do it inside and forgo the pretense of dinner. He says he's not going to yell, just help her get back on track. He says they can go to dinner or to a shooting gallery, and she agrees to go along. She's way overdressed for a shooting gallery.
In Mr. Fitz's apartment, Aria hasn't changed out of her jailbait outfit and she peeks around and sees his old-fashioned typewriter. She tells him that she likes his apartment and he seems pleased. He asks about her home life, and she says that her parents are having a date night. He thinks they could be working things out, but in her teenage "I'm always right" way, she insists that her mother is going to be broken-hearted when she finds out about the affair and that there is no earthly way her mother could know that her husband was a cheater. Fitz thinks that her parents could have an understanding, and he tells her about how his parents split up, even though they had an open marriage of sorts. She says that is totally different, but he tells her that it isn't her job to fix their lives. It is their own adult problem. She takes this as him saying she's not mature enough to deal with this. He has to tell her that he doesn't see her as a child, and they need to figure out their own relationship. She says she will, if he stops talking about her parents, and he reminds her that she came crying on his shoulder about her cheating father in the first place. Then she immaturely stomps off saying that she thinks that she made a mistake coming to his apartment (drink!) and that she wasn't acting maturely when she made that decision.