Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Weak Adults & Corrupt Children
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 01.30.2012
At first they think it's like Melissa's driver's license or something, but once it is magically enhanced you can see that it's a fake ID of Alison, but with brown hair. Why, she looks like her own twin! They all wonder what that is about, why she would have multiple IDs with different hair colors, which is A) Fruitless, because the answer is that she was a crazy bitch that was probably running guns and B) Odd how they do it, because they just go, "That was weird, I wonder. Hmm." And then they all abruptly leave.
Spencer: "Please don't leave me alone! I am having Toby-related anxiety!"
Emily: "I have to go give Maya her insulin shot."
Aria: "I must give my own elderly lover medication."
Spencer loses her shit and Aria just stares at her and then they say the funniest things.
Aria: "I'm so sorry, I don't know how you're holding it together."
Spencer: "Believe me, I'm not as put together as I seem."
Okay? Can you believe it? Beneath the rock-solid exterior of Spencer Hastings -- that girl who is so miraculously holding it together that she regularly accuses people of murder, and calls the cops at least twice a week for no real reason -- lies perhaps a flightier, paranoid, more emotionally wounded version. Of a girl that gives Jenna Thing the creeps. Holdin' it together. The mind boggles. And again:
Spencer: "Tell me the truth. Am I the reason we're lying to Hanna?"
Reality: "Yeah. Completely and totally. You strong-armed everybody into using Caleb as your human hacker bait and they're still going along with it, because you are fucking compromised."
Aria: "There are just certain situations where you have to lie to your friends."
Reality: "Nope."
GROSS
Ezra: "Why won't you concentrate on me in our yucky makeout in my car?"
Aria: "I am okay with lying to my parents, but lying to my friends..."
Oh yeah, that's right. For some reason she told the Liars that Ezra never showed up that night in the middle of traffic in the rain, like an idiot. Maybe that's why, maybe she doesn't want them to know what an idiot their favorite teacher actually is.
Ezra: "Aria, I'm not ... asking you to lie to your friends. Why are you like this?"
Aria: "Because if anybody knows that one of us Liars is dating somebody, they eventually get murdered. So this is another one of those situations where you have to lie to your friends."
Ezra: "Are your parents ever going to accept that an adult man is molesting their child?"
Aria: "...Apparently this is a third of those situations. Yeah, that's coming right along."