Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 66 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Piste Off, Or: The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 02.18.2014
Wait you guys, what if "B-26" isn't actually about Aria at all? What if it's just shoes she stepped into, like trying on mommy's high heels, except once again they're still warm from Alison's feet?
Do you think that would literally kill her? Kill her body?
OPERATION MANNEQUIN LEG
Receptionist: "Mrs. Hastings? This is Dr. Griggs's office calling to schedule a..."
Veronica: "...I knew it. My daughter is back to being a crackhead. I'll take it from here."
It's amazing how quickly she figures the entire thing out. That's what life is like when your job is being a lawyer places.
Meanwhile, the Zoo! But it's an hour before closing so they can't even zoo it up. Zoos used to make me feel weird like the circus does, but they don't anymore. A zoo is not animal jail, for the reason that animals don't know what jail is, because they are animals. I mean, a crappy zoo is a crappy zoo and that's sad and awful, but that doesn't invalidate the concept of zoos.
Hanna: "Hold up. Ambrose Pavilion is a reptile exhibit? Fuck this. I choose A."
Emily: "Get your balls out of your purse, Marin."
Emily holds her hand and escorts her into the Pavilion. It's so sweet and very hardcore. I love Emily so much lately. It's like so many terrifying things happened to her they burnt out the part of her that is able to have fears.
"I may not have been there the time CeCe Drake killed all those snakes with a mannequin leg, but I did stab a man to death in a lighthouse once so I'm good to go."
Meanwhile -- and again in parallel, this episode is so wonderful -- Aria discovers the hidden trapdoor into the cellar, and without even the benefit of Emily forces herself to go down there. A different kind of reptile habitat, but one that can still getcha.
Hanna: "Jesus. Only Alison DiLaurentis could, much less purposefully would, get off specifically in front of a million deadly snakes."
Emily: "Let's just mosey around until Spencer gets here and we can make the drop."
Hanna is confused and then horrified by a snake's natural adaptive coloration, where it looks like no snake but then: Snake.
OPERATION CARNIVORE'S DELIGHT
Over at the Cabin, Aria finds the cellar sadly empty. No computer mainframes, no million closed-circuit feeds, no ledger books paying off various members of the A-Team, no wardrobe of a thousand hoodies and man-shoes, no ludicrous timelines or photos with circles and exclamation points on them at random, no Wilden on a yacht, no gold falafel, no huge giant pictures of the Alison Art Exhibition.