Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 114 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Hell is Empty
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 08.27.2013
Emily: "I hear a sound of a saw, like, industrial..."Spencer: "The Grunwald lived on Sawmill Road, I'll map it real quick."
They come around a corner and into a warehouse -- seconds behind a hustlin' Redcoat -- where they find Emily, locked in a pine box, on a literal James Bond conveyer belt, moving toward a giant circular saw!
Holy CRAP. I love it more than any single thing in life when this show just straight-up says "Fuck it."
Rather than shoving her off the belt, which I guess isn't feasible, they use a variety of tools to pry Emily out of the coffin, while she goes slowly insane. But then just as they're cracking it open, Redcoat turns off the conveyor belt... While Redcoat! Goes running up some stairs in the middle of the warehouse!
Aria: "Jesus, there are two of them?"
While Hanna helps a still very freaked Emily out of her coffin, Aria and Spencer each pick a Redcoat and go running out into the shadows:
Spencer's Redcoat leads her out onto the street and up some stairs of a boarding house or old-school apartment building...
While Aria's Redcoat leads her up into the catwalks of the saw mill, where she eventually corners the Redcoat and kicks her in the stomach! She goes down! After some marvelous demonstrations of her Tang Soo Do abilities -- HA! -- she finally unmasks CeCe, who jumps to grab a rope but then is saved from falling to her death by a quick-acting Aria -- This is so effing great, I am so glad I am doing this live and unspoiled because I cannot believe a single thing that is happening. Aria Montgomery, you old so-and-so. I have never loved you more -- but it doesn't work. Tiny little Aria can't get her hands around CeCe's Redcoat sleeve, which rips, dropping her from a great height and seemingly killing her.
I can't process all of this. Mona? CeCe? Who on Earth will be left? What shall I do without CeCe Drake? What will become of us?
Having apparently lost her Redcoat in the apartment building, Spencer returns and the Liars converge on CeCe's body. Emily confirms she's dead and the Liars comfort Aria -- who is unspooling due to this accidental death being the second actual thing that has ever happened to her -- but you know that bitch ain't dead. Come on. This is CeCe Drake we're talking about. You gotta cut the head off, fill it with garlic.
...There we go. One twitch, and by the time the girls turn around her ass is long gone. Whew.