Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 60 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Smartest Guy In The Room
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 01.28.2014
Meanwhile, Hanna wakes up in the dark dentist's office finally, bleeding all on the mouth, and also pulls it together in record time, digging into her purse for the visit records, which are of course totally gone now. We don't see it but I like to imagine she brushed herself off and gave a tiny pep talk before finally standing up, woozy. "Okay, Marin. Step one is get the hell out of here."
Over at school, things are still pretty scary. A's outside the door of wherever she's barricaded herself, bashing away with all his lovely little might, and Dad drives up, and -- just to add one more nightmare thing -- doesn't immediately hear her screaming at him from the window that won't open. But soon enough -- and none too soon -- he's shinnied up a pipe, helped her open the window, and then they both slide down like the jock bad-asses they both are.
...Which is the point at which Wayne Fields falls to the ground, clutching his chest. Are you fucking kidding me right now?
Emily: "Are you fucking kidding me right now?"
She calls 911, and then as they're loading him up they talk about how he has a secret heart illness that he is trying to fix before his ladies find out. He looks so tiny, with tubes coming out of him, and Emily looks so scared and wilted, and the ambulance lights are making everything undersea-sick, and she hugs him goodbye, staring over her shoulder at the empty window up there.
But this is the part that I think is really going to dick with us, moving forward: The way he so quickly and sweetly -- and very un-Pamly -- confabulated an explanation that, while it satisfies Occam's Razor in that there is no undead creature or living high school building, still manages to wrap her up safe in cotton as always. She's not crazy, see; it could have happened to anybody. He thinks he's being comforting but it sounds like bars on the window:
"Listen, you were locked in a room. The lights went out. I understand why you panicked."
No surprise that her only response to this is, "I do not know how much more of this I can take." Addressed to her father, to the gods, to anybody that can hear her.
Once it might have been Alison's memory, but she took that away too.
MONTGOMERY
Aria: "Emily, don't be dumb. Of course you're staying here. You don't want to sleep in a hospital."
Spencer: "Who wants to sleep EVER?"
Emily: "This was clearly an A thing. You can understand why I would want to stick close."
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