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
But then back upstairs, her eye falls upon the coffee-table book of grill recipes -- Carnivore's Delight, which is some pretty high-level symbolism for a person who is not a serial killer to stash what's in there -- and for no reason I can think of (or wait, isn't one or both of them a vegetarian?) she opens it up: Hollowed out! Containing a binder-clipped manuscript of Ezra's tortured prose! She reads it, and Ezra voices over:
"The first thing Alison ever told me about herself was a lie. Lying was her oxygen. She could do it while she was laughing. She could even do it when she was kissing you..."
It's legit terrifying. Then Aria hears Ezra roll up outside lookin' sketch, and just then for some reason he gets an alert about how somebody just got into his cabin's security an hour ago. She flips the book closed and scrams, and when Ezra comes in he immediately peeps the open window and her keys (haha Aria) on the entry table. My notes at this point say, "Well, it's all over now. Mr. Hyde goes Full dark."
Which is hilarious, because when we cut to the exterior of the cabin, suddenly it's nighttime. I mean, the closing times for the Zoo and the Ski Lodge nearby are both eight, so it makes sense that it's dark, but it's still a pretty abrupt edit. Or maybe Ezra just settled into staring at all of his cabin objects in a silent murder rage for that long, I don't know. The important thing is that he chases her around the woods for approximately ten years, and it's very scary! Especially when he calls her cell phone and she can't put it on vibrate fast enough. (How Aria is that? I can't remember the last time I even heard a ringtone, and I'm not a high school student who'd have even more motivation to have that shit on silent 24/7.)
At this point, the screen bug says something about "Should Aria forgive Ezra? Let's Tweet about it." At first I was like, Um, what? But of course by the end of the episode you realize what they're saying, and it was just a jumped-gun situation that they popped it up there so early in the terror. Either way, hashtag UH NO.
OPERATION MANNEQUIN LEG
The ladies watch as a Spencer-shaped person, give or take a foot, arrives five minutes from closing, and commences disappearing and reappearing out of the shadows like A would. And of course is -- Mona, presumably -- so when Spencer shows up behind them, still struggling into her Alison wig she happens to have, the Liars all have a collective freakout.