Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 55 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Day For Night
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 21 | Aired on 02.25.2014
Any image that is both opposites at the same time has a numinous power that we use to further our own understanding of both ideas, so that we can transcend those opposites ourselves -- to climb up to Elsa's ice castle and see what the world really looks like, and bring on the Spring. Alison is alchemical for these girls, because she always does both: For Emily Alison was the scary shadow sexuality she wasn't yet aware of, but also leading her onward toward, the happy endpoint of that sexuality. She taught Hanna to both fear and revere, to hate and to use, her beautiful body. She gave Spencer just enough power and respect to keep her on the leash.
But for Aria today, it's a lot simpler: Of course that bitch had Ezra first. There is a conspiracy --there are several conspiracies -- but the one that was always going to come for Aria was this, that no matter how grown-up or how special she was, that's secondary to the fact that Alison wins, every time. It's just that this particular time Aria has skin in the game. She's betrayed by Ezra, sure, and that's why she's wrecking shop on his house, but what is unseating Aria from sanity is the other part, the Alison part. We've seen how Aria reacts to heartbreak, and it's not this. This is a whole new deal. This is what happens when the sky breaks open.
RWPD
Hanna: "So I've called myself this little meeting with you, fellow detective, to discuss the innocence of one Mr. Hobbs..."
Gabriel: "Honey you are just a little girl though."
Hanna: "God, that voice. He threw Wilden money for tow truck opportunities, like a few times, and then got weird and started getting extorted. That's not huge, it's not like he found a shovel or..."
Gabriel: "This is his version of the story you're telling."
Hanna: "When a cop decides to make your life hell, you can't do anything. Ask my Mom."
Gabriel: "Whoa, I didn't even think about that. Well, that's another reason..."
Hanna: "Just testify the facts, then. You connected the money in Wilden's safe deposit box to Mr. Hobbs, the end."
Gabriel: "You are inscrutable, Hanna Marin. You have some crazed ideas about the world and your place in it."
Hanna: "I'm just getting started, Tiger."
THROWIN' FITZ
Aria smashes Ezra's peripatetic Hollis diploma against his stupid black typewriter, I liked that part. You tell 'em, girl. Also, what a good actor! I always liked her and I knew she had it in her, but this is marvelous.