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
Paige: "Ali treated you poorly, you ladies. Also everybody. Why are you even helping her?"
Emily: "She said sorry and squeezed out some tears and kept pulling me out of dangerous buildings and..."
Paige: "Kind of like how a manipulative monster would do?"
Emily: "Now you sound like Spencer. Trust me, I know..."
Paige: "She's been faking her death for two years so you'll take the heat. Trust me, she hasn't changed that much. She is a sicko. I know from crazy, Emily. Take it to the family or I will."
Emily: "There it is again, the ultimatum. You would be delivering her to A."
Paige: "And you'd prefer to be the target?"
Emily: "We can solve this. Look, if something happened to Ali, I would never forgive myself. And to be frank, you either."
Paige: "Okay, so that's a hard boundary. Um, how about we start with no more secret meetings or packages or interaction of any kind."
Emily: "...And now you sound like Ezra. I mean like exactly."
Paige: "Yeah and I'm not giving you this money back, either."
THE BREW
Gabriel: "Oh hey, just bummin' around in my civvies, no big. Talkin' in my voice."
Hanna: "Hey! I was just picking up snacks for my friend who is off her rocker."
Gabriel: "One of the many great things about you is how you're such a good friend. And also how you don't jump on people and kiss them unawares and make it weird."
Hanna: "Oh right, I was totally about to do that because you helped Mr. Hobbs."
(Smooooch.)
Gabriel: "Dammit, now I am back to having no friends."
Hanna: "Oh. I made it weird. Hashtag CREEPING, again."
Remember when Holbrook and Tanner (!) showed up and we were like, "Which underage girl is he gonna scam on," and then he didn't, because he was so great? It's like Rosewood is this pervert force that just overtakes your life, through circumstances. Stick around long enough, you got teen girl tongue in your face no matter what you were planning on doing.
Also, Hanna is the best. I mean, obviously Aria wins this episode and Spencer's a strong contender, but watching Gabe and Hanna collectively, as a team, freak out about how weird she just got? That was something special. Not CREEPING-level special, but in some ways even more elegantly insane.