Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Smiling Faces Sometimes
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 08.21.2012
Cece Drake: "Oh, FFS. She's ditching us for Pigskin? I need bodies!"
Spencer: "There will be bodies, trust me. But I think maybe I pissed Emily off by calling her attention to some facts about which she was trying to stay in denial."
Cece Drake: "Oh, Spencer. I can't believe you brought up Pigskin and Ali to Emily just like anyone would have assumed you would!"
Spencer: "Tell me deets on this war, then. What were they fighting about?"
Cece Drake: "Emily."
Nice! Did not see that coming. But what could it mean?
MORE FLASHBACK! YAY!
Oh my God this is insane. Ali and Cece Drake were hanging out in a car, putting on lipgloss and talking about the insane shit they like to do to people.
Alison: "So I stole some of Emily's stationery, and wrote Pigskin this hot lesbian note about how Emily wants to fuck her and become a lesbian..."
Cece Drake, verbatim: "Mama's proud!"
Interesting, no? Very Red Queen, this dynamic. Anyway, there were instructions, like, because of Emily's "boyfriend," Paige was to avoid all contact and instead leave her reply inside a sandwich-board sign nearby. So Paige rolls up -- looking Safari Tragic -- and nervously puts her note inside the sign, and Alison comes running up to fuck with her. I love this show so, so much! She yanks out the letter and tells Paige the whole thing that just happened, including threatening to give the note to Paige's dad.
Alison: "Think again, Pigskin! I own you now!"
There's a vibe to Alison's acting through this whole scene that is very important. I noticed it as she was first getting out of the car, but as she hops back in and yells at Cece Drake to drive away, it gets ten times worse. She's like, barely hanging on. I've never seen her so scared, besides that one night the NAT Club was at her house and she showed up in (Spencer's?) kitchen looking crazed and scared. I don't remember the details -- I think Betty Buckley was involved, possibly -- but she is more fucking rattled than I think we've seen her.
Isn't that interesting? Like, it only kicked in as she was heading Paige's way, and then she mostly held it together while she was torturing Paige -- who was just a mumbling Mona-mess of insecurities, so it wasn't Paige's response that flipped her out -- but then crashed right after. Sort of sad, and terrified, and trying to fake it for Cece all at once. I don't think we've ever seen this much of Alison at once. Mysterious.