Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Emily's Reasons Why Not
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.02.2012
Basically Ella sticks with total denial, Byron gets as alpha male as he possibly can, and Aria and Ezra shiver and feel awful. Watch Holly Marie Combs act the hell out of the scene, and then watch Mike punch Ezra in the face and run off.
Aria: "We are like the bad idea people of all time."
Ezra: "My nose!"
PARENTING
Byron: "Wait, did you know our daughter was getting statutory raped?"
Ella: "No! I thought it was Spencer!"
Byron: "Well, that's all right then."
Ella: "I mean maybe this is my fault because I didn't lay out a red carpet for him to grow some nuts that night at the police station. It being a totally inappropriate venue for that conversation, and all, I guess it could have been hard for him to step up."
Byron: "Don't blame the victim! Which is me!"
Aria, verbatim: "Can I say something, please? Don't make up your minds right now. You can't figure out in one night what I'm still trying to understand myself. I love you... So much. I love him too. So please, just... Just imagine for one minute that this is real, because it is. I swear that it is."
Montgomerys: "Holy Christ you are the worst."
"Just imagine this is real"? That's your big strategy? Spencer really is the smart one.
HOLLIS OFFICE HOURS
Jackie: "Don't be angry."
Ezra: "I'm a little more than that, actually."
Jackie: "But see, the fact that I'm a bitch doesn't take anything away from the fact that you were statutory raping a student and then thought her parents -- one of whom is, like, your boss -- would be totally cool with that?"
Ezra: "When you say it like that, I guess this makes sense."
Jackie: "If shippers ran the world..."
Ezra: "I guess this is why they don't, huh?"
Jackie: "So are we back in love?"
Ezra: "You have breasts, pubic hair, a womanly form. You are in full flower. I see no feathers dangling from anywhere on your outfit. What could possibly attract me to you?"
OPERATION FAKEOUT
Everybody's getting ready to do their A takedown, and of course Emily is the only punctual one because that will put her in the most danger: Hanna gets waylaid by her stupid dad wanting to have another bitchfest on her, Aria is in trouble for Ezra, and best of all, Spencer gets interrupted by Toby. This is in the middle of a fairly hilarious scene of her scanning the kitchen making sure she has all of the weapons, blunt objects, knives and stun-guns she takes with her whenever she leaves the house, like, she literally says: "I'm trying to think of what we're forgetting to bring," stares at the knife block and the various deadly weapons in the kitchen, and nods: "I think we're all set."