Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 4 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT One Thing About Boys
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 08.28.2012
Cousin Nate: "No, I am most guys."
Emily: "So you killed Maya because she didn't play along with your weird fantasy that she was in love with you?"
Cousin Nate: "You're not listening. It didn't matter if she was in love with me, because I didn't need a cosigner. I was in love with her. The end."
Emily: "Are you sure this isn't a deep psychological problem specific to you?"
Cousin Nate: "No. I promise you this is how most guys are. Especially under 25. We are socialized to feel entitled to everything -- it makes us feel good when we get things -- and you are socialized to constantly give away everything -- it makes you feel good to give things -- and when you add those things up, it's real easy to see how the Madonna/Whore complex became what it is today."
Emily: "I hate the things I learn on this show."
Cousin Nate: "Well, you won't have long because I'm about to chop you up and Paige too. Unless I randomly fixate on her and start disregarding her wishes and then end up kidnapping her girlfriend, and so on."
MEANWHILE
The Liars have discovered a cabin that is not the cabin. The princess is in another castle. Well done, ladies.
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
Is his real name, which is why it doesn't matter that everybody knows where and with whom Emily was meant to be vacationing. Anyway, eventually Emily just sort of runs out of the room under no pretext at all, like it's edited to seem that he hears the Liars coming and is distracted, when in fact what distracts him is the script so that Emily can mosey on out of there... and all the way up the 400 steps of the lighthouse, a structure known for having no exits and going straight up and illuminating you constantly so that anybody chasing you through the forest will know exactly where you are.
Did I say that was the stupidest thing, before? Hmm. So what happens, anyway, is that she finally gets a signal at the top of the tower -- ah, got it, sorry -- and he comes running up after her, they tussle with the knife, Emily stabs him through the gut, he falls down bleeding out and dying, Caleb comes running up with his gun, which he places gently within Lyndon's reach so he can give Emily a comforting hug and then his dumb ass gets shot through the abdomen. And I hate to say he was asking for it, because I do love my Caleb, but Jesus F. Christ with these people.