Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 34 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Suzy Clueless & The Secret Of Killingworth
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 01.14.2014
Phones are out (the cell-scrambling technology was installed by the same guy that did Noel Kahn's murder cabin, actually) and the ladies are still roaming the countryside, as Ezra comes in and starts doing a complicated dance all around the place, looking for the diary in a way that involves zooming past the keyhole a thousand times until they notice him out there and realize A was the one that locked them in. A thing they had already basically intuited.
After much suspense -- an impressive trick of the episode, considering it's like one tiny keyhole through which a tiny man can be seen whirling around like a dervish, occasionally grunting -- the Liars are reunited: Hanna and Emily broke a window to get back inside, thanks to the screaming of Spencer and Aria. They have a frank talk about the A invasion, realize the diary's been stolen... And then they all four try to attack Travis (with shovels, because that's how they roll) when he arrives to take them home. His reaction is, of course, adorable, but no less so is that of the Liars, who pile everything against the bottom half of the Snow White half-door and then open the top half, the better to bash and bash.
I remember a time with this show where we'd be like, "How interesting that Travis showed up just as A was leaving," but honestly I feel like the show is more comfortable not doing that, this season. Like, we know it was Ezra doing that stuff, so this moment is just funny instead of being another unanswered question. (He wrote, knowing it's entirely possible that suddenly Travis will turn out to be A, or impersonating his own cousin in order to kill lesbians, or avenging Ian's mysterious churchbell death, or another of Jenna's million cute-boy minions with high-level security clearance, or whatever. Mona on stilts.)
ROSEWOOD
Travis: "Are your friends mentally stable? You guys looked like you wanted to kill me!"
Hanna: "It's been a long night. There was an animal that came into the cabin."
Travis: "Like a raccoon?"
Hanna: "Yeah or like a bear. Sometimes A is huge, sometimes -- most of the time -- he's pretty wee. Coulda been Mona on stilts. Anyway, here's some money for the ride and tow."
Travis: "Uh, I don't want your money. Our entire relationship is giving you back money I don't want."
Hanna: "I mean, but thank you?"
Travis: "Sure, but not as your employee. You didn't call me as a tow-truck driver, you called me as a friend. So let me continue to be your friend. You don't have to throw money at me just so I'll stay away. I mean, you've been alienating everybody around you all day for free, right?"