Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT And The Maiden
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 03.05.2013
Hanna: "My understanding is that all satellite-based technology doesn't work underwater."
Aria: "And you got this information from..."
Hanna: "My own hazy recollection of science, obviously."
THE BREW
Missy Franklin: "It has been so fun randomly talking to a random teenager, but I really have to get going. Let's take a million pictures together as though I'll remember your name tomorrow."
Shana: "I want copies of those pictures! And also to destroy you in a way I have yet to indicate."
Emily: "Thanks for bringing me an Olympic Swimmer as a present, despite my constantly trying to accidentally ruin your life in every way I can come up with. I'm sure you have no other agenda."
RADLEY
Eddie: "So you're saying somebody stole my ID, and came in and out of the place? Just like I told you happened in the last scene?"
Spencer: "Yeah, that's why I was so interested in it. Toby was coming in and out to help a patient named Mona Vanderwaal."
Eddie: "Moondoggie? That girl was a hot mess. Anyway, they also stole visitor passes, if that helps. From somebody on staff. But that, I can't tell you. (Probably because he's adorable with a British accent and it would just be too weird to get yelled at by him, or because Therapy Anne still needs to seem trustworthy for a bit longer.)"
Spencer: "I really feel like I'm meant to find one clue in this episode, because that is how this show works, and since I can't leave this room, if you could just say the first thing that pops into your head?"
Eddie: "Sure. This was Moondoggie's room, when she lived here."
Spencer: "That should do it. Thanks."
She immediately finds the clue in question, stabbed into the desk where she's been sitting for all but one scene so far and yet just noticed:
"WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN?"
...Was the name of the hymn they were all singing in church this one time that Alison noticed Mona singing really intensely, like Jesus Camp-intense with the hands in the air, and made fun of her for it. Afterward, Spencer took a moment to feel sorry for Mona in her Nerd Phase, and then talk shifted to little things like Ali's impending death and the fact that she's been keeping diaries ever since the A stuff started up.
On a scale of Snow Globes With Secret Keys to Neck-Snapping Sorority Murder, then, this particular conversation really stands out. Not to mention the fact of how we got here: Why would Mona, the Gamesmaster of the Universe, have scratched these particular words into the desk, words that Spencer has somehow been overlooking this entire time, only to produce a memory of the exact same diaries Mona's going to talk about later that we've never heard of before? Even for this show, that is some inscrutable dot-connecting.