Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 114 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Hell is Empty
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 08.27.2013
Emily: "I'm not worried about us, I'm worried about Mona. Specifically about how we went one single place to find her where we knew she wouldn't be, and then called it a day."Emily's Dad: "DOOR!"
Paige opens the door, and they feel queasy about being teen gays, but then Emily points out that their parents would have the same rule without regard to gender, so this is living.
Paige: "Let's watch a movie and just wait for the chips to fall. Mona dies, whatever. CeCe has DID and lives under bridges and goes to jail, great."
Emily: "Uh, that's really not very proactive. Or cool."
Paige: "This bitch tried to kill all of you. For three seasons of a show."
Emily: "But we turned her into that in the first place. You've seen our pack mentality in action, you know how we get. And that's even without the head of the snake."
Paige: "As a person driven pretty much insane by Alison DiLaurentis myself, I can tell you that you are not culpable there."
Emily: "Conscious neglect is equivalent to perpetration..."
Paige: "Oh, here we go."
THE BREAR WINDOW
Aria: "How weird to see you at this poetry reading. How was it? I missed it."
Ezra: "It was so intense. It reminded me of this short fiction you wrote."
Aria: "The one about the cat? Found, but lost? How do you remember this shit?"
Ezra: "Well Aria I'm a pedophile and I'm obsessed with you. Also, I thought it was about your dead friend Ali."
Aria: "Yeah, you're probably right. I don't really like to constrain my creativity with too much prescriptive interpretation. Hey, let's have a coffee and stare into each other's eyes."
Ezra: "Isn't fiction so fascinating?"
Aria: "All forms of art are fascinating. Let's chat about it."
Caleb hangs onto sleepy Hanna in the car outside Mona's house, while Paige holds Emily in her lap and watches the movie, stroking her arm and her hair, so sweetly. Toby hangs onto Spencer... this is such a nice little moment in the middle of the episode. They need a fuckin' break, these girls. Aria finally kisses Ezra, and then they -- kind of awesomely -- go straight back to talking excitedly about art and whatever. It's pretty awesome, this sudden darting kiss and then a second of the Shusher's widest eyes and then right back to being pretentious, with Ezra just sitting there knowing better than to move or even blink in case he ruins it. Beautiful.