Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 55 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Day For Night
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 21 | Aired on 02.25.2014
LOCKERS
Spencer finds a bottle of pills in her locker with a note from A: "Don't say I never gave you anything," which is pretty hardcore shitty I must say. That is amazing. Emily and Hanna show up at her elbows and immediately are like, "That is interesting that you, a drug addict detoxing at school, would have a bunch of pills."
Spencer: "Asshole A. I'm tryin' over here."
Emily: "Better than a needle in the arm. Or dosed pain cream. Or surprise nitrous..."
Spencer: "I'll just go ahead and take those. Toss 'em far away from school."
Emily: "I'm not even going to say it, but... You know those are from A, right? Like no matter how bad you are jonesing, and how likely it is that A would give you your exact favorite pills to keep you addicted, there's also the chance that it is pure heroin in there, or bath salts. Not the drug, like, actual Epsom salts."
Spencer: "For the moment I am going to agree to come with you to the post office."
Hanna: "Hey, have you guys seen Hurricane Aria? She was so crazy this morning and now she is not at her house. Maybe I should have stayed to watch her."
Spencer: "Okay imagine you're Aria and you're going down in flames, you would... Oh duh, she's obviously going ham on Ezra's apartment."
Hanna: "Oh, totally. I should have thought of that. Good call."
FT ZPARTMENT
They find her in a tiny beautiful ball on the floor, in the middle of a Ravenswoodian amount of wreckage, shuddering and being totally insane.
Aria: "Guess what, bitches? A whole fucking moleskin about our entire lives, I found. Tapes I found, including secret Tippi conversations with The Grunwald. That dude kept some meticulous fucking notes for this project."
Spencer: "There's like twenty boxes of this shit. Everybody form a human chain. Hanna, you carry Aria around like a little doll until she returns to her senses."
WALLINGFORD
Who is that who's followed Emily to the mysterious post office? Not A, no. Well, maybe. This person though is obviously Paige, who really does tend to take liberties with Emily's personal agency. Not unlike every other character -- much less significant other -- on the show, so I'm not sure what the huge fucking problem is with pointing that out, except that sometimes we get so invested in fictional relationships we forget ourselves. To which I would respond that you gotta be pretty unself-aware to so blatantly demonstrate that you'd rather focus your insane obsessive energies on a marginal character than the non-white lead gay character. Jump right over useless old wonderful fascinating inspiring Emily and freak the fuck out because somebody dares to mention that Paige is demonstrably not perfect, all we're gonna see is your ass. But by all means you save the world in whatever way you see fit.