Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 43 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Won't Stop, Can't Stop
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 01.21.2014
Spencer: "Okay. PS, I will be fucking this up. This whole episode is just me wreaking havoc on everyone, completely by accident. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go lurk in the shadows of my house."HASTINGS
Spencer: "Are you seriously cooking a special dinner for mom? By which I mean, you've employed strangely mute servants to cook and serve a special dinner?"
Peter: "You are welcome to come, as long as you don't pull a Spencer."
Spencer: "That's a high quote, sir. Listen, why are you giving Toby Cavanaugh the runaround on this? First you tell us not to do anything, then you jump in with both feet and make it all about yourself, and now you're telling him to jump away..."
While this is happening Peter first eats a mushroom puff in a menacing fashion, then drinks a glass of what might as well be milk in a menacing fashion. Possibly the most hilarious Hastings House callback in the history of the show.
Spencer: "You and Mom are lawyers, you don't just walk away from corporate suits."
Peter: "This is about what's right for the Cavanaughs. Leave me to deal with my clients and you go be a teenager. A teenager who doesn't screw up this dinner and whatever, go pick out some music to set the mood. Something happy, upbeat. Maybe turn on like one lamp or overhead light in this cobwebby hellhole, to complete the effect."
"...And don't go through my briefcase!" he doesn't say. Therefore, by the rules of the Pretty Little Omitting in which he has just educated his daughter, Spencer needs to immediately go through his briefcase. What she finds is that Jessica DiLaurentis is on the Board at Radley, which calls basically everything into question: What Peter's really doing with his erstwhile jumpoff, what Peter's really doing to/for Toby's family, why Mrs. D lied about the CeCe Drake soul-trading situation and her daughter's history with the place, and where Jason actually is. That's merely four things, just off the top.
JAKE
Speaking of questionable people, Jake is strolling the boulevards of Rosewood and comes across a strange sight: Little cute Ezra, acting very fucking scary, screaming at a blonde lady I don't recognize in a sedan until she drives away, then pounding on the trunk as she's going, and finally just kicking up his heels in a Rumpelstiltskinian caper of rage.
"I don't like it! But I don't understand how you can make such a colossal mistake! Do you understand? Do you see how this is difficult? No, look at me! Look at me when I'm talking to you! This doesn't make sense. You have really screwed up. You have really screwed up! Oh yes, please! Please drive away! This isn't over!"