Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Big B.A.D. Wolf
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.14.2011
Pam comes running up to Emily at the meet and she's like, "Did Mr. McCullers actually pull this shit on you?" Emily doesn't want to talk about it. "I know what you think of me. I know what you'd say: It doesn't matter who I am, I better get used to people looking at me only one way." Well, throwing Pam's bigotry in her face at just the right time. She gets in his face and he's all, "I was wondering when I'd hear from you. This isn't personal. You deal with your family problems any way that you want."
This is apparently about what the school is "doing to" his daughter, which is when Pam goes off: "Oh yeah, it's about your daughter. It's about you trying to make her into some kind of professional victim and using my daughter to do it... You always think there's someone else to blame when things don't go your way..." Finally Nick's like, "Lady, you're upset" and she goes, "I am not even upset yet. But I could be. Leave my daughter alone, she's awesome and principled and never got anything she didn't earn. Drop it, or I'll show you what a real agenda looks like." Fuck Yeah, Pam Fields.
So she's just kind of dazed by all this and Emily's touched and everything, but Pam can't really process anything right now. She keeps offering to take Emily home and Emily keeps reminding her that her car's in the parking garage and it's sweet. Pam's like, "I do not get the gay thing. I don't get it. But I will be damned if anybody hurts my kid, and the idea that you didn't know that makes me angry with myself."
Spencer finds out that the Braille was 214, which Toby doesn't know what that means. Toby used to be scared of Jenna and she's in control of their household, but he's outgrowing that. Also, Jenna is scared of the PLLs because of that time they blew her up and caused her to go blind.
After a long, suspenseful walk to her car, Emily is joined by a figure! Who is Paige! Who is sorry that her dad is a jerkwad! Emily's like, "My mom is spacing out real bad so I better go meet her at home and we can be close again" and Paige gets all Paige on her about how everything is so super easy for Emily, she has a mom who is protective and she gets to be relay anchor and she doesn't ride her bike into traffic on purpose, and Emily's like, "The fuck you say. I am a lesbian and spent most of my life in denial, and then my first girlfriend got shipped off to Crazytown and just dumped me. Yeah, Emily's stock is real high right now."
So of course Paige kisses her and then runs off all crazy. And that basically starts the cool-down: Caleb and Hanna have a very sweet conversation about how neither of them is really interested in him splitting for Flagstaff, and just when you're thinking this could work, A sends an exterminator to get rid of the "infestation in [the] basement." Hanna, you know you don't get to be happy. Stop tempting her. Over at Ezra's, they're rounding third when Byron calls his answering machine and asks him out for a beer and apology, and it's so weird for both of them that their eyes bug out and they eat a bunch of egg rolls. Spence and Toby drive right past the motel of which Room 214 is, even as we speak, playing host to Jenna and her lace-loving lothario. And in the tag, A leaves flowers at Esther Potter's grave while the creepiest music box music plays forever and ever.