Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 38 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Your Body Will Know
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.07.2014
It does not, but we have the benefit of not being Hanna. Frankly Hanna has that benefit too, because I've never seen homegirl pull this shit in my life. I realize that part of it is, she has to do something new -- show a new set of colors -- in order to drive home how fucked up this is and earn the fact that we're spinning off the best relationship on the show. But also, they did a great job with that, because I have never once thought of her as clingy or irritating or... God, that "your watch is broken" bullshit just broke my heart. How embarrassing!
Ashley finally comes down the stairs, to see what has gone so terribly wrong in her daughter's brain suddenly, and then just holds onto her for the ride, thinking, This is the first and the worst time but it won't be the last:
"Is this how it works? They just leave? It's not you, it's me, and then... They're just out the door."
She says no but she means yes.
HASTINGS
Spencer: "Don't bullshit a bullshitter, Papa. Stop helping with this Radley thing."
Peter: "Nope, I'm doing it. Closing that shitty place down. Just like you started."
Spencer: "And now what, you're just like on fire with the public interest?"
Peter: "I saw you in that place, Spence. You can't tell me you wouldn't like to see it taken apart, brick by brick."
Spencer: "Yes. Very caring. Very touching."
Peter: "That's what I do for my family. Consider this the latest lacrosse stick I am tasked with prying from your insane hands. And watch it burn."
WITHOUT PRETEXT OR PRELUDE
Emily: "So Ali let me kiss her once."
Paige: "Uh..."
Emily: "Shh. I thought it was something wonderful, that she was giving me something kind, or... It wasn't a gift. I don't think she knew how to love. I don't think that was a grace she was allowed. She never gave without taking two things back. She was a collector. She collected people, love from people, and..."
Paige: "And after all this time, you're still thinking about her."
Emily: "For reasons you don't need to know about, but mostly for this. She broke my heart. With an audible snap. That sticks around."
Paige: "I hate her for doing that to you. With you, to you. For helping you be tortured, because it served her. I hate her for being complicit in it."