Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT At Least I'll Be Alive
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 07.05.2011
THERAPY ANNE
Comes into her office, later that night, and it's been ripped to shreds. Second-most notably is the smashed clock, c.v. her earlier joke with Hanna. First-most is the bloody letters on her wall staring down like a billboard ad for glasses:
NOSEY [sic] BITCHES DIE
Speaking of, how's Spencer doing? Oh, just staring out the window waiting for Wren to call once Melissa has called him once Ian has called her.
Wren: "Melissa knows where Ian is! But there's more..."
Spencer: "I'm on my way!"
Wren: "But Spencer what I'm about to say is super importa..."
Spencer tosses the phone on the bed and takes off because she's been waiting up there, knocking back black espressos, since the sun came up. Didn't even go to school, just sat there scratching Ian's name into the walls and furniture the entire time and thinking of other shit of her sister's she can sell.
MARIN
Hanna gets Spencer's SOS text, but before she can spring into action Ashley comes home lookin' like she, too, has just seen a ghost. Apparently Occam's Razor suggests that it was Hanna who destroyed Dr. Anne's office, and not a dead texter or serial killer who has the entire office and city and world bugged.
Now, does this mean that Hanna is crazy as shit, or just regular crazy? And more importantly, did Hanna mention anything about the time Ashley killed that old lady for her money and had sex with the cops and kidnapped a fake architect?
Hanna's point -- that she's literally on her way out the door to find out and possible put a stop to all of this -- is not really comforting, because Ashley only thinks her secrets are the biggest secrets. Doesn't make her wrong, just makes her worrisome.
Meanwhile, Therapy Anne is appalled to hear that there are no signs of forced entry, despite nobody else having a key. Which might end up helping with that whole Occam's Razor issue, come to think of it. I love rooting for Therapy Anne to be helpful, even though I know she'll probably end up getting killed for it.
SCARY LOCATION
The Liars follow Wren and Melissa to this barracks warehouse place in the woods where cell phones don't work and obviously little girls get murdered constantly.
Emily: "We should take a picture of Ian with our phones to prove that we're not lying."
Spencer: "Not lying about how we saw him die? Yeah, that'll help. Turns out telling people what is going on never works out in our favor. Let's get that tattooed on ourselves like Memento so next week we'll actually remember it."
Aria: "I hope he doesn't shoot us with a gun, or a staph infection."
Spencer: "I hope he is dead, strangled, in jail and on fire."