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
Emily: "Cruel would mean she cared what she was doing. I don't think she did. We hold onto the pain people give us sometimes as a memento. But a gift doesn't mean anything if it's disposable to them. Then it's just trash. So."Paige: "So this is how you say goodbye?"
Emily: "It's a start."
SPEAKING OF GOODBYE
Ezra and Aria, somewhere around here, do it in a haunted cabin. She stares out the window, and he watches her from the bed, and it's weirdly hot. I guess I'm going to have to unpack that at some point -- why now, after three and a half seasons, do I suddenly get it? -- but not today, because: A very sad thing, in which Hanna meets Caleb at his car out of town, by way of apology, to act normal.
She's brought coffee. They speak, a bit, and she's respectable and so lovely, and so poised and wise like usual -- but none of that really matters, what they say or why. What matters is how he looks at her, when she hands his coffee through the window, and assures her he won't forget anything. What matters is how far he gets -- less than a block around the corner -- before he coasts to the side of the street, and falls apart.
BACK TO MAUSOLEUM
That was a good way to end the episode; these are both just tags. In the first, Hanna finally comes clean to the Liars about Ali's diary she found in A's Ravenswood Lair, which is what 4B is going to be about -- and why she kept it quiet: "Because of what's in it, because of what she said about us. All of us." She's been keeping more secrets this week than we even knew; maybe the Courtland Liars were just a distraction all along. I mean, we know they only existed (so far) as a way of getting Emily to recontextualize this latest thing, but the others will have to follow, either way. So it's cool that Hanna is suddenly the anti-Spencer: All answers, instead of all questions. Not that the answers will help, of course.
In the second tag, A (in full hoodie) steals into Ezra's Cabin, and opens up that conspicuous trapdoor, and looks inside. I don't want to know. Even more than usual I do not want to know.
NEXT WEEK
Coded stories in the diary lead the Liars on some harrowing personal journeys, and eventually to a scary shack -- Ezra's? -- where presumably terrible things happen. Spencer goes after her dad's secrets, regarding both Mrs. D and his quest to shut down Radley. Emily continues to freak out about Alison's return. Aria makes some more good choices.