Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hard Vs. Mean
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 06.21.2011
FLASHBACK
The Liars were hanging out in the DiLaurentis yard this one day, like something out of Spenser actually, when Jason threw a big old fit. You know how Alison imbues every scene with this like sexy hostility, until it's so repulsive you can't look away? That happened. (And New Jason gave as good as he got on that account.)
Alison was rooting around in her brother's stuff, like she does constantly and -- to hear her obvious lie about it -- stole one of his Japanese porno comics. She laughed him down, the girls chimed in with shaming him because she is their God, and he stomped back inside. Alison made a weird joke about how he "has trouble with doorknobs" which was either just a reference to his gangliness or means something, and then the girls appreciatively asked for more details about the issue.
What Alison said was that she constantly steals stuff and hides it in places -- all over the house, the yard, storage lockers, their houses, coastal Georgia -- and that this was yet another reason for them to obsess/hate on her. Of course she had hiding places in the house and the yard. You'll never go bankrupt betting on how nuts Alison was.
Anyway, Spencer finishes flashbacking and bids Jason a good day.
SCHOOL
Recruiter: "So Emily, I've just been chilling around campus this week. Any thoughts on our scholarship quasi-offer? Not moving to Texas or anything?"
Emily: "Continuity is so important to a growing young athlete, as well as my serial monogamy, so I will not be going anywhere. I'm sure I can convince my mom to let me stay alone in Rosewood, where all the guys are constantly trying to kill me and all the girls are constantly trying to tempt me into sexual relations. She's open-minded like that."
CONSTRUCTION SITE
Hoping to get a glimpse of Toby doing a Diet Coke commercial -- and this is just one of the many signs of her brilliance, this impulse -- Spencer heads down to the site, but Toby is immediately fired before he even takes his shirt off. Fate is one cruel skank sometimes.
Toby: "The house we were working on contains young girls, and you know how I'm always attacking those."
Spencer: "Did you explain that you only do that when you're related to them?"
(She immediately and awesomely decides to beat the shit out of his foreman.)
Toby: "This isn't my first rodeo. I've been the Boo Radley for awhile now, I know how it works."
Spencer: "Get in this car right now, then. We're going to go somewhere and do some thangs. Mama's got a need for some stress relief."