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Hanna takes her career as a superhero to the level, stepping in to get Toby off the Kool-Aid and back into Spencer's arms when he arrives in town as Jenna's squire like the last two seasons never happened. Mona -- who provides Hanna with a phone and antibacterial lotion while doing sixteen other things and slowly taking over everybody's life -- even gets in on the action. But alas, Toby's just as invested in Wrencer as any right-thinking individual may be, and plays his cards close to his giant chest.
But it's the sudden turning point mid-episode where Hanna really gets shit done: A frames Garrett by inviting Jenna to Jason's house for a secret meeting, only to knock her out and blow the place up. And who's there to save her? Hanna and Spencer, of course! It is one of the most awesome things of the entire season, and one we've waited long enough to see. Still on the road to eyeball recovery, Jenna's grateful -- although confused, as usual, by the concept of kindness.
In other news, Ella inspires Ezra to blow off Byron's job offer as a sort of moral Hail Mary, which finally in turn forces Ella and Byron to discuss their daughter's love life in a fashion less passive-aggressive, and more outright aggressive. Also, Maya emails and texts Emily to say she's fine and not to contact her parents, so Emily immediately contacts her parents.
Licensed Teen Pilot Duncan Albert, as it turns out, was the one friend of Vivian/Alison's who got to see behind her masks: He would take her up in his airplane and she'd feel free of all her various attackers. Once again putting Aria into the position of becoming Vivian, Duncan gives her the wheel and then interrogates her about her own feelings and actions toward Alison, finally coming to trust her and giving us the clue: Alison was back in Rosewood from Hilton Head a good seven hours before the Liars thought, and probably up to no good, during her last day on earth.
A bag of Alison's garbage -- left behind by the St. Germains -- provides several more plotpoints and clues, as it sets up not only Hanna's dramatic Jenna-rescue but also a parlay of sorts between Veronica and her husband's bastard, Jason. It also helps the Liars with a more precise location as to Alison's whereabouts that day: A music festival or something, where she was more than likely meeting either an A lead or A herself...
Whom we'll be meeting in what, an episode from now? Shit, this show has been so good lately I can't even stand it.
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Vivian Darkbloom's coat fooled Duncan Albert into approaching Aria, who was still freaking out about Ezra's job in New Orleans and her mother's ambivalence about her statutory. Hanna destroyed yet another phone, leaving her phoneless and with her werewolf all the way in Montecito. Maya vanished into thin air, leaving a bunch of hassle for everybody as usual. Toby got sick of being murdered all the time and left Spencer in Wren's capable, reed-thin arms. Ashley and Ella were on the case, boxes of wine at close hand.
COFFEE & DOWNLOAD
Liars: "That cute guy didn't stick around too long after recognizing the coat. He's been in Florida for a year, and I guess we're going to hang later. They met in a Brookhaven bookstore, where Vivian was probably buying yet more copies of Lolita. The important thing is that when Ali put that wig on and became Vivian, everything was like in Predator vision, so we can bet he's part of the A Thing. I'm sure Aria won't fuck this up."
Spencer: "Speaking of Things, there's Jenna. And Toby, looking rather fine. Oh, and he hates me apparently."
Jenna: "I have one of my eyeballs back, bitches! The only way I could be scarier than with no eyes is with one eye."
MARIN
Ashley: "I hope you girls enjoyed your coffee break, but there's no way I am buying Hanna yet another phone. Emily, if you guys get murdered you'll let Hanna use yours, right?"
Emily: "I mean, technically yeah, but that's not terribly safe."
Ashley: "Phone's a privilege, not a right. Now give me the info or else you'll live phoneless."
Hanna: "Then I guess I'll just get murdered!"
Ashley: "Fine!"
Hanna: "Fine!"
YR ONE-STOP WONDERWAAL
Amazingly, Mona sets Hanna up with a late-model phone, bills it to herself, and squirts antibacterial on all the girls' hands while she's yappin'. It's pretty great, but also terrifying to see them line up for her ministrations. If Mona were the Alison ringleader, this is how it would be: Consumer products and hand lotion and everybody staring at her like a rabid animal. The Shape Of Things To Come.
Spencer: "If we could harness Mona's entitlement, we could light the Eastern Seaboard."
Nobody: "Yes. She is clearly A and is going to kill all of us with her fifty million secret skills and lotions."
Maya Text: "Dear Emily, everything is fine. Please tell no one. I hope the filth doesn't give you too much heat."
Emily: "Ugh, just when you think you're out."
TOBY RUN-IN
Spencer: "Toby, you're back in town and squiring your sister-rapist around again, I see."
Toby: "I have had some delicious Kool-Aid while I was becoming strangely sexy, and no longer interested in you playing me off against my sister. Have you heard of Stockholm Syndrome? I have that. With the Cyclops."
Spencer: "Possibly you should rethink your position vis-a-vis this Jenna Thing Thing."
Toby: "Just you saying that makes me really mad for some reason. The reason is that I am a crazy person."
Spencer: "I can't help thinking this is my fault."
Toby: "Yeah. It is. And she is going to destroy you entirely. Have fun with Wren until he falls off a roof."
Spencer: "So we're broken up? Just like that? I lie to you about my new boyfriend, blow you in the pickup truck that I bought you, get you thrown off a roof, refuse to speak to you no matter how much you beg, and suddenly I'm the bad guy?"
Jenna: "Toby. Heel."
Spencer: "I'm out."
Jenna: "Spencer? Guess if I spotted you by Cyclops eye or just my usual sense of vibes and creeping."
Hanna: Jumps the fuck out of their way as they're passing; feels bad for Spence.
DUNCAN TIMES
Duncan: "Is your name really Aria?"
Aria: "Yeah, of course. Why?"
Duncan: "First of all, because I'm so sure you're named that or anybody is. And secondly, because you were dressed up as your friend who was also dressing up as this third entity. One must assume..."
: "Duncan, I am being totally straight with you. Thanks for driving over from a nearby town in the middle of the morning while all the blind monsters are roaming the halls biting freshmen."
Duncan: "In Brookhaven that's just a regular day."
Aria: "I want to ask what you know but without telling you anything. So you know that Alison's name was Alison? And that she is dead. You know that, right?"
Duncan: Starts crying. He's been in Florida gettin' gayer this whole time so he didn't know any of this, or else he is lying. Either way, he paces and gnaws on his knuckles. Alison is still dead.
Aria: "They don't know who did it. The cops think we did it, but they're wrong, and we don't care what they think. It has been a long, long tale of secrecy and shame. I am only now beginning to know myself, as a woman and as a..."
Duncan: "I recognize you now. Vivian said Alison had four friends and one of them was constantly being, like... How you're being right now. Horrible."
Aria: "She talked about us? How flattering! What about A, did she ever talk about A? Or any other letter of the alphabet that was about killing her all the time?"
Duncan: "Yeah, we shouldn't talk about this right here in public. Due to what you just said. I know a little place on the outskirts of Brookhaven where it's always the golden hour and the trees never have leaves and everything is silent except for the screaming of the unhoused spirits..."
Aria: "So it's a date, then!"
Duncan: "Let's not use that word. Hey, so when she died? I saw her that weekend. I hope that doesn't come as a surprise that she was meeting with even more fucking people in even more fucking places."
DEBRIEF
Aria: "So yeah, add that to the onslaught of people, things and places Alison checked in with while mid-death."
Liars: "Emily, why are you hanging back? After Hefty Hanna we decided to always walk in one line without any stragglers."
Emily: "I'm just bummed about Maya still being alive."
Garrett: Drives off from the Cavanaugh Place, tires squealing.
Liars: "Let's all just stand here hilariously staring into space until our phones go off with a text from A."
(They do. It is hilarious.)
A Text: "Where there's smoke, there's payback."
Liars: "Vague. I guess she's gonna blow some shit up now?"
Jenna and Toby come out of their house talking to some firemen. Not the hot kind, the regular kind. The ladies are astounded by this turn of events.
Emily: "We do not want the bitch we blew to hell talking to the fire department. Think about it."
Aria: "And now Toby's going to sell us out."
Spencer: "Man, I fucked that kid up. If only he didn't look so mournful all the time I would have been able to better gauge the level of his anxiety."
Toby: (Sells the girls out, complete with amazing hand movements to indicate the time they blew his sister to hell.)
DOCTOR
Jenna: "Did you see that old movie about the old lady who got her eyesight back? She filled a room up with all her most beautiful stuff so she could see them when she opened her eyes for the first time. In that spirit, take off your shirt."
Toby: "That lady in that movie was a mean old bitch."
Jenna: "Oh, so you have seen it!"
Toby: "Yeah. I also see Wren over there."
He growls at Wren when he comes over to check on Toby's arm from the roof thing; Wren has no idea and even stupidly brings up Spencer. Jenna finds a way to make even this situation about how creepy she is, somehow.
Jenna: "That little guy was really hot and British."
Toby: "I'm perturbed. Jealous? I don't know. It's really fucked up for you to work this angle."
Jenna: "Bitch, that is what I am all about. You think I'm gonna zig, I rape ya. You think I'm gonna zag, I fuck Noel Kahn. It's really the best policy."
MIDNIGHT IN THE QUAD
Emily: "Is there a reason you're hanging out in a random school area even though it's like sundown?"
Spencer: "In Rosewood it's always just about sundown. Anyway, I am starting to feel weird about the elaborate breakup con we pulled with Toby that time I made him break up with me."
Emily: "It's like your only plan that has ever actually worked. Think of it that way!"
Spencer: "What's this about your dad leaving Texas and your mom moving back here? And what about Maya?"
Emily: "It's all true. Also, Maya texted me but I'm keeping it a secret for no real reason. She's a little erratic, you know?"
Jason: "Ladies, hey. Don't worry, Specer, I won't talk about our little secret in front of Emily. Listen, I have more mystery things belonging to Alison -- these were from when Maya's family packed up all her shit. She left it on my porch like a flaming clue, and then vanished."
Spencer: "Reiterate for me that you found another bag of Alison's stuff, without all that boring Maya stuff cluttering the sentence."
FITZ OFC
Ella: "Ezra, I see you're reclining cutely on the huge leather couch that all new college teachers get in their gigantic offices. Can I have a moment?"
Ezra, verbatim: "I can offer you chocolate milk! Or an apple."
Ella: "Saints fucking preserve us. Listen, you know how you're fucking my child daughter? I just wanted to drop by and talk about talking about that -- again -- and assure you that I am still not cool with it. Despite your adorable fucking outfit making me want to cry and pinch your cheeks. I'm not your ally, I'm just not my husband. Don't go thinking I care that much."
Ezra: "Are we going to talk about the NOLA thing?"
Ella: "I do not have an opinion about my husband's manipulation and paranoia."
Ezra, amazingly: "...Yes, you do."
Ella, charmed: "Yes. I do. Damn, I forgot how cute you are. I gotta go. That was freakin' awesome."
Ezra: "We'll win you over in the long term, Ella Montgomery! If only by the fact that we have more chemistry as actors than anyone besides Spencer and Everyone do!"
Ella: "...I know it, man. It is killing me. So listen, has Aria ever mentioned a bully, or... That's not the right word. It's less like 'bullying' and more like a 'nightmarish game of cat and mouse from beyond the grave.' Ever mention anything like that, while you dorks were putting on paper-bag masks and lasciviously holding hands and drinking chocolate milk?"
Ezra: "No, despite all evidence to the contrary, I haven't noticed anything of the sort."
Ella: "I'm just working with what I'm working with, so I have no reason to think this isn't all about my family. In that context, do you have anybody after you that might be ricocheting onto me?"
Ezra: "Just Jackie Morales, but I murdered the shit out of... I mean, she is no longer a problem."
YR MY WONDERWAAL PART II
Mona: "One of these days I'm gonna take that blind people cane and beat her line a piñata."
Hanna: "Mona!"
Mona: "Sorry, that was harsh."
Hanna: "No, it was incredibly funny, but that bitch has ears like a bat."
Mona: "She stole Noel Kahn! Without even Cyclops eyes! What about when she has eyes, how scary will she be then? Maybe we should lure her into a house and blow h... Never mind, what were you saying?"
Hanna: "Uh, remember when you and Emily both went totally gay for her that time at Halloween?"
Mona: "Good thing Spencer is no longer involved with any of those Boo Radley motherfuckers."
Hanna: "Mona, you have got to calm down and you have got to keep your voice down."
Hanna & Mona: "So let's figure out a way to get Toby alone and away from Jenna, so that Spencer can get to the bottom of this. Or we make things worse. Either way, we're bored."
TOBY MTG RE: FEELINGS
Toby: "Mona, this pickup truck is not your style."
Mona: "It's not for me, it's for my rockabilly cousin! I love how you're so poor you have a tape player..."
Toby: "I see by Hanna's sudden appearance that this is a setup."
Mona: "I gotta bounce."
Hanna: "So this whole thing where you're dating your sister-rapist and ignoring Spencer is really..."
Toby: "I am clearly playing both sides here, probably to protect Spencer. Or else I have been brainwashed. The important thing is that you blew a girl to hell, and Spencer's dating a doctor of unusual size. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go let my sister do weird stuff to my body."
Wait, so that was the whole plan? Just get him in a room and then explain his own storyline to him? Yeah, I can't imagine why that wouldn't work out.
JASON MTG RE: STUFF
Jason: "Maya said this was hidden in the attic, because of how Alison had a personality disorder where she hid things..."
Aria: "I have to go meet Duncan, I just dropped by to say that in person instead of on the phone. Hey, is that Jason and Emily messing with secret Alison stuff?"
Spencer: "Yeah, maybe you should take a look at it before you go get murdered outside Brookhaven. Since it clearly contains the clue of this show."
Aria: "No, I simply don't have time for that. You can tell me about in person later, since I am apparently not using my phone in solidarity with Hanna's endangered ass."
Spencer: "Let's crack this bag of garbage open and see what it contains! Jason, you can stay for no reason."
Music box, "Fur Elise," a childhood objet... And suddenly Mrs. Hastings walks in, horrified to see her husband's bastard playing with garbage in her house. He leaves, she throws a shitfit, and Spencer just tells her to shut up.
Mrs. H: "I don't even want to go back to before we found out about Jason. In this family, we deny so hard that we can time-travel back to before he even existed."
Spencer: "This is why I'm crazy. This is why I'm crazy. This is why I'm crazy."
BROOKHAVEN WAREHOUSE DIST
Aria: "Wait, so you came here with Vivalison? To this creepy warehouse district?"
Duncan: "It's an airplane hangar, actually. A haunted one. Turns out I used to fly her around in an airplane, having gotten my pilot's license when I was sixteen."
Aria: "That sounds absurdly and illegally precocious. Totally my style."
Duncan: "So you ready?"
Aria: "For what? For you to fly me around in an airplane?"
Duncan: "Yeah, I mean, that's the logical thing that would happen right now."
JUNK & STUFF, THINGS & ODDMENTS
A toy airplane, chunky eighties jewelry, the A doll, Captain Oats, cloisonne crap, music box, a round brush, Spencer's disappointment.
DUNCAN GO NUTS
Duncan: "I was in love with Ali, although she had a lot of shit going on. She liked being in the air with me because it was just us two -- and sometimes I would let her drive. As part of your transformation into Vivian, would you like to fly this airplane for a minute?"
Aria: "Even for an Aria storyline, this is fucking ludicrous."
Duncan: "Just go with it. Believe me that when Alison was up here, illegally flying this plane, it was the only time she was truly herself. They couldn't get her, up here."
Aria: "They who?"
Duncan: "Maybe you?"
Aria: "I don't want to fly this plane anymore."
Duncan: "Think of the steering wheel as handcuffs while I interrogate you. If you let go or don't answer my questions, we both die. So pull your shit together, Aria Montgomery. For just like one second out of your life."
It's actually brilliant, this setup. Worth it, worth it. Of course Alison loved being behind the wheel, and of course she really had no idea what she was doing.
Duncan: "That guy Ian, he said he killed her and then killed himself?"
Aria: "Yeah, that was all lies. Somebody else did those things."
Duncan: "Okay, I trust you now. Sorry about the whole airplane pressure thing, but it was such an awesome idea. So listen, Ali called me from Hilton Head that Sunday of Labor Day. She wanted me to fly her from South Carolina to this field outside Philly."
Aria: "Really, because I clearly remember her taking a taxi from the train or bus or whatever, and her bags and everything. Sketch-acting in the driveway."
Duncan: "What part of this surprises you? She probably took a plane from Philly back to Hilton Head, for God's sake. Train to the City and then backwards in time to change her grandmother's will. Anyway, she was acting weird that weekend, probably because she was about to die."
Aria: "So she had like seven hours in Rosewood that we don't know about. Well, maybe that at least explains the million lunchboxes and secret snowglobes and hidden compartments and empty storage containers she left all over town. I can see her getting all that done in that timeframe."
Duncan: "She was pretty effective when she wanted to be. Especially if it was about hiding weird stuff in even weirder places."
FITZ OFC
Ezra: "Byron. How nice to get a visit from you. I summoned you here to talk about New Orleans, who have asked for my decision today. I just wanted to tell you what I've decided."
Byron: "Why me? Like I care."
Ezra: "Well, your influence was very generous. That's why I don't want there to be any confusion or hurt feelings when I tell you that you can take the entire state of Louisiana and shove it up your narrow ass."
Byron: "I can't help but wonder about your career. This is a mistake."
Ezra: "I'm not making the mistake you think I'm making. And I know that it's a ridiculously made-up unrealistic offer, which is why I don't want you in the driver's seat. I would never know whether I took the job because it's a great job, or because it's a good idea."
Byron: "You've got some nerve accusing me of trying to manipulate you like I'm doing!"
Ezra: "No, I don't think so. In the battle of the creeps, you will always be King Creep. And frankly, the fact that you think I'm the kind of person who would knuckle under this shit says more about you than it does me."
Byron: "I thought you'd be reasonable, but I guess ego rules the day."
Ezra: "Um, whose ego exactly? Because from where I'm standing you're actually making my case for me. A thing I didn't know was possible until you stuck your big stupid hypocrite Byron Montgomery nose up in my business."
Byron: "I have ... no response to that."
Byron finally leaves, with like sixteen dramatic glances back at Ezra, and of course the first call Fitz makes is to Aria, because he is a stone sucka. But man, that scene made me mad. Byron is everything that is wrong. Just the whole motherfucking boatload of problems in this world, Byron is them. Byron's the reason there were no dads in Sunnydale except Giles, because Buffy could never have existed in a town full of Byrons. Shit like this.
MAYA
Dear Emily. I am using a mystery email account to write and tell you that I've always liked how chill you are, and I think you should use that power to chill out right now. Quote, 'I shouldn't have come back. I should have just left, all tragic and perfect and we'd always have had that instead of this mess.'
Actually, that's a fairly level-headed take. I like Maya a lot more in email form. Maybe she can just send Emily emails from time to time about her adventures, and that way everybody wins. One of the great things about a long-distance relationship is that your stalker has to go to some pretty incredible lengths to hold your girlfriend hostage, when that kind of thing goes down, and the sad truth is that most stalkers just don't have that kind of energy.
HASTINGS
Veronica: "Wrapping up that bag of garbage, huh? He better not fucking come over to get it back. And if you take it over there, leave it on the porch. Don't go in the house, don't talk to him, and come right back here."
Spencer: "Well, you sound crazy. Also, it's door. Also, what the hell are you even talking about? We all have a piece of the truth, and nothing is going to get better until we all share our individual chunks of whatever is going on. Have your last five conversations with Ashley not made that abundantly clear? Because I'll tell you, Mom, she and Ella are just completely lapping you at this point. And you're supposed to be the smartest one."
Veronica: "Pam's coming back soon, and then I'll move right back to third place in terms of people who ever get what's going on."
Veronica: "Meantime, that boy is going to fuck everything up for everybody."
Spencer: "That 'boy' is my brother. Stop blaming them for everything. How about this, did you know that Alison was maybe blackmailing Dad?"
Veronica: "Wait, you talked to Dad about this? What, just for curiosity's sake, did he say?"
Spencer: "That he hired a PI because he thought Melissa killed Alison. See how it all loops around into crazytown?"
Veronica: "Well, how about this for a twist? The detective was my idea."
Spencer: "So now you're just disclosing... Wait, so we all think Melissa killed Alison?"
Veronica: "Have you ever met your sister? She is like the craziest thing I've ever seen!"
DEBRIEF
Spencer: "Jason wasn't even at his house when I dropped that shit off. And then you showed up here, in my yard, lurking, when I came home."
Hanna: "I just wanted to apologize for stirring up everything with Toby. And ask about that junk."
Spencer: "The junk was a dead end. (Obviously the junk will never be a dead end.)"
Hanna: "Times are tough! Look at this picture of Michelle Obama wearing the same blouse she wore in 2009!"
Spencer: "Hanna, if you could read you'd know this newspaper is from 2009. Although it's cool that your psychic clothing power is still in effect."
Hanna: "What are you saying? Explain it to me slowly, the importance of this newspaper I just pulled out from under my ass."
Spencer: "The assumption was the the St. Germains wrapped up all that junk in these papers, but if it was 2009 that means Ali wrapped it up before she died..."
Hanna: "Which means it's psycho clue time! Hey, randomly highlighted words in each newspaper page. Whattaya know?"
Spencer: "Go get that bag of trash from Jason's porch door. Don't get raped and murdered either on your way there or on your way back."
MONTGOMERY
Montgomerys: "Wait, you've been communicating with Ezra Fitz too? What a bunch of mixed signals."
Ella: "This whole family is about mixed signals. And irony."
Byron: "Well, you're the one screwing things up. Stop giving him false hope."
Ella: "You stop giving them reasons to run away to New Orleans first! You have no idea how awesome Fitz is being right now! NONE!"
DILAURENTIS YARD
Hanna grabs the bag, then hears a sinister clanging and investigates. What's goin on inside is that the house is on fire, and Jenna's trapped inside. Jenna's face hangs at the backdoor glass for a moment, before she goes down again. And without thinking, Hanna runs inside. Spencer comes to help her. They get Jenna out of the house and into the yard, and the house blows up. Amazing.
Amazing! When I said they had to atone for Alison's victims one by one, I didn't mean literally, but that's gorgeous. They actually saved Jenna from getting blown up. That is so beautiful!
I do not think it will help her not hate them -- nor do I think they will stop being bitches to and about her -- but still. How pleasing.
HOSPITAL
Jenna wakes up without her sunglasses, and Toby instantly supplies them. She is none too happy to be back in the hospital, and Toby slowly gets her to remember what all happened: Jason texted her to come for a chat, she took a cab over to their house, somebody mysterious opened it up, and then she blanks out. She can smell the fire in her hair; she remembers everything about it except who saved her.
Jenna: "Was it Jason?"
Toby: "No. It was Hanna Marin who saved you."
Jenna: "Well, fuck!"
Ashley runs up as they're talking about Duncan, hugging Hanna while Emily stares weirdly; meanwhile, Spence is getting some wound care from good ol' Wren. They chat about crazy Melissa, and "the carpenter," and how weird is Jenna, and how weird is Spencer's life, and how bizarre is her family, and can they just start dating already, and Wren says the Fates are complicit in their love, and she just says it's bad luck that throws them together.
Wren: "I hate to do this, but I need to ask you a direct question. Please say no, but do you want to agree that certain things never happened between us?"
Spencer: "Um, have you seen yourself?"
He wells up, it's darling, Wren is foine.
Aria: "So you were on your way to Scranton when your house blew up? How bad is it?"
Jason: "Pretty bad. But not as bad as Veronica coming around that corner. Please distract her."
The Liars all circle around Veronica to chill her out about how her daughter almost just blew up. The girls run off to deal, and Jason watches Veronica sit down, all alone.
Emily calls Mrs. St. Germain, just to make more of a fucking mess, to tell her that Maya's okay but that's all she gets to know.
Spencer watches through the window as Jason joins Veronica, which is super sweet, and then Toby tells her that Jenna has summoned all four of them for a meeting, and asks her if she's okay, which is also super sweet. I don't know much about shippers and I'm pretty sure they are idiots, but when I see Toby getting close to Spencer, I mean physically, it makes me want to slap anybody who is a fan of them dating, right in the face, because... I guess the truth is that it's because I secretly wish Wren were my boyfriend, and somehow acting like an ass about it will help that imaginary situation come true. Is that what shipping is? I think I have that. And I do not wish to learn the cure.
JENNA THING OF ALL TIME
Aria: "So, Jason was out of town and didn't send you that text. Also why would he club you over the head and then leave you in a blowing-up house? That's more our thing."
Jenna: "Well, fuckin' somebody did."
Spencer: "Right, because it was one of us? So predictable."
Emily: "You cannot possibly think, at this point, that we did this. Half of us saved you."
Jenna suddenly, finally, bursts into tears. She's as mystified as they are. This is so perfect.
"...I don't."
Jenna's getting embarrassed, so Toby asks them to leave; Jenna asks Hanna to stay.
Jenna: "Did you really save me?"
Hanna: "Yeah, that was me."
Jenna: "Why?"
Because absolutely nothing is going to change until somebody does this, and I'm the one who does this. Because none of us would have ever hurt you; because Alison was attracted and repulsed by you the same way we were attracted and repulsed by her, which is the only reason you ever got hurt. Because blood calls for blood, and somebody's got to be the smart one and stop it from going around and around, and that's me.
Because you couldn't see my face at the window, but I could see yours.
"...You're welcome."
That was Hanna Marin speaking, in case you were confused. I love this show. I just love this show.
MORE RE: STUFF
Liars: "So... That was A trying to kill her, huh?"
Spencer: "I just want to figure out what's going on with these newspapers."
Hanna: "I mean, it's dicey because normally I would say A, since it was obviously A, but this is Jenna. Don't we think Jenna is A? You know, like how everybody is A?"
Aria: "Well, or Garrett being jealous because she's back with Toby, or with Noel Kahn and Toby both, or..."
Emily: "She was honestly supposed to die, huh?"
Liars: "...Let's stay with the image of her having a threesome with Noel Kahn and Toby for like one second."
Aria: "No, I found a ripped-up postcard with #1 written on it. And no postmark."
Hanna: "And I found a newspaper with some..."
I don't really get this part, it's very mysterious. I guess she was at a concert that Sunday, not on the bus like they thought, meeting somebody mysterious that was the last person to see her before the sixteen other people that were the last person to see her. Not sure why that's a huge cliffhanger, but suddenly the music box comes alive and is foregrounded, the better to play over the A-Tag while the girls blur out of focus and into terror!
A-TAG
Blown up house, music box playing, A trailing her hand along the wreckage, and finally leaving a cop's badge in the ashes. How fucking great was this episode.
The evil Halloween doll is at the Doll Hospital. Alison and A were corresponding through the classifieds, Melissa still might've killed A, Mona getting more A bullshit, dolls full of scary stuff, Toby and Jenna having secrets, the Alison Chuckie Doll finally comes into play, one more episode until A is revealed.
JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Pretty Little Liars and True Blood for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, on Twitter, and on Facebook. IRL work appears in BenBella's SmartPop series of anthologies, most recently A Friday Night Lights Companion and Fringe Science.
I don't really get this part, it's very mysterious. I guess she was at a concert that Sunday, not on the bus like they thought, meeting somebody mysterious that was the last person to see her before the sixteen other people that were the last person to see her. Not sure why that's a huge cliffhanger, but suddenly the music box comes alive and is foregrounded, the better to play over the A-Tag while the girls blur out of focus and into terror!
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Blown up house, music box playing, A trailing her hand along the wreckage, and finally leaving a cop's badge in the ashes. How fucking great was this episode.
The evil Halloween doll is at the Doll Hospital. Alison and A were corresponding through the classifieds, Melissa still might've killed A, Mona getting more A bullshit, dolls full of scary stuff, Toby and Jenna having secrets, the Alison Chuckie Doll finally comes into play, one more episode until A is revealed.
JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Pretty Little Liars and True Blood for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, on Twitter, and on Facebook. IRL work appears in BenBella's SmartPop series of anthologies, most recently A Friday Night Lights Companion and Fringe Science.