On this week’s episode of Pretty Little Liars, Spencer searched for A, Hanna got her teeth cleaned, Emily was scared and Aria made everything worse for everyone.
When watching Pretty Little Liars, all rules of logic don’t apply. Anything goes in Rosewood and, this far along in the game, we’re all used to it. We’re used to the fact that a 15-year-old was smart enough to fake her death and that someone could go from blackmailing a group of girls and even hitting one of them with a car to finding her way back into the social pyramid in high school. We have to believe that these things are actually possible to keep from spending every second of the show rolling our eyes. One example this evening of the unrealistic nature is Emily’s entire plotline.
Emily: Emily was a mess tonight. She spent half the episode pouting about Spencer scaring Alison away and spent the other half completely terrified. It is as if, when Alison visited her, she stole all of Emily’s bravery. She went from wanting to kick A’s butt to wanting to hide underneath the covers and never coming out.
Emily’s dad is back and he’s worried about her. After he tells her that someone messed with her car at a remote location, Emily is too scared to drive. She says that she is going to ride her bike to school instead. Emily’s dad wants to make sure that she is ok and Emily blames her weird behavior on how stressful senior year is.
Because Emily’s dad is a good father, he goes to Mr. Fitz and asks him, as a teacher, if Emily is doing ok. He gives his creepy A-grin and says that he will give her an extra assignment to keep her busy. Also his unknown Alison agenda will be filled because he did not send a text that said that there was a setback.
When Emily is lying in bed, she is woken up by a noise and nearly stabs her own father with a pair of scissors. So, maybe working on a school play with Ezra isn’t that big of a deal.
Here comes the stupid unrealistic part of Emily’s story. While Emily is all alone at Rosewood High, she hears someone in the hallway. A normal person would assume that there was another teacher or even a janitor in the school, Emily freaks out like a crazy person.
Then, the lights flicker and the power goes out. As Emily calls her father, the music over the intercom begins to blast. She leaves a message and runs around the school, trapping herself in an office on the second floor. She puts a table in front of the door and bangs on the windows for help.
A normal person would go to the first floor and run away but, like I said, suspension of disbelief. So, as she has locked herself in herself on the top floor, her dad arrives minutes later just in the nick of time.
A is banging on the door, trying to get in as Emily is banging on the window, trying to get her dad’s attention. She breaks the window and yells out to get her dad’s attention.
So, he climbs up the school almost Spiderman-like and opens the window. Emily couldn’t open the window but her dad could while also holding onto a pipe. Whatever. So the two shimmy down the building and Emily turns to thank her dad but he has a secret heart condition and he is lying on the ground.
Her father seems to fully understand why his daughter was terrified enough to break a window. Emily has no consequences for her actions from her father or the school. I mean, come on! And A is completely out of sight.
Aria:
Aria had a lot on her plate this episode. Mike is now seeing Mona. Maggie is back and Emily is mad at Spencer and Hanna so she’s spending all of her time with Aria. I get why she was so overwhelmed. However, she was a little out of control.
When Aria walked in to find that Mike was having a party at her house, she became his parent rather than his sister. She kicked everyone out. Annoyed, she and Emily walked to her room to find Mona standing outside of it. In an interesting conversation, Mona revealed that Mike had invited her to the party.
I think it is very odd that Mike is getting a bigger role all of the sudden. We just learned that he and Hanna hooked up and now he’s hooking up with Mona? Like Aria, I know there is more to this story.
Aria drills Mona about why she is hanging out with Mike. Mona says that the guidance counselor, Jesse. Aria goes to see Jesse and he invites her to this group that both Mike and Mona belong into. Aria calls Mona “the devil” and Jesse tells Aria that she is angry.
Jesse is an outrageous character. Mona really messed up the pretty little liar’s lives and now Aria should forgive her? Yeah right. Mona tells Aria that, after she took the fall for Hanna’s mom, she got shut out from the group again. Duh. You can’t just forget that someone broke up your parent’s marriage or blackmailed you.
Anyway, Maggie is back and Ezra is angry. Honestly, I really don’t care about this Maggie plotline. Ezra wants to see Malcolm, who really isn’t even his son. Maggie doesn’t want Ezra to see him so, when she comes back from Seattle, she leaves him there instead of letting Ezra see him.
What a jerk. If I were Ezra, I’d be mad too. But, hey, maybe he’ll invite her to his murder-cabin and murder her. I don’t know; I’m just throwing it out there.
Aria, seeing how upset Ezra is, talks to Maggie about the whole situation. It is a perfect girl fight. The only thing missing was the hair pulling and someone saying, “hold my purse.”
Aria calls Maggie out on the fact that she blackmailed Ezra’s family into paying her to hide Malcolm, even though Malcolm wasn’t Ezra’s. Maggie called Aria out on the fact that she was sleeping with her teacher. Both are good points. But instead of continuing the conversation with snide commentary, “I’m not angry” Aria threw Maggie’s box on the group. Oops.
Spencer: Spencer basically runs the show on the A-hunt front. She is quick as a whip and needs to know everything. That’s good. However, with schoolwork, trying to figure out what was in Ali’s diary and everything else in her life, Spencer is running on fumes. Enter Andrew, former study buddy and cutie. After Spencer invites him over to study, she realizes that he is using medication to get all of his stuff done. So, she asks him if she can have some of them.
For those of you who were wondering, the Spencer on pills storyline is in the Pretty Little Liars books as part of the third arch in the book. Except Spencer gets arrested and makes someone else take the fall. Hopefully the show doesn’t dig too deep because another Spencer B-plot will be too overwhelming.
But, with her newfound medicated energy, Spencer decodes Ali’s diary. She heads to a bar called Hart and Huntsman because, in Ali’s diary, she talks about meeting an older man there.
In the diary, Ali talks about reading her “stories” to someone who drinks beer and eats boysenberry pie. The older man tells her that the stories are good and will be better when she matures.
When Spencer goes to the pub, she runs into Ezra. And what is he doing? He’s eating boysenberry pie and drinking beer. When he leaves, Spencer stays and the waitress hands her his bottle of beer. What’s it called, you ask? Board Shorts Ale.
Cue the dramatic music.
So, now, Ezra is looking guiltier by the second and doped-up Spencer won’t let him go so easily.
Hanna: And finally, poor Hanna is stuck in a rut. First Caleb broke up with her then Travis denied her advances. It’s sad. But, instead of looking for another man, she throws herself into crime novels.
When at the bookstore, she runs into Detective Holbrook. He suggests to her a book to read and is a little flirty. I think the writers might be setting up a romance between Hanna and the cop.
Why do all of the girls have to fall for older guys? Wren, Garret, Ezra, Ian, Jason, Toby, Aria’s dad, all of the guys of this town really like dating younger girls. It’s creepy at this point.
Anyway, after reading the crime novels, Hanna figures out the next step in finding who is after Ali. She should go to the dentist and look up Ali’s dental records to see who switched them. So she goes.
When she finds the paper work, she heads back in the chair only to be drugged by A. A steals the documents out of her purse and puts a piece of paper in her teeth that Spencer has to pull out with tweezers. A leaves a note that says, "I told you dead girls can't smile. Stop looking -- A." Gross.
Also happened:
-Mona had a secret meeting with Ezra. Are they working together now?
-Ezra was texting someone about Alison. Who could it be?
-The shredded dental records were put in Tippi the bird’s cage
-Andrew hit on Spencer because he thought she had broken up with “the carpenter.” Too bad Andrew isn’t Dandrew because then their couple name would be Dancer. Just saying.