But when Spencer gets home, she finds out that Melissa is staying for a couple days because she’s worried that Jason will do something crazy. Spencer immediately shows Melissa the feathers and is all, “I know you were the Black Swan and I know you didn’t lose the baby in June.” Wow, PLL, what? You didn’t want to drag out this Black Swan/Melissa thing for 5 more episodes? You guys are winning me over right now. Melissa doesn’t deny anything and admits that she lost the baby the day after she found Ian’s body. A question answered, everyone take a big ole shot! Melissa said that she tried to tell Spencer at Ian’s memorial, but then she saw Spencer had Ian’s phone and thought that Spencer was the one sending her those texts. She faked the pregnancy because she couldn’t deal with people finding out about it so soon after Ian’s death since she was getting a lot of attention. Spencer asks her why she was at the Ball and then Veronica (who’s there, all of a sudden) wants to know the same thing.
Hanna tells Aria over the phone that she’s going to tell Caleb about the new “A” when he comes over. Then Hanna gets a text from “A” saying that he/she’s everywhere and also sends her some photos of a Montecito EMT by a car wreck. Oh, dear.
Melissa tells Spencer and Veronica that the costume was on her doorstep one day with a note saying that she had to wear it to the ball or everyone would know about her baby. She couldn’t tell anyone and she was being blackmailed so she went to the ball and followed the directions of the note, which told her to distract Jenna. But Melissa freaked and ran out when she saw Spencer and her friends. How did she know it was them? It WAS a masquerade ball, after all. She assumes it was Mona because she hasn’t gotten anymore threats or anything and wants to put it all behind her. After Melissa goes upstairs, Spencer asks her mom who else knows that Melissa was faking her baby. Turns out both Spencer’s dad and Garrett knew, so Spencer wonders if Garrett’s blackmailing Veronica into taking his case. Veronica says that’s not the case: Turns out, Garrett’s public defender was putting together some defense witnesses and one of them was the P.I. that they hired to watch Melissa after Alison went missing. Even though Melissa had nothing to do with Alison’s murder, if a jury found out that they’d hired a P.I. and that Melissa faked her pregnancy, then they’d think Melissa was guilty of something. Like faking a pregnancy, for instance. Veronica tells Spencer not to tell anyone. Where the hell is Spencer’s dad?
Hanna’s looking at the photo when Caleb shows up, telling Hanna that his mom was in a car accident in Montecito. But she’s fine. Although she did say that she felt that someone was trying to run her off the road. Caleb asks her what she wanted to talk about, but she says it’s not a good time. Ooh, Caleb and his hippie hair are not happy. He says there’s no more “A” so why is she lying to him? He asks if it’s about Mona, but Hanna says it’s not and asks him to drop it. Caleb says that he can’t deal with her anymore — she keeps pushing him away and he hopes things will change, but they never do, and he’s out of patience and tired of only existing in “half of [her] life.” (The other half is cupcakes, I’m assuming.) He asks her to give him something, but Hanna doesn’t say anything. Caleb: “I’m done, Hanna.” Oh, suh-nap! Ashley Benson is really good in this scene, you guys. And the guy who plays Caleb, well . . . he’s . . . he’s in the room, too. Hanna is devastated.
“Oh god. Is Lucky Leon’s number 1 or 2 on the speed-dial?”
Come on. We all know it’s number 1. Aria’s in her room when she gets a text from Spencer that reads:
Uh, “abort plan?” Real sensitive, Spence.
Ella shows up for a chat. She was getting stuff for her apartment. Where the hell is Aria’s dad? Where are ANY of the dads on this show? Geez. Ella brings up the Mainline Mate stuff and part of her is angry, but she also realizes that Aria’s trying to help. Also Ella knows about Byron seeing Meredith again and she’s okay with it, mostly.
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“…Now you have no baby, and no surprise dinner.” hahaha!
i still feel like wren has something to do with A.
No Ezra this episode? Almost makes me wish I had watched.
The recap had me laughing out lad as per usual, but I’m just not motivated to make time to watch the actually show anymore.
Good luck with the move and the new job.
Ok, I just moved from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today to a new apartment. My back is breaking and every muscle is sore. So I don’t know if that is why, but you were on fire in this recap and I laughed way too many times to quote anything. But….Alf? Really?? lol
I sure wish my parents were this MIA when I was 16!!
Also, your friends don’t have internet? Someone else recapping this show is unacceptable! BUT, you know I love you, and good luck on your move and job. Maybe hit me up and give me the deets on where you’re going, etc. Closer to me!?!?!
Love your recaps, love this show. What does it say about me that I found the whole Melissa-coming-back-to-the-apartment scene to be truly suspenseful? I’m a little ashamed.
I think Melissa knows they’re onto her (she totally knew that book was out of place) and made up the Black Swan story accordingly.
I agree that Maya’s cousin, already forgot his name, is not really a relative and has ulterior motives.
How is A this all powerful that he/she/it is actually flying to Cali to run Caleb’s mom off the road?! Girlfriend needs a hobby.
Love your recaps, always and forever Hypno! I will miss you during your hiatus. Have a safe move!
Yeah, I think Veronica is looking like Mariska Hargitay these days with that hair.
Ooooh, what if cousin Nate ended up like Peyton’s fake half-brother stalker?? That would be awesome.
I like Caleb because he’s the only character that consistently seems like a good person. And not a robot.
Also, I’m starting to think The Bronze and The Only Restaurant in Rosewood are somehow the same. How did that coffee shop have “takeout”??
Hilarious recap! I agree with Begonia, the no baby/no surprise dinner line was pure gold.
I wish I had some awesome PLL predictions, but you kind of have to go with the flow or you’ll make yourself crazy.
My friends DO have internet, but they also have a 3 year-old and a 1 year-old, and I want to help out as much as I can, and they don’t live in the same area, so it’ll be a commute to and from my new job every day. Plus, when/while I’m moving, I won’t have internet until I get it hooked up. Boo. Hopefully it won’t be a long hiatus!
I agree with your opinion of Caleb, Liz. He does seem to the be only one without an agenda (and yes, let’s not count The Tobot). Now if he would only cut that hair! I think the dude who plays him would be ever so much more attractive with shorter hair.
Begonia — Wren could TOTALLY have something to do with “A.” I mean, can medical doctors actually just hang around institutions as part of their job? When I was in the asylum (they based Angelina Jolie’s character in “Girl, Interrupted” on me), I don’t remember that being the case. But I was too busy talking to Jesus to notice anything, so I don’t know. Wren’s just creeping me out. I really hope he doesn’t put the moves on Hanna. Of course, now that Caleb’s broken up with her, I’m sure he’ll be there for “sympathy.” Gross.
And Maya’s “cousin” is totes up to something. Why is he so chummy with Emily? That whole “Sounds like a great first date to me” line really skeeved me out. He just met Emily AND she’s a lesbian AND she was dating his blood-relative. Ew.
Liz: Refresh my drink — who is Peyton? Is that Hanna’s new half-sister? And how DID The Bronze have takeout? I thought it was just a coffee shop with little horrendously expensive scones and crap. This show . . . It bugs me so much. I love it.
Omg, it’s not even just that Caleb’s hair is so long, it’s that they’ve now started mussing it for every scene. It’s ridic.
And I’m sorry, that was a One Tree Hill reference. One of the characters, Peyton, was adopted, and one day the half-brother she had recently been told about showed up. All of her real and adopted family died (maybe her adopted dad just moved, but still she was living alone in high school) so she just believed him when he said he was her brother. But then it turned out he was actually a random stalker who lied about being her brother. He tried to kill her on prom night. It was super ridiculous, and awesome.
Liz! Why you gotta get me thinkin’ that there are more characters in this show than there really are?! Sheesh.
Also, I kind of feel like that Peyton scenario HAD to have happened on some show before then. LIke 90210 or Melrose Place (the original, not the Ashlee Simpson piece of shit), some Aaron Spelling show. Or some WB crap like “Dawson’s Creek” or something. It didn’t happen on “Felicity,” because that show was focused on asshat Julie and her g.d. dad’s kidney (or maybe her stepdad. I really didn’t pay attention to Julie so much, because she sucked so much moist ass.)
Lol! Sorry, it didn’t even occur to me that that would be confusing, which is stupid since we are obviously talking about PLL so I don’t know why you wouldn’t think I was referencing PLL.
I fall into a weird age group (or maybe I was just really sheltered as a kid or something?) where I sorta missed all those shows so I wouldn’t know. But it seems like it had to have happened before on one of those shows!
Hypno – I feel pretty confident there was some type of kidnapping/stalking plot on the original MP. The story lines and character’s were bat shit cray.
Keep the Maya jokes coming, Hypno. No one liked her, plus they’re hilarious.
I actually almost liked Aria this episode, it was nice to see her care about something besides herself and her smarmy boyfriend. And I loved the scene between Aria and Hanna’s moms, a great 90′s reunion.
So apparently there was no new Pretty Little Liars episode this week. So, happy 4th of July! Or if you’re in not in America, happy 4th of July!
Happy 4th of July Hypno! I have found that I would much rather DVR PPL and watch a 3 hour block of Big Bang Theory reruns then watch this shit when it first airs. I don’t know, I am just not as into it as I was during the winter season…maybe because, oh IDK they are wanting us to think that Mona is A when really she isn’t…I watched this episode, but I feel like I missed so much, thanks for your recaps. Or was it just that boring? Detective what’s his ass is back, so that means he is up to no good. Wonder if he is going to go sniffing around Ashley again…wait, that is her name right? Hanna’s mom, Ashley?
And seriously writers, wtf happened to Holden? I was hoping he would get paired with Aria and Ezra would just go away!
Me thinks Jenna and Melissa are working together, I don’t believe for a minute that all of a sudden “someone sent me something and told me to be there.” bs…Some way some how they have lucas and Wren in on it too…