Pretty Little Liars Recap: The Dumbbell Jar

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By Hypnotoad | Thursday, June 21, 2012 | 10:49 pm | 14 Comments
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MEAN-EFFING-WHILE, at the stakeout, the gals see a cab pull up to take Jenna to H. Cobb’s.  They follow.  Back at Spencer’s house, she’s now on the horn with The Hanover, saying she’s Melissa and needs to check her bill to see if she left on June 10th, but the dude on the phone says that she stayed three days after that, with restaurant and spa charges.  And?  An additional room.  For Veronica Hastings.  Say what?!

Emily arrives in Ella’s classroom to tell her that she’s going to talk to the vice-principal with her.  Ella protests, but Emily says that she’s grateful but Ella doesn’t know what she’s done.  Then the vice-principal shows up with Ezra, who tells Ella that he told the vice-principal that he talked to Ella after the test and then asked Ella to grade Emily’s test in front of him, which could look like preferential treatment, but was an honest mistake with good intentions.  And the vice-principal bought it, so all is well.

OR IS IT?!

Ezra saves the day, dammit.  Aria and Hanna arrive at Jenna’s destination — a doctor’s office, deciding to go in in a few minutes.  Then they see Jenna . . . freaking driving away in a blue Mustang convertible!  They get the other girls on the horn ASAP.

But let’s forget about the excitement for a minute and focus on something incredibly boring.

Namely, this.

Ooooh, Ezra’s trying to buy a soda!  SUSPENSE!  Ella shows up to thank him for what he did.  But she’s not sure why Ezra did it.  He says he knows what it’s like to be a teacher.  Plus, they used to be friends.  Before he boned her daughter.  Which tends to put a crimp in things, sometimes.  

“Tell me about it . . .”

So, all the girls have met up and followed Jenna to H. Cobb’s, which is a gun store.  Emily recognizes the car from the Alison-grave night.  They ask Spencer about her call to the hospital and Spencer (who looks really pretty in this scene, by the way) tells them that there were no records.  Jenna comes out and Hanna walks over to confront her.  Spencer tries to hold her back, but she can’t.  Hanna walks in front of Jenna’s car and is all, “What a sight for sore eyes.”

Back at the loony bin, Mona is playing solitaire and talking about how her grandpa taught her to play.  Turns out she’s talking to Caleb.  He tells her that he might believe her and he might not, but she better not mess with Hanna or some shit will go down.  Caleb’s all, You’re laughing at all of us in your head, but the real joke is, “I get to walk out of that door and you don’t get to go anywhere.”  Mona’s all, “You are a lousy kisser.”  And then she freaks the f**k out and screams and throws shit around and screams some more while orderlies try to sedate her.

In an alley, Jenna tells the girls that she could see from the first operation.  She adds that it was the only way to protect herself — people get careless around blind people (I know I do!) and sometimes leave things that they think she can’t see.  Also, it was safer if she didn’t tell Toby.  So, she liked to go driving at night — which is probably awesome:  I’m sure night driving is the first thing doctors tell you to do after restoring your eyesight — and she saw Emily standing in the middle of the road.  She almost hit Em with her car and since Em was drunk and crying about Maya, she didn’t want to leave Emily there.  “She was so messed up that I didn’t think she’d remember and if she did, who would believe her?”  Jenna was going to take Emily home but she freaked out at a red light and jumped out of the car.  This happened, Jenna says, about 12 or 12:30.  She asks the PLL gang not to tell anyone, because’s she’s still in danger or whatever.  She’s all, You owe it to me.  Which, um, yeah.  They do.

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Hypnotoad is a 2009 graduate of the MFA Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a staple of the Chicago Quickies reading series, has been published in various Art Institute publications, and served as an actor/playwright for the Curious Theatre Branch's Rhinoceros Festival. His works have been online at Fiction At Work and is included in their short story collection. A victim of the crappy economy, he is now living back in Kansas. With his parents. His days now consist of perusing Yahoo Hot Jobs, and sporadically posting horrible ideas on his blog. Good times.

14 Comments

  1. 1
    chamar62590 Chamar
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    If melissa has been faking her pregnancy longer than we thought, maybe she could have been the one hannah hit with her car, and possibly lost the baby then? Maybe?

  2. 2
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 6:57 am

    Every time I think I have it figured out I realize that I really don’t. Could we focus on one or two story lines instead of the 36 we have going right now.

  3. 3
    keebler elf
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 10:06 am

    if melissa was faking her pregnancy then she could have been the black swan at that dance…im kind of convinced that spencer’s family does not love her

  4. 4
    thisbuggs4u
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 11:19 am

    Yeah, I knew Jenna could see! told you so, told you so :)

    Melissa was never pregnant! I think she somehow has Wren and Garrett in on this whole thing. That body could be 1 of 2 people. Alison and or Ian. Although, since we never saw Ian’s body after he took a dive off the bell tower, I am going to assume that he is one of the gloved ones! Somehow Veronica ties into this whole flucked up mess, I just have not figured that out yet!

  5. 5
    keebler elf
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    @thisbuggs4u ian was killed, they think it was suicide but it was probably A

  6. 6
    thisbuggs4u
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    True Keebler. That is my speculation about Ian. We assume he killed himself. But I thought he got “wrapped” around that rope…hence my wonderingd about him being part the black gloved ones.

  7. 7
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    I thought Ian shot himself (or, I suppose, was set up to look like he shot himself). Right?

  8. 8
    thisbuggs4u
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    No, I thought he had chased one of the girls up the belltower at church or something, fell and it had looked like he hung himself. When the girls called 911 the police showed up and all we saw was the rope, no Ian…That is why I am thinking that Ian can me one of the hoodie/gloved people…I can be wrong. :)

    But totes Melissa=never pregnant! and Wren is in on that secret!!

  9. 9
    keebler elf
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 9:18 pm

    when i said he was killed i meant he was shot, but yeah what hypnotoad said!

  10. 10
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 10:34 pm

    thisbuggs4u — That happened, but then they later found Ian in an abandoned greenhouse or barn or Applebee’s (whatever) shot in the head with a suicide note. It happened in episode 4 of season 2:

    http://www.tvgasm.com/recaps/pretty-little-liars-damnby.html

    He might NOT be dead, but it’d be a helluva weird twist if he wasn’t. I’m actually surprised I remembered that. Usually I can’t keep the 1,412 plots on this show straight.

  11. 11
    thisbuggs4u
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 10:42 pm

    Ok. thanks hypno!! I will go back and read that one :) I missed half of one of these “seasons”. Must have been season 2 because I have season 1 on DVD….so that is what I thought happened to Ian.

    But it is nice to know that Caleb is not living with Lucas….But where IS he living? oh this show…

  12. 12
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    Lucas is starting to look like a well fed, homeless person.

  13. 13
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    Way to call the fake pregnancy, Hypno!!! And all of your screen caps are amazingly hilarious. Also loving “The Bronze” refs. Almost done with the final season!!!

    Keebler – good theory about Melissa being the black swan!!! Did we ever get to see said swan’s hair color???

  14. 14
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    Andddd, is the greenhouse that Ian had the same one the pll’s met up at a few times??

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