Pretty Little Liars Season 2 Episode 17

Pretty Little Liars Season 2 Episode 17 : Big Plot Points to Remember: Aria uses Holden as an alibi, but he has his own plans. Maya dated a boy while she and Emily were apart. What Lucas lost was not A’s cellphone, but Caleb’s money, gambling. Spencer visits a blind rehab center in Philadelphia and steals a ledger book demonstrating Alison didn’t visit Jenna the day before she went missing.

Nothing on Hanna’s new family. Nothing on the NAT club. No boots. No Dr. Sullivan. No (sniffle) Jason.

The Doings of “A”: A’s back in nasty text mode. Several to Hanna. Chinese food full of dirt and worms.

Best Lines:

“Hanna, promise me you’ll never get a job at a crisis center.” Emily.

“Could you be any more selfish?” Mona.

“Dinner? A movie? Paste free, I promise.” Holden.

Best of Lies

“There is no story.” Hanna.

“No need to explain. Whatever it is, just tell me when you’re ready.” Emily.

Plot Summary by Girl

Pretty Little Liars Season 2 Episode 17 : Emily: gets a call: “you work for the crisis line.” But it’s only Maya. Fake stalking a person who’s really been stalked seems unflirtatious to me, but Emily likes it. They make plans. Maya visits the crisis center, and receives a disturbing text she doesn’t explain.

Emily talks to Hanna about that, but Hanna’s not a great friend. When Maya doesn’t answer her phone, at a club, Maya admits she hooked up with someone. It’s over, but “it looks like he won’t take no for an answer.” He?

Aria: tells Spencer about Ezra issues in the school halls. Just then, her “alibi,” Holden, actually asks her out.

Emily buys theater tickets (It’s “A View from the Bridge,” about “misplaced passion,” says Ezra’s date), hoping to bump into Ezra, who had bought the same tickets months ago.

The date isn’t wonderful—Holden notices her yearning looks at Ezra. But it could be an opportunity. What is she doing next Friday? He asks. Hmm. Why?

Pretty Little Liars Season 2 Episode 17 : Hanna: The girls hover around Hanna after the party. She takes a swig of water, but the bottle in her bag is full of lakewater. She gets a text from A: “no fun chugging lake water, is it. Choke on this, bitch. A.”

At breakfast, Hanna has learned that Lucas called home. Ashley says it must be upsetting that Lucas ran off to deal with something instead of confiding in Hanna (she turns out to be right).

Overdressed like Madonna 1983, Hanna walks down the hall ignoring Mona, who is upset about Noel’s bad boyfriend behavior. Mona snaps “could you be any more selfish?” (I cheered). Hanna cries in the bathroom after seeing her homecoming queen picture taken to storage (homecoming queens and juvenile delinquency don’t mix). Then she sees the sinks overflowing, and a wooden ship. A text: “Life is but a dream Hanna. And I’m your nightmare.”—A.

After school, she and Caleb quarrel about Lucas. She lies that there’s nothing to tell him, and then huffs “are you calling me a liar?”

Later, Hanna’s kitchen doors bang open. She thinks it’s the latch, but there are footprints. Someone sneaks into her room.

It’s Lucas!

“I can’t let you leave this room!” Lucas says. Caleb appears—he also came in through the kitchen. Lucas wanted to get Hanna alone to confess that he blew Caleb’s $4000 on sports gambling.

So hurray for those who caught the freeze frame of an online betting site on his laptop!

Lucas had been driving around selling comic books to raise some money.

Spencer: Spencer shows the girls a bag of cables from the lake house attic—A. must have been there. Spencer and Aria decide to check out “Smittys,” listed on the receipt, in Philadelphia.

But it’s just a newsstand. Aria leaves. Then Spencer notices two blind people. Was Jenna there? She follows them to a Rehabilitation Center for the Blind.

The receptionist won’t help, but a saintly looking blonde boy (curly hair, strong jaw, shiny face) tells her he knew Jenna. Spencer brings “Godspell” boy coffee. He can tell sugar packets from saccharine—by the feel. Unlike Jenna, he has a genetic condition that gradually got worse. He admires Jenna, whose determination motivated him out of depression.

We didn’t get his name, but I hope he returns.

Before Spencer leaves, the receptionist insists she sign in. Then she steps away long enough for Spencer to steal a ledger. At the Rosewood train station, Spencer meets Mona, who had been getting retail therapy in Philadelphia. Spencer bucks her up about Noel, who dumped her. Doesn’t look like Mona’s A. now.

So it wasn’t Lucas in the greenhouse trap, the Liars realize.

The ledger reveals that Alison didn’t visit Jenna the day before she was missing—but Garrett did. He signed Jenna out. They could have been gone all night.

Their Chinese delivery is full of dirt and worms. Yuck. Text from A: “this is what live bait looks like. Now we’re even bitches. A!”