PLL 2-5 twopj recap 15pgs televisionwithoutpity.com/show/pretty_little_liars/surface_tension
p1 One thing for sure: If they get too quiet and unstirred-up, A is going to get bored and come after them so they will run around and wreck shop like usual. One might think that the amazing fashion show debacle might have calmed A down, but if one thought that, one would be ignoring how part of A's whole wonderful thing is how she is totally haphazard and insane.
Liar: "This isn't just about making us look bad anymore, is it?" Liar: "No. It's about how A and the Killer are the same person." Liar: "For sure?" Liar: "Um, no. Have you not seen this show before?"


[MONTGOMERY HOUSEHOLD]
p2 Aria: "Which of these age-inappropriate outfits should I wear to your house party of grown-up intellectuals? Keep in mind that my delusions of precocity will put me front and center for any conversation you attempt to have."
Ella: "You look great in everything, because you're so gorgeous. Which is saying a lot, because you normally dress like something from The Dark Crystal."
True, true and true.


p3-4 Mike has on his desk a rearview mirror, through which this conversation takes place. It has been altered to say PARENTS In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear. Byron: "Mike, you have to come to this total drag of a party, okay?" Mike: "I'm going to be stealing mortar shells and napalm from area survivalists for when I blow up the school, but thanks for the invite."

{{ forum p277 -Houddy: Mike: I wanted a gun but all I found was this crappy candle holder. Aria: OMG you got this from Garrett's place?
Mike: Yeah, wanted a real big gun, with lots of bullets. Aria: But really, you must mean Jenna's house.
Mike: At least three bullets. One named Dad, one named Mom and one named Aria. Aria: Jenna made this, so you must have gotten it from her house.
Mike: Then I'll blow up the whole town. Aria: But if you got it from Garrett's...OMG, Jenna and Garrett are up to something. }}

Theories on Mirror Thing: Maybe it's heartwarming, and Byron loves Mike more than it seems like right now. Maybe it's foreshadowing how Ella and Ashley are getting closer to intuiting the existence of A, and thus in terrible danger. Maybe it symbolizes that Mike is going to kill everybody in Rosewood and then drive away from their smoking corpses while blaring the Cardigans' "The Boys Are Back In Town."

MAYBE ALL OF THE ABOVE


p5 SNAPSHOT: LIFE WITH HANNA
Hanna: "WHERE ARE MY KEYS I LOST MY PHONE PHONE" Emily: "Could you stop screaming for one second and let me do homework? It's really hard because I'm being slowly poisoned to death." Hanna: "DJ TURN IT UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP" Emily: "Bitch I need you to chill down. You've been doing homework wrong this whole time." Hanna: "BOYS WHO DO GIRLS LIKE THEY'RE BOYS THAT LIKE GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS THAT ARE GIRLS WHO DO GIRLS LIKE THEY'RE BOYS"
{ p1 recaplet: Hanna has no idea how much she's getting on Emily's nerves just by being herself -- dancing while homeworking, singing while thinking -- so she's mostly cool, but man Emily gets annoyed fast at her new, non-Pam environment. }


p7 BARNYARD OF DOOM
Spencer's Dad: (Jumps out of the woods, startling Toby.) Toby: "Hey, I just found this buried piece of a hockey stick covered in blood, isn't that interesting?" Peter: "No, it's not interesting." Toby: "But it says HASTINGS on it. Like how your last name is also that." Peter: "I didn't give you permission to read the murder weapons on my property, Cavanaugh. Don't make me regret giving you this job." Toby: "But a girl died in your yard, of blunt force trauma..."
p8 Spencer: "A hockey stick?" Toby: "Yeah. It was all splintered and bloody and weird, like a murder weapon, and then your dad ran off with it." Spencer: "It's a family trait. We fucking love evidence."
p13 Spencer, spotting her dad burning the hockey stick, gives him a very firm, beautifully delivered, simple "No." Dad: "Spencer, go upstairs and let me burn this murder weapon in peace. ... I'm going to level with you. However obviously this makes it look like you or Melissa murdered Alison and then forgot you did it, this is really about keeping you from going nuts on this new piece of evidence like you always do." Spencer: "You mean like I'm always right about!" Dad: "Either way, this is happening for two reasons. You are crazy, and I am spooky. Go back to bed."
She goes running up and down the stairs wailing, cuts off all her hair, puts out cigarettes on her skin, does cartwheels through traffic.