To What End??

Pretty Little Liars 2-19 recap - Challenged A -by Jacob | TWoP p14
d n so love this as to copy all here but of course did like refrain "Why? To what end?" and putting here bcs keep thinking that

WINE PATIO
the girls' moms gather during break from leading Truth Up activities

Aria's mom (played by Holly Marie Combs who was on Charmed) Ella: "Have some wine, girlfriend!"
Spencer's mom (who looks like Mariska Hargitay fr SVU) Veronica: "God, I am going to need jugs of the stuff to get through this shit."
Hannah's mom (played by Laura Leighton who was Sydney on Melrose Place, but is so likeable here) Ashley: "I brought actual jugs!"

Ashley: "I think this Truth Up thing is probably a good idea. Lots of secrets and lying and whatnot."
Ella: "I believe Hanna. I don't think she did it. It could very well just be someone trying to make her look bad."
Veronica, verbatim: "Why? To what end?"

I don't know, that just cracked me up. I love how Veronica's this lawyer that is always so precise and firm about everything, and yet she had Ian and Melissa in her house that whole time doing God knows what, and Spencer's just completely lost her damn mind, and she's actually argued more than once that the girls are being framed over and over for this shit, that shit, the stump, the shovel, the fashion show that should have proved it to everybody forever, whatever, but right now she's just sittin' there like, "To what end?"

Ella: "Do you ever get the feeling that our daughters are being stalked by an unnatural force or conspiracy?"
Ashley: "Ever since she lost Alison, Hanna's been off the chain. And I mean off the chizain."
Ella: "That's part of the reason we went to the frozen north, to distract Aria."
Veronica, verbatim: "I don't think the moment was when they lost Alison. I think it was when they met Alison."
Even The Moms: "Well played. She was pretty gross, now that you mention it."

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FLASHBACK

Ali was at Spencer's, doing magazine quizzes and reading about German cannibals as you do, while downstairs the Hastingses were having at it.:

Alison: "Ready for this? Some dude in Germany went on a dating website and advertised for someone he could kill and eat."
(I am like obsessed with that case to this day. I don't even get why people like to get slapped around in bed, much less why you would want to eat somebody. It's not a lateral move, I'm not saying that exactly, but for me they are similarly confusing. Why? How come? To what end?)


DINNER

Hanna: "Sorry I wasn't answering calls, but Caleb has my phone. Hey, is that a huge birthmark on Kate's side? Listen, I've been staring at this photo with my thumb over the nips for like a week now and trust me, there is no birthmark on that picture."
Liars: "Okay but to what end? Why would A go to all that trouble to Photoshop her body, if the aim was to humiliate her?"
Hanna: "You guys, clearly this is Kate's doing. It wasn't A. It's not always A."

LADIES'

Kate: "Hanna, I don't care to hear your apology."
Hanna: "Kate, I don't care to say an apology. I care to say that it was you that sent that picture."
Kate: "Ridiculous. To what end?"

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Hanna: "You know, maybe it's time I really took a picture of you, Kate. Aria, can I borrow your phone?"
(The girls all come out of stalls holding their cameras.)
Aria: "Yeah, in a minute. I'm using it though. To record this conversation."

See, how much better would that have been if she left off the last clause? Always with the extra bit. Always that extra feather :) Aria's outfits & earrings, danglin' from your business. (To what end?)
Anyway, they rehash it and do that delightful scriptwriter trick -- "it's genius!" -- where they explain why the plan was genius -- because she gets sympathy, takes a chunk out of Hanna and gets a free-slutty card where all the guys got to see her assets -- in case you weren't there when this was obvious.

Hanna: "You have to go find Caleb and tell him to stop cracking or hacking my phone, because he assumes Jenna is behind everything all the time."
Aria: "To what end? And why me? I've still got glass in my hair." :) Emily's line, from the greenhouse

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Hostile Noel Kahn: "Looking for somebody?"
Uncurious Aria: "Sorry, I thought Caleb was in here?"
Hostile Noel Kahn: "He's not."
Both Of Them Creeps: "Is he missing? Hope so. Maybe somebody threw him out with the rest of the garbage."
Aria, awesomely: "Yeah, okay. Well, if he comes back here...?"

I love that. Trapped in a dark room with Noel Kahn plus Jenna Marshall? Fuck it. This is the scariest thing that's possibly ever going to happen, so whatever. Stay frosty, Sodapop.

ROOFTOP SHENANIGANS

It's not the plastic sheeting! It's a variety of people. First it is A, then it is Noel Kahn, then maybe Holden. So many boys wandering around on the roof, none of them Caleb. None of them the plastic sheeting. Well, it's not long before Aria loses her shit and just starts climbing up a chimney :) , so Noel Kahn tries to pull her down again.
Roundhouse! Brutal roundhouse! To the abdomen! Noel Kahn goes down! Even Noel Kahn is surprised! Who is even more surprised is: Aria, who has just learned that Holden is some kind of a martial arts master. Just as predicted.

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Aria: "Where did you learn to kick somebody like that? Portugal? Or wait, is this part of the Secret? Your bruise? Did somebody jump on you like that? To what end?"