"Template:Ep/1x09" is the 9th episode in Season 1 of Pretty Little Liars, airing August 3, 2010 - and the 9th episode overall.
Synopsis
A huge storm is on the horizon, as Aria, Spencer, and Hanna study in preparation for the SAT exam the next morning. Emily is nowhere to be found, though. Where’s she at? Well, later Emily arrives home, soaking wet, covered in mud, and crying.
The next morning, Veronica escorts the girls into Rosewood High, leery of why the test is going to be administered as planned with a hurricane brewing outside. There, she has a strange run-in with Spencer’s new beau Alex, and the two share a familiar glance that signals a previous encounter.
Soon, they all run into Detective Wilden bearing shocking news: somebody has trashed Alison’s memorial, and he’s there to investigate. Aria gets a surprise of her own when she spots Ella, there as a volunteer proctor for the exam; a tense moment is shared as both are still resentful from Ella’s sudden move out of the house.
The girls wait in the library before the exam, and Emily gets a text from "A" that sends her on a hunt for the book Great Expectations in the library; there she finds a personal love letter she wrote to Alison the summer she went missing.
Notes
- Emily's letter:
"august 29, 2009
ali -
You may not like to hear what I have to say, but I need to get something off my chest. You're not afraid of hurting me, so I wonder why I'm so afraid of hurting you. I am, but that's not enough of a reason not to tell you how I feel. So here goes...
Sometimes I feel so close to you, and then something changes, a look in your eyes, and I feel so stupid. It's like you can read every thought in my head, and you find it all so hilarious. Like after we kissed, and I thought it might happen again, and you just laughed in my face. But it's not hilarious to me. Maybe you think a kiss is just a kiss, and that I'm just practice. But the way you act, it feels more like target practice.
I don't know how you can go from kissing me one minute to hating me the next, except that I'm starting to catch on. I'm starting to understand what's it's like to [...] minute, and hate [...] I'm not your [...] at least not [...]"
Guest Stars
- Diego González (IV) as Alex Santiago
- Brendan Robinson as Lucas Gottesman
- Brant Daugherty as Noel Kahn
- Lesley Fera as Veronica Hastings
- Yvette Freeman as School Administrator
- Bryce Johnson as Darren Wilden
Featured Music
- "Never Get Enough" by Honey Pie
- "Quiet Hearts" by Amy Stroup
Memorable Quotes
Hanna: Spencer, you do not need to know any more big words. You're already scary enough to anyone under 50. |
Hanna: (to Mona) I think you're the one who needs a trip to Oz. See if the Wizard can find you a heart. |
Mona: (to Lucas about Hanna) You can go now. This beauty doesn't need a beast. |
Aria: Where are you going? Emily: To the restroom. But if you guys don't believe me, we can all try to squeeze into one stall. |
- Alison: (to Emily) A kiss is a kiss. I like boys. Trust me, if I'm kissing you, it's because it's practice for the real thing.
- Emily: (on Alison): I loved her as more than a friend.
- Aria: Can't believe it was trashed... Just when you thought that "A" would give it a rest.
- Spencer: It's like Toby had to kill Alison all over again.
- Hanna: Toby? What do you mean, Toby? His motorcycle was totaled. Isn't he dead?
- Spencer: I hear more from Alison now than when she was alive.
- Hanna: You guys, I thought we decided "A" wasn't Toby. "A" was happy to have Toby out of the picture.
- Aria: How do we know that Toby didn't just send that text? And why are we suddenly trusting "A"? "A" made a fake bracelet to mess with us.
- Aria: Mom, what are you doing here?
- Ella: Oh, I tried calling you, but your phone must be turned off for the test.
- Aria: Why are you here?
- Ella: Well, they called and said they needed proctors. I'm on the sub list.
- Aria: You are? Since when?
- Ella: Well, since they cut my hours at the gallery and I'm paying rent to live above it. I filled out an application last Monday.
- Aria: What, to teach? Why didn't you tell me?
- Ella: Well, sweetie, I was going to when you came over for dinner, but then you canceled on Monday... and Tuesday, and then on Wednesday.
- Aria: Yeah, this week's been intense.
- Ella: I understand. I just, you know, I would like to see you in the flesh. But you don't really plan on ever coming over, do you?
- Aria: I can't. Look, if I did, it'd be like saying I'm okay with you and dad living apart.
- Ella: But we are.
- Aria: I know! Just 'cause you were ready for this doesn't mean that I am. I gotta get back to the library.
- Hanna: God, he's freaking me out! Whose locker is he poking into now?
- Spencer: He's desperate. Ali's brother's breathing down his neck.
- Aria: Ours too. What if Jason told the police Alison's version of what happened after the fire?
- Spencer: If Jason was gonna tell them, he would've told them a year ago. He knows that story's bogus.
- Hanna: Well, then, why do they bring it up?
- Spencer: To try to drive a wedge between us. Well, he's not gonna do that.