PLL Episode 19: I’ll tell you mine, you tell me yours

March 2nd, 2011

There was no shortage of drama this week on Pretty Little Liars! Secrets were exchanged, as were other things…in a tent! Grab your fixin’s for s’mores and let’s get this recap par-tay started!

*Spoiler alert! If you haven’t watched Episode 19 of PLL you can watch it here and read last week’s recap here!

The girls have been hauled off to the cop shop after reporting the trophy with rat’s blood on it. The girls come somewhat clean and tell the police about the video with Ian and Alison, but when they’re asked if Ian had an interest in any other young girls all four lie and don’t tell them about Ian’s affair with Spencer.

We meet Officer Garrett, a neighbor of Emily’s, who has been assigned to the case. An officer on their side? This looks promising! That is, until the head detective tells Garrett that he’ll only be promoted if he finds something on the girls. Ah shhhhugar.

Spencer’s parents are pretty sure she’s nutters after hearing all of her accusations against Ian and want Spencer to see a therapist. She tells her parents that she doesn’t feel safe at home with Ian in the house, but they don’t seem to care.

Emily runs into Paige in the locker room, which is surprising since it’s obvious that Paige has been avoiding Emily. Emily tries to get Paige to talk about the kiss, but Paige refuses and tells Emily to pretend the whole thing never happened.

Toby has decided to hide out at a hotel until his parents come home from vacation. The fighting with Jenna is out of control and without his parents there as a buffer between the two of them it’s become unbearable. Spencer drops Toby off at the hotel and their flirting continues to rock my socks.

As Spencer is leaving the hotel she hears the distinct creepiness of Jenna playing her flute. Spencer checks out the room that the sound is coming from and sees the bag that Ian handed Jenna at school! And what room is Jenna staying in? Well, that would be…214! Dun Dun Dunnnnnnn! What, is there like, one hotel in this town?

Caleb is still squatting in Hanna’s basement and it’s getting harder and harder to hide a full grown man. Although there is an upside.

Ashley almost catches the two together, but she’s already suspicious at the lack of food in the house and the increased instances of the toilet seat being left up in a house of two women.

At school that day Aria visits Ezra in his class, but he already seems to have a visitor. Jenna is submitting her short story to a contest and has asked Ezra (that’s Mr. Fitz to you, scary Jenna) to read over her story and help her with the submission.

Ezra tells Aria that Jenna is writing about the accident that resulted in her losing her sight. In the story Jenna says that Toby threw the firecracker into the garage, even though we’re all pretty sure she knows it was Alison. Aria gets a text from ‘A’ moments later that reads “The lover and the scorned are now bffs. Are you scared? You should be.” Oooooo A, you is mean!

Aria sees Jenna in the bathroom later today and Jenna drops about a zillion lines indicating that she knows Aria and Ezra are having an affair. Ugh, if you know, just spit it out!

The girls meet up in the hall after Emily finds a note from Paige telling Emily to meet up with her later.

Emily meets Paige at the honky tonk bar that night and they talk about Maya. It seems like Emily and Maya are ovah?

Paige seems to come out of her shell and gets on stage to give her best Pink impression.

She manages to get Emily on stage and after the ladies awkwardly sing their hearts out, they share a kiss to end the night.

Spencer is keeping Toby company at his hotel room and stalking out Jenna’s room, hoping they’ll be able to catch her doing…well, they don’t know what, but something! Spencer pays the housekeeper to let them into Jenna’s room and they find her glasses! But she doesn’t go anywhere without them? Maybe she left them behind because SHE’S NOT BLIND! K, that’s totally my theory, but it makes sense.

Spencer decides to spend the night at the hotel with Toby and he is nice enough to lend Spencer his PJ t-shirt to sleep in, leaving him topless.

Well herrrrroo indeed! In case we were wondering what Toby did while he was on house arrest, we now know. Boyfriend was getting his sweat ‘on! They spend the night in bed together, though I’m not sure how Spencer could fit with Toby’s abs requiring so much space. The next morning they hear something in Jenna’s room, but by the time they get there ‘A’ is gone and has left them nothing but a bag full of ice and a CD player with Jenna’s music playing.

Hanna and Caleb finally run out of luck and get caught mid-make-out by Ashley. She also found Caleb’s bag in the basement and kicks him out of the house. Hanna runs out after him.

They somehow round up some camping supplies and spend the night in a tent. Caleb, impressed by Hanna’s camping skills, finally learns that her old nickname was ‘Hefty Hanna’. Hanna lets him in on her secret that she used to spend summers at fat camp. Caleb finally lets Hanna in on his past, telling her that he’s never met his dad and that his mom abandoned him when he was five.

And this leads us to the grand camping finale where Caleb and Hanna (omigawdomigawd) go allll the way. With protection, of course.

Aria is trying to have a romantic night of her own with Ezra, but he continues to talk about Jenna and her damn story. Aria is finding it harder and harder to lie to Ezra about her involvement with Jenna.

Aria decides that it’s easier to avoid Ezra than lie to him, but after talking to Emily the next day and getting her encouragement, Aria decides it’s time to tell Ezra the truth about ‘A’ and everything that’s happened.
But really, it’s not like he’s going to go to the police. I think they’d be more interested in why Aria was in his apartment as opposed to some creepy text messages.

Paige invites Emily to a picnic in the middle of the woods. It seems romantic, but Emily quickly learns that the real reason is because Paige is not ready to come out of the closet. Emily understands, but now that she’s out she doesn’t want to hide and ends things with Paige.

Hanna finally goes home and Ashley is furious with her. Hanna, still mad at her mother, points out that Ashley was in the same situation as Caleb. What’s that now? Caleb calls Hanna, but Ashley picks up the phone and invites him over for dinner.

At the Marin house, Ashley tells Caleb he can stay in the guest room. AND THEN THIS HAPPENS!!! Caleb walks outside when no one is around and makes a phone at which time he tells the person on the other end of the phone “I can’t do this anymore, I’m out.” WTF??? Who dat? Jenna? ‘A’? Alison? Ian? The guy from the bank? Melissa? The police? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Spencer also decides to go home and face the music, but not before Toby FINALLY kisses her! Ow Ow!

When Spencer gets home she’s met with a real shhhhugar storm. The police are waiting for her and know that she and Ian were seeing one another. Melissa is in tears and tells Spencer that she was with Ian at Hilton Head that weekend getting an abortion. I call bullshizz. No way. She’s covering for Ian, or vice-versa, but I trust Melissa about as much as I trust that Jenna is blind.

Spencer sends a ‘SOS’ message to the three girls and they rush to her house and find it surrounded by police.

At the same time the girls get a message from ‘A’ telling them that Spencer is now a person of interest in the disappearance of Alison. Noooooooo! The episode ends with ‘A’ watching a video tape of the girls reading the text. Over to you, James Franco and Anne Hathway! And the Oscar for Creepiest Texter of All Time Is…’A'!