Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Recap for “Unbridled” PLL Episode 4x23

Lots of drama this week on Pretty Little Liars.  Jason is back in town, Ms. DiLaurentis gets a little bit scarier, and the girls get one step closer to getting answers from Alison.

Spencer is running through the woods in a wedding dress.  She stumbles and falls as she is being chased by someone in a black hoodie.  Spencer stops suddenly.

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Flashback to 48 hours earlier.

The girls are at The Brew discussing the note that Paige gave the police.  Hanna asks if Emily has spoken to Paige.  Emily explains that Paige is in Maine visiting family.  The girls are worried about what will happen now.  The police will probably suspect them for the murder of whoever is in Ali’s grave.  Emily is more worried about Ali instead of themselves.  Spencer thinks the police will come after her, since she may have bashed in the skull of a stranger. 

Aria, concerned about Spencer’s state of mind, tells Hanna to give Spencer her cookie.  Hanna is hungry, so she tells Aria to give up her own cookie.  Aria expresses doubt that Ms. DiLaurentis is “A”.  She thinks Ms. DiLaurentis is scary, but not the devil.  Emily agrees with Aria.  She doesn’t get why Ms. DiLaurentis would waste her energy torturing them instead of trying to bring Ali home.  Emily reminds them that Ms. DiLaurentis has been going through hell with the divorce.

Hanna relents and gives her cookie to Spencer, figuring she needs it more.  Hanna doesn’t have a hard time believing Ms. DiLaurentis is “A”, since she’s always been a witch.  Ezra’s theory simple confirms it.  (Remember all those pointed comments Ms. DiLaurentis made about Hanna’s weight?)

Emily doesn’t want to have this conversation anymore.  She is angry at Spencer and storms off.  Spencer, who is Emily’s ride, chases after her.  Outside, they see Jason DiLaurentis.  They call out to him, but he gets in his car without acknowledging them and drives off. 

Spencer tells Emily to hurry and they jump in the car, intending to chase Jason.  However, Spencer’s car won’t start.  They find a photo strip in the car.  The photos are all of a blonde girl with the face blacked out.  At the bottom of the photos, someone has written in red “You know me, Spencer.  You killed me”.

Back at home, Aria is in her bedroom talking on the phone with her mom.  Her mom is questioning the hotel room charges from Aria’s weekend in Syracuse.  Her mom says it is not an issue of money, but the fact that she was wasted in the hotel room.  Aria denies drinking and claims it was a friend.  Aria’s mom asks if it had anything to do with Ezra resigning from Rosewood.  Aria says she can’t talk about it now.  Her mom asks if it would be easier if she was there.  The bedroom door opens and Aria sees her mom, back from Vienna.  Aria, surprised, rushes over to hug her mom.

Spencer, getting ready to go to school, sees Jason next door unloading boxes from his car.  Spencer thinks it is the perfect chance to talk to him.  Her plans are delayed when she runs into Dean, who insists on coming with her.  Spencer begs him not to.  Since Jason just got out of rehab, it would make him uncomfortable if Dean came with her.  Spencer promises that she’s just wants to talk to Jason and is not planning to cook meth behind a dumpster.  Dean finally agrees, but demands that she first give him her urine sample.

The kitchen table at Hanna’s house is completely covered with bridal magazines and papers.  Her mom, Ms. Marin, is helping plan the charity bridal show that Ms. DiLaurentis is hosting.  Hanna asks her mom why she thinks Ms. DiLaurentis offered her a job, since they weren’t friends.  Hanna warns her mom that she doesn’t trust Ms. DiLaurentis and she doesn’t think her mom should, either.  Ms. Marin doesn’t listen to Hanna and focuses on the fact that Ms. DiLaurentis helped them through a difficult time.

In the school bathroom, Spencer tells Emily that she didn’t get talk to Jason.  He was already inside by the time she got out of the house.  Paige comes in and explains that she got back to Rosewood late last night.  Spencer makes a quick exit to give Emily and Paige some privacy.  Emily confronts Paige about the note left for the police stating that Ali is alive.  Paige insists that she was just trying to protect Emily.  Emily asks who is going to protect Ali.  Paige doesn’t think Ali needs any protection.  Emily accuses Paige of trying to get revenge on Ali for all the mean things Ali did to her in the past.  Ali’s been in hiding for two years and Paige sent out a search party.  Paige tells Emily to just let the cops protect Ali.  Emily wants to know what will happen if the police don’t get there first.

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At school, Aria promises Hanna that she won’t tell her mom the complete truth about Ezra.  Aria takes off and Hanna runs into Travis.  Hanna apologizes for the other night and asks if they can have a do over. They don’t even have to call it a date. She just wants to have dinner with him again.  Travis doesn’t seem interested and says that he is busy.

Ms. DiLaurentis is snapping at everyone as she prepares her house for the charity event.  On the phone with the caterer, she demands that different food be at the event.  After all, seafood parfait is completely unacceptable.  People don’t want to ruin their manicures by digging shrimp out of a skinny cup.

Ms. DiLaurentis sees a cop car pulling up to the house.  She asks Ms. Marin to go upstairs to get the place cards that are in the guest room.  Once Ms. Marin is gone, Ms. DiLaurentis goes outside.  Officer Holbrook asks to come inside, but she says that now isn’t a good time.  Officer Holbrook wants to give her an update on the investigation.  Annoyed, Ms. DiLaurentis asks that they just let her daughter rest in peace. 

Officer Holbrook expresses his uncertainty that Ali is the grave, but Ms. DiLaurentis says that she is certain.  Officer Holbrook says that when Ali first went missing, Ms. DiLaurentis gave the police a file of family photos.  In one of the photos, he noticed that Ali had broken her right arm.  However, the coroner didn’t report a fracture in that bone.  Ms. DiLaurentis insists that the coroner just made a mistake.  Officer Holbrook says that they need to exhume the body to make sure that it is Ali.  Ms. DiLaurentis says that is never going to happen, but Officer Holbrook already has the judge’s order.  He didn’t come to get her permission.  He just wanted to keep her updated on the case.  He hands her a folder.

Ms. Marin, looking for the guest room, ends up in Ali’s bedroom.  The room looks as if Ali still lives there.  Ms. Marin sees a bag at the foot of the bed. She looks in the bag and pulls out new clothes with the tags still attached.  At the bottom of the bag is a receipt and Ms. Marin realizes that Ms. DiLaurentis bought the clothing yesterday.  Ms. DiLaurentis comes in and asks if this room looks like a guest room to her.

Emily is still trying to track down Ali using the email addresses that were with Ali’s cash.  Using the email address, she gets a message that she is not authorized.  Another dead end.  She sees Jason as he is leaving Rosewood High.  Emily asks him what is going on.  She hasn’t seen him since the night they almost died in the elevator shaft.  Jason says he feels bad about that, since he was the one Wilden was after.  Emily is surprised to hear that Jason thinks Wilden was responsible for that night, but Jason doesn’t know who else it could be.

Emily lets Jason know that Spencer knows about Jason’s relapse and the divorce.  Jason says that his mom has a lot going on and needs space away from Spencer.  So Jason doesn’t want Spencer around harassing them.  He mentions that this is not the first time that Ms. DiLaurentis thought that Spencer was messing with them.

Flashback to before Ali went missing.  Jason is laying down on the couch when Ms. DiLaurentis and Ali come in.  Neither of them see Jason.  Ali tells her mom to drop it.  Ms. DiLaurentis tells Ali that she can’t let someone walk all over her.  Ali asks how she can do that.  She doesn’t know who is harassing her since the text messages are anonymous.  Ms. DiLaurentis tells Ali that Spencer has always been jealous of her and has plenty of reasons to hurt the family.  You fight fire with fire and smoke her out.  Jason sits up and Ms. DiLaurentis realizes that Jason overheard them.

Jason explains to Emily that his mom was there for him when he was in rehab. The only reason he is back in Rosewood is to help his mom.

Aria and her mom are about to have a heart-to-heart about Ezra.  Aria’s mom asks if Aria wants to go to the charity bridal show, but Aria isn’t interested.  Her mom asks if it brings up bad memories because of the Ezra, Maggie and Malcolm situation.  Aria says that is not the reason they broke up. 

Aria’s mom is distracted by her phone.  Zach keeps calling.  He won’t sleep until he talks to her and it is already three in the morning in Vienna.  Aria tells her to take the call.  Her mom goes outside to talk to Zach.

Spencer is on the couch downstairs when she gets a text message from Emily that says “Spoke with Jason.  You’re right.  Ali’s mom has it out for you.”  Dean comes in for some tea, which scares Spencer.  She quickly hides her phone under the blanket.  Dean thinks he has been pretty generous with Spencer.  He let her hang out with her friends last night and he isn’t questioning the vibrating phone under her blanket.  He wants Spencer to talk to him and explain why she isn’t sleeping and doesn’t feel safe in her own home.  Is it because her parents aren’t home? 

Spencer tells Dean that her parents are the reason she can’t sleep.  She has huge holes in her brain about the summer Ali was killed and her parents refuse to tell her what happened that summer.  Dean is reading a book that sounds boring to Spencer.  Dean offers to read to her as a way of getting her to fall asleep.

Aria’s mom comes back inside as Aria is getting up from the couch.  Aria says she is going to bed.  Her mom is surprised.  She thought they were going to talk about the Ezra breakup.  Aria says the moment passed.  Her mom is confused as to what just happened.  Aria says that nothing happened.  Her mom went to Vienna and found bliss while she stayed in Rosewood and got kicked in the teeth.  Her mom isn’t really in the room with her if there is someone more important, Zach, that takes her attention.

Aria completely goes off on her mom for not being around.  Her mom reminds her that Aria was the one who convinced her to go to Vienna.  Aria practically packed a suitcase for her.  Aria admits that she was wrong to do that and maybe her mom should have packed for a shorter trip.  Aria and Mike were both in Rosewood, not Vienna.  Her mom realizes that Aria is lashing out in pain over Ezra and asks if the person she is really angry at is Ezra or herself.  Aria tells her mom that she must be pleased to know that she was right and it was a mistake to be with Ezra.  She tells her mom to send her a told-you-so card when she gets back to Austria.

Spencer’s mom comes home and is horrified to find Dean asleep on Spencer.  She yells at Dean to start packing.  He can spend the night in the barn, but tomorrow he has to leave.  Spencer wakes up and tries to convince her mom that nothing happened between her and Dean.  Her mom ignores her and continues to kick Dean out.

Spencer, Emily and Aria get together at The Brew to discuss everything that’s been going on.  Aria tells them that her mom is spending some time with Mike.  Spencer says her mom is disinfecting the house of Dean.  Emily tells them everything that Jason said.  The girls question Jason’s memories, since he was always drinking.  They wonder about Jason’s memory of seeing CeCe in Ali’s clothes the night she went missing.  CeCe is not dead and the person who went after Ali could still be out there.

Hanna joins them and announces that they are all going to be participating in the charity bridal show.  The girls don’t want to do it, but Hanna tells them about the bag of clothing that her mom found in Ali’s room.  If Ms. DiLaurentis is buying clothes for Ali, then she would have an address to send the clothes to.  The girls just need to find the address, which must be in the house.  Hanna volunteered all of them for the charity so that they have an excuse to be in Ali’s house.

Officer Holbrook comes up to the girls to discuss the anonymous tip that Ali is alive. He doesn’t want to give them false hope, but if Ali is alive there will be a lot of questions.  Mainly, who is the dead girl in Ali’s grave.  If they have any thoughts, they know where to find him.

Spencer comes home and catches her mom looking through her drawers.  Her mom demands to know where she has been.  Before Dean left, he mentioned that Spencer doesn’t feel safe in her bedroom.  Spencer’s mom figured that was because there was a hidden stash of pills that she would be tempted to take.

Spencer accuses her mom of being the one who is keeping secrets.  Spencer can’t get any answers about the summer that Ali went missing.

Her mom says that they don’t want to talk about that summer because it was a harrowing time.  It was like there were two Spencers in the house.  The Spencer they all knew and an evil twin.  Her mom made Melissa promise not to bring up the incident that happened that summer.

Flashback to the summer Ali went missing.  Spencer’s mom is in the yard cleaning up clothing and a teddy bear outside.  Ali comes in the yard, scaring Spencer’s mom.  Ali says it is past her curfew, so she was cutting through Spencer’s yard to go home.  Looking at the mess, Ali asks if Melissa and Spencer had another fight.  Ali offers to help clean up, but Spencer’s mom snaps at her and says she doesn’t need any help.  Spencer’s mom then breaks down in tears.  She wants to understand this and she can’t figure out why Spencer is acting like this.  What is happening to her?  Ali wishes she knew, but Spencer might turn on her if she asks.  Spencer’s mom tells Ali to go home.  As Ali is leaving, she sees Spencer, who is lurking in the shadows.

Spencer’s mom explains that she and Spencer’s father didn’t know what to think when Ali went missing.  They know that Spencer is not a monster, but the pills were poisonous.  She begs Spencer to please leave that summer alone.  She kisses Spencer before leaving.

Spencer looks out her window and sees Ms. DiLaurentis staring back at her from Ali’s room.  Ms. DiLaurentis pulls the blinds down.  Spencer cries.

The day of the charity bridal show, Hanna drives to the DiLaurentis house and asks where to park her car.  She is surprised to see Travis working as a valet for the day.  The pretty little liars all get dressed in gorgeous wedding dresses and complete the look with rings and flower bouquets. 

Spencer asks the girls if Jason is at the house.  Hanna doesn’t think they will be able to sneak upstairs with Ms. DiLaurentis watching them.  Ms. Marin, clearly under a lot of pressure, comes by to check on the girls.  She notices that Spencer has left her veil off and asks her to go get it. 

Spencer goes to the living room to get her veil and sees Jason.  She wants to make it clear that she is there to help Hanna’s mom, not to harass Ali’s mom.  She’s been shaky because of her recent stint in rehab.  Jason says he was at the Clark Center rehab.  She tells Jason that they have more in common than he thinks.  Before he leaves, she wants to ask him one thing.  Jason had said that he saw CeCe in Ali’s clothes the night Ali went missing.  Could he have seen another blonde girl and mistaken her for CeCe? 

Before Jason can answer, Dean comes in.  Spencer introduces them and Jason takes off.  Dean just came to say goodbye to Spencer and to let her know that she can call him 24/7.  They hug awkwardly.  When Spencer mentions that Jason was at the Clark Center rehab for a few months, Dean tells her that the Clark Center has been closed for two years.  He tells her to be careful.

An angry Ms. DiLaurentis confronts Ms. Marin about Hanna and her friends modeling in the show.  Ms. Marin says that there wasn’t much time and the girls offered to do it.  Ms. DiLaurentis wants to clarify if they offered or if Ms. Marin asked them.  Ms. Marin, clearly intimidated by Ms. DiLaurentis, apologizes.  Spencer comes back in the room and Ms. DiLaurentis stares at her.

Spencer tells the girls that Jason lied about being at rehab.  Maybe he was in Rosewood the whole time helping Ms. DiLaurentis.  Hanna is now more determined than ever to get into Ali’s bedroom.  She leaves right before her mom comes to check on them.  Ms. Marin tells them that it is almost time for them to come out and model the dresses.  Spencer goes outside and sees Ms. DiLaurentis giving a suitcase to someone.  Spencer decides to follow Ms. DiLaurentis into the woods.

Hanna asks Travis to stall Ms. DiLaurentis if he sees her.  She needs to avoid Ms. DiLaurentis because her and her friends are going to sneak into Ali’s bedroom.  Travis asks if this is going to end up with him in a police lineup.  He doesn’t think Ms. DiLaurentis will have much to say to him.  Hanna begs him to help her.  Travis doesn’t need Hanna to explain why she needs his help.  She had his help as soon as she asked.

Another valet asks Travis to help him back up.  Travis tells him to keep backing up until the car smashes into the mailbox, giving him something for Ms. DiLaurentis to talk to him about.  Travis thinks Hanna is intimidating in the bridal veil and she tells him to get over it.  They kiss.

Aria’s mom comes joins her and tells her that she was breathtaking on the runway.  She’s glad Aria’s dad isn’t there because he would have cried.  That would have made her bawl and embarrass Aria even more.  Aria tells her mom that she doesn’t embarrass her.

Aria’s mom realizes that she may never know the details of the Ezra breakup, but she knows that he broke Aria’s heart.  Aria, with tears in her eyes, says that she is not ready to hear this.  Aria’s mother, also in tears, explains that she met Aria’s dad as a teenager and thought he would be the one she would spend the rest of her life with.  Things change and even though it’s over, it still hurts.  It’s like a broken bone that heals and still throbs every time it rains.  Aria doesn’t feel like the pain will ever go away, but her mom promises her that it will. 

Her mom says that she didn’t think she would ever find someone who would make her smile again, but she did.  Zach kept calling last night because of Aria.  He wanted to know her reaction.  Aria’s mom pulls out an engagement ring.  Zach proposed to her in two different languages.  Aria, crying, asks why her mom didn’t tell her earlier.  Her mom says it was more important to discuss Aria’s issues first.  They both hug.

Emily and Hanna look under Ali’s bed, but they can’t find the shopping bag.  Hanna opens the closet and sees something on the floor.  She sees the name Mama Gabusi.  Emily uses Mama Gabusi as the password for the email address to reach Ali.  The password works.  Emily sends Ali a message that she is in danger and needs to call them.
 
Meanwhile, Spencer is in the woods following Ms. DiLaurentis.  Spencer calls out for Ali.  A person in a black hoodie is  running in the woods.  Spencer trips and falls.  She hears her dress rip and looks back.  Her dress is caught in an animal trap.  She eventually pulls her dress out and runs back toward the house.

Aria goes to Ali’s room and explains that she was with her mom.  She asks where Spencer is.  Emily and Hanna thought Spencer was with her.  Emily gets a call from a blocked number.  She answers the phone and it is Ali.  Ali demands to know how they found her. Hanna tells her that the police know she is not buried.  Aria asks if Ms. DiLaurentis knows.  Ali says that her mom can’t know anything.  No one can know.  Ali tells them that they need to hurry and come see her.

The girls, still looking for Spencer, find her phone at the house.  They know Spencer wouldn’t have left without her bag.  Spencer comes back, crying.  She tells them that she saw Ms. DiLaurentis in the woods handing a suitcase to someone.  She assumed it was Ali, so she tried to follow them.  The other girls say that they just talked to Ali.  Ali is in Philadelphia and they need to go see her.  The girls help Spencer out of her wedding dress.  They find human finger bones attached to the inside of the fabric.  The message says “What will you do when the rest of me comes out of the grave?”

Emily is outside her house with an extra jacket for Spencer, waiting for the girls to come pick her up.  Paige shows up wanting to talk, but Emily says she can’t talk right now and doesn’t want to hear more excuses.  Paige didn’t come to make excuses.  She wants Emily to know that she was right.  She didn’t tell the police just because she cares about Emily.  She also doesn’t care what happens to Ali.  Emily can’t believe that Paige is so angry at Ali that she would let someone kill her. 

Paige says that she loves Emily and asks for her forgiveness.  Emily forgives Paige, but she doesn’t think she can ever trust her again.  Aria, Hanna and Spencer pull up and Emily gets in the car.  Paige watches at the girls drive off.

The girls go to a dark and abandoned building.  They are surprised that Ali is hiding there.  Aria asks Emily if she is okay.  Aria thinks it is a good thing that Emily dealt with Paige before seeing Ali.  Spencer knocks and calls out for Ali.  They hear a noise and turn around.  We don’t see who is there, but Spencer asks “What are you doing here?” to the mystery person.

At the Red Finch Inn, the black hoodie person checks in and the hotel clerk leaves to get a bellboy for her bags.  Black hoodie grabs the room key and flips through the inn’s record book.  CeCe Drake is signed in.  Black hoodie person calls the Rosewood Police Department and grabs a butterscotch candy from the table.

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