Pretty Little Liars - Monsters In the End

This show knocked our socks off this week. There is nothing like a good, juicy, Agatha Christie-esque murder mystery. Pair it with high school, good characters, and teen drama, and it makes some great TV, as this last episode proved.

It finally happened. It looks like Ezra Fitz is busted for diddling little Aria in his apartment. The girls’ cop friend was assigned the task of following the girls, and he followed Aria. He saw her come out of Ezra Fitz’s apartment, and then he knocked on teacher’s door himself. We know we shouldn’t be too glad yet, because the cop could always try to blackmail Ezra, or Teach will find some other way to weasel out of his predicament. But for now, we are just glad to see a lame little “Ezra and Aria love segment of the week” end the way it should. Woot woot! Emily is so over dealing with Paige and her in-the-closet drama (understandably). Emily met another girl, one who is out and gorgeous. Paige acted rudely to this girl. Love triangle? We kind of hope so.

Spencer has the biggest pair of brass balls on this show. We loved how she defied her family and kissed Toby in front of the whole town. When she turned around to do it, we were like, “YES. This is the Spencer we know and love.” Toby’s face is still creepersville, but we are feeling them as a couple. Spencer got a scare when she was trapped in a funhouse with some scary clowns and a threat from A painted on the wall. We liked that part, but it failed to create tension or concern in our minds over Spencer’s life. We found out that Melissa and Ian both lied about being at the Hilton Head together. Ian threatened Spencer by comparing her situation to being stuck in quicksand. Apparently, he is the quicksand. He REALLY needs to work on his threats. Hanna was still dealing with the aftermath of Caleb’s betrayal, while he was just trying to find a way to get a love note to her. He left on the bus for Arizona, and Hanna did not stop him. Mona destroyed the love note to “protect” her friend. He had better come back rather than disappear like Hanna's old love interest, Lucas. Caleb left the girls with a clue: Jenna wanted him to find an old key that Alison gave one of the girls.

Emily remembered that Alison had given her a snow globe as a present. Alison had told her to be careful with it, that it was more valuable than Emily thought. Emily fished around in the globe’s pedestal and found a key to a storage garage. Aria, Hanna, and Emily went to the garage and found a USB drive. On the drive was a video of all the girls, including Alison, hanging out. This proved that whoever was stalking Alison and making videos was stalking her well before her disappearance. Obviously, Alison got a hold of some of the videos. The girls wondered if that’s why she had been killed.

This episode was funny, romantic, moved things along, and most of all, EZRA GOT CAUGHT BY A COP. The season finale is next week. We can’t wait, but at the same time, we are going to miss this show so much.

Episode grade: A+