Pretty Little Liars ‘Turn of the Shoe’ recap: Talking bird

Another Tuesday night means another episode of Pretty Little Liars and I doubt I’m the only one who’ve been looking forward to the second episode of the very promising season 4, so let’s just get to it, shall we?

A lot happened last week and we were given quite a few answers to question we’ve been wondering about since season 1. Already forgotten? Take a look at last week’s recap then and refresh your memory!

So…. Our very own Einstein of a Hastings surprisingly received a rejection letter from the University of Pennsylvania. We all know how much that means to her, seeing as we’ve seen her fight for that spot on several occasions throughout the series. A lot of seniors out there can probably recognize the devastating feeling of a rejection letter, but imagine getting rejected from the traditional family university as a member of the Hastings family. I’m sure as hell glad it’s not me! Spencer then seeks out help from every girl’s fantasy teacher Mr. Fitz and together they go over Spencer’s essay. Ezra questions the raw honesty of it, which leads to a teary Spencer who’s convinced A will just use it against her at some point anyway. Personally I’ve always liked the Ezra/Spencer scenes though there haven’t been many. And not in a romantic way or anything – just to be clear – so I’m hoping to watch more interactions between the two in the future.

Toby admits to Spencer that he was indeed the one to move the RV containing many of the dark secrets of the liars. However, he explains he only did it in exchange for information about his mother’s supposedly suicide. As a reward for handing over the RV to A, he receives a transcript containing possible evidence that his mother may not have killed herself after all. The transcript has apparently been kept under wraps by Radley, and Toby seems convinced that there’s more to Radley than meets the eye. Well, I could’ve told him that.

Moving on… we’ve all been there, haven’t we? But why anyone would move on from the ‘get-hit-by-traffic’ hot teacher Mr. Fitz, I have no idea. Oh wait, right. Key word there being teacher… and dad. It was probably inevitable, and perhaps a bit late… and still I believe they’ll eventually end up together – they kind of have to, don’t they? True love and all that shit. In the meantime we’re introduced to Aria’s new martial arts instructor Jake (why haven’t anyone thought of learning how to protect themselves before? Way to go Aria!). So I’m really not sure what happened there but she ends up kissing him rather suddenly and he’s now labeled as ‘rebound’ – but what can you do? I am kind of fond of him already though. Seems like a sweet enough guy, not bad to look at either…

Let’s talk a bit about the parrot in the room – also known as ‘Tippy’ – that apparently was Ali’s best friend when she stayed at her grandma’s. Granted very strange, it’s also very significant, because as we all know – parrots talk. It seems as if Ali called a number quite often seeing as Tippy kept ‘singing’ it, but before the girls get any closer to figure out who the number belongs to, A kidnaps the talking bird. BUMMER, but also rather predictable.     Hannah got the bird from Alison’s mother who in a flashback reveals that Alison had a sleepover at their Cape May beach house – but obviously without the girls, and possibly with an older crowd.

After saving Aria and Mona from getting run over by A, Emily hurts her shoulder badly and in an attempt to still participate in the swim race she decides to take a bunch of painkillers that results in her getting rushed to the hospital. Will that be the end of the happy ever after at Stanford dreams?

At last there’s the dear Mrs. Marin. It’s obvious that she’s hiding something – the question is what? Did she really kill Detective Wilden? I just can’t see it. She’s a pretty badass mother, I’ll give her that, but capable of murder? I doubt it. If anything she probably think she might’ve killed him, but really A just finished the job and is framing her while scaring the crap out of Hannah. That sounds more likely, doesn’t it? It is Rosewood after all. But why dear mother Marin, WHY would you practically hand over evidence for A to take and use against you? BURN it… Jesus. No one in that town will ever learn… Where’s Caleb by the way? Right. He moved to Ravenwood.

So all in all a perfectly good episode though definitely not as good as last week. Still looking to be a very promising and perhaps even a bit darker season if that’s even possible.