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Monsters in the End is the twenty-first episode in Season 1. This episode aired on March 14th, 2011.

Synopsis[]

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Officer Reynolds spying on the girls

The girls sit together in Apple Rose Grille, discussing what Caleb has on them. Spencer worries that they are being watched from outside the window of the cafe, but the girls assure her she is just looking at clown mannequins for the upcoming Rosewood Founder's Day Festival. But later, someone really does move around the mannequins, and it is shown to be Officer Garrett Reynolds.


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As the town prepares for the annual Founder’s Day festival, Spencer’s family urges her to make a public appearance and help out at the church booth at the festival to improve her reputation. Melissa reveals that the nurse at the doctor's office had been particularly nosy about Spencer's status as a person of interest and assumes she's guilty. Her family also doesn't want Spencer to see Toby anymore.


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At the Marins', Ashley tries to engage Hanna, but she is still bummed out about Caleb. Ashley wants to know why he moved out, but Hanna doesn't reveal anything. Seeing her daughter distraught, Ashley offers to let Hanna stay home from school, but just then Mona shows up. Mona asks if Caleb is permanently gone, and Hanna responds in the affirmative. Mona then takes the blame for Hanna's getting hurt and wishes she had prevented him from getting so close to her friend. Their conversation clues Ashley into some of the details of what ensued.


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At school, Caleb approaches Aria to request she speak to Hanna on his behalf, but she doesn't want to get involved. The plus side of their conversation, though, is that Ella walks by as Caleb is talking to her at her locker and assumes he is Aria's mystery boyfriend. Aria rolls her eyes while Ella mouths to her that he's cute.


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Meanwhile, Emily and Paige’s budding relationship hits a bit of a snag when Paige can’t quite come out of the closet like Emily has and plans to bring a "buffer" guy to their date at a local concert. Emily is disappointed in Paige as she still doesn't want to be seen alone in public with her. Paige promises she's trying by telling Emily she looked up ways to come out to her family and is getting in touch with local support groups. Emily is very supportive and offers to go along with Paige to meet with a local Pride group member.


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Aria catches up with Ezra at school to ask him about their plans for the upcoming Founder's Day Festival. Just then, Aria spots Ella, so she purposefully knocks the coffee out of his hand. Bending down to clean up the mess, she is able to (somewhat) discreetly whisper an invitation to Ezra to a quiet weekend together instead of going to the festival, but he does not answer definitively.


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"What did Jenna want?"

Hanna approaches Caleb, where he's sitting reading at an outdoor bench. Caleb is hopeful this means that they're on speaking terms again when Hanna asks to sit next to him. However, she just confronts Caleb for playing her and demands to know what he was supposed to be looking for. Caleb reveals Jenna wanted him to look for a key; Hanna has no clue why or to what. Caleb explains it was related to Alison. Caleb asks Hanna why Jenna is so interested, but Hanna cuts him off, not allowing him to be the one asking questions. After she exhausts everything Caleb knows, he brings up their relationship- sincerely apologizing again. Hanna nods for a moment, before shrugging and strutting away.


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Ezra was engaged!

Later, Aria lets herself into Ezra's apartment via a key under his doormat. Ezra is not there, but told her to go ahead and order takeout. In the meantime, Aria sits herself down at his desk looking for menus when she accidentally awakens his open laptop. As the screen turns on, it displays Ezra's online social network page. On it, Aria sees a tagged picture of Ezra embracing a woman sporting a diamond ring on Ezra's website profile. Aria clicks on the picture to enlarge it and learns that this woman's name is Jackie Molina. Ezra calls her from school to see how she's doing; Aria responds that she can't stay, without revealing what's bothering her.


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In Emily's room, the girls congregate to discuss what Jenna may have been looking for. They also discuss the creep factor in Caleb rifling through Hanna's belongings, invading her privacy. But, Aria comes to Caleb's defense, knowing how tempting it is sometimes to go through somebody else's information, such as her boyfriend's web page. Emily suggests coming clean to Ezra about it, but Hanna tries to convince Aria to create a page of her own posing as one of Jackie's past classmates in order to sneakily find out more about the status of her involvement with Ezra.


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Spencer goes to Toby, who is fixing his motorcycle. Toby knows Spencer is innocent, but when he sees a cop car pull up closely, he suggests that she leave and offers to visit her in her home later. He picks up on the fact that her parents would rather he not come around, though. So, they agree to meet up at the festival at 7 PM instead. Jenna comes out of the house, and calls to Toby to drive her to school. It's unclear whether she overheard their date plans. Meanwhile, the officer in the car is shown to be Officer Garrett Reynolds. He opens the car door and calls out to Spencer, but she is snarly towards him and accuses him of being a traitor and something of a stalker. In defense, Garrett says that being trailed will clear Spencer's name and better him who knows her than someone else...


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Later, Emily goes to the Grille for Paige's meeting with a Sheridan Prep Pride Group representative, but Paige stood them up. Emily stays and meets with Samara, the girl from the support group, alone. Samara and Emily make a connection, discussing what it was like at first when each came out. Samara isn't upset that Paige stood her up as she's in the neighborhood anyway for the Rosewood Founder's Festival to set up a jewelry booth. Meanwhile, Hanna coaches Aria how to set up a fake profile and get Jackie to accept her friend request.


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At the festival, Spencer and Ian continue to play a mental chess game with each other. They set up cupcakes for the booth, while chatty Mrs. Ackard brings up Hilton Resorts in South Carolina. Spencer uses the opportunity to catch Ian in a lie. Melissa mistakenly mentions that the room she stayed in overlooked the ocean, while Mrs. Ackard explains that the particular room overlooks the golf course. Melissa gets flustered, trying to cover up her mistake. It becomes apparent that Melissa and Ian stayed in separate rooms during their fateful stay there. When Mrs. Ackard is out of earshot, Spencer asks Melissa whether she informed the police that they had stayed at different sides of the hotel. Melissa walks away, annoyed with Spencer.


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Tell Emily those earrings look hot on her.

At Samara's jewelry booth, Paige gets jealous when she observes Emily with Samara, trying on earrings. Samara gives Emily the earrings for free. When Paige arrives, Samara lets her know she can always reschedule to talk about her father. Paige doesn't apologize for standing Samara up and isn't interested in telling Emily how hot she looks in the earrings, at Samara's suggestion, as she feels suddenly exposed.


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Caleb has a letter for Hanna.

Meanwhile, Caleb tries to give Hanna a special goodbye letter before he leaves town, explaining his feelings for her and of course, apologizing. He goes to the Marins' residence to drop off the note for Hanna, but Hanna had already left to go work a booth at the Founder's Day Festival with Mona. Ashley suggests Caleb deliver the note personally and say goodbye properly - she is all too familiar with men who leave Hanna's life without saying goodbye. The encounter with Mrs. Marin gives Caleb the opportunity to explain himself and winds up softening her opinion of him.


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Back at the festival, Paige scolds Emily for having wrongfully exposed her secret. Paige is even rude to Samara, telling her she doesn't want to join a club, never thanking her for coming. But, Samara is patient with her. Emily, on the other hand, gets completely fed up with Paige's fickle attitude and tells her it's over between them as she can't deal with her twists and turns and being Paige's secret. She thanks Samara and tells her it was nice meeting her friends before leaving them booth.

In her room, Aria checks her computer to see that Jackie Molina accepted her friend request. But, thinking better of it, she de-friends her and closes her computer.


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I love you Hanna!

Following Ashley's advice, Caleb seeks Hanna out at the festival. When Hanna sees him though, she ducks into another tent, wishing to avoid her heart breaker. Caleb commissions Mona, who treats him unpleasantly, to deliver the letter to Hanna. Unfortunately, Mona intervenes by promising to deliver it, but instead tears it up, drops it in the trash can, and dumps a drink on it. (The last line on the letter reads, "I love you Hanna.")


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Rosewood Founder's Day Festival

Later at the festival, Ian corners Spencer and lets her know she better be careful because she's sinking fast. Spencer just purses her lips at him.


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Going with Emily's advice instead, Aria rents a number of wedding themed DVDs to watch with Ezra. Ezra picks up on the hint, and Aria uses it as a conversation starter to confront Ezra about his past mysterious fiancée. Ezra comes clean to her, confessing to have almost married this woman until she broke it off. However, he assures Aria he has no second thoughts about her and doesn't think about Jackie while he's with her.


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At the Founder's Day Festival, Ashley approaches Hanna to ask whether she's seen Caleb, but Hanna hasn't seen him. Ashley lets her know Caleb came over to say goodbye because he's leaving Rosewood.


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What's underneath that snow globe?

Back home in her room, Emily gets two texts: one from Paige, which she ignores, and one from "A," which is not as easy to ignore, teasing her about her past feelings for Alison. This prompts Emily to have a flashback to when Alison gave her a snow globe the summer of her disappearance. Alison alluded to the fact it was more special than one would realize at first. She also told Emily not to tell the others because she didn't also get them any presents. This flashback prompts Emily to examine the object. At the bottom, she finds a key with numbers printed on it. There's also a tag attached with the name of a storage place.


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Back at his apartment, Ezra fell asleep during one of the flicks. Aria wakes him up to put on a pair of brown paper bag masks that she fashioned in order for them to take a picture together without revealing their identities. He plays along, and the two playfully don the masks. Suddenly, Aria gets a text from Emily letting her know she's found the key. Aria reports she has to leave and heads to Emily straight away. Outside Ezra's door, Garrett Reynolds turns a corner, possibly having seen Aria exit the apartment.


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Back at the festival, things turn dangerous for Spencer. A text feigning to be from Toby directs her to enter the haunted house - a move Spencer would not have made otherwise. There, Spencer finds a creepy message scrawled by A on the walls, warning her to shut up. She immediately looks for an exit and mistakenly enters a grate, where someone uses a crowbar to trap her inside. Spencer panics, banging on the walls, shouting for help; the service on her cell phone is not working.


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Back at Ezra's apartment, Garrett Reynolds knocks on the door. As Ezra lets him in, he apologizes for the mess. Evidence that a girl has been there is obvious as the bed is unmade, a girly garment is hanging off a chair, and the brown paper bag masks are lying conspicuously on the couch. Garrett takes a mental note and then tells Ezra he would like to speak to him about one of his students.


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Meanwhile, Hanna sees Caleb boarding the bus out of Rosewood, all the while thinking he's a complete jerk to not even bother to say goodbye to her (although, she dodged him when he tried). They make eye contact, but don't speak.


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Finally, Spencer is released. She comes face to face with Ian holding the crowbar. She expects him to strike her, but he's with the rest of her family, who are worried about her. They criticize the negligence of management while Spencer gets a real text from Toby asking where she is. She is shaken, but unharmed. Her family leads her home, but Spencer stops following when she catches sight of Toby. Despite her mother’s wishes to keep walking and stay away, she runs straight into Toby’s arms and kisses him, disturbing her family and Mrs. Ackard.


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Big storage room...tiny flash drive.

Thanks to the snowglobe clue, Emily, Aria and Hanna track down a secret storage location. There, they uncover a flashdrive contained in an old lunch box stored in a garage Alison had planted! The flashdrive contains secret N.A.T. videos, mostly of the girls in intimate moments. While she was alive, Alison somehow knew they were being spied on. There's footage of July 4th moments before "The Jenna Thing," when Ali had been sure someone was spying on them in Emily's room. There's even footage of Jenna. The girls begin to understand what Jenna was seeking when enlisting Caleb to search Hanna's hard drive as in the footage, she's seducing and blackmailing Toby. The episode concludes with black gloved "A" swiping the key from underneath Ezra's doormat.

Notes[]

  • Every time Aria opens her mouth to say "Facebook," "website" comes out instead, the word was to be ADRed due to a copyright issue, or ABC Family just didn't want to endorse Facebook, though the script had Facebook written in before it was changed to website (with regards to an image of Jackie tagged on Ezra's profile).
  • The picture Aria has on the right side of her locker is a picture with Lucy Hale’s, the actress who plays Aria, best friends IRL.
  • Caleb refers to Jenna as "Jenna Cavanaugh" throughout the episode, rather than as "Jenna Marshall." This was also true for previous episodes, such as "The Badass Seed.
  • This is the first appearance of Samara.
  • This is also the first mention of Jackie; she will become relevant as the season progresses.
  • When Mona tears up Caleb's letter and throws the pieces into the trash, the end of the letter, "I love you Hanna - Caleb" is still in one piece, but when the camera zooms back in, you can only see "I love you Hanna", the rest is clearly ripped off.
Caleb's letter:

1st Piece:

Hanna - [...]
I want [...]
I am t [...]
I did [...]

2nd Piece:

a lot t [...]
me ple [...]

3rd Piece:

[...]o m [...]
[...]ase call me

[...] I love you Hanna

Caleb


Title[]

  • This is an allusion to Frankenstein, where in the eponymous character claims, "we are all monsters in the end."

Main Cast[]

Supporting Cast[]

Co-Starring[]

  • Megan Porschen as Funhouse Teen

Featured Music[]

  • "Upside Down" by Garrison Starr (Hanna and Aria surf Jackie's web page)
  • "Come And Find Me" by Josh Ritter (Emily and Samara wait for Paige)
  • "Backed Into The Corner" by Amy Stroup (Emily and Samara try on jewelry)
  • "What We Want" by Bess Rogers (Jackie accepts Aria's friend request)
  • "Something Inside" by The Longcut (Spencer gets trapped in the funhouse)
  • "I Don't Want To Leave" by Matthew Perryman Jones (Caleb boards a bus to Arizona)

Gallery[]

Camera Icon-Gallery

Monsters in the End has a photo gallery.


Memorable Quotes[]

Aria [about Caleb]: He doesn’t need an invitation–he broke into a vending machine with a spork!


Emily [about Ezra and Jackie]: How do you know she wasn’t his cousin?
Aria:
...because in picture number three, they were licking each other’s gelato.


Spencer: What’s the juiciest thing on his status update? Ezra Fitz has joined the Mark Twain fan page?


Aria [to Hanna, about Caleb]: He looked through your stuff — he didn’t invade Poland.


Emily: These are beautiful. Did you make these?
Samara: Not to toot my own horn, but — toot toot.


Hanna: Fool me once? Shame on you. Fool my best friend? You’re dead meat.


Hanna: Mona, I thought you were going to help.
Mona: I am helping. I’m making sure you don’t host a pity party and invite a cheesecake.


Aria [to Ezra]: Please jump in at any time.


Ezra [to Aria]: That was then. You are very much now.


Toby: They're the police. They can make two plus two equal five.


Spencer [about Caleb and Hanna]: He stuck his hands in her panty drawer.


Ian: The more you struggle, the faster you sink, and you're sinking pretty quickly.


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