#pll 2x13

[princessrhcenyra]

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS ⇢ 2x13 | THE FIRST SECRET

[friends-share-secrets]

☠︎︎ 𝖨𝗍’𝗌 𝗆𝗒 𝗍𝗎𝗋𝗇 𝗍𝗈 𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎 - A ☠︎︎

Pretty Little Liars - Halloween intro 1/2 2x13 “The First Secret”

[stolen-kisses-a]

Ring Ring, B*tches

“It’s from Mrs. DiLaurentis” - Caitlin 

“She’s around if we wanna talk” - Dylan

“Yeah, she’s left me like a thousand messages” - Ava

This scene reminded me of the first time that it was shown that Alison sent a group text like A did in PLL to the Liars before we found out Mona was A. 

Flashback to 2x13 “The First Secret” when Ali sends the liars a group text to the girls stating she’s in trouble but it was a prank.

And when Ali gave that mean girl persona at the end of the recent episode after the detective or guard woman tried to get their alibi, Ali swooped in and saved the day. It makes me wonder if Ali is doing this to help them or hold this over their heads or use it against them for their Alibi.

I mean, it’s hard to lose that mean bitchy persona when you were that way since you were young and nothing has ever made you changed your ways even after almost dying a few times, going into hiding, being stalked, having people die because of you or whatever. Give or take a few?? Nah....but I’ll give you that benefit of the doubt Ali, you said you didn’t want to be that mean girl again.

ok....STAPPHHHH slapping Mona AGAIN and STAPPPHHH calling people bitches..

[pllrose]

In which Emily's future wife confuses the fuck out of her and it makes her stomach flip just as hard as it will 10 years later.

[jaggedwolf]

pll rewatch 2x13

Our first Halloween special, sending us back to 2008

Ali tells a creepy twin story to some kid Hanna is babysitting

Hanna would not be a good babysitter

Let me attempt to collate all the times I go awww at these two-years-younger versions of the liars so that I don’t keep doing that for the rest of the post. (1) Aw at everyone being so excited to go to Noel’s party (2) Aw at Emily and Toby interacting (3) Aw at Spencer’s Giant Nerd Glasses and her eagerly explaining her Mary Queen of Scots costume while no one cares (3) Aw at Hanna and Aria having fun getting scared together at the party

Ali tries to get the liars to pick whether Hanna should be Cute Britney or Bald Britney and the liars are like...obviously Cute. I wonder how long they’ve all been friends, it’s a couple of months into freshman year.

Toby saying “she gets what she wants” about Jenna....he doesn’t even know the worst of it yet :( 

All this time I’d remembered Emily’s costume as explicitly “Pocahontas” but no, everyone calls it “Indian Girl” or “Hot Indian Girl” and that is so much more yikes.

Ali tries to intimidate Jenna out of also being Lady Gaga for Halloween, except she insists on saying “Lady G” the whole time and that really downgrades the threat level

Oh god, alive Ian, gross.

Melissa is saying many nice things about Spencer’s class president speech and Spencer is adorably pleased by her sister’s praise

Ezra aside, Aria full-on sprinting through Hollis to get to her dad’s office is endearing, you can tell she’s been here all the time

Wait actually, on the topic of Ezra, I’ll take the opportunity to be judgy about him going to the same school for his undergrad and his master’s. 

Ugh at Wilden driving Ashley home, makes his stuff with her even grosser

Aria is like, ready to go beat up Ben for telling his bros that he slept with Emily. She’s very gung-ho here.

Which makes me realize that by the time of Halloween 2008, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna are already diminished by their life circumstances or Ali or both, while Aria isn’t. Not really

Aria’s having a grand time outside of the group, maybe Ali’s a little mean sometimes but hey, who isn’t, and it’s the events of these Halloween days that spark her own downslide

On Mona, Ali says “If you ignore it, it’ll go away”, though the girls don’t appear to be tempted to acknowledge Mona even before that. Does remind me of this gifset comparing Ali to Davie from PLL:OS. 

Jason, who must be around 20/21 here, asks his 14/15-year-old sister for beer money, what a loser

Ali puts the threatening note in the same box that we saw Aria get from Jason

Poor freshman Spencer is about to cry at the idea of not winning some dumb school election because her parents have already planned the party :( 

Ali works very hard here to convince Spencer that Melissa isn’t her ally but an enemy. Why? Is she against Melissa because of her own feelings for Ian, because she doesn’t like Spencer having an ally that isn’t Ali, because she genuinely does detect animosity on Melissa’s part for Spencer? Or all of the above...

Regardless, I’m convinced Ali doesn’t actually rig the election but merely convinces Spencer she does so to “strengthen” their relationship

Byron sucks so fucking much. Staring at Aria’s baby photos and telling her not to tell Ella to protect Ella?!? Saying he’ll respect her decision either way?!?!

That is a kid Byron go man up and tell Ella yourself you coward

I do think Aria is more of a mommy’s girl but up to this point I think she really looked up to Byron...literature kid with literature prof dad...

Ali does her usual shtick of implying Lucas is intersex to insult him and you know, Lucas never even poses a hint of a threat to her to prompt this. I begrudge Lucas many things, but I can never hold destroying the memorial against him

Ali goes Full Blackmail Mode when Aria wants to skip one (1) Halloween party. Ali must’ve been thrilled, she finally figured out how to sink her claws into Aria and Emily within a single day

Mona introduces herself to Jenna as confident Catwoman. Do you think Jenna sees Nerdy Mona at school for the rest of freshman year and goes ????

Love that Ali’s Gaga wig is worse than Jenna’s.

Ali implies to Spencer that Hanna didn’t vote for her. I’d be impressed if flashback!Hanna even voted in a school election, I am 100% certain she was about to forget till one of the others went to go vote and took her with them

Emily’s eyeing up of Jenna...don’t think Emily knows she’s gay yet. She’s uneasy enough about Ben that she feels the need to let his lie go, confused by how transfixed she is by Jenna dancing, and even more confused by Ali’s mocking “cherry chapstick” comment. 

When the girls charge into the haunted house after Ali, Emily leads the way, with Spencer later coming up beside her. Emily will later pick up a literal stick as weapon when the girls think Ali’s in danger. Interesting. To me, anyway, given the passivity of flashback Emily. 

Ali has soooo much fun pretending to play the dramatic self-sacrificing hero going out into the hall to call the cops. It makes it fun when the show flips it in on her, with Noel saying it wasn’t him pretending to attack her in the house

AU where the liars are sick of Ali’s shit after Halloween, unionize, and stop being friends with her. Would be amusing to me if Ali miscalibrated right when she’s getting creepy texts!

[igotcursed]

the fact that pretty little liars never followed through on the halloween plots with the little blonde girls besides those two episodes like. especially with the twin thing that was the whole plot of the books! you could’ve gone somewhere with that!

[pllguy]

I JUST REALIZED

The scene in 2x13 “The First Secret” where Mona & Jenna meet at Noel’s party is MAJOR IMPORTANT.

Mona is “Original A” & she already mentions it’s a team when trying to recruit Spencer in 2x25 “unmAsked”. It’s also worth noting that Jenna unmAsks herself after creeping behind Aria as she goes to find Ezra. Jenna is shown texting someone right before that.

At the end of 1x02 “The Jenna Thing”, Spencer is jogging & sees Jenna typing on a keyboard, then sending a text voice confirmation, & to top it off turning to look in Spencer’s direction.

So back to the scene where Mona & Jenna meet. They formed a bond instantly. Jenna is definitely one of the sketchiest characters on the show, especially since it’s unclear the severity of her eyesight (I believe she’s faked how damaged it is.)

In 3x02 “Blood Is the New Black” Emily remembers being in a car with Jenna in a REDCOAT. While we know Alison is Redcoat, Charlotte was Alison’s distrAction redcoAt in Ravenswood (4x12 “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t”) & Sara was Charlotte’s redcoat when she needed her to be. Charlotte said she kept seeing a blonde in redcoat watching the girls. I’m thinking there is a possibility of Jenna being a 4th redcoat - she already has a red trench coat & if she is a member of the A team, she could be the one using the blonde wig featured in the Lost Woods Resort (btw, Alison’s eyes were stabbed out of numerous pictures. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind.” Maybe Jenna did that to those pictures.)

There’s the anti-Alison group meeting in 5x05 “Miss Me x 100” of Mona, Sydney, Jenna & another unidentified person. Jenna makes a comment to Sydney that Mona’s car used to be her’s. Was it a gift from one “A” to “A"nother?

Remember how Noel dated Mona & dumped her for Jenna? Remember Noel’s secrets? I believe this is when Charlotte Dilaurentis started to gather her information on the current A’s & their work by USING NOEL to date the 2 girls. I believe Noel was actually friends with Charlotte when she was in Radley (homage to the books but with a twist - YAY!) & so he knew the truth about her, maybe they even dated in the past!

Marlene King said in an interview after Charlotte was revealed that Jenna knew Alison was alive & that’s why Charlotte tried to drown her - she knew too much. Charlotte claims to have wanted Ali to come home, but throughout season 4 A seemed intent on wanting Alison to not return to Rosewood.

This is where I believe Jenna & Shana come into play with revenge for the “Jenna Thing”. Then Shana dies, leaving Jenna heartbroken & devastated due to the Liars (again).

Jenna has been a secret member of the A team the whole time. It’s been in front of us all along. Her motives are revenge for blinding her & murdering Shana. Jenna may not be Uber A, but she definitely has been working on the A team since the beginning.

[sandors-clegane]

Haria in the background is my favorite thing ever okay