Turn of the Shoe

"Did you think that making more deals with the devil was gonna protect us?!"

- Spencer to Toby

Turn of the Shoe is the second episode of Season 4 of Pretty Little Liars. The episode aired on June 18, 2013.

Synopsis
 The girls are at the Brew, discussing the "Woman in Black" and where Spencer's sister was. Emily and Hanna agree that Melissa is the Woman in Black while Spencer is using food to see if the geography is even possible for the person who jumped out of a plane could save Aria, Hanna and Emily. Hanna and Aria get into an argument about if it was Ali who saved the girls from the fire. Hanna states that they never saw a body at the funeral. Spencer is also a bit sceptical if it even was Ali that she saw coming out of the plane.

 Mona comes in and says that she has been thinking a lot about the Ali thing and Hanna then  accuses Mona of putting Hanna’s mom’s (Ashley) phone in Wilden’s coffin. Mona says she will do anything to prove that all the girls are in this together, so Spencer says to take them to the RV. Mona drives up to where the RV is, with the girls in two separate cars behind her.

 The girls arrive and Mona opens the gate to where the RV was, and is in shock when the RV is gone, and the girls think that Mona has taken it somewhere else. The girls still don’t believe Mona and they go to leave. Hanna and Spencer leave in their car, while Aria and Emily wait, and they watch Mona. Mona gets into her car and then all of a sudden, from the back seat, a hooded figure with an Ali mask starts to choke Mona. Mona tries to reach for the torch and Aria and Emily see that Mona’s car lights are flashing, so they start walking to the car. Mona finally gets the torch and whacks A with it and jumps out of car, and onto to the ground, gasping for breath. Aria and Emily run over to her. Mona’s car starts up and A drives the car and tries to run over the three. They jump onto the rocks and Emily lands on one of the rocks, and has badly injured her shoulder.

 It’s now morning and Hanna is at her house coming down the stairs and receives a text from Aria saying that Mona found her car dumped behind the school and that Mona is freaking out. Hanna walks into the kitchen and her mom is there taking some food out of the fridge. Ashley states that it was a rough drive and she should have taken the train. She also says that she didn’t see much of New York, because she was always in meetings. Hanna says that she went to Wilden’s funeral, and she asked her mom how she thinks he was killed. Ashley says that Wilden had more enemies than friends, and that an enemy decided to do everyone a favour. Hanna then gives Ashley her phone and said that she found it in the mailbox. Ashley looks at it in surprise and she looks a bit suspicious. Ashley then leaves.

 Spencer is checking her mail, when she sees a letter addressed to her, from the University of Pennsylvania. The letter says that the University have expressed an interest in her, but they are unable to offer her a place.

 Hanna and Aria are walking down a street and are discussing Mona and how Emily has a huge bruise on her shoulder and Hanna says Emily should have landed on Mona. Aria then says that she think A is trying to pick off the little ones in the herd. Hanna explains how her mother didn’t even blink when Hanna gave her mom her phone back. Hanna is now scared that A is trying to frame her mom for murder. Hanna says she wants to know; who put the phone in the casket, who set that tape of the girls outside Wilden’s car, and who stole Mona’s ‘A Mobile’. She thinks it is Jenna, Melissa or Shana. Aria then says as a joke that Hanna should ask Shana herself, because Aria sees Shana eating at the Brew. Hanna then walks over to Shana and confronts her about knowing Jenna and asked why she wasn’t at Wilden’s funeral. Shana says that she was at a swim practice. Hanna also confronts her about how Shana was friends with Wilden, and Hanna blurts out that she knows that Shana and Jenna helped Wilden when he was run over. Hanna and Aria then walk off.

Title and Background

 * The title is a play on Henry James’ ghost story novella, The Turn of the Screw — could it be a reference to someone’s return from the dead?
 * The shoe refers to the five inch heel footprints that was found with Wildens. Ashley is shown hiding a pair of trashd heels, suggessting she was the one with Wilden.

Main Cast

 * Troian Bellisario as Spencer Hastings
 * Ashley Benson as Hanna Marin
 * Shay Mitchell as Emily Fields
 * Lucy Hale as Aria Montgomery
 * Sasha Pieterse as Alison DiLaurentis
 * Janel Parrish as Mona Vanderwaal

Guest Cast

 * Lindsey Shaw as Paige McCullers
 * Keegan Allen as Toby Cavanaugh
 * Ian Harding as Ezra Fitz
 * Laura Leighton as Ashley Marin
 * Andrea Parker as Jessica DiLaurentis
 * Ryan Guzman  as Jake
 * Aeriel Miranda as Shana

Quote
Aria: She been Lying since she was a fetus

Emily: I would move the beds closer together

Spencer: YOU CAN"T IGNORE ME

Trivia

 * The read-though was on March 21, 2013.
 * Filming began on March 25, 2013 and ended on April 3, 2013.
 * The title was confirmed by E! Online.