'Pretty Little Liars' Re-Cap: Emily Invents Synchronized Skinny Dipping

Pretty Little Liars paid homage to the XXX Olympic Games in London with synchronized skinny-dipping this week! Well, it may not have been exactly in honor of the Olympics, but nothing on ABC Family’s breakout show is an accident, as evidenced by continual allusions to iconic pop culture moments of the past - like naming the café where Emily works the Rear Window Cafe.

Pretty Little Liars paid homage to the XXX Olympic Games in London with synchronized skinny-dipping this week! Well, it may not have been exactly in honor of the Olympics, but nothing on ABC Family’s breakout show is an accident, as evidenced by continual allusions to iconic pop culture moments of the past - like naming the café where Emily works the Rear Window Cafe.

It’s eight episodes in to Pretty Little Liars’ third season, and finally, Rosewood’s resident gay girl Emily Fields’ story turned once again to her love life. To be fair, she is mourning the death of her girlfriend Maya, so in TV time three months or so seems to be an appropriate time to mourn before moving on.

Here’s a recap of Pretty Little Liars Ep. 3.8: Stolen Kisses

The episode kicks off with the liars, Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Hanna (Ashley Benson), Aria (Lucy Hale) and Emily (Shay Mitchell) attempting to crack the password to a website that appears to be Maya’s, a site that Hanna’s former bff, the currently institutionalized Mona (Janel Parrish) tipped them off to. Emily attempts a password she thinks Maya (Bianca Lawson) would have used but it fails, causing Em to remark that she didn’t know her girlfriend as well as she thought she did.

As the other Liars continue to try to crack the code Emily heads to the old boathouse in town – Rosewood really does have everything you could ever ask for in a tiny town – with Maya’s creepy cousin Nate (Sterling Sulieman), who just happened to turn up in the town where his cousin was murdered to attend college there. He’s also a tad suspect for essentially hitting on his dead cousin’s girlfriend in the last episode. There’s no disputing that Emily’s a dish but some things are just wrong. Still, Emily appears to be spending some quality time with Nate, pointing to the possibility of a hook-up there.

Meanwhile, Em’s got unfinished business with Paige, her former swim team member who once bullied her and whom she later helped to come out. If you recall a few episodes back, Emily, unaware of the dregs of its contents, lent Paige (Lindsey Shaw) the flask she drank from the night she blacked out. That being the night the liars’ dead friend Alison’s grave was dug up.

A few episodes back, Paige got dosed from drinking from Em’s flask at frenemy Jenna’s party, and landed face down on the floor, but that was only after she brilliantly ruined the party buy mowing down on all of Jenna’s perfectly placed cupcakes.

Fast-forward to this week’s episode and Emily turns up at Paige’s place to apologize for unwittingly drugging her. Paige is fixing her bike when Em turns up, and that’s just super fix-it girl hot. Emily is clearly there to discuss the whole dosing incident but Paige appears a little cagey about the idea of a discussion.

“Okay, we really have to talk about this,” Em says.

“No, we don’t. We can forget about the whole thing. Honestly Em,” Paige says, and clearly something ain’t right in the milk in the flask.

“Can we go some place and talk?” Emily implores but Paige blows her off. She’s ostensibly busy fixing her bike, which again, makes us like her even more. As Emily is impossible to resist Paige caves and agrees to meet with her the following day after school.

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