For diehard Pretty Little Liars fans the downtime between seasons feels like an eternity. Luckily, the powers that be at PLL offer up an annual tasty little tease of a Halloween episode that both feeds the addiction and leaves us begging for more.
The Liars may be pretty and pretty smart but they don’t always make the best decisions – like opting to spend their Halloween on a speeding train loaded with members of the A-team hurtling down the tracks to someone’s certain death.
For diehard Pretty Little Liars fans the downtime between seasons feels like an eternity. Luckily, the powers that be at PLL offer up an annual tasty little tease of a Halloween episode that both feeds the addiction and leaves us begging for more.
The Liars may be pretty and pretty smart but they don’t always make the best decisions – like opting to spend their Halloween on a speeding train loaded with members of the A-team hurtling down the tracks to someone’s certain death.
Tuesday’s Halloween episode entitled “This is a Dark Ride” was chock full of twists, turns, poison rings, creepy costumes (and some really amazing ones), murder, on-train trysts and more. Here are our picks for episode’s five best moments.
5. Mrs. Marin as a Naughty Nurse
Let’s face it. Mrs. Marin, as embodied by Laura Leighton, is just plain hot, but never more so than in her satiny naughty nurse Halloween costume. Hanna’s mom and her Pastor boyfriend Bob play doctor throughout the episode even if they are just handing out Halloween candy to the neighborhood kids. And, well, Mrs. Marin’s also being visited by the ghost of a little girl, but that’s neither here nor there. No wonder Hanna (Ashley Benson) was so eager to get away from her house and ride the crazy train. Hanging out with your hot mom who’s in a naughty nurse costume and her boyfriend is just awkward.
4. Adam Lambert Gets the Liars Dancing
It’s not every day an out pop icon performs on Pretty Little Liars, but Adam Lambert was the perfect choice to play a goth vamp who happens to be the all-aboard entertainment. Adam’s performance gets the Liars dancing on the train, including some cool moves from Pailey (Emily and Paige).
Adam also appears to have a soft spot for Aria (Lucy Hale) as he stops to chat her up just before the Queen of Hearts flips poison into Aria’s beverage and then hauls her off to a storage crate on a remote part of the train to spend most of the remainder of the episode.
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3. The Liars Save Aria from Hurtling to her Death in a Crate with Garrett's Corpse
Pretty Little Liars is never better than when the girls work in concert to save each other, and the Halloween episode featured a doozy when Emily, Hanna and Spencer save a crated Aria (Lucy Hale) from being pushed off the moving train at a breakneck pace. It also doesn’t help Aria’s state of mind that she’s encased with a dead Garrett Reynolds.
Earlier in the evening Aria was drugged by the Queen of Hearts and later the diminutive Little Liar wakes up in a wooden crate beside Garrett’s cold, blue body. The plot has certainly thickened as terrified Garrett--who had been awaiting trial for murdering Alison until Spencer's lawyer mom got him off, had cornered Spencer (Troian Bellisario) earlier on the train to reveal that Aria’s father – Chad Lowe’s irritatingly professorial and pious Byron Montgomery – met with Alison the night she died.
For the scene with Aria in the crate Lucy does some great work panting, huffing, puffing and screaming as she realizes she’s so close to death on more than one level. Right before two members of the A team – a man and a woman we know from the two voices we hear – are about to throw Aria from the train, her best girl friends arrive on the scene to save her. The trio of Liars pulls the teetering crate back on to the train while Emily, exhibiting badass prowess, then slides the train car door shut.
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