Love and friendship
All of the Liars have had more than their share of kisses, over the years, but let’s look back at some of their best ones from Pretty Little Liars season 2.
Aria’s love life
When season 1 ended, Aria was just finding out about Ezra’s previous engagement to Jackie. She was less than impressed that he’d left out that tiny little detail about his life, but when Jackie showed up to Aria’s house for a Hollis faculty mixer, she was livid.
In the beginning of season 2, Ezra tries to talk to Aria about what happened with Ian, but she’s still upset. Soon after, Ezra leaves Rosewood High to teach at Hollis, and he basically masks his ode to Aria as a goodbye speech to the class. As he packs up his things and heads for the parking lot, Aria checks her pride and sprints into his arms and kisses him. The whole thing is definitely an Ezria highlight!
When Ezra starts his job at Hollis, he and Aria have trouble adjusting to the fact that they don’t have to be quite so secretive. When Jackie walks in on them talking in his office, he addresses her as his former student and she says she’s actually there to see her dad. They agree to take a baby step by introducing each other as friends.
While Aria and Ezra are trying to figure out how to proceed, Jason begins opening up to Aria and showing interest in her. He tells her that he thought her pink hair was cool, confides in her about not remembering the night that Ali disappeared, and lets her little brother off the hook for breaking into his house.
The whole thing comes to a head when Aria’s parents invite both men to their house for a dinner party. After her parents get called to the police station because of Mike, Ezra sees Aria and Jason having an intimate conversation. He asks Aria if he should be worried about Jason, and she scoffs as if there could be no more ridiculous notion!
And then, the sex dreams started happening. Aria enjoys a series of dreams where she got to make out with both Ezra and Jason! Understandably, the girl was confused, so when Jason finally kisses her, soon after that, she doesn’t stop him right away. Eventually, though, she tells him that she isn’t available. Aria does (accidentally) tell Ezra about the kiss, so things get slightly rocky for a while.
When Spencer believes Jason to be connected to Ali’s disappearance, she jumps into Ezra’s car and tells him that Aria’s in danger. The mere thought of that compels Ezra to tell Aria that they need to tell people about their relationship. However, they still don’t, until A forces Aria to blackmail Jackie, using her plagiarized paper. When Jackie threatens to expose Ezria, that’s the last straw. First stop on the confession tour, Aria’s parents’ house! In the middle of all that there’s some drama with Ella thinking Ezra was dating Spencer, but it’s pretty inconsequential.
Less inconsequential, is Aria’s family’s reaction to the news. Mike punches Ezra in the face, Ella forbids Aria from seeing him, and Byron tells Ezra to stay away from her. They also put Aria under serious lockdown. It all seems pretty bleak, until Aria’s old family friend, Holden, comes back to town. The two of them pretend they’re dating so that Aria can see Ezra in the city and Holden can do karate..? To each, his own, I guess.
Even though they’re doing a great job at hiding their relationship, it isn’t enough for Byron. He orchestrates a prestigious job interview for Ezra in New Orleans. Ezra tells Aria that he doesn’t see how it can work out between them, because Byron will know why, if he doesn’t take the job. Luckily, after seeing Aria crying, Ella shows up at Ezra’s apartment and agrees to hear them out. With this ray of hope, Ezra tells Byron that he won’t be bullied into leaving. Ezra gets fired, but he and Aria have sex for the first time, so…you win some, you lose some, right?
Emily’s love life
Emily met Samara in season 1, when they were supposed to be helping Paige, who was a no-show, and they immediately hit it off. At the beginning of season 2, they go on a date and the sparks continue to fly. Unfortunately, things get confusing when Samara shows up to Emily’s fashion show holding another girl’s hand, and there was no coming back from Emily giving Samara’s friend her phone number, per A’s demands.
Don’t fret, Emily’s not heartbroken for too long, because Maya comes back to town! They agree to start again, as friends, but things get back to normal pretty quickly. Well, normal, except for the fact that Maya keeps receiving weird texts and calls, and says they’re from a guy that she dated at True North. Despite that, an inappropriate dinner with Pam, and a suspicious convo with Noel, Maya and Emily say that they love each other when Maya romantically decorates her room to look like a pool!
At Emily’s victory party, she catches Maya smoking a joint, outside. Her parents also find a joint in her room (she had told Emily it was old), and are threatening to send her back to True North. Maya tells Emily that she wants to go back to San Francisco to avoid going back to the juvi camp. Then, she leaves.
While Emily’s worrying about Maya, she and Paige end up fundraising together. Paige tells her that she came out to her parents, and Em is thrilled. However, when Paige kisses Emily after she consoles her about Maya’s absence, Emily reacts just about as well as she did when Paige first kissed her, in her car.
The police eventually come to Emily’s house and tell her that Maya left a note, packed a bag, and ran away. Emily and her father go to the bus station to investigate, and they find out that Maya bought a bus ticket to San Fran, but the attendant can’t confirm that she got on the bus. He saw her talking to someone in a dark colored car, outside the window.
Soon after that, Emily gets a text from Maya saying that she’s okay, and later, a long email, basically saying that she’s not coming back, but that she loves her. Knowing her parents are worried, Emily lets them know that she’s okay. Later, Emily gets an angry text from Maya, saying, “thanks for telling my parents.” Emily does get a call from Maya while the Liars are at the Lost Woods Resort, but the reception isn’t good enough.
After the ‘A’ reveal, the Liars see police cars outside of Emily’s house. Emily runs to her lawn and her mom informs her that they think they found Maya’s body.
Hanna’s love life
Thinking his chances with Hanna were shot, Caleb left town at the end of Pretty Little Liars season 1. That is, he tried to, until Lucas went to bring him back. Caleb apologizes to Hanna for leaving and explains that he wrote a goodbye letter, which Mona never delivered. Despite his apology, Hanna says that she’ll never be able to forget the fact that he used her.
When Lucas develops a crush on Danielle, a cute girl from the yearbook club, he begs Hanna and Caleb to double date with them. Caleb’s all for it, and Hanna reluctantly obliges. After the double date, things begin to thaw for Haleb, and Hanna eventually lets him back in.
Caleb confides in Hanna about getting in trouble with some criminals before he came to Rosewood, so when Hanna notices that someone’s following him, she’s understandably concerned. Hanna confronts his stalker, but it turns out it’s just someone his mother paid to find him. After talking to his mother, he spends a lot of Pretty Little Liars season 2 in Montecito, with her and her family. Hanna’s sad that he’s away, but the relationship doesn’t suffer because of the distance.
That doesn’t mean that things are perfect in Haleb land, though. When the Liars get A’s phone, they immediately think to turn to Caleb, to hack it. Hanna doesn’t want to involve him, but the other girls overpower her. When Caleb starts to figure out that the videos he’s decrypting have something to do with Ali’s murder, Hanna freaks out and puts his USB stick, with all of his work, in the blender. It literally just bounces around, but we’re to believe it’s irreparably damaged.
Caleb figured out enough to know that Hanna could be in danger, so he goes to the other Liars and tells them he’ll continue to work on the phone, but only if they keep it a secret from Hanna. When Hanna finds out, she doesn’t get mad, she just tells him about the money her mom stole, and that A could expose her if he keeps working.
At “Truth Up” day, A takes Caleb’s computer and downloads illegal files onto it. Later, at school, Garrett shows up and seizes Caleb’s laptop. They can’t get into it, so they eventually call him down to the station to go through the files. He manages to call Hanna and say that he needs help, and using information that he’d taught her, and skillfully putting together his password, which included the date that they slept together for the first time, she and Spencer manage to delete the illegal files before the police find them.
After that, Caleb goes away again, but Mona arranges for him to come back to surprise Hanna at the masquerade ball. Haleb is going strong, moving into Pretty Little Liars season 3.
Spencer’s love life
At the beginning of Pretty Little Liars season 2, Spencer and Toby are told not to see each other. Luckily, nothing makes a high school romance hotter than when it’s “forbidden,” so they continue to find little moments to be together.
Not wanting to face the scrutiny of his peers any longer, Toby decides to pursue a GED. With ample free time on his hands, and a keen desire to get away from his home situation, he starts taking on construction jobs.
Because life is high school, Toby gets fired from his first job because the owner doesn’t want him working on their property. After that, he gets a cool opportunity that’s a little further out of town, but he can’t afford a truck to get there. Spence, being a super girlfriend and a not-so-super sister, pawns Melissa’s engagement ring to get him the money. To be fair, she does plan to get the ring back “as soon as the banks open,” but A has other plans, and instead of the ring, she gets a horseshoe. Upon receiving the truck, Toby tells Spence that he loves her, and she says it back. D’awww.
When Spencer receives her doll from A with the instruction to “keep Toby safe,” the only way she can think to do that is to keep him away from her. She tells him that there’s so much she can’t tell him, so they have to break up. Wren, who’s now working at the Rosewood hospital in the role of “every doctor necessary to every plot,” sees Spence crying about the break up, comes to her house to console her, and kisses her. Creep.
Throughout the season, Toby keeps trying to prove to Spencer that he’s not walking away from the relationship, no matter what she says, and Spencer keeps telling him to back the heck off. That is, when she’s not slipping up and kissing him in his car. So, we probably can’t blame Toby for getting missed signals. When A sees one of these slip ups, they orchestrate some payback. Toby falls off some hefty scaffolding in Spencer’s yard and ends up in the hospital.
Seeing that her mistake put Toby in danger, Spencer tells Emily to tell Toby that she’s seeing someone else. Namely, Wren. Toby finally gets the hint and leaves the truck on Spencer’s yard, with a note saying he’s gone.
One night, when Spencer’s waiting for Melissa at a bar, Wren just happens to be there. Melissa ditches Spence and takes off with Garrett, so Spencer goes to Wren’s apartment and things get pretty hot and heavy. Wren eventually puts a stop to it because Spencer’s so drunk, and she spends the night on the couch. The next time they see each other is at the hospital when he’s taking glass out of Spencer’s hand, from the fire at Jason’s. He asks if she’d rather forget what happened between them but she says she wouldn’t take anything back.
When Toby eventually comes back, after Jenna’s surgery, he gives Spencer the cold shoulder. She tries to get him back but he tells her it’s too late. He’s all buddy-buddy with Jenna again, despite everything that happened between them.
After Mona confesses, Dr. Sullivan tells Spencer that Toby went to convince her to come back. He’s waiting outside the police station for her and tells her that pretending not to love her was the hardest thing he’s ever had to do!
Other notable relationships
- Noel and Mona – Noel and Mona are dating at the beginning of Pretty Little Liars season 2, after Noel returns from his suspension. After a while, Mona tries to talk to Hanna about how she thinks she’s losing Noel, and they soon break up. She says that she “never knew anyone who could lie like that.”
- Caleb and Lucas – Lucas and Caleb become close friends after Lucas brings Caleb back to Rosewood and lets him live at his house. Caleb even forgives Lucas immediately when he confesses to gambling away his money.
- Hanna and Mona – Hanna and Mona have a shaky beginning and ending in Pretty Little Liars season 2. Hanna starts off by confronting Mona about Caleb’s letter, which she trashed, and Mona says that she didn’t want to give Caleb a chance to hurt her, again. Hanna forgives her, and throughout the rest of the season they have their ups and downs. Obviously, after Mona confesses to being A, and says she did it because she was jealous of Hanna’s friends, things don’t end well. However, Hanna is still concerned about Mona’s well-being, and asks Dr. Sullivan if she’ll be able to get better.
- Emily and Toby – Emily apologizes to Toby for not believing him, right away, in season 1. They don’t interact much for the rest of Pretty Little Liars season 2, though.
- Jenna and Garrett – Jenna and Garrett are secretly dating at the beginning of Pretty Little Liars season 2 and are constantly sneaking around, watching everyone. When the show jumps ahead one month, following the Liars being framed, their relationship is public. Soon after, Jenna breaks up with Garrett, and starts hanging out with Noel. Garrett tells Toby that he brought up getting out of town, to Jenna, and she shut him out.
- Noel and Jenna – After she breaks up with Garrett, Jenna is spotted with Noel, a few times.
- Melissa and Garrett – at the end of Pretty Little Liars season 2, Melissa and Garrett are seeing each other, and he’s even accompanying her to her doctor’s appointments.
Minor storylines
These topics take up a lot of screen time in Pretty Little Liars season 2, but aren’t overly important to the main plot of the show!
Mike Montgomery’s criminal phase
Emily and Spencer both have items stolen from their houses, and Aria’s knocked over by a hooded figure at Spencer’s house. They assume the culprit is Ian, but Jason DiLaurentis soon discovers that it’s actually Mike Montgomery, when he catches him trying to break into his house!
Jason doesn’t turn Mike in, but the police catch him anyway. Over many family screaming matches, it’s revealed that Mike was acting out because of the turmoil between his parents, and because he felt ignored. During one particularly tense argument, Mike pushes Ella over when she tries to take his computer.
Mike starts seeing a therapist but Byron wants to take him to a psychiatrist. He’s extra worried because his brother committed suicide, and doesn’t want the same thing to happen to Mike. By the end of the season, Mike seems to be coming back to his old self, and is friendlier with his family.
Emily’s family and swimming career
Emily’s dad is back from his deployment, but gets stationed in Texas. Pam doesn’t like the distance, and really doesn’t like the drama that Emily’s been caught up in, so she puts their house up for sale and plans for them to move south.
When a scout for Danby University shows interest in Emily’s swimming prowess, she takes the opportunity to make a case for staying in Rosewood. When the scout won’t give her any assurance, she forges a letter saying that they’ve offered her a scholarship, contingent on her remaining in Rosewood. She doesn’t end up sending it, but A does! Pam lets Emily stay, but she misses her husband too much to do the same, so Emily moves in with Hanna.
Em soon starts experiencing pain in her shoulders and begins applying pain cream pretty generously. When she collapses at school, with an ulcer, her blood tests (performed by Wren) show high levels of the performance enhancing drug, HGH. A reveals to her that they sabotaged her by putting the hormone in her pain cream. In the hospital, she plans to tell her dad about the forged letter, but he tells her not to worry about the scholarship, before she can do so.
When she heals and is ready to swim again, the coach isn’t sure if she should let her back on the team, since she was arrested and was given community service. Mona helps Emily get back on the team by blackmailing the principal with her insider knowledge.
Jenna’s eyesight
The Liars first hear about Jenna’s eye surgery when they overhear her talking to a nurse in the hospital. Throughout Pretty Little Liars season 2, she makes comments about the first things she wants to see when she gets her eyesight back. She comes back from the surgery with a bandage over her eye. She finally takes her bandage off in front of Toby, and starts crying as if it didn’t work. However, it’s later revealed that it actually did work, and she can see.
Hanna’s family
Hanna’s asked to be a bridesmaid at her father’s wedding to Isobel, and she reluctantly obliges. When she’s at her dress fitting with Mona, Kate shows up and invites them to go riding with her and her friends. Hanna “horse whisperer” Marin loses Kate’s horses and Kate basically vows to ruin her life.
Kate commences said life ruining at the rehearsal dinner. She and Hanna are set to give a toast together, but Kate gets Hanna drunk and Hanna ends up puking all over Isobel’s wedding dress. Things don’t get any better between Hanna and Isobel when A makes Hanna interrupt the wedding by telling Isobel about the affair her parents had, earlier in Pretty Little Liars season 2.
Despite the interruption, Hanna’s father still marries Isobel, and they decide to move to Rosewood! When Kate shows up at school, Spencer realizes that she’s seen her before. Kate was in Melissa’s cabin at horse camp, and the campers knew her as “Boil and Baggies” because she had a severe skin condition. Spencer blackmails her into treating Hanna well.
The entire student body receives a nude picture of Kate from Hanna’s phone, and Hanna gets in serious trouble. When the Liars do some sleuthing and realize that the picture was photoshopped, they deduce that Kate must’ve sent it herself. They expose her, and that’s the last of the Kate trouble!
The fire
When Hanna goes over to Jason’s to return a bag of Ali’s things, she notices that the inside of the house is on fire! Jenna runs at the door, trying to escape, and Hanna pulls her out. Jenna says that she got a text from Jason saying that he needed to talk to her, but Jason was out of town. In the hospital, Jenna asks Hanna why she saved her, and she later apologizes for holding a grudge, saying that she’s not the person they need to fear.
Lucas gambling
In one of the more frustrating Pretty Little Liars plot lines, Lucas is built up to be the big bad, but is actually just addicted to online gambling. As part of Emily’s community service, she helps out at a support hotline. During training, her instructor reads a transcript call from the night before. The dialogue makes it sound like A was the caller.
The same caller calls back the next day, and it’s clear that it’s Lucas, from his voice. The girls get scared, since Lucas is currently helping them plan Caleb’s surprise party at Spencer’s lake house. Hanna doesn’t want to believe it could be him, but when he takes her out on a row boat, at the party, and is acting sketchy, she freaks out and pushes him overboard.
Nobody sees him for a few days, but eventually he sneaks into Hanna’s house and confesses to stealing Caleb’s money and betting on basketball. *eye roll* Caleb forgives him but Hanna says that he’s not who she thought he was.
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