FLASHBACK

Lil' Julian: "Why can't you just be my normal girlfriend? Why all the sneaking around?"
Lil' Joanna: "Well, just like would happen in real life, my mother is the one that would have a problem with that. Not your rich white family, no. My mother, your housekeeper."
Lil' Julian: "Sometimes you gotta wonder just who the real racists are, these days."

AND WE'RE BACK

Joanna: "You sure you don't want to come in?"
Julian: "Yeah, that would be super weird and I know it would be nice to have like one ally in there besides Mia, but no. I have to see my other girlfriend."
Robert: "Joanna, is that you? Come inside, it's cold! And I have to do some crazy shit to you starting right now!"

NEXT WEEK

Edward's in danger, Wyatt continues to be a problem, and Robert flies Joanna's mom into town for what is sure to be a shitshow. What else? This whole Audrey wrinkle is pretty fantastic, isn't it? I would simply love it if the whole Lyritrol cluster ended up being just something that got out of hand, wouldn't you? Just a little harmless espionage that ended up getting the whole family killed by an unlucky sting of coincidences.

JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps The Good Wife, Deception, Zero Hour, and Pretty Little Liars for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, on Twitter, and on Facebook, as well as an upcoming regular column for Tor.com.