This week on Pretty Little
Liars, Ali is home and already telling some big lies, Jason acts suspicious,
Mike and Mona reconnect and Aria deals with massive guilt over Shana’s death.
Aria, Spencer, Hanna,
Emily and Ali get off of the bus in Rosewood, back from New York.
Ali hesitates and Hanna asks if she is okay. Ali turns to get back on the bus, but Emily
stops her. Emily tells Ali that she does
not need to run anymore. “A” is gone.
Spencer tells Ali that she
is making the right decision by coming back to Rosewood and finally telling the
truth. Ali wants to go home and talk to
her mom before doing anything else, but Emily reminds Ali that her mom buried
her.
Spencer tells Ali that the
police need to know she is alive before Ali’s mom, Ms. DiLaurentis, finds
out. Emily tells Ali to talk to the
police about Mona being “A” and Shana taking over as “A”. Spencer says that Ali needs to start the
story before the night she disappeared.
She needs to tell the police about blinding Jenna because Shana’s motive
for attacking Ali was to get payback for Jenna.
Ali doesn’t feel like she
can go through with this. Aria feels
responsible for Shana’s death, but she thinks she’ll be able to handle taking
responsibility for that. Ali will have
to handle the rest, though.
The girls all go to the
Rosewood police station together.
Officer Holbrook approaches them and says that he knows who Ali is. He welcomes her home and he is glad that she
came with her friends. He wants to hear
her story, starting with the night she disappeared.
Ali drops a bombshell,
claiming that she didn’t disappear. She
was kidnapped and held hostage for two years.
If it wasn’t for her friends, she wouldn’t be standing there. Her friends saved her life.
Spencer, Hanna, Aria and
Hanna all look shocked and uncomfortable as they listen to Ali lie to Officer
Holbrook.
Officer Holbrook sits with
all the girls and asks them some questions.
Clearly he doesn’t believe Ali’s story.
He shows Ali the photo taken a month ago of all the girls together. He says he doesn’t know who took it, but the
photo is dated.
Ali claims the picture was
taken the night she got away from her captor.
She jumped out of his car. Not
believing her, Officer Holbrook asks if she did that while she was blindfolded.
Ali says that she ran to
the woods after jumping out of the captor’s car. Officer Holbrook says that the photo shows
she was in Rosewood with her friends.
Ali claims that she asked
her friends to hide her. Officer
Holbrook wonders why Ali would find it more helpful to ask her friends
for help, rather than the police or her family.
Ali tells him that she was scared of being out in the open.
Ali tells Officer Holbrook
that her friends hid her in the woods in a shed that they all used to hang out
in. Officer Holbrook catches Ali in that
lie, pointing out that Ali previously said that her friends came to rescue her
in Philadelphia.
Ali is saved from
answering Officer Holbrook’s questions when her dad comes in. Ali and her dad hug.
Hanna wonders if she was
sleeping when kidnapping was discussed as a cover story for Ali’s
disappearance. Spencer, upset with Ali’s
lies, says that they never discussed it.
The girls wonder why Ali’s mom isn’t at the police station.
Back at home, Spencer’s
mom tells Emily that she is welcome to stay at their house until Emily’s mom
flies back to Rosewood from Dallas. Her flight is delayed due to a storm. Emily leaves the room to call her mom.
Spencer tries to go to
bed, but her mom, Mrs. Hastings, stops her.
Mrs. Hastings wants to know where Spencer has been for the past few
days. She cannot believe that Spencer
knew Ali was alive for over a month and kept it a secret. Spencer says that they promised Ali that they
wouldn’t talk.
Mrs. Hastings is furious
that Spencer didn’t think the situation through. There is still a dead girl buried in Ali’s
grave. Spencer gets defensive and tells
her mom that she had nothing to do with the girl’s death.
Mrs. Hastings clarifies
that she is not accusing Spencer of murder, just poor judgment. Mr. Hastings is in Philadelphia.
He went there with Melissa when Spencer’s car got impounded.
Spencer is surprised that
Melissa is back in Rosewood. Mrs.
Hastings said not to expect any souvenirs from London.
All Melissa brought back is attitude and secrets.
Meanwhile, Hanna’s mom,
Ms. Marin, is upset that Hanna didn’t tell the truth about Ali being alive. Hanna says that she was going to tell her mom
as soon as it was safe. Hanna claims she
feels safe now, but Ms. Marin doesn’t believe her. How can Hanna feel safe if there is a
kidnapper on the loose?
Hanna tries to change the
topic to cheese, but Ms. Marin keeps questioning Hanna, asking how Hanna felt
when she found out that Ali was alive.
Ms. Marin doesn’t understand how Hanna could get up and go to school
every day knowing what Ali was suffering through. She feels so bad for Ali and everything she
must have gone through.
Hanna, wanting to end the
conversation, tells her mom that Ali just wants to move on from this nightmare. It’s harder for Ali to move on if people keep
asking questions. Everything is over and
she needs it to end.
Aria, worried about Ezra,
calls the hospital to check on his status.
She is interrupted by Mike, who comes to her room and wants to know if
it is true that Ali is alive.
Mike overheard their dad
talking to their mom about the freak who kidnapped and blindfolded Ali. Aria, annoyed with the questions, snaps that
this isn’t a videogame. Mike says that
he wasn’t joking. Ali is so tough; he is
surprised that she didn’t strangle her kidnapper with her bare hands. Aria begs him to stop talking.
Mike, who overheard Aria
on the phone, asks why Ezra is in the hospital.
Aria tells him that Ezra was in New
York for the weekend and got hurt. Mike asks if Ezra will be okay and Aria says
that he’ll be fine, she already saw him.
Mike asks how Aria saw Ezra
if she was in Philadelphia
over the weekend. Aria, realizing she
slipped up, tells Mike that she didn’t see Ezra. She just talked to him on the phone. She tells Mike that she’s exhausted and needs
some sleep.
Emily, talking to her mom
on the phone, explains that while Ali was kidnapped she was locked in a room
and only heard the kidnapper’s voice.
Spencer waits for Emily to finish her call outside the house.
Spencer is furious that
Ali blindsided all of them with her lies.
They made a pact to tell the truth now that “A” is finally dead. They were going to go back to their normal
lives, but Ali changed her mind and went rogue at the police station. Spencer says that they are back on Planet
Alison. It’s ninth grade all over again,
like they are on a whirly girlie ride.
Ali goes rogue and they are just expected to back her up. Ali is still trying to control them.
Emily tells Spencer that
Ali may have lied to protect her mom.
Spencer cannot believe that Emily is defending Ali.
Spencer and Emily notice
Jason, Ali’s older brother, next door.
He is cleaning his car. They
wonder why Jason is taking the time to clean his car when his sister just came
back from the dead.
Once Jason goes inside,
Spencer and Emily head over to peek in his car.
Ali is at her bedroom window. She
throws a roll of toilet paper down to them.
There is a cell phone in the roll.
The phone has a text
message that says “The truth will bury you in a New York minute”. The girls ask Ali who sent her the text. Ali draws a question mark on her window.
Ali looks through her
closet and picks up a doll in her room.
Ali’s dad comes in and suggests that Ali sleep downstairs so she doesn’t
have to be by herself. Ali says that
she’s been dreaming about sleeping in her own bed for a long time. Ali’s dad admits that he doesn’t think he can
let her out of his sight again.
Ali asks if he has heard
from her mom. He and Jason have been
trying to find her mom, but they are worried.
Ali’s dad tells her that he wants her to feel safe. He asked the police to put barrier up at end
of the street. Lots of people want to
hear her story, but she doesn’t have to talk or leave the house until she is
ready.
Ali’s dad cries as he
expresses regret that he can’t give her back the years she has lost. He promises to do everything he can to help
her forget. He takes out a picture of
Ali as a little girl that he’s kept in his wallet every since the night she
disappeared. He tells her that he
refused to let her go. He kisses Ali on
the head and pulls her window blinds down.
Ali’s dad tells her that
he and her mom are divorcing. Ali says
that Emily already told her. Ali cries
as she says sorry to her dad. He says
that he’s sorry, too.
Aria falls asleep reading
in bed. She has nightmares of Shana
playing the violin and relives the moment when she pushed Shana to her death. Aria wakes up suddenly, but she still hears
violin music outside. Aria, wearing a
t-shirt that says “You’re no good”, goes over to the window to listen.
Hanna calls Aria,
wondering who sent Ali that cryptic text message. Aria doesn’t know what Hanna is talking about
and Hanna realizes that Emily and Spencer hadn’t told Aria about it. Hanna explains that Ali got a text message on
her phone at the precinct, which caused her to lie to the police.
Aria freaks out at the
idea that “A” is still sending text messages.
Hanna reassures Aria that “A” is dead, but Hanna has to get off the
phone when her mom calls for her.
Freaked out, Aria closes and locks her window.
Ali can’t sleep and she
sits up when she hears a noise. She lies
back down and her bedroom door opens.
Jason enters her room and watches Ali, who is lying in bed facing the
other direction.
Ali’s dad pays a visit to Hanna’s
mom and asks her for help. Hanna
secretly listens to their conversation. Ali’s
dad wants Hanna’s mom to go through Ms. DiLaurentis’s emails to find out where she
is. Hanna’s mom is uncomfortable with
doing that and asks if Jason can help find Ali’s mom.
Ali’s dad shows his anger towards
Jason, expressing his disbelief that Jason hasn’t shed a tear since Ali’s
return. He doesn’t know if it is due to
shock or his brain has become so deadened from drugs that he can’t act like a
human being anymore. Hanna’s mom
suggests that’s probably the shock.
Ali joins Jason on the
porch. When he sees her, he quickly puts
his phone away. Jason tells her that she
can’t be outside. There is a line of
cars down the street. Cops and the
press. Ali points out that Jason hasn’t
asked her many questions since she’s returned home. Jason says he figured Ali needed some space.
Ali asks Jason what their
mom’s reaction was when she found out that Ali was alive. Jason seems surprised by the question. He says their mom was stunned.
A car pulls up and Jason
tells Ali to get inside, but Ali doesn’t listen. A woman from the county shelter steps out of
a van with a dog named Pepe. She says
that Ms. DiLaurentis wanted to adopt him.
Jason denies that his
mother order this. The woman tells him
that it’s a dog, not a pizza.
Ali immediately comes to
pet Pepe and asks why he was at the shelter.
The woman says the dog has issues, mostly with men. She pointedly looks at Jason as she says
this. Angry, Jason demands that she put
the dog back in the van. Ali asks what
will happen to Pepe if they don’t take him.
When Ali hears that this was the last chance for Pepe, Ali takes Pepe’s
leash.
Mike runs into Mona outside
the Brew and asks if she needs help carrying a large box and her coffee. She declines his help, but he walks with
her.
Mike asks if she’s heard
about Ali. Mona says that it’s quite a
story. And now there is a psycho circling
town looking for his next victim. They
need to fight back, which is why Mona ordered whistles for every girl in
school. She also asked Principal Hackett
for special apps for their phones, since the all the girls at Rosewood High
can’t hire full time bodyguards. Mike
says he would apply for that job if she could stand being around him that
much. Mike tells Mona that he misses
her.
Emily leaves Spencer’s
house and Spencer chases after her, telling her that they are supposed to stay
at home. Emily just wants to give Ali
her phone back. Spencer tells Emily that
Hanna told Aria about the text message.
Now Aria is freaked out thinking that “A” is back and she is one text
away from being turned over to the police for killing Shana.
Emily and Spencer both
believe that “A” is dead. Spencer thinks
the text might have been from Jenna.
Emily isn’t concerned about Jenna, since it is five against one.
Spencer digs through the
DiLaurentis’s trash can, looking for what Jason threw out the night
before. She finds a bag from Boyanjian
Bakery in New York. Emily says that Jason’s rehab visit was a
lie. What if Jason was following Ali
under Ms. DiLaurentis’s orders? Emily
thinks Jason was the one who sent Ali that threatening text. If Ali started talking, Ms. DiLaurentis would
go down. And who would Ms. DiLaurentis
cover for besides Jason?
Aria, unable to get Shana
out of her mind, looks through breaking news stories on the New York Bulletin
website. She types in “Dead girl theater
Georgia”,
but deletes the words before completing the search. Aria hears violin music again, this time from
her MP3 player. She switches songs and another
violin music piece plays. Freaked out,
Aria yanks her earbuds out.
Emily and Spencer are in
Ali’s room and Ali is sitting on the bed with Pepe. Emily explains that it can’t be a coincidence
that Jason came back from New York
the same night that Ali returned.
Ali tells the girls that
that Jason was in her room last night, watching her sleep. Emily is horrified and tells Ali to spend the
night at Spencer’s. Ali doesn’t think
her dad isn’t going to let her leave the house for sleepovers.
Ali asks if Spencer thinks
that she should be afraid of their big brother.
She tells Spencer that she knows Spencer told Jason that he is her
half-brother. Ali says not to worry
about it; she thinks her dad might know, too.
Ali wants to know if Spencer believes that Jason is the one who slammed
a rock against her head and almost killed her.
Spencer thinks it’s
possible, but she’s not sure. Ali had
been needling both Spencer’s family and her own family with the Peter Hastings
and Jessica DiLaurentis affair, so probably both families wanted to shut Ali
up. If Ms. DiLaurentis chose Jason over
Ali, then Ms. DiLaurentis would have every reason to make the girls look
bad. They’ve been framed as pathological
liars ever since Ali went missing and no one would believe anything the girls
said.
Emily begs Ali to stay at
her house, but Ali says that she has a few ideas of what to do. Spencer tells Ali to let them in on the
ideas, so the girls aren’t left paddling around like idiots trying to play
catch up. Ali tells Spencer that she
lied to the police to protect Aria, since Aria killed someone. Spencer tells Ali that she could have
consulted them before coming up with the kidnapping lie. Emily interrupts the fight and says what is
done is done. They need to focus their attention
on who is sinking them now.
Hanna’s mom is on the
computer, working on finding out where Ms. DiLaurentis might be. She was about to open some of Ms.
DiLaurentis’s emails, but she just can’t do it.
The last thing she wants to do is get in the middle of a divorce. It’s both an invasion of privacy and a
betrayal.
Hanna points out that Ms.
DiLaurentis would probably prefer her snooping, oppose to the police going
through her emails. Hanna also says that
Ali really needs her mom. When Hanna’s
mom leaves to answer the phone, Hanna looks at the computer.
Spencer comes home to find
Toby in her kitchen. Spencer’s mom tells
her that Melissa claimed to have come back to Rosewood after Toby got her in London. Toby says that is not what happened. When he got to Melissa’s place in London, Wren opened the
door. Wren said that he was staying
there and Melissa isn’t in London
anymore.
Spencer’s mom says that it
doesn’t make sense. Toby suggests that
she call Wren, but Spencer’s mom says she’d rather stick a knife in toaster. She
leaves for work and tells Spencer to stay close to home.
Toby explains that he went
to London to
get answers for Spencer. He thought he
could get Melissa to tell the truth if he confronted her face-to-face. Toby says he heard about Ali’s return, but he
wants to hear the whole story from Spencer.
Aria is in the shed
putting blankets and a pillow on the floor.
Emily comes in and tells Aria that she got her text. Aria is busy making it look like Ali has been
living in the shed, since that is the story Ali told the cops. Emily tells Aria that she can’t do this now,
but Aria says it should have been done the night before.
Aria is furious that
Spencer and Emily kept her in the dark about the threatening text message Ali
received. She’s not a child. Emily says that they only did that because
Aria was a mess when her dad came to pick her up at the police station. Aria doesn’t understand what they were
thinking, that she’d get a good night’s sleep and wake up in Candyland?
Emily tells Aria to calm
down because the text didn’t come from “A”.
After all, Emily was there when “A”/Shana was killed. Emily thinks Spencer is right. It is one thing not to contradict Ali’s
story, but it’s another thing to add onto the story. They can’t go down that rabbit hole again.
Aria says that she can’t
sit around and do nothing. If “A” knows
about Shana, then Aria will be the one to go down. Emily tells her that Shana used them as
target practice and Aria acted purely in self-defense.
Aria has a meltdown and
says that it doesn’t matter if it was self-defense. The fact is someone is dead. Shana cannot graduate or apologize because Aria
killed her. Aria doesn’t know how she
can live with that.
Emily says that she knows
how it feels. She went through this
after she killed Nate (the stalker who killed Maya).
Aria picks up an empty
soda can and throws it. She remembers
how they used to sneak out to the woods.
The biggest problem they worried about was how to eat peanut butter with
braces.
Hanna’s mom leaves the
room to get more paper for the printer, and Hanna looks at Ms. DiLaurentis’s
emails. She finds an email addressed to
“Unspecified Recipient”. The email says
“I can’t protect you anymore”.
Toby and Spencer kiss
in Spencer’s room. Spencer tells Toby to
take her with him the next time he goes to London.
They’ll go to London
and never come back.
There is some major
tension between Jason and his dad. Mr.
DiLaurentis is furious that Jason wants to leave for Philadelphia.
Jason says that he has to drop something off for a friend after dinner,
but he can wait until Ali falls asleep.
Mr. DiLaurentis says that it is a news story every time someone walks
out of the house. The last thing he wants
is Jason to speak to reporter. Jason is
furious and says that he won’t embarrass his dad any more than he already
has.
Emily walks in, ready to
take Pepe for a walk. Mr. DiLaurentis is
annoyed that Jason brought home a dog.
Jason says that his mom rescued the dog from a shelter. Mr. DiLaurentis, convinced that Jason knows
where Ms. DiLaurentis is hiding, tells Jason to let her know that there is more
than a dog waiting at home.
Aria walks in on Mike and
Mona, who are cuddly on couch. Mike says
that he ordered pizza for dinner, but Aria isn’t hungry.
Mona acts shocked that
Aria was walking around in the dark by herself.
Given everything that happened to Ali, she wouldn’t walk to the curb without
a police escort.
Mike hands Aria her MP3
player and says that he borrowed it again.
He says he needed it to compile music for a social studies project. Aria asks if the violin music she heard was
from his room, and Mike vaguely acknowledges that it may have been. Mona asks to be dropped off at the library
for research and Mike leaves the room.
Aria asks Mona if she is
doing research in the library or in Aria’s house. Mona says that Mike invited her to
dinner.
Mona is supposedly glad to
see Aria. Now she can give Aria her
whistle in person. Aria doesn’t take the
whistle and stares at Mona suspiciously.
Mona says that what happened to Ali was a wake up call. No one is safe.
Aria wants to know what
Mona is trying to prove. Is Mona trying
to threaten her? Mona acts like she
doesn’t know what Aria is talking about.
Aria tells Mona that they know Mona was with Ali at the Lost Wood Motel
room the night Ali ran away. Aria knows
that Mona has stories of her own to keep quiet.
Mona smiles and asks if
Ezra is making a full recovery. Mike
interrupts them and asks Aria for the car keys so he can take Mona to the
library.
At the DiLaurentis house,
Hanna hands Ali’s dad a paper with the name of a meditation center that Ms.
DiLaurentis went to before. Maybe he can
look for her there. Ali’s dad invites
Emily and Hanna to stay for dinner.
Emily says yes, but Hanna quickly says that they can’t.
In the car, Emily tells
Hanna that Jason is going to Philadelphia, which
might be code for New York. Maybe Ms. DiLaurentis is there. Hanna tells Emily about the email Ms.
DiLaurentis wrote the night before she skipped town. Ms. DiLaurentis didn’t get the chance to send
the email.
Hanna is scared when Jason
bangs on her car window. Jason tells
Hanna that he saw her give information to his dad. Jason says Hanna should stay out of places
that she doesn’t belong. Jason gets in
his car and drives away.
Emily tells Hanna to hurry
up and follow Jason, since he might be going to see his mother.
Emily and Hanna watch
Jason enter an apartment and then drive away.
Once he’s gone, they get out and ring a couple buzzers, hoping Ms.
DiLaurentis will answer. A man comes up
behind them and scares them off.
Spencer’s cell phone
rings, but Spencer ignores it and continues to kiss Toby. The phone keeps ringing and Toby says that
someone really wants to reach her. Spencer
turns off ringer. Toby asks what’s going
on with her. Is it about Ali or Melissa? Spencer says no, but she doesn’t tell him
what is bothering her.
Ali takes a rose to the mausoleum
and touches the place where she was supposed to be buried. Mona comes in and Ali asks if she followed
her. Ali says that she is not supposed
to be out of her house, but she had to come and say goodbye. The girl they made this for really is
gone.
Ali tells Mona that she
can’t be that person anymore. She knows Mona
hated her and wanted her to go straight to hell. Going there was easy; it’s coming back that’s
hard. Ali says that she and Mona understand
each other. Surprisingly, Ali says that
she needs Mona as a friend.
Mona tells Ali that “the
truth will bury you in a New York minute”.
Mona was the one who sent the text to Ali. She should have signed her name because she
doesn’t have to pretend to be someone else or hide anymore, but Ali does. Mona
grabs Ali’s rose and tells Ali that she’s gonna wish she stayed dead.
Aria
is freaking out that “A” is going to go to the cops and tattle on her. Hanna tells her to breath and Emily wants her
to wait until Spencer gets there.
Spencer went to distract Mr. DiLaurentis so that Ali could sneak out and
meet them.
Aria tells them that Mona
knows that they were in New York. It’s just a matter of time before Mona runs
out of whistles and starts handing out balloons that say “Aria killed Shana”.
Hanna and Emily try to
convince Aria that “A” is dead, but Aria won’t listen. If “A” is dead, who is screwing with
her? Who is playing the violin outside
her window?
Emily tells Aria that
Jason sent the text to Ali. They just
have to find a way to prove it.
Spencer knocks on the door
at Ali’s house and the door swings open.
Spencer enters and calls for Ali.
She is startled when she sees Jason.
Jason says Ali may be asleep, or did Spencer come to take out the
trash? Clearly Jason knows that Spencer has
been digging through his trash. Spencer
asks Jason if he was in New York
the night that Ali came back.
Jason asks why she wants
to know. Does she think he’s the one who
kidnapped her? Jason thinks that theory must have come from his dad. His dad is probably at the precinct sharing
that idea with the cops now. Without his
mom around, who’s going to stop him? Again,
Spencer asks Jason why he was in New
York. Jason is
saved from answering when Pepe starts barking.
Emily, Hanna and Aria go
over to see what’s wrong with Pepe. Aria
is confused as to whose dog it is. She wonders
when Ali had time to get a dog. The dog barks
at something in the ground. The girls
scream when they see what the dog is barking at.
Spencer runs over to
investigate. When she sees what’s in the
yard, she tries to stop Jason from looking.
Jason looks shocked as he stares at the ground. A hand is sticking out of the ground. Pepe has found Ms. DiLaurentis’s dead body.
The police come and Ali’s
backyard is once again a crime scene. Ms.
DiLaurentis’s body is zipped up in a body bag.
Everybody is in the backyard now, including Ali’s dad. Spencer’s mom hugs Spencer.
Ali is also in backyard,
with a hoodie over her head. She watches
silently as people rush around her.
