Emily and Spencer talk about Sara Harvey’s doubts that Andrew Campbell is “A”. They realize that the police may have the wrong suspect. Andrew was in school with the Liars the whole time that Sara was trapped in the dollhouse. How could Andrew have been able to keep a hostage for two years while also attending classes?
Hanna pushes her friends to go back to school with her. She doesn’t want to walk in there alone. Mona won’t be there for their first day back at school. Her mom took her out of town to Saratoga.
Hanna flips through a Rosewood High yearbook and tears out the page with Andrew Campbell’s photo in it.
Emily is ready to head to school, but Sara Harvey is still hanging out in her bedroom. Emily leaves Sara with a burner phone so that she can text Emily. It’s too hard for Emily to leave Sara alone, though. Especially when Sara asks if she looked feral when she was taken out of the dollhouse. She heard the news describe her as feral. Emily says she was more like a lost puppy. Emily reaches over to comfort her, but Sara jerks back and won’t let Emily touch her.
Freaking out, Sara regrets coming to Emily’s house. She worries that she made Emily’s mom angry by spending the night there. Emily assures her that no one is angry with her. Emily decides to skip school and stay home with Sara. Emily, Sara, and Emily’s mom can bond by making French toast.
Emily isn’t the only one ditching school. Aria isn’t ready to go back to Rosewood High either. Ezra tells her that she can stay at The Brew if she wants. She shouldn’t go back to school if she isn’t ready for it.
With the case against Andrew looking anything but certain, Spencer tries to get Alison to confront her dad about Charles DiLaurentis again. “A” hid the name Charles DiLaurentis with the intention of the Liars figuring out the name. Spencer’s sure Alison’s dad lied to her, but Alison is satisfied with the Andrew-is-”A” theory. “A is for Andrew”, Alison says. Her dad would be at the police station if there really was a Charles DiLaurentis tormenting them.
When Spencer won’t drop it, Alison kicks her out of her bedroom. Since Alison refuses to talk to her dad again, Spencer decides to ask Jason about Charles. Alison demands that Spencer leave Jason out of it. He’s already messed up enough. Spencer reminds Alison that Jason is her brother, too. Their families are connected and tangled like the necklaces at the bottom of Alison’s jewelry box. Jason has a right to know the truth and get unmessed up.
The real reason Alison doesn’t want Spencer to talk to Jason? Alison doesn’t want anyone else hating her. She’s under every stone someone turns over. Everything is her fault. She knows her friends were trapped in “A”’s dollhouse because of her. Everyone would be fine without her. Shocked, Spencer tells Alison that it’s not like that. She doesn’t blame Alison for what has happened to her and the other Liars.
Hanna ends up being the only Liar at school, with the rest of her friends bailing on her. She runs into Dr. Sullivan, who is at Rosewood High twice a week consulting with the school counselors.
Hanna tells Dr. Sullivan that the thing “A”/Andrew hated most was the friendship that she shared with Aria, Spencer and Emily. Ruining that friendship was “A”’s big win. Hanna thinks back to the twisted game Charles made them play in the dollhouse. (Forcing them to choose which friend to shock with the switches).
Hanna wants all her friends to have a group therapy session with Dr. Sullivan. Dr. Sullivan can’t force the other girls to see her, so Hanna promises to get all her friends to Dr. Sullivan’s office.
Aria looks through her photographs on her computer at The Brew. She stops on a photo of her doll. She also looks at photos of Andrew Campbell and wonders who he is. She trusted him, but she doesn’t know that much about him. Ezra offers to help her find out more about Andrew.
Aria still hasn’t told Ezra about Charles DiLaurentis, but Ezra is willing to do anything to help Aria deal with “A”. Ezra impersonates a detective from the Rosewood police department and calls the hospital to get any info on Andrew Campbell. Ezra can’t get Andrew’s medical history, but he finds out Andrew’s birth date of birth and where he was born is sealed with the rest of his adoption records.
Alison runs into Lorenzo again. He is coaching boys soccer for a church program. He tries to convince Alison to volunteer, too. The church lost a youth leader, so they need someone to lead the girls soccer program. Alison doesn’t think that’s a good idea. She’s still struggling with how people in Rosewood perceive her. Being a leader of girls didn’t work out for her in the past. And everyone in Rosewood knows about her lies. The mothers in Rosewood wouldn’t approve of Alison supervising their kids.
Lorenzo isn’t ready to give up. He thinks it would be good if Alison could talk to younger girls about her past experiences. He’ll handle any complaints from angry parents. Toby doesn’t look happy as he watches Alison and Lorenzo talk.
Emily’s mom, Emily and Sara talk about clothes. Sara’s going to have to go on a major shopping spree, since her mom gave away all her things a year after she went missing. Emily’s mom suggests that it was hard for Sara’s mom to have her things around, but Sara thinks her mom just wanted the extra space. Emily is quick to offer Sara her own clothes.
Emily’s mom asks why Sara ran away in the first place. Sara couldn’t keep pretending to be happy. She couldn’t pretend her dad would come back home and be different.
Toby asks Spencer to talk to Alison about Lorenzo. He wants Alison to stay away from Lorenzo. Spencer tells Toby that people can change. Alison helped the guys find the dollhouse.
Toby thinks Alison did that for her own selfish reasons. She needed Spencer and Mona alive. Alison was looking out for herself, just like she always does. Spencer doesn’t think Alison is just going to revert back to the way she was before she went missing.
Toby wants to believe that Alison has changed. But Alison has history with cops and anyone else she can use. Lorenzo doesn’t know how manipulative Alison can be. Toby is willing to drop the whole thing if Spencer says that she completely trusts Alison. Spencer doesn’t answer.
Hanna arrives at Emily house and orders her to get in the car. She’s declaring an intervention. Aria drives up and tells them that Andrew Campbell was adopted. This means that Andrew may be older than they thought. The girls wonder if Andrew was a DiLaurentis. Aria is still holding on to the belief that Andrew is “A”, since she can’t handle the idea that “A” is still out there and the nightmare isn’t over.
Spencer visits Jason, who tells her that his dad is deciding how many people he can sue at one time. Spencer wants to talk to Jason about their family, which takes Jason by surprise. He’s never heard Spencer use the words ‘our family’.
Spencer tells Jason about the name Charles DiLaurentis. They haven’t gone to the police with that name because they still don’t know what it means. Jason says he doesn’t know any Charles DiLaurentis. He thinks the name is probably Andrew’s way of messing with Alison.
Spencer gets a SOS text from her friends, telling her to meet them at Dr. Sullivan’s office. Jason quietly repeats the name ‘Charles DiLaurentis’ and Spencer realizes that he does know the name. Jason says that it’s just a coincidence. He knows the name Charlie, but he says that Charlie doesn’t exist.
Hanna, Aria and Emily wait in Dr. Sullivan’s waiting room while Dr. Sullivan takes a call. Emily isn’t on board with the group therapy session. She thinks it’ll be better if they don’t talk about what happens. Hanna disagrees. The guilt is keeping her up at night. She thinks they have to talk to each other about what happened in the dollhouse.
Spencer shows up with shocking news about Charles DiLaurentis. Jason told her that Charlie was his imaginary friend when he was little. Kind of like Hanna’s imaginary friend Mr. Biscuit.
One day Mr. DiLaurentis told Jason that Charlie had to go away. Jason never saw Charlie again. Which makes the girls wonder why Alison’s dad didn’t just tell her that when she asked about Charles. Alison’s dad has been lying and knows all about Charles DiLaurentis. So what if Jason’s imaginary friend wasn’t so imaginary after all? Clearly the DiLaurentis family is hiding a deep, dark secret.
Aria realizes that this is something they can’t keep quiet about. They have to tell Dr. Sullivan everything. Of course, “A” isn’t going to let the Liars expose him that easily. Emily gets a FaceTime request that she thinks is from Sara. Turns out it’s from “A”. He shows Sara sleeping in Emily’s bed and pulls out a knife. “A” sends the message “Mention me and someone dies. You have 30 seconds to leave that room”. A countdown starts on Emily’s phone.
Dr Sullivan finishes up her phone call and comes out to find all the girls gone.
The Liars run to Emily’s house. They panic when Sara isn’t in the bed. Instead, the bed is stuffed with a pillow to make it look like she was there. Sara suddenly shows up behind them as if she’d just gotten out of the shower. Relieved, Emily hugs her.
Aria, Spencer and Hanna go downstairs to talk about the call from “A”. If Andrew is still locked up in jail, then who made the phone call threatening Sara’s life? Emily’s mom comes back from the police station with huge news. The police are preparing to release Andrew. They decided to drop the charges. He has an alibi for the time when Mona was kidnapped. And he was having his appendix removed when Sara Harvey was kidnapped. Andrew couldn’t have been the one who kidnapped them.
The Liars head to Alison’s house and tell her about Jason’s “imaginary” friend Charlie. Alison finally realizes that her dad lied to her. Alison remembers how Jason always said something was missing from their family. Alison always thought he was talking about himself, since he was always left out of the family photo albums. Maybe Jason wasn’t the one that was removed from the family.
The girls want to find proof of Charles’s existence in the DiLaurentis house. They search the house for hiding places. Alison and Spencer dig through the potted flowers on the porch, in case Alison’s mom hid anything there.
Alison knows Toby still hates her. She worries that Toby told Lorenzo about the mean things she’s done in the past. Spencer is surprised when Alison says she saw Lorenzo at church. Alison thinks it is pointless to pursue Lorenzo. A relationship with him wouldn’t go anywhere. Spencer tells Alison that they could have all been killed, but they have been given a second chance. She doesn’t know anyone that couldn’t use a second chance. She tells Alison not to waste it.
Aria used to hide her candy money from her brother Mike, so she’s pretty good at finding secret hiding places. She looks inside the DiLaurentis button jars and finds a photo of Alison’s mom with two young boys at the Campbell farm. It looks like it was taken on the same day as the home movie Charles had in his soul room.
Alison’s dad will be home any minute, so the Liars leave. They head towards the Rosewood police department right when Andrew comes out. Aria tries to talk to him.
Andrew is understandable pissed off and tells Aria to stay away from him. He knows Aria lied about seeing him in the dollhouse. For the three weeks that the Liars were missing, Andrew was out searching for them. He was going to be the hero and rescue them. Instead, he got arrested and thrown in jail. The police investigated his parents and tore up his uncle’s farm. All because he wanted to help Aria and he didn’t believe the bad things other people said about the girls.
They’re all going to graduate in three weeks, so the Liars just have to stay out of his way until then. Hanna doubts she and her friends will graduate, but Andrew assures them that they will graduate with honors. The school wants them gone as much as everyone else in town does. “Other towns have nice toxic dumps. Rosewood has you,” Andrew tells the Liars.
Spencer decides to trust that Alison has really changed and isn’t the mean queen bee that she used to be. She introduces herself and her friends to Lorenzo as Alison’s friends. Toby looks unhappy that Spencer isn’t against the Lorenzo-Alison relationship.
Aria’s friends try to convince her that Andrew won’t hate her forever, but Aria thinks this is all her fault. Spencer reminds her that Andrew was set up by “A”. They were all set up. The girls realize that no one in town will ever believe what they say. They are more cut off than ever. “A” wanted to make them feel alone and isolated.
Hanna can’t take the guilt anymore and finally brings up the huge incident that they have all been trying to avoid talking about. She tells her friends that Charles made her play a game with switches. It was a game about hurting people.
Aria thought she was the only one who played that game. She was never shocked, though. None of the Liars were shocked. They realize that Charles tricked them. Even though they never actually hurt each other, the point was that they thought they did. Charles wanted them to know that they could reach a point where they were all willing to hurt each other.
Emily comes home and is surprised by Sara Harvey’s new haircut. Emily’s mom helped Sara cut it short. Does Emily like the new haircut?
Spencer’s mom has been worried about Spencer’s safety. Now that Andrew has been released, the police patrols will be back for her protection. She wants to know where Spencer is at all times.
Spencer’s mom heard something interesting about Andrew’s interrogation. Andrew told the cops that the Liars tricked him into helping them. She asks if that’s true. Spencer says that it is made up of facts, but that doesn’t make it true.
Spencer knows that her mom wishes the kidnapping never happened. However, it did happen and it isn’t something that she can forget. While she was in the dollhouse, she thought that everything would be all right if she survived and came home. Now she is home, but she doesn’t see a happy ending coming anytime soon. Spencer goes up to her room and takes the anti-anxiety pill she stole from Aria.
Back in her bedroom, Aria snaps a photo of herself in her mirror. She also takes another photo of the doll in her room.
Alison places the photo of Jason and Charles in the family photo album. She shows the photograph to Jason when he comes home. Jason realizes Charlie wasn’t an imaginary friend. He was real.
Alison and Jason confront their dad when he finally comes home. Their dad immediately gets defensive and attacks Jason for everything he’s put the family through. Alison tells her dad to stop. He’s not going to get out of this by picking a fight with Jason. They demand to know who the other boy is in the photo that Aria found.
We can’t hear his answer, but we see that Alison looks upset. Outside, “A” watches them through the window.
Do you think Emily should believe everything Sara Harvey is telling her? The Liars don’t know much about her, but they seem to trust her already. And do you believe that Andrew was searching for the Liars the whole time they were missing?
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