Recap of PLL 6x06 “No Stone Unturned”: Charles DiLaurentis is Alive?

The Liars continue their investigation into Lesli Stone in PLL 6x06 “No Stone Unturned”.  Sara makes a move on Emily and Caleb finally kisses Hanna.  The Liars realize “A” chipped them, they break into an animal research lab to investigate Lesli Stone and the girls realize Charles DiLaurentis may be alive after all.

Spencer is completely convinced Mona’s friend Lesli Stone is “A”, now that they know Mona and Lesli met in Radley.  In the dollhouse, Mona was the only one who got a gas mask from “A”.  Mona was also passing out juice boxes while the Liars were making sure they still had their kidneys.

Emily doesn’t think Lesli is “A”.  “A” jumped off a building and set up an underground bunker with more spy equipment than the CIA.  It doesn’t seem like Lesli could have done all of that. 

Spencer uses Mona as an example of what people are capable of.  Mona maintained a 4.0 GPA and perfect hair while she was tapping the Rosewood’s police.  Plus, Lesli has a motive.  She thinks the Liars killed Bethany Young.

Hanna was supposed to bring Mona over to talk about Lesli.  Hanna arrives without Mona, despite her attempts to shimmy up Mona’s drain pipe.  Mona is on total lockdown.  Her mom busted her for sneaking into Radley, so Mona can’t even leave her room now.  Hanna is determined to catch Lesli in the act, but her friends are busy.  Emily has a session with Dr. Sullivan and Aria is returning Clark’s negatives.

Alison’s dad finds a birthday card on his car, but he isn’t happy about this upcoming birthday.  He asks Emily, who happens to be biking by, if she saw anyone around his house.  Emily doesn’t know what he is talking about.

Clark catches Aria putting his negatives back.  He isn’t mad at her, though.  He assumes she wanted to destroy the photo he took of her.  She could have told him instead of going klepto, though.

Clark nicknames Aria ‘Morning Bandit’ and asks her to have breakfast with him.  She can’t, but she knows she owes him.

Hanna does some research and finds out that Lesli is a T.A. at Harwich University.  When Hanna’s mom and Caleb come in, Hanna hides what she was doing.

Hanna is still feeling smothered by Caleb.  Hanna’s mom offers to make Caleb breakfast, so Hanna makes a quick escape.  She’s going to meet Spencer and she doesn’t want to get a ride from Caleb.

Caleb notices a notices a lump on the back of Hanna’s neck, but Hanna brushes off his concerns.  She thinks it is just lint.  Hanna is too annoyed at Caleb to spend any time around him.

Things are starting to heat up between Emily and Sara.  Sara is nervous about her first day working for Caleb’s web design company.  She asks Emily for fashion advice and takes her shirt off in front of Emily.  Emily ends up helping Sara put cream on her new tattoo.

Spencer’s sober coach, Dean, stops by to give Spencer a book and brownies.  Spencer gets a text from Melissa.  Spencer’s mom recruited Melissa to help convince Spencer to give the commencement speech at graduation.  Spencer isn’t interested in being the poster girl for trauma.  Everyone expects her to give a moving speech about surviving, but she can’t do that when “A” is still out there. 

Dean doesn’t think Spencer needs to give the speech.  Just walking across the stage and accepting her diploma is a pretty impressive accomplishment.  Spencer promises to see Dean later at the support meeting. 

Caleb starts teaching Sara about web design.  He makes a joke about Kimye, but Sara has no idea what he is talking about.  She missed a lot while she was trapped in the dollhouse.

Sara asks Caleb about Alison DiLaurentis.  “A” forced Sara to pretend to be Alison for so long, so she’s curious about her.  Emily shuts down whenever Sara asks about Alison.  Sara wonders if Alison knows who kidnapped them.  Caleb doesn’t have any answers for Sara.  He’s on the outside, looking in.

Hanna follows Lesli to Onamazu Sushi, where Lesli has a faculty lunch meeting.  She watches Lesli leave her car with the valet.  Hanna goes to the valet and pretends to be Lesli.  She claims that she lost her ticket, but her car has a Harwich bumper sticker and smells like cinnamon toast.  The valet is reluctant, but all it takes is a little bit of flirting for Hanna to steal/‘borrow’ Lesli’s car. 

Nicole Gordon, a girl with an Australian accent, comes to The Brew looking for Emily.  She knew Emily from her summer habitat trip.  Emily changed her email address and phone number, but never sent her an update.  Ezra explains about the trial, but Nicole has no idea what he is talking about.  She’s been in India for the last eight months.

Aria and Emily go back to the junkyard to search for clues.  “A” must have followed Aria to the junkyard before, so someone must have seen “A”.  Emily isn’t doing much searching, though.  She’s too busy texting Sara Harvey.

They run into Clark, who came back to take some more photos at the junkyard. Aria pretends she is looking for her tripod and Clark offers to help her look.  Emily gets a text from Nicole and immediately bails on the search with Aria.  Since Emily abandons Aria, Aria has no choice but to reluctantly accept Clark’s offer to drive her home after they find her tripod.

Spencer and Hanna meet up in an alley to search Lesli’s car.  They find a key card in the car.  If Caleb makes them a copy of the card, then they will be able to search her lab.  Hanna doesn’t want Spencer to involve Caleb.  She hates that Caleb thinks she’s weak.

They find a hairbrush that smells like a litter box, wire cutters, and a box filled with ten pairs of grandma glasses.  Hanna tries on a pair and thinks she can see better with them.  Spencer tries them on and realizes they don’t have a prescription.  Lesli is driving around with multiple pairs of fake eyeglasses.

In the trunk of Lesli’s car, they find four unassembled extra large animal cages.  Spencer jumps to the conclusion that Lesli plans to stuff the Liars in the animal cages.

Clark asks a few too many questions at the junkyard.  Aria lets it slip that “A” will be caught soon.  Clark asks how she knows.  They split up and Aria finds another present from “A”.  It’s an Aria doll with pink streaked hair. The doll has a needle stuck in the eye.  Hope "A" doesn't plan to actually do that to Aria.

Emily is excited to catch up with Nicole.  Nicole is now a supervisor and she’s setting up a team for an eight week project in Thailand.  The project starts in mid-June, so Emily can fly over right after graduation. 

Emily isn’t jumping at the opportunity, but it’s not because of the bugs the size of her head.  She’s still adjusting to being back at home.  Her mom has her in intensive therapy and she is helping a new friend deal with everything. 

Nicole remembers Emily’s last habitat trip.  Emily was a mess when she arrived, but within weeks she had a light back in her eyes.  Emily helped herself by helping other people.  Inspired, Emily decides to go on the trip.  She wants to bring Sara with her, though.

Spencer heads to Caleb’s place to ask about Lesli’s key car, but she’s stuck with Sara.  Caleb is out grabbing food.  After a little awkward silence, Spencer talks about the commencement speech.  Sara says that her mom is pushing her to talk because reporters offered her money.  Sara changes Spencer’s mind about the speech.  Sara would want everyone to hear her speak if she had a chance to explain what it felt like to be in that underground bunker.

Caleb looks a the book When Love Goes Toxic at The Brew.  Hanna’s mom sees him and has a heart-to-heart about Hanna.  Caleb isn’t trying to smother Hanna, but he feels like he is losing her.

Hanna’s mom knows Hanna is complicated.  During her divorce, she and Hanna would stay up late watching movies together.  Hanna would laugh at the sad parts and sob at the jokes. 

She doesn’t want Caleb to give up on Hanna.  She saw a glimpse of the old Hanna last night.  Hanna left the freezer door open and defrosted eighty dollars of groceries.  She went up to yell at Hanna and Hanna was thrilled. 

Hanna’s mom isn’t suggesting that Caleb yell at Hanna.  She just wants him to remember that the old Hanna is still there.

Ezra comes over to Aria’s house to drop off the photo competition application she left at The Brew.  It may be presumptuous of him, but he already wrote her a letter of recommendation.  He embellished a little in the letter, stating that Aria had a solo exhibit at The Brew.  He did have Aria’s self-portrait hanging over his desk, so that sort of counts as an exhibit. 

Ezra spots the Aria doll “A” left at the junkyard in Aria’s bag.  Aria lies and tells him that she made the doll for her photos.  Ezra thinks the doll is disturbing.  He wouldn’t want that hanging over his desk at The Brew.

Spencer comes home to find Dean waiting for her.  Dean is pissed that Spencer missed the meeting and didn’t call him.  In his life, someone not showing up could mean that person is lying in a gutter somewhere. 

Dean can’t keep seeing Spencer anymore.  He wants to kiss her and he doesn’t care that she has a boyfriend.  So he has to cut her out of his life.

Caleb shows up in Hanna’s bedroom.  Hanna’s mom made him a key to the house.  Hanna is annoyed that he showed up for no reason, but Caleb is tired of getting pushed away.  He kisses Hanna and they end up making out on Hanna’s bed.

Emily comes home to find Sara Harvey scrubbing blood off Emily’s bedroom floor.  Sara has a cut on her head and her arm is bloody.  Sara was walking home when she felt like someone was following her.  A car suddenly sped up and the side mirror smashed into her elbow.

Emily shows Sara a photo of Lesli’s car.  Sara thinks it's the same car.  Emily promises that they will figure out who “A” is.  In three weeks, they can both leave for Thailand. 

Sara isn’t ready to head to Thailand.  Her mom would never let her leave the country.  And her case worker can’t help her.  Emily promises to help Sara.  She won’t let anything happen to her.

Aria, Hanna and Spencer break into Lesli’s lab to search her desk.  “A” furnished an underground bunker, so they should be able to find receipts.

Aria tells Spencer about Ezra finding the Aria doll.  She almost told him the truth.  Aria hates lying to him.  Spencer doesn’t get why Aria feels like she owes Ezra.  They aren’t even dating. 

It isn’t about owing Ezra.  Ezra is the person Aria turns to in times like this.  Ezra makes her feel safe.  Spencer doesn’t think that is fair to Ezra.

The Liars finally realize “A” chipped them when Hanna’s head beeps every times she passes a machine in the lab.  “Why am I beeping?  I haven’t even stolen anything yet”, Hanna asks.  They realize “A” drugged them and chipped them in the bunker. 

Emily meets up with Nicole at The Brew again and tells her that she can’t go to Thailand.  She can’t leave Sara behind.  Sara is trying to figure out how to stand on her own and Emily is the only thing holding her up.  It’s not one sided, though.  Being around Sara helps her.  She forgets about her own problems when she’s with Sara.

Hanna wanders into the room where they keep caged animals for experiments.  She has a flashback to being locked in the dollhouse and decides to set all the animals free.  She lets out a raccoon and some rats.

Not a good idea, Hanna.  The girls freak out when the raccoon isn’t acting like a cuddly animal.  Who knows if the lab injected it with something like anthrax.  They don’t have fruit to distract the raccoon with, so they toss the raccoon some of Hanna’s cheese sticks.  Not all of them, though.  Those cheese sticks are Hanna’s dinner. 

A rat crawls on Aria’s shoulder.  Freaked out, she pushes it off just as the lights go out.  The desk lamp turns on and we see Mona in the lab.  Guess she’s not locked in her room, after all.

The Liars are upset that Mona followed them.  They accuse her of working with Lesli.  Mona says she came to keep them out of trouble.  The college will prosecute the Liars if they are caught in the lab.

The Liars tell Mona that Lesli was Bethany’s friend and is tormenting them to get revenge for Bethany’s death.  Mona sheds some light on the Bethany situation.  Lesli hated Bethany.  Lesli is only trying to protect herself.  She’s pretending that she’s stable.  That’s why she had Mona steal her file.

Lesli only heard Charles DiLaurentis’s name once.  Charles snuck out of Radley the same night that Bethany did.  That was the same night Alison went missing.  Radley went on lockdown because of the two missing patients.  That doesn’t make sense to the Liars, since Charles should have been dead by then.

The Liars show Mona the paperwork proving that Charles’s organs were donated after his death.  Mona takes one look and immediately realizes the papers are fake.  Charles was taking medication.  He wouldn’t have been eligible to be an organ donor.  Charles is alive.  He faked the documents to keep the Liars distracted. 

The Liars bring up the photo of “A” that Clark took.  “A” looked like a girl in those photos.  Mona thinks “A” was playing the Liars.  If they caught “A” in a photo, then it was because “A” wanted to be caught.

Alison’s dad is doing some investigating of his own.  He makes a bunch of calls and crosses names of doctors off his list one by one.  The last name he crosses off is Andrew Grand.

Aria stops by The Brew to see Ezra, but she is unpleasantly surprised to spot Ezra and Nicole chatting.  Ezra looks like he’s having fun.  Aria leaves without talking to him, perhaps because of what Spencer said earlier.  Is it unfair for Aria to confide in Ezra in order to feel safe?

Emily comes home and finds Sara asleep on her bed.  Sara wakes up when Emily checks the back of her neck for a chip.  Before Emily can explain about the chip, Sara kisses her.

Alison’s dad starts digging up Charles’s grave in Aunt Carol’s backyard.  We finally see the message written inside the birthday card.  It says “Dear Daddy, Coming home for my birthday.  You should plan a party to die for.  Just you.  Love, Charles”.  Is Charles planning on killing his father?

Do you trust Sara Harvey?  She told Emily that Lesli’s car looked like the one that ran her down, but it seems like Lesli has nothing to do with “A”.  Glad Mona is helping the Liars.  She immediately noticed the organ donation papers were fake.  How did Spencer miss that?  The Liars better include Mona in their investigations from now on.  What did you think of “No Stone Unturned”?