Aria and Spencer try to call Alison to tell her that Charles chipped them, but Alison isn’t picking up her phone. They watch a video of a microchip being removed from a pet. Spencer thinks they should keep the microchips in until they find a way to use it to their advantage.
Kenneth DiLaurentis, Alison’s dad, finally realizes that Charles is alive. His response is to grab Alison and flee. He packs a suitcase and drives off. Alison sees the birthday card from Charles. She realizes that her brother is alive and coming after them.
Hanna’s mom surprises Hanna with $30,000 dollars of scholarship money for college from the Carissimi Group. Jason DiLaurentis suggested that group to Hanna’s mom. His mother use to donate to the group.
Emily runs into Sara’s friend Claire at The Brew. Emily remembers meeting Claire before. Claire didn’t have nice things to say about Sara at that time. She said Sara wasn’t a good friend. Every time she gave you something, she would take two things away. Before Sara left, Claire wished Sara would die.
Claire wants to see Sara, but Emily is cold towards Claire. Claire admits that she and Sara had some hard times, but they were still friends. No one deserves to be kidnapped and held in that underground bunker. Emily reluctantly agrees to set up a meeting between Claire and Sara.
Toby is back from his police seminar and ready to spend some time with his girlfriend. Unfortunately, Spencer has to meet her friends. She gets a text from Aria asking where she is.
Toby doesn’t believe that Spencer is meeting with Aria to work on her graduation speech. He doesn’t want them to keep secrets from each other.
Aria, Spencer and Hanna meet up at Mona’s house. Lesli Stone promised she’d be there, but she’s a no-show. Mona gets a text from Lesli, who decided that a confrontation might set her back.
The Liars are ready to track Lesli down and demand answers, but Mona refuses. Lesli is one lost marble away from a major breakdown. She’s sure Lesli doesn’t know anything about Charles, anyway.
Without Lesli, the Liars only have Mona left to interrogate. Unfortunately, Mona doesn’t have any information that might help. Mona was with Alison the night Alison disappeared, but Mona didn’t see any suspicious guy around. Although Mona said someone stole the “A” game from her when she was in Radley, she’s pretty hazy on the details. She was on so many drugs. Half the time she thought she was being haunted by Alison. The rest of the time she thought she was auditioning for American Idol.
Lorenzo comes by the DiLaurentis house looking for Alison, who hasn’t returned his calls. Jason tells him Alison won’t be back for a couple of days. Their dad took her out of town. After Lorenzo leaves, Jason looks at a small blue frog next to a red balloon on the porch. There is also a birthday party invitation from Charles. It says “Come alone or not at all”.
Aria dolls may be good subjects for her photography, but she’s starting to get creeped out by them. She purges her room of all the creepy dolls.
Aria’s brother, Mike, asks if she told Mona not to call him. He hasn’t heard from Mona since the girls were rescued from the dollhouse. He’s left hundreds of messages and stopped by her house, but Mona refuses to see him. Aria swears that she isn’t keeping Mona away from him.
Emily comes with Sara for her lunch with Claire. Sara was nervous about seeing Claire, but it’s just like old times for them. They bond over photos of Claire’s dog, but Emily isn’t happy watching them catch up. She seems jealous of Claire’s bond with Sara. Emily cuts the lunch short and tells Sara that they have to go back home.
Claire offers Sara a place to stay at her house, but Emily immediately jumps in and tells Claire that Sara already has a safe place to stay.
At The Brew, Hanna does some research on the Carissimi Group. Turns out that is the same group that paid for Radley Sanitarium to be shut down. Spencer tells Hanna that ‘carissimi’ means ‘beloved’ in Latin. Mrs. DiLaurentis had ‘Beloved Son’ engraved on Charles’s tombstone. What if Mrs. DiLaurentis’s favorite charity is Charles’s bank account? When Spencer steps away to take a phone call from Alison, Sabrina slips some pot candy into Spencer’s bag as a present.
Alison calls Spencer from a hotel to tell her that Charles is alive and is coming home for his birthday. She called Jason and begged to run away, but Jason is determined to see Charles. Alison’s dad hid her cell phone and car keys, so she can’t get back to Rosewood. She begs Spencer to talk to Jason and keep him safe.
Alison’s dad catches her on the phone. Alison knows he is trying to protect her, but her friends and Jason are in danger. She wants to go to the police, but her dad refuses. He lied about Charles for two decades and was wrong about Charles being dead. He needs time to figure things out.
Sara decides to move in with her friend Claire. Emily, not wanting Sara to leave, tells Sara that Claire didn’t have nice things to say about her in the past. Sara admits that she didn’t like herself back then, either.
Sara wants to move out so she can go on a real date with Emily without Emily’s mom around. Sara kisses Emily again.
Hanna, Aria and Spencer bang on Jason’s door, but he refuses to come out. As they leave, Spencer spots the red balloon in the window.
Mike waits for Mona in her bedroom with a creepy present. He gives Mona the dolls Aria threw out. Mona tells Mike to leave, but he refuses. He thought Mona was dead the whole time she was missing. He covered for her and did everything she asked him to.
Mona knows that and she feels guilty for putting Mike through all of that. Mike begged her not to fake her own death, but she didn’t listen to him. Hell is a very lonely hole in “A”’s dollhouse. Mona thinks she deserves to be in that hell.
Mike knows Mona was stupid and he’s pissed off, but all that doesn’t matter anymore. All that matters to him is that Mona is alive. He tells her that she has to forgive herself. Mike kisses Mona and it looks like all is forgiven.
The Liars discuss Charles’s birthday party. Hanna put a GPS on Jason’s car, so they can follow him and catch Charles. That means they need to remove the microchips. Otherwise, Charles will know the Liars are setting a trap. Aria and Emily are against going after Charles, but Spencer promises they will be safe. She’ll get Toby to protect them. If they succeed, “A” won’t be able to hurt them or the people they love ever again.
Toby comes over and Spencer tells him that “A” is Charles DiLaurentis. Toby is upset that Spencer didn’t go to the police, but Spencer begs him to keep quiet for one night.
The rest of the Liars come downstairs. Their necks are still bloody from the amateur surgery they did on each other to remove the microchips. The GPS shows Jason is on the move, but Toby won’t let the girls go after Charles. He agrees to go without telling Lt. Tanner. Before leaving, Toby swipes Spencer’s pot gummy bears as a snack.
At the police station, Toby stuffs the pot laced gummy bears in his mouth. He asks Lorenzo to come with him without telling anyone else where they are going.
Meanwhile, Spencer freaks out when she doesn’t hear from Toby. Worried that he’s hurt, she decides to go to the arcade where Charles is throwing his party. Aria almost calls the police, but reluctantly goes off with her friends to catch Charles.
Alison drugs her dad’s coffee with sleeping pills. That doesn’t really come as a surprise, since Alison drugged the Liars the night she disappeared. Alison’s friends aren’t calling her back, so Alison gets Mona to come pick her up. Mona’s glad she could help Alison. She knows she owes Alison for getting her locked up on fake murder charges.
Alison calls 911. She tells the operator that her brother, Charles DiLaurentis, is “A”. The police find the birthday invitation and the address for the arcade in the DiLaurentis house.
At the arcade, Jason calls out for Charlie. He came alone just like Charles asked. Charles and Jason are about to finally see each other when Toby and Lorenzo come in. Charles is able to escape, partly because Toby is hit with the effects of the pot gummy bears.
The Liars arrive to find Toby on the floor. Jason saves Spencer’s life by pushing her out of danger. Unfortunately, Charles escapes. Jason is furious at Spencer for ruining his reunion with his brother. The Rosewood police storm the arcade, but Charles is already gone.
Hanna, concerned that the scholarship money came from “A”, tells her mom that they shouldn’t cash the check. The money may be tied to the DiLaurentis family. Hanna’s mom thinks Hanna deserves every last cent after what that family put her through. Besides, Hanna’s mom already deposited the check.
Mike checks in on Aria, who is crying in her room. Mike tells Aria that she is brave, but Aria admits that she is scared all the time. Mike gives Aria a letter that came in the mail, which is actually good news for a change. Aria is a finalist in the photo competition.
At the police station, Spencer apologizes to Toby. They were so close to catching Charles. They would have got him if Toby hadn’t eaten those gummy bears. Still high, Toby tells Spencer to leave. He can’t get caught in the police station like this.
Emily comes home to her empty bedroom. Missing Sara and angry at “A”, Emily takes the microchip and smashes it to bits.
Jason drowns his sorrows in a glass of scotch. Alison begs him not to ruin his life over Charles. Charles isn’t the person Jason remembers.
Jason didn’t have many memories of Charles and his parents tried to erase every memory that he had. Jason was going to tell Charles to turn himself in. He just wanted one moment alone with his brother.
Jason and Alison hear a kid saying ‘Jason, come play with me’. They go upstairs and see a home video of a birthday. They both remember that day. Their mom took them to the arcade for a second cousin’s (Freddie) birthday party. She made them promise not to tell their dad. In the video Alison, Jason, and Charles play with blue frogs next to some red balloons.
“A” left Jason a card that says “I wAnted to trust you.”
“A” does get one present on his birthday. The birthday card reads “Happy Birthday – Your friend and ally”. The present is a portrait of himself, Jason and Alison as kids at his birthday party.
What did you think of “O Brother, Where Art Thou”? Who do you think sent “A” the birthday present? Any theories on who this ally is?
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