Ali gets back to the barn to find that Spencer is awake! Sleeping Pills – 0, Spencer – 1. Turns out that when Spencer attacked Ali, she actually just “attacked” her and didn’t harm her in any way. Ali found her pills and was actually super kind about it, telling her not to take any more and to never take them with alcohol. That’s pretty understanding of Ali for dealing with someone who just kind of tried to attack her. She tells her to go back to the barn.
Spencer walks off, dragging the shovel. Aw, poor baby Spence.
We gloss over the Byron visit. We can cross him off the A list now, too.
Ali walks back to her house after her long night of running all over town threatening people, and finds Jessica in the window looking so. pissed.
And then Jessica gets to watch her daughter get hit in the back of the head with a rock!
So whoever A is came up behind her pretty fast, I’m assuming. Or too fast for Jessica to warn Ali.
Present day Spence has a little breakdown when she realizes she didn’t hurt Ali. And thank goodness. That was a tiring storyline to hold up.
Turns out Jessica buried Ali alive. Ali was twitching and Jessica didn’t notice? What the hell?
Why did she just watch her daughter get murdered and then she BURIES THE BODY? Who IS this woman?
Ali says that she was trying to yell and get her mother’s attention but that she wasn’t able to move at all. Basically everyone’s worst fear in the entire world.
Ali gets out of the grave from Grunwald, and Mona finds her on the side of the road.
Mona tends to her wounds, not very well I might add, in the creeptastic hotel in the woods where we we first found A’s lair. Mona’s plants the idea in Ali’s head that she should fake her death and disappear.
Well, in order for that to work out, they need a body, but Mona doesn’t bring this up.
While Ali sleeps soundly, Mona is in her lair humming and brushing a doll’s hair. So Mona was this obsessed with Ali while she was alive? I still don’t think we can count Mona out of the A-game here, to be perfectly honest. I don’t think we can trust her at all.
Ali gives her some makeover advice before she leaves in some random car that kind of looks like Ezra’s? Anyone else think that?
Present day Ali acknowledges that Mona played her. Not quite sure how Ali found out about that lair and doesn’t still think Mona is A? Oh and also she’s the one who pushed Ian in the church bell tower that night. Makes perfect sense now.
The police bust into Ali’s Philly fauxhideout, or wherever Noel Kahn picked them up, and find nothing.
Instead, the Liars are all in an undisclosed location. But you know who does find them there?
A! Of COURSE A found them! A has two guns and chases them up to the roof, so I’m assuming they’re pretty far from where the police are busting into the Philly hideout. A has them cornered on the roof when Ezra pops in to saaaaave the daaaaay.
He says he knows who A is. Just so we’re super clear Ezra is not A. Hanna picks up A’s gun and apparently doesn’t think to just shoot A in the foot.
A hops over the roof and runs away. They joke about how that’s definitely not Ali’s mom. I would have to agree. But what’s Ezra staring at?
Oh, just the sky, because he’s dying from a gunshot to the stomach. Of course he’s dying, he knows who A is! They start to scream for help and we realize they’re on a rooftop in New York City.
What?
I guess A is a fast driver, because next thing we know, Jessica DiLaurentis is being buried in a shallow grave. Any bets on if she’s being buried alive?
ALRIGHT. Lizz talked a little bit about what answers we got/what potential open ends this still leaves for us, but I want to add on that Noel Kahn and Mona are still very much able to be the bad guys in this situation. Think it’s pretty interesting that Noel wasn’t at the cafe when A busted in with two guns. Why would Ali trust him? Also, A seemed a little too big to be Mona, but she could definitely still be in cahoots.
I’m betting that they’re going with the same ending as the books. That theory makes sense when you think about Jessica’s “murder” because she would know. Alternatively, what if it was Jason? It has to be someone she needs to protect for some reason and Jason wasn’t mentioned in this episode AT ALL.
