Plot summary
The liars prepare to go back to school together. Hanna is especially motivated to return with her friends by her side, but Emily, Aria, and Spencer find last-minute reasons to avoid Rosewood High for another day. Emily feels bad leaving Sara alone and decides to stay home with her. Aria lingers at The Brew after ordering her coffee to-go, and Ezra encourages her to stick around. Spencer visits the DiLaurentis house where Alison is busy reflecting on a lifetime of poor decisions. Spencer stays to help her through her feelings of guilt.
Dr. Sullivan sees Hanna alone at school and offers her a listening ear. Hanna agrees, opening up about the tension in her friendgroup post-dollhouse. Lorenzo asks Alison if she would be interested in coaching a girls’ soccer team. Alison doubts she would have the approval of any parents. Toby asks Spencer to keep Alison away from Lorenzo, but Spencer doesn’t want to interfere. Ezra calls Andrew’s doctor and requests information about him to satisfy Aria’s curiosity. The doctor won’t release anything sensitive, but they let it slip that Andrew was adopted.
Spencer asks Jason if he knows of a Charles DiLaurentis. Jason says that he used to have an imaginary friend named Charlie until his father decided one day that Charlie had to go away. Hanna convinces the others to join her at Dr. Sullivan’s office. The girls are ready to spill everything until ‘A’ calls and threatens Sara’s life if the girls say a word. With Andrew in police custody, it is unclear who is behind this threat. Alison is disappointed to learn that her father lied to her.
She and the girls search the DiLaurentis house for evidence of Charles, and Aria finds a photo of Jessica with two young boys. Alison and Jason present the photo to their father and demand answers from him. The liars finally discuss the dollhouse switchboard. They confirm that they were all forced to play the same “game,” and that none of them ever received the promised electric shock when their switch was flipped. Andrew is released from jail when the police can’t gather enough evidence against him. He doesn’t hold back from expressing his vitriol for the liars, leaving them feeling guilty for accusing him and afraid that the real ‘A’ is still at large.
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