In the final season premiere, A.D. has a special game in store.
So here we are, at the start of the final season.
Ill be honest, some days I didnt think wed ever get here.
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I thought A would be leaving doll heads and tooth messages well into the girls 40s.
With the end in sight, though, Im happy to finally have some answers on the horizon.
Toby is completely fine other than needing a crutch to walk.
Yvonne, on the other hand, remains in a medically induced coma a week after the accident.
Problem solved: They both get hired!
Emily is the swim coach and Paige is now, much to Alis chagrin, athletic supervisor.
), but things are tense between him and Aria.
The big news of the episode and the season is waiting in a giant black box at Spencers house.
Best of all, the centerpiece is a cell phone, As preferred communication method for all seven seasons.
There are a couple issues with it though, which Ill get to in a bit.
First, lets buzz through some of the less interesting stuff to get to the meat of this episode.
Hanna and Caleb are back and better than ever.
Not until you know.
Jenna and Mary Drake are both apparently missing.
Ezra, as weve established, isntphysicallymissing, but his mind/heart are another story.
Um…isthat the best advice, Hanna?
(Real talk, I couldnt have remembered who Holden was to save my life.
Thank god for articles that explained hes the guy Aria fake-dated so she could date Ezra in high school.
He looks like Lucas 2.0.)
Veronica Hastings finally arrives home to Spencer and asks how shes doing.
Thats going to depend on the next few minutes, Spencer says, and launches into her confrontation.
Turns out he banged Mary Drake thinking she was Jessica DiLaurentis.
(Give me a break.
Give me 10,000 breaks.
Every dad on this show sucks except Mr. Fields and they had to go and kill him!!)
Noel, you poor, decapitated demon.)
As my colleague Sam Highfillnoted on Twitter, ofcourseSpencer was born inside a film noir.
Oh, this beautiful, weird, stupid show!
The conversation didnt really help Spencer at all.
What does she have to lose?
She puts the game-phone in its place, and it asks her to pick Truth or Dare.
Visit a sick friend.
Get a reward, the screen reads, showing a picture of Tobys face.
And did that handy puzzle piece outline just appear there?
Is the game magic, too?
Finally, later, Spencer calls the Liars over to investigate the game.
They venture to stop her (its not a pinata!)
Ah, so A.D. still has that.
In the final scene, we see Jenna (with… newly red hair?)
Jenna reads for a second and then whispers, Endgame, while smiling slowly in her creepy way.
Is the nurse A.D. or is that person working for A.D.?
Is Jenna still on the team, or just a well-informed hostage now?
Nine more episodes to go, Liars!
