When the episode opens, it seems like Det.
You know, the car Archer Dunhill’s body mysteriously got dumped into!
There’s no way she’s A.D.).
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When he storms out to look for her, Caleb follows and helps him track her location.
Meanwhile, Aria’s holding a conversation with the corpse that keeps rolling around in her trunk.
Glad you agree."
I admit, this was funnybut did anyone else feel that the writing was a littleextrathis week?
Mona leaves, and they follow.
Meanwhile, Mary Drake leaves Spencer one last wine bottle message, and the two meet.
Mary says she has a going-away present for Spencer and Alison: The Lost Woods Motel.
Stop trying to make The Lost Woods happen!
Just burn it to the ground!
Ezra finds Aria, just as she’s about to turn herself in to the cops.
“There’s nothing linking you to what happened with Dunhill!”
“His body’s in the trunk of my car,” Aria responds.
(Okay,thatwriting was good.)
They give each other a look.Oh,that’s why no one congratulated them last week!
In young relationship years, that practicallyismarried.
Caleb takes the opportunity to storm into the restaurant and confront Mona (and eat her pie).
Of course, she dropped the note, which read, “LEAVE NOW.”
That’s nice, butyes,all of you should leave Rosewood!
Ezra decides to go deal with the body in the trunk.
“I have a master’s degree in American literature,” he says.
“There’s nothing I can’t handle.”
Was that supposed to be like, I know how to do stuff because I’ve read about it?
Or was it a joke like, Ha ha, I have no skills?
It doesn’t matter anyway, because when they get out to the car, the body is gone.
?NO THANK YOU.
Ali and Emily had been talking in the living room when someone started pumping in gas from the fireplace.
Turns out it was Emily’s nightmareA.D.
must have put them both to sleep so they could sneak the game back into the house.
A video of young Ali plays on a loop on the game’s phone.
“We don’t have a lot of time,” she coyly repeats.
They send messages."
And (2), he and Hanna are married, by the way.
Spencer congratulates him, but he says there’s part of him that wants to say he’s sorry.
“Don’t you dare apologize for being with me,” Spencer says.
“And don’t you dare forget itany of it.
Because I won’t.”
Dramatic phrasing, but nice message.
She goes inside and finds Mona at the topbut something isn’t right.
Mona’s wearing braids and glasses, looking like she did in the early years of high school.
Then, a flashback: Charlotte is at the window, and Mona comes over to her with flowers.
“You’re going to start hurting people again,” Mona says.
“Who’s gonna stop me?You?
“Do you still see her when you look in the mirror?
The loser, the pigtails, the frumpy sweater?
I still see her.”
She goes on: “None of you aresurewhen you look in the mirror.
And now I’m back, and everything that happened before?
That’s gonna feel like a picnic.”
Charlotte says she doesn’t have the guts, but Mona goes on.
“People will think you committed suicide your first night here,” Mona says.
She tells her, “Jump or I’ll push you.”
Mona just puts her glasses back on.
Aria suggests calling Dr. Sullivan, who I seriously can’t believe is still alive.
It’s an augmented reality app!
This show has seriously thrown all the new technology it can into these last couple episodes.
(I’m not mad.
I am obsessed with thisit’s veryBlack Mirror.)
I don’t even remember if Aunt Carol was a real person anymore, you guys.
Who is anyone?!
They’re about to start digging when Aria asks, “Do we really want to do this?”
Ali tries to say they have to, but Aria pushes back.
“Do we?…
Don’t you see?
If we want to stop the crazy, we have to stop acting crazy.”
That’s actually… very logical!
The Liars still have shovels in hand.
“You ladies need any help?”
Then, a light turns on, and through the glass they see Mary in another room.
Apparently, Jessica’s murder was the blackmail Archer used to keep Mary doing things for him.
She signs the confession as Spencer, Ali, and the rest of the Liars look on in sorrow.
Tanner comes back in and tells the girls they’re free to go.
They stare back in disbelief.
“You’re just gonna let us go?”
Tanner says they haven’t done anything wrong… have they?
“You used to think so, up until recently,” Aria says.
He wouldn’t want to bother with a wild story or a “box of loose ends.”
“What I believe and what I can prove are two different things,” she says.
You’re not criminals, not really.
Try and remember that.”
The girls go back to Mona, who’s going to be picked up by Dr. Sullivan soon.
I’m sorry I messed that up.
Nothing ever happens the way it’s supposed to with me."
Of course, Charlotte isn’t about to walk away all changed.
“I knew you didn’t have the guts,” she says, then lunges for Mona.
“They will never love you!”
She’s deadbut Mona can’t make it look like a suicide anymore.
Still, that’s why the police never found a murder weapon.
Back in the present, the game says, “CONGRATULATIONS.”
Was it listening to hear Mona confess this whole time?
The Liars stare at the game after it turns off, dumbfounded that things can really be over.
Over a mournful song, the camera slowly pans over the game with a sort of reverence.
Umwhat?Are you going to make a U-turn back here for the finale, pal?
So Liars: There’s one episode left, and I guess, only one real answer left.
For the very last time… leave your theories below.
