A.D. is finally revealed as the series comes to a close.
But that’s the show we know and love (and sometimes hate), right?
More analysis to come… but here we go, for the last time.
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“I never would have guessed it was you,” she says.
“Are you here to kill me?”
Turns out their book just might become a movie.
Everything’s coming up Ezria!
At the DiLaurentis-Fields house, Emily is feeding a baby… no wait,twobabies!
She and Ali have twins, Lily and Grace.
They’re adorable, but something seems “off” with Ali.
Shortly after, she meets with Mrs. Fields at the Radley.
“She doesn’t know you’re here, right?”
Mrs. Fields says, before alluding to something about Emily being “taken care of.”
Ali says, “Like I promised you, I will always be here for her.”
The words are nice, but the tone is strange.
What’s going on?
Whyyyy can’t someone punch her in the face?
Apparently, Addison is the bully (big surprise).
Real gem, this one!
Then Jenna gives my favorite line of the night (for the last time!
They would be nowhere without Lucas.
Of course, shortly after Hanna and Caleb leave, Mona disappears.
(Best line during the party?
After screams are heard in the distance and someone asks, “What was that?”
the answer is “Christians.”
Apparently, there’s a camp nearby.)
Aria gets woken up by a phone call, which she answers frantically: “Hello?
Are you sure?”
Then Melissaremoves her face(okay, mask), and who’s underneath?
It’s always Mona.
Inside, we learn that Aria’s upset because she’s found out she can’t have kids.
In prison, Spencer goes to visit Mary.
It’s been weeks since Spencer’s last visit, apparently.
“you could say it,” Mary says.
“Hope breeds eternal misery.”
(Another pilot reference!)
But Spencer says she doesn’t believe that anymore.
And also, she needs Mary’s help.
“Yeah,and she feels bad about that!”
Emily talks to some high school kids who are catering the dinnerthe girls in Addison’s clique.
“You don’t say no to someone like Addison,” she says.
“She’d have to be dead first.”
Are they seriously trying to make this a spin-off?
Baby Plastics didn’t happen inMean Girls,andLaguna Beachseason 3 about L.C.
’s sister was a bust.
Don’t attempt to make a spin-off out of the exact same story,pleeease!
The BEST part of this whole rehearsal?
The moms talk about THE BASEMENT!
This might have been the most satisfying scene in the entire finale.
I am stillobsessed with #winemoms.
He’s angryabout the hiding, not that she can’t have kids.
She pushes, and finally Ali confesses that she was going to propose.
She had something planned, but she does it off the cuff, and it’s sweet.
Toby is staying at the Radley when Spencer comes to knock on his door.
“Coffee, at this hour?”
“You’ll be up all night.”
She kisses him, and they hook up with the intensity of that night at Toby’s cabin.
In the next scene, Spencer’s back at home, cleaning off her bathroom mirror.
Piano music plays, and she follows it.
Is that you?"
Mona comes out from the darkness and snarls, “Deja vu, bitch.”
She punches her and knocks her out.
When Spencer wakes up, she’s on the floor in some sort of jail cell.
How do you always get this stuff right?!
(And also, how are they not done with the twin thing by now?
How many twins can you throw at us?!)
That’s not all, though: Mary Drake is there, too, outside Spencer’s cell.
“We didn’t think you’d wake up so soon, Spencer.”
Great mothering, Mary.
Briefly, at the Radley, Ezra asks someone to keep something quiet, then runs into Spencer.
Back in the cell, Spencer asks Twincer who she is.
In a flashback, we see her bartending somewhere in England, when Wren comes in.
Apparently, she started to cry.
And over the next few days, Wren explained everything.
Melissa apparently was already “out of the picture"and now Alex was in it.
(Really, Wren?
Let’s pause a quick sec.
I want to buy this.
Couldn’t she just be regular British, if she had to be British at all?
I don’t know.
The timing of what Alex reveals also feels “off.”
Even though she has Charlotte’s money now (Charlotte left her everything), it wasn’t enough.
“This is about friends,” she tells Wren.
“Even when they make huge mistakes, they still love each other.”
Not as Alex.”
Then, she begs Wren toshoot herso she can get the exact same gunshot scar as Spencer.
So shekilled himinstead of breaking up with him and turned his ashes into a necklace.
(Oh, and one more thing.
But we’ll get there in a sec.)
She leaves Spencer in the jail and heads off to Aria’s wedding.
“You have your daddy’s eyes,” she says.
“I knew Wren would make pretty babies.”
Did she harvest his semen right before she killed him?
We did not spend enough time in this episode on the murderorthis, honestly.
Spencer and Mary are back in the cell, having lunch, like a normal mother-daughter pair.
Apparently, Alex drugged Mary before bringing her here, but has promised she’ll keep Spencer safe.
This is not how this works.
Spencer is your child, too!
This is not okay!
She went to a wealthy couple in England.
“I thought she would live a Cinderella life,” she says.
To which Spencer brilliantly replies, “Have youreadGrimm’s Fairy Tales?”
“Wayward Children”?!
She ran away at 10 and apparently went straight from the orphanage to being a bartender downtown.
Mary seems to let Spencer out of the cell… and then slams the door in her face.
This whole thing feels like the worst betrayal of all.
What’s Mary Drake’s deal!?
I know she’s a little crazy, but I was under the impression she really loved Spencer.
You don’t just let one daughter torture the other one, Mary!
Look atyour own life.If you know one thing, it’s this.
Anyway, in the quick hug where Spencer thought she’d be released, she snagged a bobby pin.
It’s not like it was some kind of reveal.)
Alex comes back, and they make a run at convince her she doesn’t have to kill them.
But it turns out it isn’t about wanting Spencer’s life or her friendsit’s about Toby.
But instead of the gold Sara dreamed of, Charlotte really meant the file folder.
They get along swimmingly, and the whole foursome has a jolly time gallivanting across Europe.
But then Charlotte missed the power of the A-game and went back to America.
Alex begged to come, but Charlotte warned her to stay as far away from the Hastings as possible.
Before she leaves, she gives Alex an envelope with Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits in it.
Passing torture music on from sister to sister!
Of course, Charlotte never came back.
Ezra, on the other hand?
There’s no reason for Alex to keep him alive.
But the horse freaks out when she gets near.
Jenna asks “Spencer” if she’s wearing different perfume, but Alex tries to brush it off.
Jenna calls Toby immediately.
“This may sound weird, but I don’t think Spencer’s Spencer,” she says.
This was abitof a leap, but I admit, I kind of bought it.
Alex definitely fits that description.
Meanwhile, Alex and Mary are fighting because Alex promised Mary she wouldn’t hurt Spencer.
Isn’t this the same promise Archer made to Mary about Ali?
Stop trusting people, you idiot!
Alex knocks out Mary so she won’t stop her when she tries to kill Spencer.
At the same time, the rest of the gang is getting readywith Mona’s help.
Icannot believethat Toby would build a house for Spencer and not ever look into the identity of the buyer.
Anyway, now we know.
They finally find a door to the outside… but it’s not quite the outside.
They’re still somehow underground, or under a dome that looks like a fake Rosewood.
It’s likeThe Hunger Games.Or, obviously, the Dollhouse.
Man, that Carissimi money goes so far!
Alex comes out into the fake yard and hits Ezra, as Spencer tries to reason with her.
“It’s not too late to be family!”
“Yeah, it is,” Alex says.
(Charlotte and Mona definitely would have had answers prepared, Alex.
Do your research!)
Mona has called 911, so a cop rushes in to take Alex into custody.
Apparently, Mary Drake got apprehended down the road.
That would just maketoomuch sense.
Aren’t these girls all like 23?Maybe24?
You have time, guys!
Then, we jump to Paris, but it’s not for Aria’s honeymoon.
no more sisters!).
They leave, and a strong-jawed Frenchman kisses Mona and asks if she’s coming to dinner.
She says she won’t be long, he leaves, and she closes the store.
“Teatime, pretty girl,” she coos.
“She can’t keep us here forever,” Mary says.
“Of course she can,” Alex says.
“She’s Mona.
Marydidtell Alex they could go on a mother-daughter trip across the pond.
Guess her wish came true.
For the last time,no.We don’t want more of this!
With that, Liars, we say goodbye.
We have our big answers: A.D. is Alex Drake, Spencer’s twin.
Wren is the daddy (and dead).
Mona is… still dealing with her issues, as is Mary Drake.
So, for the last time: What do you think?
Was the Twincer/Alex Drake reveal satisfying?
Was the accent a bad choice?
For those of you who always suspected Wren had something to do with this, wasthatsatisfying?
Should Melissa have been more culpable somehow?
Does Alex’s life sound like it was bad enough to drive her to murder and torture?
(The answer isno,not really.)
And finally, what will you miss the most?
(Just kidding, I won’t miss that.)
