Pretty Little Liars has
finally made a triumphant return with series four and as it promised, it was truely something. Whilst fans have
already been left with loads of questions and confusion, the episode
did also give some answers, and also a few shocking moments too, so do not read on unless you're willing to see a few spoilers along the way!
The episode picked up exactly where series 3 left off, the girls opened the boot of the car to find a dead pig inside, whilst the video of Hanna's mom hitting officer Willden with her car repeatedly played, surprisingly enough, Mona dived into the car and retrieved the chip, claiming she was helping Hanna's mom...hmmm...
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Liars Unite - They're Back! |
Once the girls returned to Spencer's house, which has become a bit of a headquarters, they got Mona to tell them as much as she knows as she used to be A. Mona admitted she didn't get the car out the lake, but she had put it in Hanna's garage. Shaunna knew Jenna before she came to Rosewood she thought they were in love and that they are both scared of Spencer's sister Melissa. When CeCe came to Radley to see Mona, she thought she was Alison, however Mona
conveniently doesn't remember because it was before they changed her meds. Lucas was the one who gave Emily the massage - he said she was tense. Toby was recruited when he got the job in Bucks county and Mona doesn't know who pushed Ian off the bell tower and wishes she did. Mona also reveals she has her own set of keys for Emily's car, which is a truely hilarious moment, then has gone to get the girls their favourite coffee - which is equally disturbing as it is funny.
Remember the 'You're mine now' text from A? It'll make sense in a second.
Mona agrees to take the girls to her lair, however as she is on the way there they see Willden's body at the scene of the crime with the car that was pulled from the lake. A can make it look like the girls killed him. Redcoat is A, and may have pulled them from the fire, but she still wants to set them up for Willden's death.
At the point of the girls reaching the lair, Mona proves Willden was involved in the A team and was in fact dressed as the Queen Of Hearts during the Halloween Train episode - which by the way is a truly genius twist and as Mona shows them a video of evidence proving she wasn't the one who tried to kill Aria in the box, it starts to delete itself, just before the girls can see that it was Melissa Hastings dressed up in the other costume, Spencer's sister.
There's a really creepy moment where young girls, who look like the girls, have been given dolls, that look like the girls, to play with. The girls claim Alison gave them to them, its all very odd.
Mona makes Hanna agree to move the RV lair to hide it somewhere until they can move it somewhere else for good. Spencer and Toby go to the scene of the fire and soon realise someone is watching them, before they can see who, the figure runs off. A SUPER Creepy scene between Emily and Alison's mom jessica occurs, where Emily learns that she is basically building a shrine to Alison in her old bedroom. It isn't nice. Or normal. Jessica...seek help...now. Jason's whereabouts are still unknown.
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Making Funerals Fierce! |
Aria and Ezra bump into each other in a coffee shop, you can quite clearly see the couple are still madly in love however as Ezra has been offered a job at Rosewood again they cannot be together whilst Aria still attends as a student. Ezra suggests seeing other people - BURN.
Spencer and Toby share a romantic breakfast however Toby receives a text from A, where he is told he can learn about what happened to his mom, naturally, in true liar style, he doesn't tell Spencer - idiot.
Mona continues to try to prove she still loves Hanna as a dear friend, regardless of everything she had put her through whilst she was A, it's kind of cringe, i'm sorry but Mona is an annoying character and whilst they're making her relevant, she should probably be written out.
Aria is summoned to the vice principals office and panics, sees a vision of Ezra being arrested for sleeping with a student and when she wakes from her daydream texts Ezra telling him they should see other people.
Emily and Paige have a cute romantic conversation about Universities and they both tell each other they love each other and plan to go away together far far away from A....HA!
Mona gives Hanna the chip, in an attempt to prove that she hasn't got an ulterior motive for why she is hanging around with her again, besides the fact that A is still in their lives, obviously.
Emily bumps into Jenna outside - who is still not blind again - yet will be later, what? Jenna tells her she needs a favour, but she tells Emily that Willden was a friend of hers and she can't believe he is dead. She asks Emily, if anything happens to me, will you give Toby a message? Emily quips: 'what would happen to you? seems to me you're indestructible' - I massively enjoyed this as they've finally given Emily her backbone back, and it works so well. Emily notices a mark on Jenna's hand and asks her if she burned herself - interesting.
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Burn yourself Jenna? |
'Tell him I never meant to hurt him' was the message. Right then... Spencer then see's Alison's mom
staring in her direction from Alison's bedroom window, its creepy and weird and I don't want to relive that moment again.
A leaves a message for Spencer, telling her there is something in Willden's coffin.
The girls all head over to Darren Willden's funeral where Spencer and Mona go in search of what is incriminating to them, inside they find a phone ringing, they miss the call but there is one number stored: Kisses. They hit the dial button and Hanna answers, confused asking: "Why are you calling me from my mom's phone?" major twist, Mrs Montgomery is part of the A team! Just kidding!
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'The truth wont set you free bitches' |
However, a black vailed figure then sits at the back of the funeral, the girls all question who the hell it is and as they leave, a
new police officer reminds them of Willden and tells them they'll probably be in for questioning in the future.
Jenna is escorted into the building with an unknown male and is trying to act blind...again.
Toby drives the lair to a location decided by A and walks away.
The girls all then receive a text from A: "The Truth won't set you free bitches, i'm gonna bury you with it - A" and a video recording of the girls from the beginning of the episode as Mona dives into the car to retrieve the chip. A recorded the whole thing.
Obviously at the end of the episode it is revealed to be A. Of course, the face is wearing a mask and we're clearly not going to find out who A is just yet.
What I really enjoyed about this episode was the amount of references it made to the first episode of the first series. A body being discovered, a funeral, their first group text together from A, the list is endless, and the lies will just keep coming!