Emily Fields

"If lying was a crime, we'd all be in jail."

- Emily in The Goodbye Look

Emily Catherine Fields is one of the main characters in the Pretty Little Liars television series on Freeform. She is portrayed by Shay Mitchell.

Biography.
Emily Fields is the 'jock' of the group because of her aptitude in swimming, which makes her the star of Rosewood's swim team. Out of the girls, Emily would be described as caring, sweet and loyal. Emily cares so much about her friends that she does anything she can to keep them safe. She is an only child, therefore the center to her parents life. Although Emily has been through many difficulties, (such as the death of her ex-girlfriend Maya St. Germain), she always seems to stay strong and comes out on top. Emily is considered the weakest link by "A."

Emily has had a rough past of being in love with her best friend Alison before she disappeared. When "A" comes to the scene, Emily finds it hard to try stop people and even herself knowing her real sexuality, At times even Ali would say things to put Emily at risk of being outed. Initially when Emily came out, her parents, especially her mother, struggled to handle the news, but now they seem to be accepting of her sexuality and her friends have always been supportive of her.

Physical Appearance
Emily has a slightly roundish oval face with full lips and deep set hooded eyes. Her dark brown hair, which is usually worn down, compliments her olive complexion. She has an athletic body type as she is a swimmer. She is the simplest dresser and wears minimal makeup. Her charming smile adds to her persona.

Series
Pilot
 * -|Season 1=

The show begins with footage of the night Alison DiLaurentis disappeared. Alison, Aria Montgomery, Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin and Emily Fields were having a sleepover in Spencer's barn. The lights had gone out before Alison had scared them by sneaking up on the other girls in the barn's doorway. They had laughed and joked about it and sipped the drink Alison brought them. Aria had woken up, followed by Hanna and Emily, to find Ali and Spencer missing. Spencer had returned to let the other girls know that Ali was missing and that she heard a scream.

One year later, at high school, Emily is surprised to see Aria, who was away in Iceland for a year. Emily fills Aria on what she missed while away, including the fact that the other three girls, her former friends, Hanna, Spencer and Emily have all disbanded since Alison's death. In the meantime, the formerly chubby, gawky Hanna, has become the new Queen Bee, alongside formerly nerdy sidekick Mona, who has had a glam makeover of her own. In English class, Emily picks up on the weirdness between Mr. Fitz and Aria.

Emily discusses Aria's return home with her own mother, Pam, who is clearly judgmental and controlling as a mother, as she makes a comment about the pink streak Aria used to sport in her hair and no less, the fact that her mother used to let her "walk around like that." Emily is then sent by her mother to bring a gift basket to the St. Germain's, the new family that moved into the neighborhood and into Alison DiLaurentis' home. While there, Emily meets the St. Germain's daughter, a spunky girl named Maya, and helps her move boxes into her new home. Both girls say they have boyfriends, but Maya kisses Emily as she leaves. Maya is even persuasive enough to get Emily to try smoking weed for the first time.

After school, the next day, Maya and Emily go for a walk, and Emily shares her thoughts about Alison and her disappearance. It is hard for Emily to see the tributes people left for Alison being loaded from the curb in front of Maya's house, into a dumpster.

The next day in the school's gym locker room after swim practice, Emily finds a note from "A" letting her know that she is aware of her previous day's kiss. Spencer closes her locker nearby, where she has just changed into her field hockey uniform, and sees Emily staring into space. She asks if everything is okay, but Emily denies that anything is wrong.

At night, Emily notices police cars to Maya's house, where ambulances are flanking the street, and it seems the whole town has come out to watch what's going on. She runs toward Maya's front steps, terrified that something happened to Maya. But Maya comes to greet her, seemingly fine. She lets Emily know that Alison has been found, and Emily is excited until Maya tells her that it is her body that has been found. A stretcher with a body bag atop it is then wheeled past where they are standing.

The next day, a funeral service is held in Rosewood's local church. There, Jessica DiLaurentis greets the Liars and thanks them for coming. They all sit together, among hundreds of attending townspeople and reporters. At the service, Hanna offers her hip flask to the other girls, and they share the fact that they have all received messages from "A." Jenna Marshall arrives, led by Toby Cavanaugh, to their utter shock and also Jessica's surprise.

After the service, Darren Wilden introduces himself to the Pretty Little Liars. He lets them know that Alison's police case is no longer a missing person's case, but a murder mystery. Eerily, he lets the girls know that he will be reviewing their statements and watching them... A message from "A" texted to all four of their cellphones lets them know that he/she will be watching too. Their biggest fear is "The Jenna Thing" being revealed.

The Jenna Thing

That night, the Pretty Little Liars sit in a restaurant, the Apple Rose Grille, discussing the new messages from "A". They also discuss their fears that "The Jenna Thing" will be revealed, but Spencer believes that no one knows the truth about their carefully guarded secret. Hanna pours some liquid from her hip flask into her beverage to her friends' disapproval. Spencer reveals that Alison had confided in her that she had been dating someone that summer, an older boy who had a girlfriend, but Alison never told her who. Just then, the girls cringe as they hear a tapping sound, instinctively knowing that blind Jenna Marshall has entered with her walking stick. They silently get up and leave.

Emily's feelings for her new neighbor Maya grow deeper as the two start hanging out more. Maya flirts obviously with Emily, telling her she wants to drink from Emily's cup when Emily offers her a drink. Maya comes over to Emily's House to visit Emily on her porch. She apologizes for not showing up to the funeral to support her, but Emily is completely understanding. Maya is finding it hard to adjust to living in Alison's house, with more of her stuff constantly reappearing. They are giving each other a hug when Pam walks over and cheerfully meets Maya, though she's a little taken aback when Maya hugs her. She invites Maya to sleep in Emily's room, sympathizing with Maya about living in the former DiLaurentis house right after a body was found in the backyard. Maya accepts.

Maya and Emily walk over to Spencer, who is outside practicing her field hockey shots, as she is vying for varsity captain. She meets Maya, who awkwardly refers to Alison as "dead girl," but apologizes and moves on. They invite Spencer to join them for coffee, but she is too focused on her practice.

At Emily's locker, Ben tries to force kisses out of Emily, perhaps as proof of her interest, and Emily tries to back away, staring longingly at Maya across the hall. Emily lets Ben know that Maya is staying at her place, and Ben seems okay about it.

Just then, an announcement is made over the loudspeaker, calling Emily, Aria, Spencer and Hanna to the principal's office. The girls are slightly panicked, and a mocking text from "A" doesn't help their nerves any. At the office, Darren Wilden interrogates the girls about Alison DiLaurentis' disappearance, reviewing their stories with great skepticism that he makes sure to show. The girls answer unanimously, but he is sure that they are lying all the same, claiming that they're story sounds rehearsed.

At lunch, the girls fret that their lies will get them in trouble. They try to rationalize that the secret they are hiding is unconnected to Ali's murder, but at the same time, their secret reveals that Ali had enemies, people who could have potentially wanted to hurt her. Almost on cue, Jenna walks into the lunch room, the tapping sound of her walking cane unmistakable. Aria invites Jenna to sit with the girls in the cafeteria, and so, the five of them share the most awkward lunch ever, as Jenna notes the dead silence on the part of the girls and the fact that Alison is no longer with them. They all flashback to the accident that blinded Jenna.

In the flashbacks it is revealed that one night when the girls were trying on clothes, Alison spotted someone spying on them, and she claimed it was absolutely Toby Cavanaugh. Immediately after this, Alison hatched a plan to drop a stink bomb in his garage. Emily and Aria tried to back out, while Hanna and Spencer also shared their reservations, but Ali was adamant that someone spying on them must be taught a lesson. Alison had then ignited the stink bomb, opened the door of the garage, and tossed it inside. But the prank went terribly wrong as the garage caught on fire, and Alison saw too late that someone - Jenna - was inside. As a result, Jenna was permanently blinded from the accident, and Alison made sure that Toby falsely took the blame for it.

While at lunch, the girls' phones go off, startling the girls. Of course it is from "A" letting them know she/he is privy to their guilt.

Later at night, Maya and Emily share Emily's bed. They sleep snugly together until "A" sends Emily a text startling her by letting her know that she's aware of the budding romantic relationship.

To Kill a Mocking Girl

The next day, Ben drives Emily and Maya to school. He teases the girls about their 'lesbian pajama party,' clearly insecure about his own relationship with Emily and threatened by Emily's relationship with Maya. Maya brushes it off, but Emily is embarrassed and upset. When Maya leaves the car, Emily forcefully kisses Ben so as to prove herself. But when Ben's jock friends start pounding on the car and talking up Ben for his manhood, Emily groans and leaves. Hanna is there just in time to support her friend and make snide remarks to the jocks to make them go away. She escorts her friend into school.

At home, Emily tries to tell her mother about her feelings about questioning her sexuality, but her mother totally misreads her daughter's intent. She takes Emily's insecurity as not being okay with the aftermath of Ali's murder. She recommends that Emily and her friends do something to properly commemorate Alison's death in order to find closure.

Later, Emily is sitting by herself in a restaurant. She looks down at her bracelet and flashes back to the aftermath of The Jenna Thing, when Alison had bought the other Pretty Little Liars friendship bracelets with their names on them. Alison had given the girls the bracelets in the same restaurant in which Emily is not sitting. At the time, she had even suggestively asked Emily to tie hers for her.

The girls decide to erect a memorial for Alison. They decide to do it in the woods, near The Kissing Rock, where they used to hang out with Ali. When Emily and Spencer bring up Darren Wilden, that creepy detective, Hanna goes silent, clearly upset. The girls don't pick up on that though, but they think Hanna is crazy when she mentions that she thinks Ali is still alive. Just then they hear someone in the forest and a few seconds later, all four phones buzz with a new text from "A" telling them she's hunting them.

At school, Emily ties up her bike, and Maya walks over to say hi. Ben then comes over, forcefully kissing Emily, who tries to push him away. Ben mentions Noel's party, and Emily invites Maya to come; she accepts.

In the corridors, Jenna walks by with her brother Toby, the intended target of the girls’ prank that left Jenna blind. His reappearance at Rosewood High comes after a mysterious, yearlong absence – leaving the girls to wonder whether he had anything to do with Alison’s disappearance, or if he is in fact the omnipresent "A." Maya asks about Toby, and Emily is forced to guiltily give the accepted story, which is that he got sent away to reform school after setting fire to the garage his sister was in.

After swim practice, Ben sneaks up on Emily in the girls locker room and tries to assault her. She tries to push him off nicely, but he gets aggressive, almost violent. Just then, Toby barges in and wordlessly pushes Ben off of Emily. He pounds Ben into the locker until he bleeds, while Emily screams for him to stop. When Ben asks if Toby is the reason she's not into him as much, she tells him to get over himself; it's over.

Emily goes to Noel's party with Maya. Sean is playing foosball with his friends, including Ben. When Ben hears Hanna call out to Emily, he shoots up his bruised head and expresses his surprise at her coming. She replies that she didn't come for him, totally dissing him, and walks away. Emily joins the other liars and they discuss Toby's return and his saving Emily. They make it clear that they don't trust him, and then they break, as Maya pulls Emily away to check out the photo booth

Emily and Maya slip into the photo booth and pose in fun, then sexual poses for the camera, eventually sharing a lip-lock. Someone takes the printed photos before they can get to it, though, and Emily is worried, while Maya just shrugs.

After the party, Maya drives Emily home to her house, where she spots Toby sitting on his porch steps alone. She sees him fiddling with motorcycle parts and approaches him. Not quite sure how to state it, she thanks him for saving her in the locker room from Ben. Toby smiles back silently.

The next day, the girls reconvene in the woods to memorialize Alison in the shed they used to play in. Spencer lets the other girls know that Alison had something on Toby, besides him being a supposed Peeping Tom. The other girls are surprised to find this information out from her so much after the fact. The girls change their minds and decide to pick a more public place for the memorial. They hear something with them in the forest, again, and this time they all run as soon as they hear it. The person gets away, but they do find the same friendship bracelet Alison was wearing the night she disappeared, perhaps planted by whoever was in the forest with them.

Going along with their new plan, the girls map out the details of Alison's new memorial park bench. Spencer then comes up with the idea of "A-proofing." She blocks all messages from people she doesn't know and does the same with the other girls' laptops and cellphones. The girls also appreciate the view when Mr. Fitz rides buy on his bicycle, wearing shorts; Aria is silently mortified when they comment on his legs. Just then, a crunched up missing Alison flier blows towards them with a celebratory remark about her death.

At school, Maya gives Emily a scarf, which she puts on shyly and takes off soon after the other girls compliment her on it. She lies about it being new, feeling uncomfortable, thinking the whole world knows who it's from and why.

Emily then heads to her chemistry class, where she sees Toby standing alone. He lets her know that he's transferring to her chemistry lab, then comments on the scarf that she is no longer wearing and compliments her on it. To Emily's chagrin, the chemistry teacher assigns Toby as her lab partner, and Emily lies that she is okay with it. When Emily opens her lab book, she is shocked to find the photo of her and Maya kissing from Noel's cabin party. She shuts it immediately, hoping no one else saw it. Did Toby see it?

After school, Emily approaches Maya at the restaurant where she works, showing her the photos from the party. She asks Maya if she slipped them into her lab book, but Maya denies it. Emily asks again, and Maya is offended by Emily's accusing tone and the fact that she is clearly ashamed of the pictures, as if showing them is a bad thing. Maya had wanted to admire the pictures; instead, she goes back to work, affronted.

The next day, Ezra begins his English class. An awkward class discussion ensues over a character's hypocrisy in the assigned novel they are reading, To Kill a Mockingbird. When one student named Sperling speaks up, Ezra jumps down his throat, accusing him of not attempting to understand the book, while defending Aria's statement. Eventually, he comes to his senses, but Spencer and Emily seem to pick up on the awkward tension.

After class, Toby is seen opening his locker. A ton of shaving cream falls out, and some guys are heard laughing loudly in the background, the perpetrators of the prank. Emily watches silently before turning around.

That night, while walking outside her house, Emily rips up the photos of her and Maya kissing and places them deep in the dumpster. Toby catches sight of her and strikes up a conversation. Emily asks Toby if he saw the pictures in her lab book. It seems that he has, but Toby says he's cool with her not wanting people to know. Toby uses it as a teaching moment to speak to Emily about not being the person people want you to be, but being the person you want to be.

Next, Emily meets with Maya and, inspired by Toby's words, apologizes to Maya about the way she treated her. Emily asks her for space, and Maya agrees, telling her that she cares about Emily and therefore will wait.

Spencer sends an S.O.S. to Emily and Aria, and the girls arrive at Spencer's home to find a message scrawled in lipstick on her vanity: "It won't be that easy bitches. -A"

Still reeling from the haunting message scrawled across Spencer’s vanity, the next morning the girls discover an additional, even spookier message from "A" – this one in the form of a video of the girls the previous night that was clearly recording them from inside Spencer’s closet. It is sent in a text to Hanna as an attachment. The girls reveal that they have unblocked their phones. They then go upstairs and open the closet to find the lipstick that was used to write the message on the vanity - Aria thinks it is the same shade of red that Jenna wears.

In chemistry lab, Emily asks Toby where he was the night before (slightly suspicious that he might be "A"). He replies that he was at The Grille doing homework, where he normally studies to get away from Jenna and her noisy machines.

Emily and Toby’s surprising friendship grows even stronger, as both begin to take an interest in each other. Emily appreciates Toby's artwork on his lab notebook. They discover they have the same taste in music and agree to meet later at The Grille.

Emily and Toby are scheduled to meet, but when Emily arrives at the cafe, she sees Spencer and Hanna. Too embarrassed to socialize with Toby in front of them, she reluctantly blows him off. They fill Emily in on the Jenna lipstick situation. Later, the waitress hands Emily the mixed CD Toby has left for her. Hanna, believing that Maya made it for her, encourages Emily not to bullied by pursuing a non-conventional relationship. However, Emily takes this to heart regarding Toby.

Later the next day at the Grille, an upset Toby tries to ignore Emily when she comes to sit with him, but gives in when she presents him with a mix CD of her own. She apologizes for blowing him off, and he accepts.

Hanna, Spencer, and Emily arrive at Aria's to console her with Chinese take-out and rag mags – thinking she’s sullen from her parents' marriage troubles. While discussing their plans for homecoming dance, the girls open their fortune cookies to find another prank from "A" notes cluing them into the fact that he or she will be attending homecoming as well.

At school, Maya and Emily aren't very warm towards each other either; Maya says she isn't going to homecoming, but at least the girls agree to hang out at some point. Next, Toby surprises Emily with tickets to Homecoming. She’s nervous to accept because of what her friends may think, but can’t deny her burgeoning attraction to him either.

At the dance, Toby and Emily arrive at the door. Emily calms Toby who is nervous about making an appearance; when they finally do, the other PLLs, not to mention Maya, are not thrilled. Emily is particularly surprised by Hanna's reaction, as she had seemed so supportive of Emily following her heart. Hanna then confesses that she had thought Emily was referring to Maya, but before they can continue their conversation, Toby appears.

Then, Emily approaches Maya and accuses her of saying something to Hanna, who gets offended by Emily's attitude and defensively insists that Hanna had said something to her. She accuses Emily of not being okay with who she is and confirms her suspicions when Emily can't look her in the eye and deny her feelings for Maya. Toby picks up on Emily's hurt and realizes that he isn't Emily's first choice of a homecoming date.

Later, Toby whisks Emily away to the Chem Lab to confide in her privately about his big secret. Just then, Emily receives a text message claiming that Toby killed Alison, making her more and more unsettled. As Toby tries to explain, she pushes him into the cabinet of beakers, injuring him badly before hurting herself as she runs away and trips on the train of her dress, hitting the hard floor and falling unconscious. Toby drives an unconscious Emily to the hospital and drops her off at the emergency room.

The next day, Emily is back inside her room, recovering from her wounds. Aria and Spencer come to visit and quickly inform her of Toby's sordid past with stepsister Jenna to keep her from contacting him again. Emily does not quite believe that Toby killed Alison and had intended to kill her as well. Why take her to the ER if he meant to kill her?

It seems that Emily thinks that she was injured due to Toby attacking her, and not from tripping on her dress as she had run away from him. However, she hadn't admitted her belief to the police. Hanna comes over next, while Spencer and Aria try to convince Emily to come forward to the police. Hanna whips out Toby's psychological profile from her pocket; she had tried to return it, but when she arrived at the office, she saw cops looking for that very piece of evidence!

While Hanna and Emily are alone, Emily finds out from Hanna why she had thought Maya would have been her date to the dance. Hanna confesses that she saw the picture of them kissing and finds out in turn from Emily why she went with Toby and not Maya. Emily admits that she's afraid of everything changing. Interestingly, Emily is the winner of a Toyota Corolla from the dance's raffle.

Later, still recovering from her head trauma, Emily awakes to find a surprise visitor: Jenna, along with her seeing eye dog, Shadow, pretending to be there only to deliver Emily some cookies. She presses Emily to share with her anything she knows about her stepbrother’s whereabouts and wants her to promise to give her the stolen file in order to keep out of prying hands. After all, she did keep quiet about what she knew of Emily and her friends blinding her. She claims that she is doing it because she cares about Toby, but perhaps she is just trying to protect her own reputation.

Emily tries to contact her friends to make sure they keep the file, but Pam sits herself down in Emily's room, hoping to spend some quality time with her daughter. She takes Emily's phone, completely thwarting Emily's attempts. They get into an argument about Toby and whether he can be trusted; Emily tries to defend him, but her mother is livid that Emily dated him behind her back. When Pam presses Emily for details about the night before, she firmly insists that she needs sleep, ending their discussion.

At school, Spencer tells Emily that the file no longer exists. Aria threw it into the river behind the woods. Later, Jenna approaches Emily at her locker, and Emily lets Jenna know that the file has been "taken care of." Jenna is not happy to be forced to trust Emily that the details will not get out.

Emily approaches Maya and honestly lets her know that she cares about her. She also tells her that she is okay knowing that the photographs of them are about to go public.

A day later, Emily discovers cops in front of the Cavanaugh house, with a shaken Jenna in tears. She sees a smashed up motorcycle, but is too afraid to ask if Toby is alive. While processing this news with her friends, she receives a text from "A": "Thanks for getting Toby out of my way." They thought they were done with "A," but apparently not.

Aria, Spencer, Emily and Hanna begin to prepare for Alison’s memorial. The memorial sparks memories of a summer day that the girls had spent lounging by the shore of the lake. Ironically, the girls had spoken about immortality and the fantasy of living in this moment forever. Alison had said that one could attain that only by dying young and leaving behind a beautiful corpse. Getting into it, Alison had romanticized how fabulous it would be to die in a mysterious way.

They must contend with Alison’s older brother Jason arriving in Rosewood a changed man – the formerly gawky and Gothic outsider is now as polished as a preppy politician, and he’s got plenty of plans for the memorial of his own. Jason surprises the girls with news that Jenna has asked to speak at Alison’s memorial, and he’s agreed to let her much to their chagrin.

At school, things progress with Maya and Emily as well, as Emily musters the courage to ask Maya out on a date for dinner and a movie. More good news for Emily is that her father's unit in Afghanistan is returning to the United States, meaning that Wayne is coming home.

After a few days, at school, Spencer and Emily talk to Jason about Alison and the memorial. Detective Wilden and some other police officers rummage through Toby's locker. Clearly, they have received a search warrant. Jason walks over to frazzle Detective Wilden and accuse him of having zero leads in the murder investigation. Desperate to defend himself, Darren reveals that Toby had called Alison the night she disappeared. Jason tries to appear impassive, but the girls are stunned by this detail.

That night, Emily remembers more of Alison's snide remarks that memorable summer day. As she puts on Maya's gift scarf on before the mirror, she recalls how Alison had commented on the pair of Noel and Prudence heading to where assumed was The Kissing Rock. She had matter of factly informed Emily that people had gone there to kiss for hundreds of years. She then looked Emily daringly in the eyes and asked her who she would like to take to The Kissing Rock. Emily had just smiled shyly while staring back.

At the Rosewood Movie Theater, Emily and Maya enjoy their first official date. It isn't long before the two of them start making out during the film.

At the memorial, the girls are stunned by the sudden reappearance of Ian, Melissa’s ex, but even more surprised when Jenna takes the stage. As they wait with bated breath and anxiousness as to what she will say, or worse yet, spill - in the end, she offers quite possibly the kindest words for their dearly departed friend. Whether her moving speech was actually sincere, the Pretty Little Liars can’t be sure, because it could just as easily be another trick up Jenna’s sleeve.

After the memorial, Jason stops by Spencer's house to thank the girls. Knowing what Spencer has told them, the girls are now wary of him, but they do accept his gift - the "Alison" friendship bracelet Alison had been wearing the day of her death. The girls quickly realize that the beaded "Alison" bracelet that they had found must have been a fake, fashioned by someone like "A."

There was a storm brewing in Rosewood last night, and Emily arrives home muddy and super distressed. She gets an ominous text from "A" about burying things.

The next day, at school, the liars are in the library, preparing for their SATs. Soon, they all run into Detective Wilden bearing shocking news: somebody has trashed Alison’s memorial, and he’s there to investigate. The girls cover for Emily without knowing why. They lie about Emily's whereabouts the night before and claim that she was studying with them, although they are weirded out by Emily's secretiveness about what she was really doing, when even they don't know the truth.

The girls wait in the library before the exam, and Emily gets a text from "A" that sends her on a hunt for the book "Great Expectations" in the library. Seeing the book makes her flash back to when Alison had been reading the same novel one day alone in the library. Emily had joined her on the floor, and had revealed her dream that Jenna could see again, and Alison had said something to the effect of "that's why I love you, Emily." She then read her the passage of Pip's account of his ardent love for Estella: he loved her against reason and despite the fact that she basically played hard to get and gave him little hope for a future, other than her teasing. Quite fittingly, Emily had then leaned in to kiss Alison, expressing her own love of the same nature. Alison had actually smiled in return.

Back in real time, Emily finds the personal love letter she had written to Alison the summer she went missing. While reading it, Emily remembers when she had been in the locker room with Alison alone. Alison had been changing; she had removed her towel and stood there topless, forcing Emily's already attentive eyes to stare. Later, Emily had kissed her neck. Alison immediately turned on her, (feigning shock) and cruelly let Emily know that their kiss meant nothing more to her than practice for "the real thing." Abashed, Emily had turned, poised to leave, but Alison wouldn't let her escape; she was supposed to be giving her a ride home. Defeated and humiliated, Emily nevertheless remained, showcasing Alison's control over her friends.

Detective Wilden secretly confiscates Emily's belongings and corners her in the locker room, where the students are supposed to be congregated for safety reasons; he forces her to report to a classroom for questioning. Although uninvited, the other girls follow, suspicious of the detective's shadiness.

There, he accuses Emily of trashing Alison's memorial and even casts aspersions as to whether she murdered Alison. He pulls out the detached pieces of Alison's memorial and exposes Emily's letter to her friends. Flustered, Emily confesses that she loved Alison as more than a friend, but never intended any harm towards her. She felt bad about the mean things she wrote in that letter and went to Alison's memorial seeking closure and forgiveness. By the time she arrived, it had already been vandalized, and she took the figurines from the statue in her bag because they were the only pieces of the memorial that weren't broken. Just then, Veronica walks in, outraged that the girls' safety has been compromised when they should be in the locker room during this storm. She gives Detective Wilden a piece of her mind and blasts him for trying to interrogate minors without an adult present; doesn't he know anything they say would not be admissible in a court of law? The girls are quick to chime in and exclaim the absurdity of accusing sweet Emily of murdering Alison, never mind stealing her bag without a search warrant. It seems that Detective Wilden will be off the case.

A few days later, Mona hand delivers invitations for her camping birthday party on Saturday to select friends in the school hallway. Of course, Hanna plans to go, but the rest of the girls are not planning to attend Mona's party, not caring for attitude-driven Mona all that much. They apologize to Hanna, but then "A" sends a message that she will also be in attendance and that the party is a scavenger hunt for her.

Next, the girls are called to the principal's office, once again, for questioning by the police. An FBI agent named Agent Cooper arrives; she has been enlisted as the representative of the FBI to assist the Rosewood Police in the murder mystery. Her approach in questioning is far milder than that of Officer Wilden. She shows them footage (sent by an anonymous source to the Rosewood Police Department) of Alison on the day that she disappeared. In the video, she is calling to someone (a guy) and teasing him that he wants to kiss her. She asks the girls to provide as much information as they can to illuminate the finding. The girls are cooperative. Hanna, ever the fashionista, lets Agent Cooper know that she is positive that the sweater Alison takes off in the video did not belong to her.

Emily learns that Hanna is dumped from the guest list of Mona’s birthday party because she ditched Mona and also due to an alleged text sent by "A" to Mona, spreading the rumor that Hanna got liposuction to lose weight. Mona is so upset she even embarrasses her (former) friend in front of Naomi and Riley, as she dis-invites her from the party. It is ironic that Hanna mentions that Mona was her friend when the girls were no longer, and now that she is in a fight with Mona, she has them to fall back on. Can't she have both?

The girls are in Spencer's house when Ian comes over, hoping that Melissa will finally give him another chance at a date over coffee. When Melissa rejects, Spencer races after her and tells her to go for it with Ian. Melissa is persuaded, and Ian nods in her direction. After they leave, Spencer confides to her friends that she had kissed Ian, and, after the two broke up, she had dated Ian for a while early last summer. The girls are understanding, unlike Alison had been. Speaking of Alison, the girls suddenly see Alison's photograph on the television screen. The report is talking about a sweater found in Alison's home with a matching blood stain. It is then revealed that the police have issued an arrest for Toby Cavanaugh, being wanted for Alison's murder. The girls are led to believe that Toby was Alison's mystery boyfriend, since the sweater was identified as his.

In Emily's house, Maya comforts her friend, who is grieving over her error in judgment about Toby. To be playful, when Emily's phone rings, she has Maya answer it, not caring if it is her mother. However, the caller on the other does not identify his/herself and hangs up. Suddenly, the front door opens, and, afraid, Emily calls out to see who is there, though gets no answer. Just then, Emily's father, Wayne, appears in the doorway of her bedroom to surprise her; he has come home early from his tour in Afghanistan. Emily is overjoyed. Then Pam appears, and her face falls a little when she sees Maya standing there. Emily makes the introductions. Pam coldly suggests that Maya leave so that the family can have a more private reunion. Emily gently tells her that she will call her later.

Wayne asks his daughter how she is coping with the news that the boy who took her to homecoming murdered her best friend. She's obviously a little distraught. He goes on about the nobility of telling the truth. Emily seems to want to tell her father about Maya, but doesn't go there; he's only been back for a few hours.

That evening, the girls plan to attend the party at the Rosewood Camping Grounds, and Hanna plans to secretly stake out the woods near the party, should "A" rear his or her head. Emily drives to the party and when she parks, Toby pops his head up from the backseat and tells a freaked out Emily he needs to finish telling her what he started at homecoming.

With the two alone in the woods, he professes his innocence and claims that he met Alison the night of her death and gave her his sweater when she got cold. Ironically, he had allegedly met her in order to thank her for getting Jenna away from him. Then, apparently, she had joined another guy in a car, who Toby did not recognize, and the last time Toby remembers seeing Alison, she was alive. He also explains that the tattoo commemorating September 1 was celebrating his freedom from Jenna, not Alison. Emily still isn't sure that he believes him, so he asks her to meet him at the church later, where his stuff is hidden, but Emily makes no promises. His ride is set to pick him up at midnight, and he tells Emily to keep a secret; her friends would surely call the cops if they knew he was back.

At the party, Emily fills the others in on Toby's confession before they start roasting marshmallows and getting their hair done in crazy 80s 'dos. A text from "A" sends Spencer back to the woods near the Kissing Rock, where she finds a woven bracelet with the name "Jenna" planted there. After this, the girls get a text from "A" which tells them they are looking in the wrong places, so Spencer figures they should visit the right ones - or "Wright's" Playground. At the Playground, Spencer and Emily spot a tree that has the words Alison + Ian carved into it with a heart drawn around it.

Later, Hanna texts the girls "I know who A is" and directs them to meet her in the parking lot. Hanna's discovery yields possibly fatal results because when she gets to the parking lot and spots the girls, she’s quickly hit and flung over the top of an unknown car, whose driver doesn't stop to assess the damage. The girls rush to her side and call 911. A text from "A" reveals that she/he is responsible. Hanna "knew too much."

Aria, Spencer, and Emily are left unraveled after Hanna is hit by a car, presumably driven by ―"A," on the night of Mona's glamping party. An unconscious Hanna is lifted on a stretcher and taken into an ambulance. Mona approaches the scene in the parking lot and is shocked to find out that Hanna is the one being treated. Before Aria turns to leave with the other girls for the hospital, she makes eye contact with Noel, who is wearing a black hoodie.

The girls are at the hospital calling their parents when Hanna's mom (who is talking to Lucas) comes over to tell them that Hanna has a broken leg, but is going to be okay. She is clutching her full handbag tightly to her frame. Spencer accuses Toby, but Hanna's mom says the police picked him up last night, much to Emily's surprise. She sends the girls home and promises to call them when Hanna can have visitors. The girls have a brief debate over what to do and come to the grand conclusion of waiting until they can talk to Hanna.

The next morning, Emily is eating breakfast with her dad and mother. She reveals that she and her boyfriend, Ben, broke up and tries to defend Toby, but her parents are having none of that.

The girls finally make it to the hospital to see Hanna, but first they have to get rid of Ashley so that they can talk candidly. Once Hanna manages that, she reveals two bombshells she discovered: that Aria is involved with Ezra and that Noel must be ―"A." She witnessed Noel run up to Ezra's car while Aria was inside and write "I SEE YOU" on his windshield, albeit without signing it from "A." Spencer is surprised to know that Aria’s affair has been going on for a while. Aria says she "didn't just get into his car last night. Who do you think I am?"

There's a knock on the door, and... it's Noel! Aria tells him Hanna's sleeping and takes him into the hallway for a chat. The rest of the girls rule out Ian as "A," since he was with Melissa the night before, but Aria still has to deal with Noel.

At school, Emily's trying to get an update on Toby when Jenna overhears and claims Toby doesn't want to talk to her. Emily mentions that incest thing to throw Jenna off a bit, and it works in incensing Jenna.

Later, Emily chats on the phone with Maya until she sees Wayne staring at her from the doorway. He's all concerned about Toby, and keeps pushing Emily to tell him what's on her mind. After enough pushing, she finally comes out to him. He is momentarily silent.

Emily's parents discuss their daughter's new-found sexuality. "Someone made her this way!" "She's experimenting!" "Let's keep this in perspective." Wayne is understanding (and happy she's not on drugs or pregnant), while Pam is livid and judgmental. All the while, Emily is sitting at the top of the stairs, listening to their conversation.

The girls are contemplating the possibility of "A" and the killer being two different people when they discover an "A" message on Hanna's cast.

Over at Emily's house, an awkward family breakfast is underway. Emily convinces her parents to have Maya over for dinner and meet the girl who‘s won her heart in the hopes of melting Pam's. Pam gives in and checks if Maya has any allergies.

At school, Emily tells Maya to wear a dress to dinner and informs her how weird her parents have been since she came out. Hilariously, she cites "changing the channel when Ellen comes on" as an example.

Mona, feeling guilty for dumping Hanna the night she was hit, decides to throw her a surprise welcome home party. Mona stops Emily and Spencer in the hallway to invite them to Hanna's place for the party that night. They're a bit skeptical, but Mona has decided that Hanna is up for it.

Over at Emily's coming out dinner, Maya reveals that she can't eat the seafood Pam has so lovingly prepared, because she is allergic to seafood. Pam is surprised to learn this since she had "specifically asked" Emily, who says she "forgot." Emily's father is won over, but Pam finds Maya's story about her mother's tattoo crass and doesn't fail to mention to Emily that she sees their whole relationship as crude, ruining an otherwise lovely time for Emily. Later, she and Maya kiss goodbye on the porch when Pam awkwardly interrupts with leftovers.

Toby has been released from jail due to insufficient evidence, but with one caveat: an ankle monitor, keeping him all too close to step-sister Jenna. Emily sees Toby sitting on his stoop wearing his house arrest anklet and heads over to tell him that she wasn't the one who turned him into the cops.

Emily gets home and is sad to hear from Pam that Wayne has to leave sooner than expected. She is, however, grateful that Pam is okay with her sexual orientation, until she reveals that she is not okay with it. In fact, it makes her sick to her stomach.

The next day, Spencer calls up Hilton Head to try to get some info about Ian. She tells Emily about her suspicions that Alison was with Ian right before she died. Emily is skeptical about what motivations Ian would have to kill Alison. The subject changes to Toby, whom Spencer still does not trust completely and accuses him of being a liar. However, Emily forces Spencer to acknowledge the fact that Alison, Toby, the girls, and practically everyone else on this show lie like crazy. Just then Agent Cooper passes by and bids them good morning. She informs the girls that there's a solid case against Toby, so if they don't need her for anything else, she's planning her leave. Spencer then finds out that Ian was at Hilton Head the same weekend as Alison.

Over at school, the girls continue to suspect Noel, who chats up Mike to Aria's surprise. Maya comes over, and she and Emily discuss their plans for studying later, despite Pam. The rest of the girls giggle their approval, supporting of Emily's newly gay status.

At the Fields' home, Emily and Maya are giggling in her room when her judgmental mom sees their bare legs through the partially open door. She busts in, scandalized, as if they were doing much more than just studying. Maya senses she should go and heads out, while Emily tells her mother that she is ashamed to be her daughter.

It seems Maya left her bookbag at Emily's place, which Pam discovers. She invades Maya's privacy and finds drugs hidden in a breath mints tin. She calls her parents who have Maya sent off to a juvie camp, putting great distance between her and Emily.

Spencer spills the beans about Melissa's impending pregnancy to Hanna and Emily. Spencer voices her suspicion about Melissa sudden decision for children. Emily reveals that Maya is being shipped off to juvie camp for three months because of the joint Pam found.

The girls are at Spencer's house. Melissa comes in and makes some pleasantries with the girls, which ends in her telling the girls that she doesn't have to worry about Ian looking at other women. Then, the girls surprise Emily by sneaking her away for one last, romantic night between the two in Spencer‘s room – with lit candles and plenty of privacy.

The rest of the girls go through Ian's boxes downstairs while Emily and Maya have a bittersweet farewell dance upstairs. The girls downstairs accomplish nothing. Maya thanks them and hugs everyone goodbye while someone watches from the window. After she's gone, Emily thanks them and Hanna mentions another girl who went where Maya is heading for huffing spray paint and came back as a drummer in a gospel band.

They then receive a shocking video (no doubt from "A") about the night Alison disappeared. It is the same footage that Officer Cooper had shown them, but there's extra in this video: seconds of footage center on a smiling Ian. Then the camera angle shifts, and we hear signs of struggling. Alison's hand comes into the view of the lens, groping the leaves on the ground, as she seems to have fallen, until the hand stops moving and goes limp. The girls scream as they see this and hear a noise outside. Whoever it is runs through the woods, and the girls try to chase the stalker, but it's gone by the time they're outside.

The girls re-examine the video "A" left for them that illuminates what looks to be the final moments of Alison’s life near the Kissing Rock the night she disappeared. Right after Ian's cameo on the video, he surprises them in person, as he tries to grab a late-night snack from the Hastings' kitchen. The girls all freak out while Ian makes small talk, acting nonchalant, so there's no indication whether he saw his face on the computer screen or not. After he leaves, they decide they need to hand the video over to the police.

At school, the girls are decorating for the school's upcoming dance-a-thon, but take a break to discuss whether they should turn the video into the police. They question "A's" motives, but Emily doesn't care; as far as she is concerned, she doesn't want Toby to go to jail, and this video could prevent that. Aria agrees with Emily and offers to drive Spencer to the police station during their lunch break.

We then see Emily on the phone, arguing with Maya's guards at her rehab center, True North. The guards won't allow her to speak to her girlfriend. Apparently, she can only receive calls from her mother and father. So, Hanna offers up the phone-hacking services of a new kid with tech-cred, who can wire Emily's phone to make it seem that she is one of the St. Germains when she calls Maya.

At lunch, the girls are getting ready to head to the police station when they realize that Spencer's laptop is missing, despite the fact that it has been in her bag, plastered to her side all day, save when she kept it in her gym locker. A notebook seems to have been swapped with her bag, camouflaging the weight difference. The girls deduce that it must have been taken when she left it in her gym locker, which Ian has access to since he is an athletic coach.

That night, Emily watches Ian lock his suspicious briefcase away in his desk drawer. Ian checks his coat with his keys in the pocket, and the girls begin to hatch a plan to get the keys and get into his desk, where they think Spencer's laptop is clearly hidden. Hanna wonders if he has already erased the video, but Spencer says that if he did, it would indicate definite guilt and that they should inform the police.

Caleb shows up with Emily's newly souped-up phone, and Hanna calls him out for overcharging poor Emily. Emily finishes up a conversation with Maya, sounding a bit disappointed. Spencer asks her what's wrong, and Emily says she thinks Maya has moved on.

After her terse call with Maya, Emily finds herself drinking from Hanna's stolen hip flask and nearly causes an accusatory scene with Ian, about his murdering Alison. Spencer covers up, claiming her accusation was referring to their kiss, but this too angers Ian, who had hoped nobody else knew that damning secret.

Spencer and Hanna get the still wasted Emily outside and decide they'll all crash at Spencer's that night, so Emily doesn't have to deal with her mother, and Spencer doesn't have to be alone with Ian lurking about. Lucas approaches Hanna and offers her a ride home, but Hanna insists her friends need her. Before they leave, drunk-honest Emily accuses Hanna of pulling an Alison, leading a boy on, only to break his heart; Hanna is guilt-ridden.

At Spencer's home, Hanna prevents Emily from drunk-dialing Maya and puts her to bed. Emily starts to apologize, but Hanna says she was right, and Hanna feels bad for leading Lucas on, so insensitively. But Emily falls asleep, missing Hanna's admission; Hanna removes her shoes and pulls the covers over Emily.

Aria rouses the girls early in the morning from their sleep at Spencer's house. She's been up all night analyzing the picture that "A" left in Spencer's laptop. The girls all huddle close to Aria, but Spencer stands aloof, not quite comfortable participating for some reason. Aria has figured out that the picture was taken from the perspective of Alison's bedroom window. She thinks Alison's brother, Jason, may have taken the picture. Hanna notes that her mother saw him at the bank, indicating that he is back in town. Aria proposes talking to Jason, but Emily and Hanna treat the thought of approaching him with disdain. Spencer quickly volunteers, wanting to know if he indeed took the picture.

At school, Emily dedicates herself to swimming once more. She swims in record time on morning at a meet, and Coach Fulton makes a comment to Paige letting her know that she has competition. Paige seems happy about Emily's return to the team overall.

After swim practice, Paige unctuously distributes gifts to her teammates, vying to be swim captain. She tries to win them over with presents and a pep talk, but Coach Fulton cuts her short, embarrassing Paige mid-sentence in front of everyone. To add insult to injury, Coach Fulton lets the girls know that Emily has broken a new record and encourages the girls to be like Emily. Abashed, Paige leaves the locker room in a huff.

The next day, in the locker room, Paige saunters over to Emily, where she's just finished getting dressed after swim practice. Paige teasingly picks up Emily's bra and comments "nice." She sarcastically congratulates Emily on the second record she's broken in two days, but Emily is unfazed by Paige's behavior and her comment about needing to test Emily for steroids. But when Paige makes a nasty comment about Emily's homosexuality, Emily gets nasty back and warns Paige that she will need to work harder if she wants to beat her. And with that, Emily slams her locker shut and makes her exit.

At lunch time, Aria, Spencer, and Emily sit eating the less-than-appealing school lunch. When Spencer hears that Paige is giving Emily a hard time, she recalls how impossible Paige was to deal with as an over-competitive teammate on the hockey team. Aria checks out the gift-wrapped box Paige has given her teammate. Inside, she finds a "Go Sharks" beaded bracelet– just like the ones Alison gave the girls. Spencer gets the idea to go to the store and try to investigate who commissioned them to make the fake "Alison" and "Jenna" bracelets. If they found out, they would know who "A" is.

Coach Fulton calls Paige and Emily into the locker room for a serious discussion about a homophobic comment, but Emily talks it down, not willing to divulge any details, calling it "a misunderstanding." Paige just looks on silently with a sober expression. After Emily's assurances, Coach Fulton dismisses Paige, then persists in her attempts to find out what happened. But, Emily insists that it is nothing and asks to leave.

At the Hastings', Spencer eats something before her appointment to see the bead-lady at her house. When Emily brings up the swim team, Spencer nonchalantly asks her if Paige has been kicked off. Emily cannot believe that Spencer knows about Coach Fulton's interrogation about to Paige's homophobic comment, but Spencer readily reveals that she was the one who told her about it, not expecting Emily to react negatively. But she does, and Emily leaves, upset about the fact that Spencer didn't think that she could stick up for herself.

Next day, Emily swims alone at the pool, doing some practice laps. When she surfaces for air at the edge of the pool, a hand forces her back in, nearly drowning her. Emily fights back, finally managing to remove her goggles and scream defiantly at—Paige. Unabashed, Paige accuses Emily of trying to replace her, as Coach Fulton has changed the two teammates places in the lineup, making Emily the new anchor. So, Emily barks that Paige should take her beef to Coach Fulton, not her, and Paige mocks Emily for seemingly having done that already.

At night, Spencer reveals to the other girls, who are now sitting beside her on her bed, that it was HER shadow in the picture with Alison. She had gone after Ali after the two had a fight. Spencer admits that the reason she had never told the girls thus far was because she had felt responsible for wishing Alison dead. Aria wisely points out that Alison had said far worse, and the other girls comfort her similarly. Suddenly, the girls all move to Spencer's bedroom window, where they see Jason DiLaurentis in his old house across the street, looking out his own window in their direction... The girls are shocked to see him inside.

Few days later, in Emily's room, Emily searches for her chemistry book while Spencer stares out the window to catch a glimpse of the destroyed Cavanaugh mailbox. Spencer is shocked, but Emily reveals that it happens constantly. She misses the sympathy in Spencer's voice, though, and assumes that she is thinking that he deserves it. Spencer apologizes to Emily for having badmouthed him so badly, when it may have been unwarranted, but Emily thinks that the apology should be directed to Toby. Spencer contemplates this as she watches Toby deal with the mailbox mess out front. She now recognizes how easily one can be framed, having seen her name twice on the bead lady's roster.

At Emily's swim practice, Paige and Emily tie for best time, so it is yet undetermined who will serve as anchor the following day. So, Coach Fulton arranges for a swim-off the following morning to figure it out later. Emily is patient, but Paige is not and snaps at Emily unprovoked.

Later in between classes, Spencer denounces Coach Fulton's idea of pitting two swimmers against each other right before a match. Emily says that Paige wants it more, but Spencer forces Emily to take back her comment. The two then spot a flier calling for a French tutor to help a home schooled student learn French. The two acknowledge that the sign is obviously referring to Toby, who is under house arrest, even if his name doesn't appear on it. Spencer takes a perforated number, to Emily's surprise; she doesn't think very much of the idea, but Spencer regards it as a way to share information with Toby to find out who is framing them both. Then, on sudden impulse, she removes the whole sign so as to ensure herself landing the position.

At Emily's house, late that night, Paige shows up at Emily's doorstep, soaked from the pouring rain. Confused, Paige tries to apologize to Emily for blowing up at her and seems very repentant. Emily is moved, though unsure how to react.

The next morning in the locker room, Coach Fulton tries to pump up her swimmers. She then lets Emily know that she will be anchor today, as the swim off is canceled due to Paige's having gotten into a minor bicycle accident on her way home in the rain the night before. Emily feels somewhat guilty.

During the meet, just before her turn to swim, Emily spots Paige in the stands. She gets her game face on and wins the race for her team.

Then, Emily and Paige talk to each other, alone by the poolside. It seems that Emily had tried to contact Paige, but the latter hadn't returned her phone calls, not knowing what to say. Paige also reveals what she felt at the moment of her bike accident in the rain: an ironic sense of relief that she didn't have to swim. Emily lets Paige know that she has been there too; she tells her know friend that the way she got over not wanting to swim any longer was by starting to do it for fun, instead of for others. She encourages Paige to try it, and the two go for a casual swim together.

That night, the Pretty Little Liars meet up in Spencer's room. The girls discuss the strangeness of Melissa's rapid change in life plans. They use a website to decipher the three letters of the Braille message (which Toby had given them): B-A-D. Aria decides it must be a joke that Toby is playing on them, but Emily doesn't think that he would mess with them at a time like this. Aria then leaves in a huff, completely forgetting their conversation.

The next day, Spencer, Aria, Hanna, and Emily sit down for lunch at a separate table. Spencer expresses her disapproval of Hanna's growing relationship with Caleb, declaring him dark. But, Hanna reminds her friends that they had treated Toby the same way, silencing them.

Then, Nick McCullers, Paige’s equally driven father, makes an entrance in the cafeteria where all the characters are sitting. He marches up to the table where the English teachers are lunching and demands to see Coach Fulton. Ezra rises, taking in Mr. McCullers barking tone. He offers to walk him out to the principal's office, but apparently he's already been there, complaining that Emily has been given special treatment on the swim team because she’s gay. Before Mr. McCullers can repeat his allegation, Ezra reminds him that the students are watching and escorts him into the hallway, thus diffusing the situation. The student body looks on, scandalized, and Paige disappears quickly, utterly humiliated.

Later, Paige corners Emily and begs her to believe her that she had nothing to do with her father's display at lunch. Emily thinks that it's because she's gay, but Paige tells her that's not it. Emily leaves, saying she needs to go to class.

Emily and Hanna talk on the phone, while both girls are in their respective homes. Hanna is packing her bag with snacks, while Emily is sitting on her bed, talking about Caleb. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Fields stops by Emily's room, and Emily icily informs her that she is speaking to Hanna; abashed, Mrs. Fields explains that she only meant to offer her daughter some extra cobbler, not question who she was on the phone with. Hanna picks up on the tension between the two, and Emily admits that she cannot confide in her mother about Paige's father's behavior, expecting her not to care.

The next day, The girls shop at a clothing store, where Aria and Hanna explain to the other two what their past quarrel was about. They discuss "A" and Caleb, and Hanna reveals to her friends that Caleb is crashing at her house. The girls express their shock, but stop short when they spot Jenna trying something on in the lingerie section of a department store, overhearing her say to the clerk that her mysterious suitor "loves lace."

Back at Rosewood High, Pam finds her daughter and pulls her aside. Emily assumes that her mother wants to drive her home, but Pam just wants to know if Nick McCullers really made a scene. When Emily agrees, Pam expresses her surprise that Emily didn't tell her and semi-scolds her daughter. In turn, Emily gets defensive, accusing her mother of seeing Nick's side. Defiant, Pam spots Nick McCullers standing with Paige across the room, and marches up to him. She gives him a piece of her mind and threatens him to drop his grievance against her daughter. She even accuses him of projecting his problems with his own daughter. Afterwards, Emily thanks Pam, and Pam assures Emily that she loves her, though she doesn't understand her lifestyle, and the two finally embrace.

As Emily is about to drive home, Paige gets into the car. This causes Emily to become scared, thinking that Paig came to hurt her again, but Paige only wanted to apologize for her Da's behavior yet again, and says that Emily has it so easy. Emily goes off on her, but she is shut up with a kiss. Emily is in shock and all Paige can say is “don’t tell” before getting out of the car.

Mr. Fitz decides to put on a school production of the award-winning play The Bad Seed, the story about a girl who wreaks havoc on her small town – eerily echoing our Pretty Little Liars’ own troubles. Aria goes to the tryouts at 4 PM to support Hanna and act opposite her, with no intention of joining the play herself. However, the girls urge Aria to be Ezra‘s stage manager for the production, so that she can spend more time with him. The other girls, in addition to Mona, are interested in getting parts in the play. Jenna enters the scene and offers to compose flute music for the play, letting Mr. Fitz know that she approves of his choice of play, because she oddly finds it "inspiring," and thereby annoying Aria.

At school, Emily chats with Spencer at one of the outdoor tables. Spencer spots an incoming call from Paige McCullers on Emily's phone and wonders if Paige is harassing Emily again. But Emily assures her that the two have bonded over having something in common - relatives in the military. When Spencer mentions her plans for dropping off a French book at Toby's after school, Emily asks to drop it off instead, as she is looking for a chance to talk to him. Spencer hands it over, though a bit reluctantly. The two then spot Ian and Jenna standing talking to each other. Ian is holding the Neufeld's bag that had been at the foot of the stairs that morning and hands it to Jenna.

At play practice, Aria and Ezra prove to have an uncomfortable, awkward working relationship, namely Aria's slipping up by referring to Mr. Fitz as 'Ezra' while seated next to him. All the girls are present, as well as Mona, who raises an eyebrow. Spencer and Hanna have been cast as main characters. Suddenly, Ian walks into the room, expressing surprise that he's in the wrong room for the varsity team practice. The girls huddle close together and comment on how creepy Ian is.

Spencer flashes back to a college party Alison had snuck them into with fake ID's, probably in an effort to spy on Ian. Ian had been flirting with a particularly tipsy girl and had gone off with her to one of the rooms upstairs. Looking back, the girls wish they had said something to Melissa sooner about Ian.

After school, Emily goes to drop off Toby's French book. Toby is sitting on his porch working on his motorcycle. He lets Emily know that Jenna was the one who turned him in, putting Emily's fears to rest that Toby think she violated his trust. She asks him to go out sometime, and Toby is cautious, thinking she means in a romantic way, but Emily assures him that she means it only as friends, and the two plan a breakfast date.

The next morning, Emily then approaches Toby's door, looking to meet up with Toby for their breakfast date, however, Jenna calls out to her and meanly lets her know that Toby has blown her off to have breakfast with Spencer instead. Emily is surprised and upset to be stood up like that, and Jenna is sure to rub it in. Wordlessly, Emily leaves, catching Jenna's flute playing before she goes, which she is probably composing for the school play.

Back at play practice, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna review their lines and discuss the motives of their characters, no doubt finding parallels to their own lives. They catch sight of Ian hanging around close to where they are standing, prompting Emily to have a flashback to the night of the party. The girl that Ian had left with had suddenly taken a nasty tumble down the stairs in the middle of the party. They had all exchanged looks after her fall, although Ali had been no where in sight, but Ian had been at the top of the stairs. In hindsight, the girls are left to question whether Ian had pushed that girl.

Mona is asking more questions about her character's motives. Frustrated, Mr. Fitz ends practice for the day, leaving Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily alone in the rehearsal room. While packing her costume away in the prop box, Spencer stumbles across a trophy with Ian Thomas' name on it. Spencer twirls it in her fingers, seeing dried blood at the base of the trophy. The trophy is from a tournament in Hilton Head which took place the weekend Ali disappeared. Spencer posits that it is the murder weapon Ian used to kill Alison and decides to hand it over to the police.

As they leave the police station, the girls make plans to sleep at Emily's place, except Hanna who needs to go home to make sure Caleb doesn't accidentally scare her mom. Spencer is especially keen on this plan, as it will mean that she can avoid sleeping in the same residence as Ian for one night. Aria asks to make a stop on the way home. Before getting in the car, Spencer points out to Emily that they should alert Toby to what happened, but Emily shakes her head and lets Spencer know that she thinks she should be the one talking to him.

The next day at school, some police officers and a detective appear. The detective, Detective Breyer, approaches the Liars and asks for Spencer. In turns out that while failures to turn evidence into the police before were mistakes, in this instance, reporting to the police was the mistake. He lets them know that the trophy was proven to be a fake - there was no golf tournament in Hilton Head on that date, and the blood on it wasn't human; it was from a rat... The girls are then taken to the police precinct for questioning.

On their way out from school, the girls get a text from "A," letting them know just who was responsible for the trophy set up. Reflecting again on the night of the frat party, Aria considers the possibility that Ali had been the one to push the girl, and Spencer concurs that it was possible that she had done it in a jealous rage because the girl had been with Ian. Aria vividly recalls that Alison had been nowhere to be found most of the night. Suddenly, the girls look up to see Ian close by, slouching in front of the school entrance, lazily watching them. Chilled, the girls turn away.

The girls realize they've been duped when the bloody trophy lands them in hotter water than expected, with an angry police team more hell-bent than ever to find Alison‘s killer, despite these setbacks. Further complicating matters is Garrett Reynolds, a boy the girls all knew growing up in their neighborhood, who‘s a police officer now and has just been assigned to the case. The girls are questioned by the police as to why they think Ian is the killer. Each of the girls lets Detective Breyer know about the video footage of Ian with Alison. They suggest that Ian may have been into younger girls, but when asked to back that claim, she pointedly does not mention that she dated him, as she is being interrogated while sitting next to her mother.

At school on Friday, Paige avoids Emily, not knowing quite how to deal with the fact that she's kissed her. She goes so far as to swim later at night, knowing Emily is only there in the mornings. Paige makes up a story about her grandmother, but Emily calls her out on her behavior. Emily tries to push the issue, but Paige would just have Emily forget it.

In the hallway, Emily opens her locker to find a surprise note from Paige asking her to meet her that night after school; there is an address on it. Surprised, Emily pockets the note.

Emily follows her GPS to the address Paige has written in the note. It turns out to be a remote karaoke bar, called "The Hungry Owl Cafe." There, Paige can talk candidly and privately. Paige admits to Emily her true feelings. Then, Paige goes up on stage to sing and enlists the audience in successfully prompting Emily to join her in a rendition of Pink's "So What." Later, Emily and Paige share a kiss in the parking lot of the karaoke bar.

The next day (Saturday), Aria joins Emily in her room, rather than spending the day with Ezra, as is her usual Saturday pastime. Emily gets a text invite from Paige to a picnic, and Aria gets three texts from Ezra, ignoring each one. After Emily questions her, Aria confides her frustration about keeping "The Jenna Thing" a secret from Ezra. Emily encourages her to confide in him, though Aria isn't as sure, especially given the agreement the girls made to never reveal their secret to anyone.

Emily goes to meet Paige for a picnic, and the two girls lie on the grass together in the sunshine, but when Emily suggests attending a concert together, Paige refuses because they might be seen together. Paige says she doesn't mean to hurt Emily's feelings, but Emily walks away, not ready to go back into the closet.

At night, Emily, Hanna and Aria receive S.O.S. texts from Spencer, and the three congregate on her front lawn to find out that the Rosewood police have made Spencer a "person of interest" in the murder of Alison DiLaurentis and have begun to stake out her house. The girls are texted this information by "A."

The next day, at school in the cafeteria, Aria spots Sean and Paige flirting with each other, as they share a table and jokes in the lunch room. Emily can’t help but wonder if there could ever be a future between her and Paige. Hanna, on the other hand, oblivious to Paige's questionable sexuality status, is happy for Sean to be moving on.

Later, Sean approaches Emily to ask if Paige is single, thinking that the two swim team mates are friends. He apologizes for even asking, knowing Emily is Hanna's friend, but Emily assures him that Hanna truly wants him to be happy, and that she doesn't know Paige well enough to talk him up to her.

Then, Emily confronts Paige about her relationship with Sean; after all, Paige did kiss her. However, Paige acts nonchalant and seems to be looking forward to their date, distancing herself from Emily.

At the courtyard, Emily and Aria overhear Caleb mysteriously speaking on the phone with someone, telling that person that something cannot happen that night. He keeps referring to "her," and it becomes clear that he means Hanna. The two interpret the phone conversation to mean that Caleb is talking to another girl in a romantic way. When they share their suspicions with Hanna at lunch, she is loathe to believe in his dishonesty. However, when Jenna walks into the lunch room wearing the owl around her neck, Hanna is devastated. She tries to text Caleb, but to no avail; he isn't responding. They later find out that the owl is actually a flashdrive, and Jenna had hired Caleb to find a key Alison might have given one of them.

Then, Emily walks into the girl's bathroom, where she overhears Paige and a friend talking. The friend brags about Paige's winning over Sean and breaking him out of his shell. Emily leaves, disturbed.

The next day at school, Emily and Aria talk at their lockers. Emily turns away when she sees Paige standing with Sean and some other friends. Then Aria, Hanna, and Emily walk into the bathroom. When Hanna sees Jenna, she walks up to her and surprise slaps her across the face, to Emily and Aria's shock. At least, she has the decency to bend down and return Jenna's sunglasses to her without making her crawl on the floor.

Just when she thinks she completely misunderstood Paige, Paige visits Emily's house, going to her room. She shares the details of her date with Emily and expresses how fake dating Sean felt. She expresses her fear to admit she's gay. Eventually, Paige kisses Emily.

One night, The girls sit together in Apple Rose Grille, discussing what Caleb has on them. Spencer worries that they are being watched from outside the window of the cafe, but the girls assure her that she is just looking at clown mannequins for the upcoming Rosewood Founder's Day Festival.

At school, Emily and Paige’s budding relationship hits a bit of a snag when Paige can’t quite come out of the closet like Emily has and plans to bring a "buffer" guy to their date at a local concert. Emily is disappointed that Paige still doesn't want to be seen alone in public with her. Paige promises she's trying by telling Emily she has looked up ways to come out to her family and local support groups. Emily is very supportive and offers to go along with Paige to meet with a local Pride group member.

Later, Emily goes to the Grille for Paige's meeting with a Sheridan Prep Pride Group representative, but Paige has stood them up, so Emily meets Samara, the girl from the support group, alone. Samara and Emily make a connection, discussing what it was like for both of them to come out at first. Samara is not sorry that Paige has stood her up, as she is in the neighborhood anyway for the Rosewood Founder's Festival, there to set up a jewelry booth.

At Samara's jewelry booth, Paige gets jealous when she observes Emily with Samara, trying on earrings. Samara gives Emily the earrings for free. When Paige arrives, Samara lets her know that she can always reschedule to talk about her father. Paige doesn't apologize for standing Samara up and isn't interested in telling Emily how hot she looks in the earrings, at Samara's suggestion, feeling suddenly exposed.

Paige scolds Emily for having wrongfully exposed her secret. Paige is even rude to Samara, telling her that she doesn't want to join a club, never thanking her for coming. But, Samara is patient with her. Emily, on the other hand, gets completely fed up with Paige's fickle attitude and tells her that it's over between them, as she can't deal with her twists and turns and being Paige's secret. She thanks Samara and tells her it was nice meeting her friends before leaving them booth.

Back home in her room, Emily gets two texts: one from Paige, which she ignores, and one from "A," which is not as easy to ignore, teasing her about her past feelings for Alison. This prompts Emily to have a flashback to when Alison had given her a snow globe the summer before. It had been the day of her disappearance, and Alison had alluded to the fact that it was more special than one would realize at first. She also told Emily not to tell the others, as she hadn't gotten them any presents. This flashback prompts Emily to examine the object, and at the bottom, she finds a key with numbers printed on it. There is also a tag attached, with the name of a storage place.

Thanks to the snowglobe clue, Emily, Aria and Hanna track down a secret storage location. There, they uncover a flashdrive contained in a lunch box, stored in a garage that Alison had planted! The flashdrive contains secret videos, mostly of the girls in intimate moments; Alison somehow knew that they were being spied on while she was alive. There is footage of July 4, moments before "The Jenna Thing," when Ali had been sure someone was spying on them in Emily's room. There is even some footage of Jenna, and the girls begin to understand what Jenna was seeking in enlisting Caleb to search Hanna's hard drive—in the footage, she is seducing and blackmailing Toby.

The girls rewatch the footage contained on the flashdrive. Spencer comes up with the idea of asking Jenna what she knows, before taking the information to the police to incriminate Ian. The other Liars aren't so sure; they don't think they can trust Jenna at all, but Spencer is adamant.

The next morning, Emily is in her room, messaging Samara on her laptop. Pam enters and asks to talk to Emily. She lets Emily know that Wayne has been reassigned to work in Texas and informs Emily that the family is moving to Texas to be with him.

In the school music room, the Little Liars confront Jenna about the incriminating video they found of her and Toby. Jenna tells her story, how Alison had visited her at the hospital on the day that she disappeared and had threatened Jenna never to reveal the truth about "The Jenna Thing" or face having her inappropriate relationship exposed. Alison had played footage of her seducing Toby and used it as blackmail. Before she left Jenna, Alison had warned her never to return to Rosewood, or she would bury her. Jenna asks what the girls are going to do with the video. They assure her they’ll keep it safe – but she won’t be getting it. Jenna seems to be telling the truth, though, when she discloses what Ali said to her at the hospital, and they believe her, given how it explains Jenna's seemingly strange speech at the memorial dedication.

At lunch, Spencer presents the other Liars with an anonymous cell phone that they can use to anonymously text Ian. Hanna texts him a blackmail message, demanding $10,000 in exchange for the videos. While they plot, they spot Ian standing by the snack machine in the cafeteria. When Ian gets the text, he immediately leaves the cafeteria to take care of it. They set a place for Ian to meet, just before Mona swings by to sit with them. However, as soon as she arrives, the girls all split, leaving Mona by herself with her lunch tray.

Garrett corners Emily getting out of her car near her house and offers his help, should the girls need anything. He even invites her to his family's movie night, but she declines. Emily then walks over to Hanna sitting on her stoop to return her phone. Hanna comforts Emily about her imminent move to Texas. Neither feels like being alone.

In the evening, Hanna, Emily and Aria work on trapping Ian. They call Spencer at 7:30, but she is not responding. Just then, the girls get a text from "A," warning them to prepare, though the girls aren't sure for what. Emily takes Garrett up on his offer for help and confides in him about the Ian situation. He shows up in his personal car, wearing civilian clothes. Ian fails to show. Instead, a messenger boy with a sack of cash goes in his place, and Officer Garrett corners him. He turns the messenger away without telling the girls what he has done, though the girls have already caught sight of the messenger. Ian seems to have disappeared.

As the girls get into the car, Emily receives a call from Spencer. They are able to hear her entire fight with Ian at the church, including his entire plan for staging Spencer's suicide. Knowing how much danger she’s in, they rush to save her and dial 911.

When the girls arrive at the church, they see that Spencer is physically okay, but very shaken. They see Ian dangling motionlessly, entangled in the church bell's ropes.

Later, the girls walk out of the church together, but are stopped when Officer Barry Maple calls them back to ask if their story is a joke. He can see the confusion on their faces, so he motions the girls to follow him into the church. Inside, the see that the bell tower is indeed empty, and Ian’s body is nowhere to be found. Much of the town emerges to see what the commotion is about, and Rosewood is left to wonder just how much truth the girls have been telling. Meanwhile, the girls all receive simultaneous messages, as "A" assures the girls that this is far from over…

Officer Garrett Reynolds takes the girls in his cop car to the police station, but shadily stops at an undisclosed location on the way to "straighten the girls’ stories out." He conveniently orders them to remove his participation from the retelling and not to mention blackmailing Ian at all. He claims that he is hiding the money the messenger brought and he won't be giving them any trouble. Most importantly, he asks them to keep the videos a secret.
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The next day, the girls chill out in Spencer’s room to review the events of the night. They are confused about "A’s" motives in saving Spencer’s life. They go downstairs to make coffee and find all of their parents standing in Spencer’s kitchen. The parents seem skeptical about the girls’ story. They call Spencer’s accusations an "obsession to pin Alison’s death on Ian." The girls are completely defensive, and their parents insist on them seeking therapy.

At home, just as Emily is re-watching the Jenna and Toby video, a real estate agent named Mr. Mendes comes in to appraise the room, putting the Fields' house on the market, with the anticipation of the family's upcoming move to Texas. He basically criticizes anything that makes the room feel inhabited and homey, and Emily is heartbroken.

In the therapist's office, the girls sit silently. Hanna walks in late, hoping to have missed the whole appointment, but to her annoyance, the girls have "politely" waited for her. When they finally do get to talking, they speak minimally. Aria is the most tempted to confide in the inviting Dr. Sullivan, especially about "that thing," but their cellphones go off, scaring them with reminders of what "A" might do if they tell. The session ends with Dr. Sullivan remaining completely in the dark.

Outside the office, the girls catch sight of a picture of themselves blasted on the town newspaper, with the caption, "What really happened?" The newspaper's theory is that Ian skipped town. Despite Officer Garrett’s promises, Ian’s money and a suitcase were found near his car at the end of town. "A" uses their shock as prime time to send a new text: "I spy a liar."

Toby hangs out in Emily’s room, disappointed that Spencer won’t join, but happy to be rekindling his friendship with Emily again. Emily apologizes for believing he could have been the one to kill Alison. He forgives her and notes how easy it has been to pick up their friendship right where they left off. He uses his carpentry skills to remove Emily’s childhood height markings from the wall, so that she won’t lose the memento forever; the realtor would have her paint over it.

Later, the girls meet at Emily’s place, and they consider "A’s" compulsively violent tendencies and violation of their personal space. They bring up Dr. Sullivan, who is sworn to confidentiality, and Emily and Aria are the loudest proponents in favor of cluing her in on their secrets. Spencer agrees, and even Hanna, the most unwilling to see a shrink, is in, as she approves of Dr. Sullivan’s fashion sense - a clear signal to Hanna about her character.

At Dr. Sullivan’s the girls are about to tell all. Emily takes out her computer to show Anne the videos taken of them through the window, but decide to explain the situation first. Aria begins to speak, but is cut off by Spencer who catches sight of Ezra’s Hollis diploma on the wall, a subtle hint that "A" is privy to everything they say. They had scheduled the appointment last-minute, yet they suddenly cancel, leaving Dr. Sullivan completely baffled and frustrated with the lack of communication.

We later find out she believes that the girls are not benefiting from therapy by coming as a group and so recommends to their parents to have them separate for a while, both during therapy and in general. Emily is very upset as her mother informs her.

Later, Spencer alerts the girls, who must sneak out of their homes to rendezvous in the middle of the night. They meet in an abandoned greenhouse to discuss the possibility of Ian being alive and texting Melissa. They test the texter to see if he/she knows the name Ian and Melissa agreed upon for their unborn child. The texter answers correctly. The girls are spooked, but is the hooded figure watching overhead messing with them? Spencer did utter the name out loud BEFORE said texter gave the reply.

They discuss the possibility of Ian being alive and how to return Melissa's phone before she detects it missing. They hear rustling around them, the door shuts, and rocks are dropped onto the ceiling from above. Spooked from the sound effects, the girls flee.

On their way home, they pass the DiLaurentis house, where Jason is standing on the curb, disposing the rest of the Ali memorial paraphernalia that Maya's family apparently didn't have the heart to get rid of. The girls are surprised to see him back in Rosewood and back in his old house.

The next day, at the Fields' home, Emily is arguing with her mother, but about her cell phone privileges. Pam orders Emily to leave her phone on the kitchen table whenever she returns home from school. She is allowed to receive and place phone calls, but only from the kitchen, where her mother can guarantee that Emily is not speaking to any of the other girls. Before Pam exits, she lets Emily know that a family is lined up to lease their home for the next year. To make matters worse, Emily finds her hard-drive wiped. Emily secretly calls Spencer, who is equally upset to hear that their video evidence is gone.

During lunch, the girls stand on line in the cafeteria together, trying to discreetly catch up on each other's news. Hanna then plops her tray down at the same table where Aria is sitting, but Spencer protests, reminding her of their forced separation. Hanna is defiant, thinking this will only make them look more guilty and further arguing that they should stick together amidst all the confusion, but in the end, they opt to sit at different tables. With the girls all at separate tables, "A" sends the girls a text, mocking them for looking so lonely.

Next, Emily is at her swim match; she wins the race for her team, and Samara greets her to congratulate the win. Samara tries to convince Emily to go out on a date with her, but Emily has mixed feelings. She likes Samara, but is afraid to get into a romantic relationship just when she is set to leave Rosewood. Then, Ken Rabin, a scout for Danby University approaches Emily to discuss her college prospects. He gives her his card, and Samara is hopeful.

That night, Emily is packing up her room, while Pam comes in. She wants to know if Emily has any ideas where their missing camping and winter gear has gone to, but Emily is as surprised to hear of the property loss as Pam is. Then, Pam informs Emily that the Watsons also had some stuff go missing, leading them to conclude that the lost items were the result of a break-in. Pam goes to call the police, but before she leaves, she does not forget to pick up Emily's phone to be brought down to the kitchen table.

At school, Emily meets with the Danby scout to discuss her college prospects. He is clearly impressed with her and thinks she has a great chance of winning a scholarship to Danby, but is concerned regarding her imminent move out of the district. He doubts another school will have a swim team that rates as high as Rosewood's does. Emily glosses over this fact, calling the move indefinite, and states that she plans to finish high school in Rosewood.

At the Fields' home, Emily is desperately trying to impress upon her mother the importance of continuity in her education, based on her conversation with the scout. Pam sees Emily's point that her leaving Rosewood High could jeopardize her chances of obtaining a swim scholarship, but she is reluctant to change her family's plans based on one conversation with a college scout. She says that she would need a written commitment from the university, and Emily seems sure that this can easily be procured. The conversation gives her new hope.

At the movie theater on her date, Emily fills Samara in on the possibility of her staying in Rosewood. Samara is happy to hear it, and the conversation moves to first girlfriends, as a glossy stare comes over Emily's face thinking about her past date with Maya in this same place. They confide in each other about their pasts and smile at their new found closeness.

The next day, Friday, Emily meets with the Danby scout, expecting him to grant her the letter she wants, but he says that all he can offer her is a maybe letter. Emily tries to conceal her disappointment as he leaves.

At night, Spencer gathers the other Pretty Little Liars for a walk near her house and catch them up on the prospect of Melissa having gone to see Ian and show him the sonogram picture. Just then, Jason walks by and notes the girls' presence. They ask him about the dirt upheaved in his yard, and he responds that it is some planting that he is undertaking, in addition to a fence, which he says is for privacy and security...

At school, the girls find ways to secretly meet by hiding in the bathroom stalls until the bathroom is empty. While they discuss the latest news, including the possibility that Melissa is hiding Ian, Hanna gives out hand cream, which she reveals that she pilfered from the mall. The girls are appalled to hear that Hanna is still shoplifting, but Hanna wants out anyway because shoplifiting with Mona is boring. When someone enters, they split as if being there all together is a coincidence.

That night, suddenly afraid of sleeping in her house alone, Spencer calls Emily and asks her to sleep over. As they are banned from seeing other, Emily replies that she can't. Spencer looks out her window and sees Jason inside the room opposite hers, newspapering the windows to conceal everything inside. Spencer is even more convinced of Jason's guilt.

It prompts her to flashback to a time when Jason was having a party with his friends, and a distraught Alison had come to Spencer's house seeking refuge from the drunk boys at the party. She had been in a tearful state, but had lashed out when the girls tried to show her compassion and support, insulting them and turning impersonal. Emily had been over at the time as well, and the two girls wondered what had happened to Alison that upset her so much, other than party boys stumbling into her bedroom for all sorts of reasons. She makes up a story about her grandmother not being well, but the girls don't buy it.

In hopes of convincing her mom to stay in Rosewood, Emily considers faking a letter from the Danby College swim scout, saying that if she remains an MVP at Rosewood High she can have a full-ride scholarship. She prints the letter on stationary similar to the one on which the scout writes his real letter and shows it to her friends. Hanna is encouraging, but Aria has learned that lying has not served them well in the past. In the end, Emily decides against the idea, tears up the letter and stuffs it in the wastebasket.

However, she is shocked when her mother receives the letter anyway, thanks to "A". She finds a new letter from "A" replacing the one she tore up in her trash bin, letting her know that "A" has no intention of letting Emily out of her sight in Texas. How did "A" get in her room?

The next day, Aria, Hanna and Emily are waiting for Spencer in a skeevy parking lot next to a dumpster. They tell Emily about Melissa meeting Wren; probably getting some painkillers for Ian. Spencer comes out of a pawn shop and reports the bad news - she basically stole her sister's wedding ring. Just then, they look up to see a creepy sign for an optometrist, with eyes bearing down on them, as if someone is watching them, and they know someone always is.... Just then, they get a text from "A" cluing them into who has the ring.

At Emily's, "A" has sent a box of Danby paraphernalia (mug, sweatshirt) and also a note that says, "So happy to have you in our 'A-Team'!!!" Pam is happy as ever, celebrating Emily's inevitable acceptance into Danby. Emily's conscience grows larger.

At school, Samara is happy to hear about Emily's news (which she heard from Pam, who was gushing to just about everyone). Pam is super proud of Emily because she thinks Danby made a written commitment and is especially enthusiastic about Emily because received a box of Danby paraphernalia. (The gift was actually courtesy of "A," not Danby, as Emily can guess based on the enclosed note.) Emily is immediately honest with Samara, letting her know that she authored the letter. Just then, Pam sees the two together and invites Samara to celebrate at dinner, especially since Emily won't be celebrating with her usual friends. Samara accepts, and this dinner seems like it will be very different than the last time a girlfriend of Emily's came over. Samara offers to help keep Emily's secret should her mom get too nosy about the details.

That night, Pam is impressed by Samara, especially her appreciation of Pam's craftiness and her sweet, polite demeanor. The subject changes to Danby, and Samara tries to make things better for guilt-ridden Emily, who seems about to confess. Samara convinces Pam that there are other schools out there that would love Emily, given her swimming stats. She dissuades Pam from contacting the Danby coach right away, as that would make them seem too eager and give other interested schools the wrong impression. Pam agrees and Emily immediately feels less pressure.

At school, Samara reiterates what she said to Emily's mom the other night, and Emily happily reports that her mother has started to look at other colleges. They plan for a second date.

At night, Wren calls Spencer, who alerts the rest of the crew to hit the road. They are going 'Ian hunting'. In the car on their way to find Ian, the girls discuss how screwed they are that they can't call the police, since that only ever makes them suspicious. Emily wants to film this, so as to prove their honesty later on. From inside an old barn that Melissa led Wren to, they hear Melissa let out a gut-wrenching scream and then uncontrollable sobs. They run in and Spencer goes to hold her, for there on the floor of the barn lies Ian with dried blood around the wound on his head. He is holding a gun, and beside him lies a letter of confession that he killed Alison. Spencer and Wren exchange horrified looks and the girls stare at the awful site before them.

At school, the girls discuss Ian's death and the plausibility of him wanting to kill himself. The Liars are ready to move on with their lives, but Emily is stuck on the details not adding up to logical sense. She decides to investigate independently. Just as the girls are talking, Garrett Reynolds appears, and based on the police report, he lets the girls know that Ian was dead for about a week. That means that the texts sent to Melissa were not from Ian.

At Speed Demon Express, Emily goes to pick up a package.The worker there looks familiar, and from a wall picture, she identifies him as Logan Reed, the same guy who dropped off Ian's bribe in his stead.

At Emily's place, Emily is reading, but distracted. She looks at Ian's suicide letter again and notices a pattern - many of the phrases he uses sound just like messages they have received from "A."

Just before English class, Emily shares the news with her friends that "A" probably doctored the suicide letter. They are brought back to the scary reality of "A," having taken a respite when they thought Alison's killer was finally being put to rest.

So, Emily goes back to "Speed Demon Express" to question Logan. Logan is forthcoming, revealing that he was hired online for a delivery position. He never interacted with his employer, except on the phone, and the voice of the employer was that of a woman, not a man.

At the church for the funeral ceremony, Emily tries to tell Spencer what she learned from Logan. Spencer is not interested, her mind too focused on her sister's well-being and family healing after this craziness. Emily then informs Garrett Reynolds of what she has found out from Logan. He thanks Emily for confiding in him.

Ian is then buried, and the girls dust their hands of Ian and the earth that buries him. Aria and Emily spot Jason in the cemetery. Emily forms a negative opinion about him, but Aria doesn't seem to feel the same way.

Then, the girls are summoned to another creepy midnight outing when Emily gets a message instructing her to go the cemetery to visit a plot. The Liars join Emily, despite her being vague about why they are there, and they end up at Alison's grave. Then, the wall across from the lights up. A projector is showing the footage of Alison with Ian the night she died, the footage they thought was lost. This time, after falling to the floor, Alison gets up, giggling. Ian puts on his jacket, gives her a kiss, then turns to walk away. The girls are now led to believe that Ian did not kill Alison, and, just as Emily suspected, Ian's suicide was faked.

On the eve of the Rosewood Charity Fashion Show, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer are folding show programs on Emily's bed, trying to help Spencer make up for the fact that she has missed a bunch of fashion show committee meetings. They discuss their love lives, and the fact that Hanna has recently kissed Caleb, though she refuses to call him her boyfriend.

At the Fields' home, Pam is on the phone with Wayne. When it is Emily's turn to speak, she asks him to proofread her paper for school, trying to maintain contact despite their long-distance relationship. Afterwards, Pam reveals that she badly misses her husband, although she had just visited him in Texas 3 days ago. This leads Emily to suggest that her mom spend a significantly longer period of time in Texas, while Emily finishes her semester in Rosewood; her mother says she'll think about it.

The next day, the Liars meet with Jessica for lunch, despite their awkward reservations. The subject shifts to Jason and his moving back in, and Jessica reveals that she doesn't think of the house in Rosewood as their family's anymore, but as Jason is paying for the house himself, she has little choice but to respect her son's decision. She then presents the girls with presents, four high fashion dresses. However, the girls are uneasy, as they remember Alison having picked them out and trying them on in a flashback. But, that is precisely why Jessica asks the girls to model those dresses in the fashion show; she wants them to realize Ali’s dream and pay tribute to her.

When the girls have a chance to think it over amongst themselves, Hanna is first to express the creepy factor, but out of sympathy for Jessica, they consent. They also discuss Jason now that they are alone, and only Aria does not think that Jason is being freaky. She sticks up for him saying he's coping with Ali's death the best he can.

Back at the Fields' residence, Emily is changing in front of Samara into the dresses for the show. Samara is helping Emily by adjusting Ali's dresses to fit her. Samara alludes to a friend that she will be meeting the night of the show, so Emily invites Samara to bring her friend to the fashion show, not thinking much of it.

Just before the show in the dressing room, Samara brings over her Emily's dress—and her friend Quinn. It looks like two may be flirting, as Quinn alludes to Samara sitting on her lap. Emily is perturbed by the touchy feely vibe she picks up, but doesn't comment to Samara.

While Samara is adjusting Emily's dress, Emily uses the opportunity alone with Samara backstage to question her about Quinn, who Samara claims is only a friend. However, Samara adds that she isn't necessarily against dating other people, as Emily has made it clear that she wants to take her relationship with Samara slow, and they have really only gone on two dates. Emily is nonplussed. The Liars then reveal to Hanna that Caleb has come to the show, dressed to impress, despite not being invited, and they push Hanna to officially get back together with Caleb.

The fashion show starts, and the outfits do not disappoint. Then the tribute to Alison begins, with her image prominent on the runway screen and the girls walking the runway in her dresses. Suddenly, the image changes so as to make Alison look like the devil, with fire around and peeling black eyes. The screen flashes "the bitch is dead," and the music changes from sentimental to hellish. The audience and the models are shocked and dismayed. Horrified, Jessica leaves her seat and runs off. Spencer runs to Noel to make him turn it off, but he claims he can't. She unplugs all the wires around his equipment until the images and sound effects stop. Immediately after the show, the girls try to comfort Jessica, but she doesn't return their calls, too disturbed for words.

Hanna then goes to talk to Caleb and finally thanks him for coming. He asks to walk her home, and she asks him to wait, basically agreeing to the romantic possibility between them. "A" then projects a note on the screen: "My Dresses. My Game. My Rules."

At Emily’s home, Pam reassures her daughter that the town doesn’t suspect her or her friends for being responsible for the fiasco, as they were clearly stunned when everything went down. Pam then lets Emily know that she will be taking Emily up on her offer and moving to Texas, even though she feels guilty about leaving her.

The next day, at the Marin's home, the Pretty Little Liars stand in the kitchen talking. Apparently, a pipe has broken in the guest bedroom, so Emily and Hanna will be sharing a room now that Emily is set to move in. The subject changes to surmising about who would have done such a thing at the fashion show. They realize "A's" actions are getting bolder and it worries them. They want to forget about "A," but it isn't so easy. Just then, a special delivery from "A" arrives - a gift basket, letting Emily and Hanna know how easy it will be to mess with them under the same roof.

Emily moves into the Marin household and to express her gratitude, after her morning run, makes a sit-down breakfast for Hanna and her mother. She sets the table and puts out real napkins and pays attention to details like separating out the egg yolks from the egg whites. Hanna and Ashley try to assure Emily that she is now a part of their family and doesn't need to act like a guest. But the transition isn't so natural for Emily. Emily is also dealing with aches from her new athletic regimen now that she is back on the swim team.

That night, Hanna is sitting on her bed listening to music with her headphones, while Emily sits in the corner. Both are doing school work, but Emily can't concentrate when Hanna starts singing loudly along to the music in her ears. The two new roommates seem to be clashing over differences already. So, Hanna takes off her headphones when Emily complains, and Emily brings up Caleb's business deals. Hanna is annoyed at the question and compares Emily to Dr. Sullivan. Then, Hanna puts her headphones on to tune the other out. Emily is still nursing her neck pain.

The next day at school, Emily confides in Aria that things aren't going so smoothly at Hanna's place. Aria is concerned, but then Emily lets on that it isn't so bad; she is grateful to be in Rosewood after all. Spencer then walks over and asks Emily if she has gotten an update from Garrett yet about whatever became of their Logan Reed lead. But, Emily says that she has overloaded with swim practice and hasn't had an opportunity. So, Aria and Emily ask Spencer to do it instead. They tell Spencer that she is better at persuading people.

That night, at the Marins', suddenly, the two girls hear the door open, along with whispering at the bottom of the stairs. They peep their heads out to look - and spy Ashley and Tom, giggling before kissing. The two make their way up the stairs, and Emily and Hanna duck their heads back in before Hanna's parents realize that they were being watched. Ashley warns Tom to tiptoe and lower his voice so that they can make it upstairs undetected - towards Ashley's bedroom!

Later, that night, Aria and Hanna talk with Spencer in her car, in front of Emily's house. Then, Emily joins them, when suddenly Garrett parks in front of the Cavanaugh house, which is across the street from his parents' house. He could go either way, but he chooses Jenna's house. Toby is out on an errand picking up his parents from the airport. The girls trod closer to take a better look, when the light flicks on, revealing Jenna, who slowly strips to reveal the same black negligee the girls had seen her trying on in the store! Garrett nears her, starts to caress her shoulders, then starts kissing her slowly, and Jenna kisses him back.

The next morning, Hanna enters the kitchen to find Emily doing sit-ups. They both reveal that they haven't slept since seeing what they saw. Emily then joins Hanna for breakfast, not in the best of moods. Her muscles are still sore, so she has Hanna pass her the medical cream that she bought the day before. Apparently, she's used half the tube in less than 24 hours. Hanna thinks Emily is being way too intense for a swim meet, especially when she passes up excess orange juice lest it spike her blood sugar. Emily explains that she is concerned about the Danby scout, who is supposed to be speculating her meet today. She hopes she can make the Danby lie less untrue.

At school, Emily is getting things out of her locker when she spots her dad in the hallway. Happily, she embraces her father to discover that her father is alone in Rosewood, while Pam is still in Texas. His flight to Texas had been delayed due to inclement weather while he was in Delaware for a training seminar. He lets her know that he has come to surprise her by watching her swim meet, and Emily panics that her dad is poised to meet the Danby scout; her whole house of cards is about to come crashing down! Her father leaves her to do her thing. Suddenly, Emily clutches her side in pain, panting hard, and falls to the floor. Garrett walks by and immediately goes to her side and calls an ambulance to come get her on his walkie-talkie.

At the hospital, Wayne tries to comfort his daughter, who is more tense then ever. He guesses correctly that it's about Danby, but his offers to call him on her behalf just stress her out more. So far, the running theory is that Emily has a stress-induced ulcer.

Later, Spencer and Hanna talk to Emily. Her dad has gone to talk to the new tenants at the Fields' home. Aria then joins the party with coffee, and everyone looks on awkwardly as Aria offers the cup of Joe to her friend with a hole in her stomach, which Hanna can't get over. Emily considers telling her dad the truth about the Danby letter.

After the girls leave, Wren meets privately with Emily to drop the bombshell that HGH, that is, Human Growth Hormone, was found in her bloodstream...so that's what "A" snuck into that healing cream of hers. He warns her of its dangers, but she denies even trying. She begs him not to tell her father what the tests show, as it could ruin her swim career. Wren chalks the whole thing up to Emily coping with her high stress position as a varsity athlete trying to land a scholarship.

After sometime, she asks the staff person not to take away her dinner, which has been lying on its tray for hours. After he leaves, she sees a note on soup lid scrawled by "A" along with a tube of her healing cream sitting atop the peas. She calls in Aria and Spencer, who are still dressed like hospital workers. The two try to talk Emily out of fleeing Rosewood, trying to convince her that her swim career is not over. Wayne comes in, and Aria and Spencer pretend that they are new hospital volunteers, careful to haul away Emily's dinner tray as part of their "hospital duties."

Wayne then lets his daughter know that there is no pressure on her anymore to score a swim scholarship. He assures her that they can pay for college if that is the case. He is sure that she will be accepted into college, whether or not her swim record is a part of the reason. Incredibly relieved, Emily hugs her dad.

After some time, Spencer shows Alison's autopsy report they had taken from the morgue to Emily. It says that the murder weapon was a curved blunt edge (like a field hockey stick?). In addition, the attack with the weapon was from behind, as the injuries were in the back of her skull. And, the force of the weapon was so strong it dented Alison's skull. Lastly, her lungs were filled with dirt, meaning she was breathing in dirt when she died, as in, she was buried alive (under the gazebo). Spencer confesses her suspicion that Jason is responsible for Alison's death. Then, Spencer realizes that page 5 of the report is missing. Has it always been missing, or did "A" take it?

They go to the morgue again. Emily and Hanna don the familiar candy-striper outfits and wait outside, keeping watch for Spencer, who goes inside hoping to find the missing page of Alison’s coroner’s report. Spencer returns empty-handed. The page is still gone, and she even tried the computer system, but it is password protected. Her suspicions of Jason are worsened. Just then, the elevator door opens to reveal Jenna, being led by a nurse. She comments about how she can’t wait to remove some bandages, and go to Cape May, where she hopes to see the ocean again. The girls stare after smiling Jenna, who hasn’t made note of the silent by standing girls.

Back at Hanna’s home, Emily opens up to Hanna about how threatened she feels by "A" having another secret to hold over her head. She is afraid that her swim career is about to come crashing down when "A" exposes her medical records. Right on cue, "A" sends Emily a text with a copy of her medical records enclosed in the text.

At school, Aria echoes Hanna’s sentiment not to be intimidated by "A", but Emily is hardly comforted. Just then, Jason walks by in the hallway and shares a smile with Aria. Emily is surprised by their cordiality, but Aria brushes it off before revealing her previous night’s dream and her insecurities about her relationship with Ezra.

At lunch, Spencer fills the girls in on what Toby has let her in on since their discovery at the hospital - that Jenna is a candidate for prosthetic cornea transplant, which means there is a hope that she will see again.

Samara and Emily are at Hanna’s house. Samara is dropping off some chocolate chip cupcakes before stealing a kiss from Emily. Ashley walks in at just that moment. Samara is about to leave, but she quickly lets Emily know that plans for that night fell through, as the space they were planning to occupy is off the table. Overhearing their conversation, Ashley suggests that they relocate to their house that night, as she and Hanna plan to be out. Emily accepts Ashley’s gesture to make her feel at home, as well as accepted for having a girlfriend, which is more than her own mother can say.

That night, Samara and her friends, Quinn, Bianca, and Zoey, play poker while getting to know Emily. Emily helps Zoey win a round, then gets up to get more cupcakes. Just then, "A" texts Emily threatening her to give Zoey her phone number or risk having her secret blabbed.

After the card game, Samara heads back home in time for her curfew. Just before Zoey leaves, Emily slips her a note with her number, as per "A’s" instructions. Zoey turns, and Emily catches sight of Quinn giving her a suspicious look.

The next day, at Hanna’s house, Emily tries to change the subject from her giving Zoey her phone number, but Samara demands an explanation. She is totally livid and thinks that Emily is hitting on her friends; she wants to know if it is because she mentioned seeing other people at the fashion show or if she just wants to spite her. Emily responds that she did in order to hang out with her as friends and that she didn’t mean anything by it, but Samara doesn’t buy it and leaves.

Later, Emily meets Spencer in her house. There, Spencer tries to convince her mother to leave for Melissa in Philadelphia sooner. She practically pushes her out of the house, making up lies about construction along the way and offering to find Melissa’s jacket for her. As soon as Veronica leaves, the two make a beeline for Jason’s shed.

In Jason’s shed, Spencer and Emily discover that it is doubling as a dark room. There are developing photographs hanging all around. The sound snapshots are heard as they move... After shining their flashlights on the photographs, the girls realize that the pictures are all of Aria and various features of her face. Before they split, they find his camera equipment, which they suspect doubles for stalking equipment. They then hear Jason return and leave in the nick of time, but forget to take Emily’s still lit flashlight.

Spencer and Emily panic over having left their flashlight behind and want to photograph the things they’ve seen in Jason’s dark room, in order to corroborate their story for Aria later. But when they enter, they find the dark room dismantled, with only Emily’s flashlight standing on the floor in the center of the room, shining upwards.

The next day, Emily is sitting in the school lunch room when Aria walks up. Emily says she's been trying to get in touch with her all night; they have to talk. Aria agrees and reveals to Emily that Jason kissed her last night. Emily is not happy to hear this and immediately tells Aria about the pictures Jason had of Aria sleeping (or drugged) in the woodshed, causing Aria to be "officially terrified." Spencer walks over at that moment, even more freaked out than Emily by the fact that Aria kissed Jason. They try to persuade her that he's dangerous, and Aria leaves not sure what to think. Spencer leaves too, to pack up Ian's stuff with Toby's help.

Emily then starts her lunch, her bowl of Alpha-Bits cereal. She pours it into her bowl and adds the milk. Before taking a bite, she realizes that this box has been doctored; all the cereal bits are the letter "A," as opposed to the normal mix of A-Z. Emily puts down her spoon and empties out the rest of the cereal box contents. Sure enough, she finds a scrolled up message in a capsule that would normally hold a toy, courtesy of "A," calling Emily the weakest link.

Later, Hanna and Emily pass through the hallways to Emily's locker. Hanna gives her a body massage certificate before leaving school to join Mona. Emily catches sight of her swim mates, chatting happily as they pass. She tries to open her locker, but the door is stuck, so she yanks at it, causing the books inside to spill out onto the floor. Agitated, Emily bends down to pick them up. Just then, Dr. Sullivan swoops in to help. She picks up on Emily's anxious vibes and offers to help. With tears glistening in her eyes, Emily reveals that she and the other girls have been keeping secrets from Dr. Sullivan; Dr. Sullivan invites her to meet for an appointment later, and Emily appears to be considering the option.

At the spa, the masseuse pours Emily a glass of cold water and coaches her to disrobe and wait underneath the sheets on the cot. She can sense Emily's anxiety, so she encourages her to relax, telling her not to worry about anything but the massage pressure.

The masseuse leaves. A figure entirely in black steps back from the massage oils table to begin massaging Emily, whose face is comfortably resting in the head rest. Emily finally relaxes and enjoys the massage, blissfully closing her eyes.

Emily's appointed masseuse returns and apologizes for keeping Emily waiting. Naked, Emily darts up, confused. She questions the massage therapist to find out that she was not the one giving Emily her massage. But, Emily adamantly lets her know that someone had been in the room; then, Emily sees it: the cold water pitcher has the letter 'A' etched into the condensation.

After her literal brush with "A" at the spa, Emily contemplates dialing Dr. Sullivan, but hesitates after "A" sends her a text, alluding to the ease with which she could have strangled vulnerable Emily.

Later, Hanna and Spencer try to comfort Emily, who has told the other girls about her spa day gone wrong. Emily ignores an incoming call from Dr. Sullivan, not telling her friend who the caller is.

Emily cannot sleep at night, tormented by thoughts of "A." At the first sign of light, she leaves to get into her car and leave, waking Hanna. Emily is then seen running through the woods.

After her run, she goes to Dr. Sullivan's office and surprisingly, the three other Liars are there waiting for her. As the girls talk about how they are being threatened, Dr. Sullivan can't help but ask who is threatening them. The Liars decide to tell her about "A." Emily tells Dr. Sullivan that the threats began even before Alison’s funeral. At first they thought it was Alison, but then they found her body. They also mention that "A" is an expert at making other people look guilty. They have clues about who he/she/they might be, but they’ve been wrong before. Dr. Sullivan, in turn, is astounded that the girls have not told anybody else about "A" and that she is only person they have ever told.

In a school assembly, Dr. Sullivan makes a speech that addresses technology’s role in school bullying. The girls wear uncomfortable expressions, as Dr. Sullivan encourages the students being bullied to speak out if they don't feel safe. Right after the assembly, the girls congregate outside the building, discussing their feelings of vulnerability. Hanna questions whether confiding in Dr. Sullivan was a good idea in the first place. Just then, Jenna walks over and reminds the girls that Alison could have benefited from such an assembly. She looks smug, and Emily rebuts her by calling Jenna a bully and asking her to move her handicapped equipment. (Who's the bully, now?)

At night, Emily bonds with Ashley, who is rather quiet, as she prepares herself a microwave dinner alone in the kitchen. When Emily offers to join her, she is grateful for the company and tries not to think about her ex-husband moving on.

Ashley tries to locate her culinary equipment and finds that Regina has taken it upon herself to stick a spatula in the same drawer as a glue gun. Ashley confides in Emily about her feelings about Tom and his mother, while Emily confides in Ashley about her failed relationship with Samara. Ashley encourages Emily to have direct conversations with the people she cares about, or risk having to invent what they would say in their absence. Afterwards, Ashely heads for bed, and Emily picks up her cell phone to call someone.

Later Emily is seated at the Apple Rose Grille at a table for two. She is by herself, but when the busboy tries to remove the second setting, she stops him. Just then, Maya shows up.

Maya and Emily share an intimate candlelit dinner for two. Apparently, Maya is out of rehab and is now living some forty-five minutes away from Rosewood with her parents. Emily and Maya catch up over dinner, and Maya is happy to hear that Pam has eased up on Emily, trusts her again, and is more accepting of who she is.

While Emily is still at dinner, Dr. Sullivan calls her with the request to round up the others and meet at her office; she claims to know "A's" identity. However, when the girls arrive, the office is empty. They receive a message from "A" stating: "The doctor is out!"

The next day, Spencer is seen ringing the doorbell on Dr. Sullivan's home beside the other Liars. Dr. Sullivan isn’t there and hasn’t picked up the latest copies of The Rosewood Observer from off her stoop. Her voicemail says she’s been called out of town on a family emergency.

Spencer reminds them that the last time somebody thought she knew who "A" was, she got hit by a car. They also agree going to the police will not help, as Garrett, Jenna, Ian, and Jason all seem to be linked to the Rosewood Police Department. Emily gets a call from Maya, breaking up the tension, and smirks.

In the shared room with Hanna, Maya talks about interesting people she met at True North. Hanna is curious what the place is like, but Emily is eager for Hanna to leave so that she can spend private time with Maya. Hanna realizes that she's being something of a third wheel, but pauses when she notice's Maya’s designer boots - black Tory Burch boots... Maya says it’s sweet that all the Liars are going with Hanna to the wedding. When Hanna leaves, Emily is surprised to hear Maya say that their relationship needs to rewind so that they can get to know one another again. Maya explains that she doesn’t know "this [new] Emily," but is still interested; she just wants to be sure that Emily feels the same way.

Later, Spencer calls the Liars to come over to look at a huge box that was mysteriously delivered to her house, bearing the inscription, "Open or she dies." Trepidly, the girls remove the lid to find a list of ransom demands. Beneath the letter are three creepy, talking dolls with pull-strings for Aria, Spencer and Hanna. Emily is disconcerted that there is no doll for her. The others speculate that it’s because she’s been a target for weeks, but Emily is slow to believe that the seemingly omniscient "A" would make such an oversight.

Later, Emily and Hanna dress for the upcoming wedding. Hanna expresses her fears of losing her dad, who was gone for the past two years. If she screws up the wedding, he’ll surely leave again. Tom knocks on the door, and Emily leaves to give them privacy.

Emily drives to the church for the wedding, taking directions from her GPS. It seems to be telling her to drive away from the direction of the church. Suddenly, with an eerie awareness, Emily looks to her back seat to find a rag doll with Emily's dark brown features -- "A" hadn't left her out after all. Emily quickly grabs it to find the ransom demand, which unsurprisingly, directs her to follow the rerouted GPS directions. The directions lead her to a secluded red barn.

Outside the barn, Emily calls out for "Dr. Sullivan?" and goes inside, where there is a parked car with a motor running. As she peers inside the car, the barn door slams shut, locking her in. Emily is left alone in an enclosed space that is rapidly replacing the oxygen in the air with carbon dioxide and filling the barn with other car exhaust gases besides, including the lethal toxins methane and carbon monoxide.

Sometime later, somebody wearing lace-up boots drags a passed out Emily out of the barn.

Emily wakes up in a sunny field, laying on someones lap. The person looks over, revealing to be Alison. Alison says that it's good to see her again, and that she misses her the most. She also remarks that Emily was her favorite out of the girls. "No one loved me as much as you did", Alison had said. Emily asks if she is dead and Alison says "This bitch thinks this is what you want. To be completely free of "A". Emily asks if she knows who "A" is, to which Alison replys "Of course I do". Emily says that she has to tell her, but Alison doesn't think that's a very good idea. Emily asks why, and Alison says "Because two can only keep a secret, if one of them is dead". Alison then tells Emily that she has to decide what she wants: Emily can stay here...or go with Alison. Emily doesn't reply, and begins to close her eyes. Alison smiles and whispers "Sweet Emily," and gently kisses Emily.

Next thing, the other three Liars hover over her. Emily informs them that "she" is still alive. The girls assume she means Dr. Sullivan, but she lets them know that she believes Alison to be alive.

Suddenly, Emily sees a rusty curved shovel perched on the barn door and affirms that the shovel must have been placed there recently. Spencer picks it up to see a note taped to the inside of the shovel, with latitude and longitude coordinates. Hanna remembers that her text during the ceremony read that Dr. Sullivan was about to run out of air. Did "A" bury Dr. Sullivan alive?

In their heels, they stumble towards the undisclosed location in the middle of some woods, but there is nothing, then a clearing. The girls then catch sight of a stick protruding from a spot in the ground. Hanna notices it and gets texted, prompting Hanna to say she’s still alive and that they should start digging. First they find her boots, and eventually, a face that belongs to a mannequin. Then, a helicopter roars overheard, and the girls realize that they have been set up.

At the police station, Emily is let into the interrogation room where the other girls are sitting. She lets them know that she hasn’t said a word to anyone. The girls clue her into the fact that they are being observed, and so they change the subject to a neutral one - namely, Emily's health. Apparently, Emily was separated from the group so that she could be administered medical care; the tending doctor had given her oxygen.

Then, Veronica gets her chance to speak with the girls directly, letting them know that although Detective Wilden had been suspended for his actions, he has now been reinstated as chief officer in this investigation, because he has evidence. Just then, Detective Wilden enters the room and confronts the girls, saying he’s given them so many chances to be honest with them, and evidence doesn’t lie. He asserts that he has caught the girls with the murder weapon, which the police have known about all along. He puts the now-bagged shovel from the barn on the table.

In October 2009, the girls walk to school debating Halloween costumes—Hanna wants to go as bald Britney. Alison is bossy with regards to Hanna's decision and makes a jab about Hanna's weight. Emily reveals that she is going with Ben, who wants her to dress up a cop, while she wants to go as a Native American. Meanwhile, Spencer is texting on her cell phone, getting updates about her success in the school elections for class president. She just found out that she's secured the debate team's votes. Noel drives up in a convertible with his jock friends to greet the Liars and especially Alison. Spying Aria, he says "come prepared to be scared," exciting her with the knowledge that they are invited to Noel's bash. As Noel drives away, Alison mocks the other Liars for being so excited to attend the party.

They continue walking and pass a run-down abandoned house. A figure is seen in one of the upstairs windows, and Emily calls it out, frightening the other girls. Aria comments that she gets a bad feeling from this place, feeling as if something bad had happened there. Spencer attributes the movement to typical Rosewood kid activity on Halloween, and Alison is equally nonchalant.

After that, Emily walks the rest of the way home herself. She spots Toby unloading a moving van. He's fingering a snow globe. Emily approaches him and notes his subdued mood. He's bummed that his dad has remarried and that the new wife is moving in with her daughter. Emily asks what the daughter is like, and he responds that she gets whatever she wants. Emily then admires the snow globe.

The next day, Alison and Emily sit in the cafeteria together at a table near the jocks' table, where Ben is sitting. Hanna lets her friends know that Emily's boyfriend Ben has been telling people that they have had sex. Enraged, Aria is about to charge over to him, when Emily grabs her by the shirt to force her to sit back down. The girls are shocked that Emily isn't indignantly furious, but then it dawns on them that Emily might be trying to tell them something. When they suggest that Emily has indeed done the deed, she doesn't deny it. Then, Alison joins their table, and hears that Ben is telling everyone they had sex; Ali seems impressed.

The next day, Emily walks with Alison. Alison discusses the possibility of Emily going on the pill, but she confesses to Ali that the rumors aren't true, and she won't be needing contraception yet. She has made out with Ben, but they haven't gone all the way. She asks Alison not to tell anyone, and Alison is perplexed until she discovers Emily's secret later that night...

That night, the girls get dressed in Spencer’s bedroom. Hanna is donning her Britney costume, Emily is dressed as a Native American, and Spencer is wearing a corset dress. True to her promise, Alison is dressed as Lady Gaga. Aria walks in and announces that she doesn’t feel like going. The girls accept Aria's decision, sans explanation, but Alison doesn't. Suddenly, someone dressed in a burlap cowl with a doll mask is seen outside the window. Spencer notices him/her, and the girls all squeal with worry. The doorbell then rings, presumably for a pizza delivery, but Spencer insists on going downstairs in company.

The Halloween party has everyone in an actual costume—nobody in a flannel shirt pretending to be a hobo. Noel, dressed as a gynecologist, approaches to greet them, correctly characterizing Ali as Lady GaGa (or hot chick), Emily as a Native American, Hanna as cute Britney, and Aria as a witch. Only Spencer as Mary Queen of Scots he can't place. When she begins to explain, Noel goes right to Jenna, who is also dressed as a sexy Lady GaGa.

Emily is seen slow-dancing with Ben on the dance floor. Jenna is seductively dancing nearby, and Emily ogles at her moves and curves. Alison turns her eyes from one to the other, approaches Emily, and alludes to her hidden sexual orientation. Emily looks frightened, and Alison lets her know that her secret is safe with her.

Some time later, Emily is sitting outside alone. Hanna joins her, wondering where Alison is. The other Liars join up, and they get a text that reads "I’m in trouble, come alone" from Ali, directing them to the scary house's address. So, they all hurry over there.

Creepy person in burlap costume is there, but they don’t see him/her, as he/she moves stealthily behind them. It’s abandoned except for torn lace curtains and antique dolls in a corresponding dollhouse. They are startled to see a lonely suit hanging in the middle of a room, giving the appearance of someone being hanged with the shadow it casts.

They find Ali in a locked room. Seemingly terrified, she recounts that someone grabbed her and brought her there threatening to kill her with a knife. Nobody can get a signal to dial 911 from their cell phones, so Ali goes out alone. Then she screams, but the door is now bolted and they can’t open it. Through the keyhole they see a big fight with her and costumed guy with a knife. Ali knees him and runs off, the Liars get out through a conveniently open window. They go back in the house, and Ali is rocking in a chair, brandishing a knife and looking completely insane, but she says it was all a hoax. Noel was the zombie, the blood was ketchup (which she meanly offers to a tearing Hanna), and they "passed the test." Spencer is the only who can voice her betrayed feelings at Alison's dumb joke, but she unabashedly counters that she now knows that she can count on them as her friends when she needs them. They all look really annoyed and betrayed by Alison's crying wolf, but are silent.

Back at the party, there seems to be mostly college kids now. Apparently, Noel's older brother and his friends decided to join the party. Noel then approaches Ali to apologize, but she tells him it was perfect—but then realizes he’s apologizing because he didn’t make it to the plot; he was stuck at the party, not because he had been too rough with her. Now Alison is taken aback. Who was it then?

Back in real time, a month has passed since the night of their arrest. On the Rosewood Camp Grounds, the four girls are picking up trash for community service. Two strangers also doing time make snarky comments in front of the girls about them, and when one says they killed someone, Emily snaps at her by saying they didn't do anything. Spencer tells Emily to stop talking to them. Emily tells the other girls that Spencer's mom would sell them out in a second to save Spencer and that they should consider making a deal with "A." A fight ensues. Aria and the guards break it up, earning both Spencer and Emily two extra weeks of community service.

The next morning, Hanna leaves the room when Emily enters the Marin kitchen. Ashley expresses her surprise that they are still fighting. As Ashley leaves, Emily receives a fax that puts a smile on her face.

Emily shows the fax to the swim coach. It is from her doctor clearing her of all medical. Emily expects to be immediately welcomed back onto the team, but the coach tells her there are other considerations, such as Emily's reputation and outstanding community service. It is up to the principal to decide.

In class, Emily walks into the classroom and bumps into Spencer as she is turning away from the desk. Angered, she pushes Spencer's books in retaliation onto the floor while the other girls look on. Mrs. Montgomery breaks up the fight and the two girls pick up each other's copy of "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." Just then Emily receives a text from A asking if she wants to make a deal. Checking that no one is watching first, she picks up the chalk and circles the word "yes" on the board before finding her seat.

After class, Emily passes by Hanna and Aria and both give her the cold shoulder. At her locker, Emily finds a note in the book she picked up arranging a meeting at 10 PM. Emily seems unfazed that the name on the inside cover reads "Spencer Hastings."

That night, all four girls meet at the greenhouse. Emily shows them the text she got from "A" earlier. It becomes clear that all the fighting and sniping earlier had been for show. Spencer revels in the knowledge she rattled Garrett's cage. They openly discuss the details of their plan to trap "A." Emily will go to the greenhouse with the box of "evidence" while Spencer, Aria, and Hanna hide outside and come to aid her when the time is right.

The next day, Emily attends the swim meet even though she is not back on the team yet. She talks to Toby about Jenna and Garrett and their strange relationship. Garrett waits for Jenna nearby and Toby buys a ticket to get inside.

Later, Emily exits the gym after the swim meet, spots the girls, and demands the box Jason gave Aria for all to hear. She declares she knows where Spencer hid the box and storms off. The other girls feign annoyance with Caleb, Lucas, Toby, Garrett and other students looking on. Emily gets another text from "A."

That night, Emily arrives at the greenhouse before Hanna, Spencer, and Aria even leave their respective houses. Spencer and texts Emily not to go inside, but Emily is already inside. She removes the wooden box from a trunk in the greenhouse. She turns around and sees "A," wearing a hooded sweatshirt, identity shrouded in shadow. Emily talks to A, slowly moving toward the mysterious figure, eventually opening the box to reveal the evidence A came for - nothing! A doesn't take kindly to being tricked. "A" attacks Emily, throwing her over a table, holding her down on the ground first trying to stab her, but failing, then beginning to choke her with her own scarf. Spencer and Aria's arrival scares "A" away from Emily. They corner "A," who throws a heavy object into the air, shattering the glass above them, and uses the moment of confusion to escape.

The three chase "A" outside, who runs directly into the path of Hanna's car, just arriving on the scene. "A," however, shows to suffer no major damage and continues to run through the woods, losing the girls. Spencer shouts that now they have nothing. Frustrated, they return to greenhouse and discover "A"s phone on the ground under Hanna's front headlight. They all stare at it thinking the same thing - they may have actually found hard evidence to expose the identity of "A."

After their recent encounter with "A," Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer think they may be closer than ever to figuring out who "A" really is. They head back into the greenhouse to look for the box and decide what to do next. They have a contest over who has had the worse day. Spencer suggests calling Caleb to help them recover information from the phone, but Hanna doesn't want to get him involved. The phone rings, caller unknown; each girl is afraid to answer it. They never get the chance because more glass comes crashing down from the ceiling. They drive away, heading straight to Caleb against Hanna's wishes.

Caleb hooks the phone up to his laptop and explains the recovery process. While downloading the information, the owner of the phone shuts it down remotely. Caleb agrees to try to unlock the files they do have if Hanna is okay with it. She reluctantly agrees.

Emily is having trouble focusing on anything with so much going on. She asks Ella if she can postpone the makeup test again because she didn't have time to read the last chapters. Ella agrees to reschedule, then asks Emily if there are more things she does not know about her daughter. Emily says Aria is the same person she has always been; someone to be proud of.

Spencer approaches Emily in the hall hoping to enlist her help in snooping around Jason's house, believing him to be Garrett and Jenna's lackey. Emily starts community service at the crisis hotline that afternoon, so she cannot come. Aria is on lockdown and Hanna is unhappy with Spencer at the moment for dragging Caleb into their "A" investigation. Emily suggests Spencer let Hanna use her lake house for face time with Caleb. She accidentally lets slip that Hanna has used it for that purpose before, which comes as news to Spencer.

Emily attends her first training session at the crisis hotline center. She roleplays with the supervisor, reading the transcript of a call that came in last night aloud. While reading it, Emily realizes the caller seems likely to be the person who tried to kill her in the greenhouse last night; "A's" helper.

The next day at school, Emily shows Spencer and Aria the transcript she swiped from the crisis center; Hanna has already seen it. Spencer thinks this is a big breakthrough and that they all should volunteer there in hopes that this person will call again. Aria declines, citing her lockdown status at home, and Hanna is too busy planning Caleb's party. Speaking of Caleb, he beckons them into a nearby classroom to show them what he recovered from the mystery phone. It is a photo of 4 porcelain dolls sitting in a row on a wooden surface in front of green floral wallpaper. The girls pretend like the photo means nothing to them. They thank Caleb for his help and exit. Hanna stays behind trying to make a plan for Caleb's birthday.

At the crisis center, Emily's supervisor tells her to listen in on the call that just came in because it is the transcript caller calling back. He says he is in way too deep and doesn't want to have to hurt anyone. Spencer and Emily listen together and recognize the caller's voice as that of Lucas! They try to convince Hanna Lucas must have been the one in the greenhouse, but she refuses to believe it without proof. No matter what they say, they can't get through to her.

On the night of Caleb's birthday, Emily answers a call at crisis center even though she is only there to return the transcript she "accidentally" took home with her. This time she speaks to Lucas who discloses he has to take care of his problem tonight and how hard it will be to lose "her." Emily hears Hanna's voice in the background and heads straight to the party, fearing for her friend's safety.

At the party, Emily arrives and sees Lucas standing near the cake. She reminds him what a loving and forgiving person Hanna is and tells him not to do anything he will regret. Lucas realizes Emily must know what he's planning and shoots her a strange look. Afraid she just made things worse, she tells Spencer what happened. They learn from Mona that Hanna took the rowboat out with Lucas to set up the fireworks across the lake. They watch them float away into darkness from the window.

Spencer continues calling her name and directs Emily to go inside and call the police. Other partygoers gather 'round Spencer, wondering what is going on. After a few tense moments, Hanna swims to shore. Spencer tries to warm Hanna up and find out what happened. Mona and Noel appear, half-dressed and dripping because they just "took a dip." Caleb arrives and Hanna mumbles "surprise."

The four girls are in Spencer's house, warming Hanna up by the fire. She is certain that Lucas is still alive and out there, though the other girls say he never came back up to shore. Hanna is about to take a drink of water when the other girls notice it's lake water and stop her. An accompanying text from "A" is sent seconds after Hanna drinks a little bit of the lake water.

Mrs. Marin has a lot of questions for Emily and Hanna the next morning. Ashley is concerned and feels partially responsible for Lucas not coming home last night. Hanna informs her that Lucas called his parents earlier. Ashley tries to comfort Hanna, saying Lucas will talk to her when he is ready. They leave to go to Spencer's, claiming they need to run a group presentation once more.

Spencer has found cell phones and an old receipt up in her attic at the lake house, certain that "A" was up there. The date on the receipt is from around the time that Hanna and Caleb went up to the lake house. The receipt lists an address in Philadelphia. Aria and Spencer agree to check out the place in Philly later this afternoon.

Emily gets a strange phone call during school. She is momentarily afraid, then realizes it is Maya playing a practical joke. She called to talk about their date tonight and asks if Emily can help her get a fake ID. During the call Maya suspiciously checks her call waiting, and then states that it can go to voicemail and continues talking to Emily.

Later, Emily shows Maya the call center she works at. Emily says she has to get home and change before they go to dinner and the concert. Maya gets a text and Emily notices her expression change. She asks if everything is okay, and Maya says yes, but Emily knows something is wrong. Emily leaves, saying she needs to sign out, and Maya says she will catch up with Emily later.

Emily walks in on Hanna washing her water bottle for the fourth time. Emily is suspicious about Maya getting those texts and calls. She is starting to worry that "A" is sending her texts, but Hanna says that Maya could be worried for a hundred different reasons that have nothing to do with "A." Hanna then reveals that she and Caleb have been fighting, and that it sucks being the girlfriend who knows too much, leading Emily to say that it also sucks being the girlfriend who doesn't know enough.

That night, Emily asks Aria for her fake ID for Maya to use. Aria hands it over even though she and Maya don't look alike. Neither of them are worried since the club is in New Jersey. Hanna locks all the windows and doors, and Emily suggests that she have Mona over, to which Hanna replies that she and Mona are fighting. She also says that Caleb is still out there and she is worried about him. Aria says she can cancel her date with Holden, but Hanna insists she will be fine at home. Aria leaves and Emily goes to go get changed for her date with Maya.

While Emily and Maya are in line at the concert, Maya's cell phone goes off, Emily asks her what's going on. Maya pretends like it's nothing, then decides to tell Emily the truth. While she was at "sober camp," she hooked up with someone else, a "he" apparently, to Emily's surprise.

The girls ponder the information from Hanna over unopened Chinese food. Apparently, Lucas was on the hotline because he lost $4,000 in a bet over a basketball game, money which belonged to Caleb. After the rowboat incident, he drove all over selling his comic books to try to get some of Caleb's money back. Then, Spencer shows them the sign-in book from the rehab center in Philly. They learn that Garrett visited Jenna there for 20 minutes, then signed her out. They could both have been in Rosewood at the time of Alison's murder. They open the food, and, to their horror, find it was replaced with live earthworms. "A" sends a text about this being what live bait looks like.

A few days later, the girls check out what Caleb got from "A's" cell phone. They see the video of Ali and Ian at the Kissing Rock and wonder if this is all there is. Hanna hopes it is so Caleb doesn't have to be involved anymore, while Emily hopes they find the information they are looking for. Then a new video starts. Ian hides a video camera on a shelf in Ali's bedroom then Garrett and Jenna enter the room. Ian called them to help search for the N.A.T. Club videos that Ali won't hand over. Garrett accuses Ian of going too far, which is why he bailed on the club in the first place. They start searching Ali's bedroom for the videos at Ian's request. Garrett finds something "weird" in a wooden box, then the video cuts off. The girls are left wondering if those missing videos are what got Ali killed.

Toby calls Spencer while she is in her room with Emily. Emily reluctantly picks up the phone and tells Toby Spencer cannot come to the phone, not wanting to lie to him. Toby says he came by to pick up his tools since Spencer's father fired him and that Spencer has been sending him mixed signals lately. He picks up on the fact Spencer is avoiding him and leaves angry.

The secret compartment inside the doll in Ali's box pops open while Hanna holds the doll. They find a series of threatening notes. The one about a pumpkin catches their attention. The girls flash back to walking home the night of Noel's Halloween party. The jack-o-lanterns on her porch are destroyed; a carving knife stabs through a note into one of the pumpkins. Alison laughs it off as the work of "Jason's beer buddies." She apologizes for the prank she pulled earlier, then asks the girls to stay over. In the present day, they realize the note that Alison got actually said "next time it'll be your face." And it is signed by "A!"

Toby has an accident while cleaning up at the work site. When Emily goes to visit him, she runs into Jenna outside Toby's hospital room. Emily tells her she has no right to be there. Jenna makes a quip about things being confusing for Maya if Emily had feelings for Toby. As she gets onto the elevator, she addresses Spencer who had been standing silently nearby during the whole conversation.

Outside Toby's room, Spencer tells Emily she thinks she is putting Toby in danger by stringing him along. She wants Emily to do her a favor; something that might make her hate Spencer, but is the only thing she can think of that could save Toby.

Emily goes into Toby's room and begins to explain what has been going on with Spencer. She tells him that the guy Spencer was seeing before him is back and "it's not right again." Toby doesn't understand why Spencer isn't telling him herself. Emily says she's telling him because Spencer couldn't. He wants to know who Spencer is seeing, but Emily doesn't respond.

That evening, at Spencer's house, Caleb tells Spencer and Emily that Hanna destroyed the files from the phone, but he kept backups on his computer. The only way he's going to continue working is if they let him know what Hanna is so afraid of and if they keep it a secret from Hanna.

The next morning, Spencer, Emily and Aria watch the rest of the video. Garrett opens the wooden box to find something "weird." Then they hear someone coming up the stairs, presumably Alison. Ian tells Garrett they are all going down and pulls out the camera. Garrett and Ian struggle and the camera falls. The tape stops there, and Emily says she's not sure she wants Caleb to recover the rest. The girls hear a car pull up outside and look out the window to see Toby's truck parked in the front yard. They open the door to find the keys in the ignition and a note for Spencer on the dash. She reads the note and tells the other girls "he's gone."

One night, in the Hastings' kitchen, the girls, minus Hanna, gather round Caleb's laptop as Caleb hacks further into the files from "A's" phone. After one too many requests, Caleb asks them to back up. One by one, each of them gets a call from Hanna, which they all decline. Caleb manages to get a clear picture of the things in Alison's box, which includes a fake ID of Alison with dark brown hair.

At school the next day, Hanna asks the girls what they did the previous night, and they lie that they were studying. They remember that it is Kate's first day at Rosewood High, and Hanna is worried and keeps looking around for her. As they walk back to their table, Hanna notices Spencer is wearing a man's undershirt, and Spencer admits that it is Toby's. Kate approaches them, looking a little nervous and awkwardly makes conversation with the girls. Spencer asks Kate if they have met before. Kate says it was at the wedding, but Spencer thinks it was somewhere else.

A little later, the other girls watch Noel from across the way and wonder if he is Jenna's replacement for Garrett. Hanna returns and asks them if they know anything about Caleb still investigating the files from "A's" phone. The girls brush it off and quickly leave.

Emily and Maya are lying together in Maya's bedroom, where they jokingly discuss sabotaging the swim team for refusing to let Emily rejoin. Emily gets a text from Pam, who is returning for a visit tomorrow. Emily says she is a completely different person and Maya says she will believe it when she sees it. They begin making out on the bed.

At school, the girls are eating lunch with Kate, who is being disturbingly nice. Spencer asks Kate if she has ever been to Maine, along with many other questions, trying to figure out where they had met, clearly making Kate uncomfortable. When Kate leaves to meet her teachers, Hanna tells Spencer to back off because Kate might tell her dad her friends are grilling her. Spencer insists she knows Kate from somewhere, but doesn't know from where.

Emily returns to her locker, wary because she sees a mysterious note taped to it ("Did you miss me?"). Pam then suddenly appears, revealing the note is from her. Emily is surprised Pam is home ahead of schedule, and they make plans to have dinner. Pam asks if any of Emily wants to invite her friends, and Emily says that she would like to invite Maya. Pam agrees it is a good idea, wanting to give Maya a second chance.

Emily and Pam meet Maya at the Grille, where Maya is talking to Noel. When he leaves, Emily asks about him, and Maya says he just helped with her phone, and that he is really sweet. Emily assures her his smile is deceiving, and the three go to their table, but not before Maya makes a comment about Pam's rapport with the waitstaff.

Emily, Maya and Pam's evening isn't going very well. They discuss music, and Maya says that she doesn't think Pam is the type of person who listens to jazz, hinting jazz musicians were all stoners. Maya gets a text, and says it's from her stalker. Pam is surprised, and Maya quickly says that she was joking, and it's just from a guy she dated who is having trouble letting go. Emily is displeased with the way Maya is acting.

Emily, Maya and Pam finish up dinner. When Pam goes to pay the bill, Emily accuses Maya of trying to aggravate Pam by making jokes about drugs and mentioning the guy she dated in New York. Maya says she wanted to start over with Pam by being honest, and asks if it's Pam who has a problem with Maya dating guys, or Emily.

The next day, Emily goes to Maya's house early before school to tell her she does have a problem with Maya dating a guy, but not for the reason she thinks; she has a problem with Maya dating anyone othr than herself. Maya assures Emily she has no competition, and she was rude at dinner because she was still mad at Pam for getting her sent to rehab. Then, Maya shows Emily her room, which decorated to make it feel like they are underwater. Emily is stunned, and Maya tells Emily she loves her. Emily said she loves her too, and they lie down on Maya's bed.

At school, Emily, Spencer and Aria come up to Hanna, shocked that she would do such a thing, asking for an explanation. Hanna asks what she did, and Emily shows Hanna her phone, which displays a picture of Kate naked in the girls locker room. Hanna is horrified and insists she didn't send it to them, but Aria says she didn't just send it to them, she sent it to her entire contact list. As they look around, everybody stares at Hanna, disgusted by what she has done. The girls don't need to guess who the real culprit is.

In Spencer's living room, Spencer, Aria and Emily stare at the red raincoat, which was what Spencer picked up using Alison's, a.k.a. "Vivian's," claim ticket. Aria is surprised Ali would ever have worn it, and begins to search the pockets. Spencer asks where Hanna is, and Aria and Emily explain that she is at a meeting at the school about the photo of Kate. Aria finds a crumpled note in one of the pockets, on which a phone number is written. Aria and Spencer want to call it, but Emily is hesitant. Aria says it might give them answers, and Spencer accuses Emily of being scared, which she fiercely denies. To prove this, Emily calls the number, which goes to a computerised voicemail. Aria takes the phone and introduces herself as a friend of Vivian's and asks that they call her back.

At school, the girls stand by Hanna's locker, discussing the situation "A" got Hanna into. Spencer says at least Hanna wasn't suspended, and eventually it will all blow over, but Hanna isn't convinced, "A" won't get hungry and lash out again. Annoyed, she points out how they thought they had all the power because they had "A's" phone, but now "A" is using their own phones against them.

Aria, Spencer and Emily walk down the hallway, and Aria says that it could have been a lot worse. They see Kate and her mother talking to Vice Principal Tamborelli. Emily explains that Tamborelli won't let her back on the team because he doesn't want her to tarnish the team's image as he has a major sponsor on the hook. Aria and Spencer are outraged, and Emily asks how long they'll have to pay for picking up the shovel.

The next day, at Rosewood High, the students have gathered for Truth Up Day. Spencer informs Emily, Aria and Hanna that Tamborelli is confiscating any phones that aren't switched off. She asks Emily if she has any messages from the number they called, but there are none.

Ashley is in charge of an activity, with Emily and Mona amongst the students there. Ashley asks them to step forward if they have ever felt they have been mistreated by another student or staff. Emily takes two steps, but Ashley informs her to only take one step at a time. Tamborelli is watching Emily closely. Emily steps forward again when Ashley asks if anyone has ever felt unsafe in school. Emily explains that she used to love coming to school because everyone was part of a team, but if someone makes just one mistake, they are tarnished and unable to be trusted ever again. Tamborelli calls Emily over and accuses her of making the other students feel unsafe and attacking him. When Emily tries to defend herself, Tamborelli glares at her and says she is no saint, and tells her to think about what got her to this point. Emily turns back and sees Mona watching them, having seen and overheard the entire thing.

In the hallway, Emily sees Mona applying make up and approaches her. Emily says she knows that Mona overheard what Tamborelli said to her, and that she is not proud of what happened when Alison was around, acknowledging that Alison treated Mona badly and Emily did nothing to stop her, and apologizes for everything. Mona looks upset for a moment, then turns and smiles and assures Emily she doesn't care about what happened such a long time ago, and is angry about how Tamborelli is treating her. She asks Emily if she knows how much slack Tamborelli cuts for the football team. Emily asks how she knows this, and Mona says she used to work in the VP's office during home room so she knows a lot. And Emily should too.

At Aria's locker, Aria and Emily wonder where Hanna is, and Emily says that the person still hasn't called back yet. They go into the girls bathroom and Aria calls the number again, planning to leave another voicemail, this time pretending to be Ali. She is caught off guard when a woman answers and asks how Aria got the number. No one there knows anyone called Vivian and tells her not to call back again. Emily considers that perhaps it was just a random number in a pocket, when she is called to the VP's office over the PA system.

Emily goes into Tamborelli's office, where she is greeted by Mona, who asks Emily to close the blinds. Emily asks why they are there, and if Mona was the one who called her up there, realizing it was Mona's voice over the speaker. Mona calls it a gift, and says that she is going to help Emily get back on the swim team. She hacks into Tamborelli's computer, but notices that Emily is nervous and offers to stop. Emily tells her to keep going.

Mona uncovers that Tamborelli accepted a generous bribe from the father of a football player who got kicked off the team. Mona prints the evidence and says they are going to use it to get Emily back on the team. Emily doesn't want to blackmail someone, but Mona says that she "can't be a shark if she's toothless."

In the hall, Aria, Hanna and Emily are sitting together eating dinner, when they notice Kate nearby. Aria suggests they move somewhere else, but Hanna says she is fine. As Kate pulls off her sweater, Hanna notices a birthmark on Kate's waist. Realizing something, she looks at the picture of Kate on Emily's phone and sees that the birthmark isn't in the photo, which could mean it was Photoshopped. Aria asks why "A" would go through so much trouble to do that and improve Kate's image when they were trying to embarrass her, and Hanna says that maybe "A" didn't send the text.

Hanna leads Kate into the girls bathroom and confronts her about the picture, saying she didn't take the picture, but she knows who did. Kate insists she doesn't know what Hanna is talking about, and Hanna says that there was no birthmark in the photo, and that Kate should be more careful when taking a sweater off in public. Kate yells at Hanna, saying that she had no choice, as she knew Spencer would download the hideous pictures of her at riding camp. Hanna asks Aria if she can borrow her phone, and Aria and Emily emerge from the bathroom stalls, having recorded the conversation and Kate's confession. Aria, Emily and Hanna exit the bathroom, and Aria notes how genius Kate's plan was. Hanna goes to find Ashley.

In the hallway, Emily sees Mona talking with Tamborelli, and is concerned when Mona approaches her and tells her that it is done. Mona says she told Tamborelli that she found out about his bribes because the football jocks talk a lot when they aren't on the field. Emily is worried Tamborelli will find out the truth, but Mona assures Emily he won't, and congratulates Emily on getting back on the team. Emily asks why she did that, and Mona says it was fun and besides, that's what friends do. Mona says that she now needs Emily's help, and asks what people wear to swim meets, worried about ruining her wedges. Emily smiles.

Later that night, everyone is asleep in the assembly hall, aside from Spencer, who is gazing out the window. Emily wakes up and asks Spencer what the time is, but Spencer just shrugs. Emily checks her phone, and finds six missed calls from the number Aria called. She wakes Hanna and Aria, and the person calls them again. This time Emily speaks. A man answers and asks if she is Vivian's friend and what she wants. Emily says she has a few questions, and the man says he has some of his own, but he doesn't want to talk over the phone and asks her to meet him. Emily looks at the others and agrees.

A few days later, at Rosewood High, everyone is celebrating the swim team's victory, including Maya, who made a poster for Emily. Emily and the rest of the Sharks enter with a trophy, and everyone cheers for them. Maya congratulates Emily, along with Spencer, Aria and Hanna, who says that her mom is letting them throw the victory party at their house.

Later on, Aria sits in a booth at a diner with Ali's copy of Lolita! on the table in front of her, and Hanna, Emily and Spencer in the booth behind her. A man comes over and taps the book, noting that Aria is a friend of Vivian's. He sits down and asks Aria how much Vivian owed her, to which Aria is shocked to hear. The man says that Vivian cost him his job. Aria asks what Vivian did, and he explains that he worked at Allegheny Cellular in human resources, and Vivian wanted information. Aria asks what information Vivian wanted, and the man smiles and says that she must be Alison. Surprised, Aria asks if Vivian told him about Alison, and he says that Vivian told him about a friend called Alison who was getting texts from somebody, but the number was blocked and she wanted to know where they were coming from, and would pay to find out. Aria asks if he found out, and he says he did, but made the mistake of telling Vivian before he had the money in his hand, and then he got fired for accessing restricted information. Aria asks what he knows about the person sending the texts, but the man says he's not talking without the money Vivian owes him. Aria reaches for her purse and asks how much, to which he says $2000 and the price could go up. He writes down his number and as he gets up to leave, Aria asks who she should ask for when she calls, and he tells her to ask for Jonah.

After he leaves, the four discuss this new information, and how if he finds out Ali is dead, there won't be enough money in the world to make him talk. Emily says if Jonah found out who "A" was and told Ali, it must be why she was killed. They need to find out what Jonah knows, but they don't have the money. Aria asks Spencer, but her bank account has been on lockdown since she was arrested.

At the Marin house, Emily is decorating for the victory party. Maya arrives, asking Emily if they can talk. Upstairs in Hanna's room, Maya breaks the news to Emily that her parents found an old joint in her room from before she got busted and sent to rehab. Emily asks how her parents found it, and Maya says they got boxes from storage from when they lived in the DiLaurentis' house, (she even found a box of Ali's old stuff) and it was with junk in her dresser. She tried to explain it was from ages ago, but they don't believe her and are sending her back to rehab. Shocked, Emily says she will help explain the situation to her parents because she is not going to say goodbye to her again.

The party begins. Hanna and Emily, along with everyone at the party, are watching footage of the swim team's victory, when Hanna points Emily out to the fact that Maya is sat on the stairs, looking very depressed. Emily goes over to talk to her, and Maya says she just isn't in a party mood. She asks if she and Emily can go somewhere, and Emily says they can after the party. Emily is called away by a fellow Shark, and Maya encourages her to go.

Later, Emily looks for Maya, and finds her, out on the patio, lighting a joint. Emily is angry to learn that Maya lied to her, and asks why. Maya is equally angry and goes to leave, but not before saying that Emily is much better at fitting in than she is. Emily says that she thought Maya didn't care, and Maya says she is very convincing. Emily says they can still talk to Maya's parents, but Maya says there is no way she is going back to rehab, and she has friends in San Francisco. Maya asks Emily to come with her, but Emily can't, not even for Maya.

After the party, Emily sits alone in the Marin kitchen, trying to call Maya. She feels terrible about their fight, and begs Maya to call her and to not do anything before they can talk about it. Unbeknownst to Emily, someone is watching her through the windows.

At school, the Liars discuss the payoff they arranged with Jonah. When Emily asks how Spencer got the money so fast, she replies that it is from a relative who didn't want to be named. Aria and Spencer plan to meet Jonah at 6 pm and ask Emily and Hanna not to join them because he might get suspicious if they crowd him. Emily and Hanna want to come along, but eventually agree not to go.

Emily tries to call Maya, but only reaches her voicemail. Disappointed, she sits down and sees Paige, who invites Emily to go around town and collect donations for the swim team with her. Emily declines initially, but when Paige pushes, mentioning how swim season is over, and Emily finally agrees.

Emily and Paige return to school after collecting donations. Paige gets a call from her mom and refers to Emily as "just a friend." When Emily asks her about it, she admits that she came out to her parents. She thanks Emily for giving her the courage to do so. Paige also comments that she wished she'd come out sooner. Before Emily can reply, she receives a "S.O.S." text from Hanna. Before she leaves, she tells Paige that she is very happy for her.

The girls gather in Spencer's bedroom where Hanna tells the girls about Ashley's sleeping with Officer Wilden to get the shoplifting charges dropped. She also tells them Mona has been getting texts from "A" about it. When Emily asks Hanna how much she's told Mona, she replies that she's told her nothing, but she feels bad about lying to her. When Hanna goes downstairs to get food, Spencer asks Hanna to check if Garrett is still outside, as he followed her home.

While Hanna is downstairs, Aria tells Emily and Spencer that "A" sent her dad a letter trying to get her caught with Ezra and now her mom is on the hunt to find out who "A" is. Spencer questions why "A "would send a letter like that if she and Ezra are not together anymore. Aria admits that they are actually still seeing each other. Emily accepts this, but Spencer is furious at Aria for lying. Aria apologizes, then before Spencer can reply, Hanna calls the other girls downstairs.

Downstairs, Hanna has received an email from Caleb. It's another part of Ian's video from Alison's room. Surprisingly, instead of Alison walking into the room as they expected, Melissa storms in angrily, asking "Where is she?" The girls are shocked and Aria, Hanna, and Emily immediately want to turn Melissa in, but Spencer gets extremely defensive. The girls reluctantly decide to let Spencer talk to Melissa before they do anything.

Later, Aria, Hanna, and Emily go to the address they had received from Mona earlier. It is the house of an abandoned law firm office. The door is locked, so they look around. Aria sees a stack of letters in the mail slot and goes to investigate. She pulls at a letter when suddenly a creepy old man yells back at her from inside. An alarm goes off. Terrified, she falls backward and hurts her leg. The other girls help her up and they run away.

Emily is at The Grille getting takeout when she sees a girl who looks like Maya. It's not though. Disappointed, Emily runs out of the Grille and almost collides with Paige. Paige notices that Emily is visibly upset, and tries to comfort her. She says Emily needs someone she can count on and gives her a hug. Paige tries to kiss Emily, but Emily backs away and leaves.

At school, Emily calls Maya again. Once again it goes to voicemail. She admits that she misses Maya like crazy. That night, Emily is greeted at her door by Officer Barry Maple. He says he needs to talk to her about Maya St. Germain.

Emily wakes Hanna when she returns from being questioned by Officer Barry. Apparently Maya left her parents a note and packed a bag. Emily is frustrated that she hasn't heard from Maya. Hanna thinks she should tell the cops that because every detail helps. Emily believes Maya ran away just like she said she would and just wants to get some sleep.

The girls stand outside at school to discuss the latest text from "A." They accuse Melissa of being "A," but Spencer insists it is impossible. Aria worries that Melissa may know about the N.A.T. video. Spencer explains how devastated Melissa was to find Ian dead and continues to insist there is no way she could be "A." Hanna thinks they should turn the video over to the cops anyway because it is evidence, but the other girls all agree turning over evidence to the cops has not worked in their favor in the past. They allow Spencer to try to get to the bottom of it on her own before doing anything.

Emily's father, Wayne, is back in town for the father-daughter dance. In Hanna's kitchen, they discuss the race Pam just ran and how Emily was a little disappointed she didn't come to her swim team finals. When Maya's name comes up, Emily looks visibly concerned and Wayne asks what is going on. She tells him her suspicions that Maya ran away to San Francisco. He suggests they check the bus station, if only for peace of mind, and mentions that he ran away once during high school. Wayne is supportive and tells Emily Maya may come home if she knows people care for her.

At the bus station, Emily finds the ticket agent who was working the night Maya disappeared. He is about to go on his lunchbreak and is not helpful when Emily tries to ask him questions. Wayne steps in and the man is more cooperative. He recognizes Maya's photo and tells them she bought a ticket to San Francisco. He also remembers seeing her later on, talking to someone in a dark-colored car. He is not sure if she got into the car or onto the bus.

Emily misses a call from Maya while she's in the shower. She calls her back immediately, but there is no answer and her voicemail box is full.

Emily meets her dad at the dance. He is wearing his dress uniform meant only for special occasions. Emily apologizes for being late because she was hoping Maya would call again. She wishes she hadn't wasted their whole weekend together searching for someone who might not want to be found. Wayne, however, doesn't care how they spend their time. Then he reveals he is being deployed to Afghanistan for 6 months starting tomorrow. So, they try to make the most of the time they have left together.

The next day, following a hint from Jonah, Spencer's car pulls up next to some stores in Brookhaven, a nearby town. The girls all get out of the car and Aria explains that Jonah told her Alison had been getting texts from more than one number, one of which led them here. Hanna wonders if Melissa could still be "A." They stand on the sidewalk wondering where the calls could have originated from when Aria spots a "Doll Hospital," a store full of antique dolls very similar to the dolls "A" sent. When Aria says she is cold, Spencer hands her the keys to get a coat out of the trunk, not just any coat - Vivian's coat. Aria puts it on, then hears a voice call out "Vivian." She turns to see a young man staring at her.

Later, sitting outside Lucky Leon's, Aria tells the others about Duncan, the boy who thought she was Vivian. She told him she was a friend of Vivian's and hasn't seen her since she gave her the coat. He doesn't know Alison/Vivian is dead because he has been in Florida the past year. Aria shows Spencer Duncan's number and tells her he met Vivian in a bookstore a few doors down from the creepy doll hospital Jonah sent them to. Emily questions if Duncan is just a random guy Alison flirted with, but Spencer is sure Ali wouldn't have wasted time flirting while trying to track down "A." Aria decides to call him. Just then, a car pulls up and Jenna and Toby emerge, Jenna's eye bandaged post-surgery. Spencer stands up and stares.

The next day, in the hall at school, Emily is standing at her locker when gets a text from Maya telling her she is alright and not to tell anyone she has heard from her.

While walking past the Cavanaugh house, Aria tells the others that Duncan admitted to seeing Alison the weekend she disappeared. Spencer is surprised to hear this and Hanna doubts if Duncan is telling the truth, but Aria believes his reaction to hearing Ali is dead was real. Garrett pulls away from the curb in a big hurry and the girls, besides Hanna, all receive a text from "A." They see Toby and Jenna across the street discussing something with the fire department. The girls all wonder if Toby is telling them about the night of the Jenna Thing.

The next day, Emily finds Spencer reading a book on a bench and asks her if she's still thinking about Toby. Spencer is worried she caused him to run back to Jenna. They change the subject to Emily's dad, who emailed her during a layover in Germany. She says she'll never get used to him being in a war. Her mom will be back next week. Spencer asks about Maya. Emily admits to having heard from her and isn't sure if she should tell Maya's parents.

Jason catches up with Spencer and Emily in the hallway. He has a bag of Ali's things that got packed up when Maya's family moved out. Maya dropped them off on the porch. Emily hopes he had spoken to Maya, but he hasn't seen her and is surprised to hear she is missing. Jason thought Spencer and her friends would like to see the things from Ali's room.

In Spencer's kitchen, Jason tells Spencer and Emily that Maya said the bag of Ali's things was hidden in the attic. Aria knocks at the door and enters, and lets Spencer know Duncan called back and she's going to meet him someplace he used to go with Alison. Emily unwraps a musical jewelry box with a ballerina that spins while the lid is up; it belonged to Ali as a kid. Veronica enters the room and gives Jason an unwelcoming look. Jason tells the girls to keep anything they'd like and bring back the rest.

Spencer and Emily sit in the living room and go through the bag. But, they are disappointed that the stuff from Ali's room doesn't have any connection or significance.

At Hanna's house, Emily checks her inbox and finds an email from Maya. Maya tells Emily how brave she is and how she admires her ability to deal with pressure. She says she shouldn't have come back because their last goodbye was perfect and not to tell her parents she has been in contact. Emily sighs and closes the laptop.

Jenna has an accident at Jason's house, but she was rescued by Hanna. So, Emily visits the hospital to check on them. There, Aria fills in Emily and Hanna about what Duncan told her. He had flown Alison back to Philly Labor Day weekend and she didn't take the bus like they thought. Just then Hanna's worried mom arrives and gives Hanna a hug. Seeing this, Emily realizes that Maya's parents might be feeling the same way. So, Emily calls Maya's mother to tell her she thinks Maya is okay.

Then Toby comes to get her and the other girls because Jenna wants to see them. Spencer and Emily think Jenna is going to accuse them of sending the text luring her to the house since Jason didn't send it. Jenna starts crying and says she doesn't blame them. She asks Hanna why she dragged her out. Hanna simply replies, 'You're welcome."

The girls gather in Spencer's bedroom to reexamine Ali's items. Hanna says they are the key to solving the mystery. They assume "A" must have lured Jenna into that house with the intention of killing her. At the bottom of the bag, Emily finds a torn postcard and Hanna finds a newspaper dated August filled with advertisements for events Labor Day weekend. An event in Rosewood is circled in red ink - a concert at the gazebo. The music box creepily starts playing on its own, startling the girls.

Spencer had a dream about having a conversation with Alison in her living room. Spencer wakes up, wondering whether it had only been a dream or perhaps she actually had talked to Ali. She is worried she is losing it. Emily tells Spencer in the past she has also had a conversation with Alison that felt real; that maybe they won't be able to sleep until the figure out what really happened the night Ali died. Emily gets a grouchy text from Maya who is mad she told her parents that she ran away.

At school, Spencer finds out that Alison and "A" had been communicating via newspaper classified ads and had planned to meet in person. The girls realize the meeting place was on Spruce Street, near the creepy doll hospital. Just then, Jenna and Toby approach them. Hanna gets jumps right to the chase, bluntly asking if Jenna can see or not. She shakes her head no and she says that Hanna saving her made her realize that people can grow, so now it's her turn. She is sorry and she wants to move on. Jenna then apologizes for hating them and for holding a grudge. She goes on to say she's never been the person they really needed to fear and walks away.

The girls discuss what just transpired. Aria believes Jenna to be sincere, but Emily doesn't buy her story, thinking she must be as angry as ever if the surgery failed. They ponder who Jenna may have been referring to, guessing Garrett, or Melissa. Spencer believes Ali had the answer and decides they must retrace her steps if they ever want to figure it out.

The girls go to the doll store in Brookhaven. Aria vents about her father and boarding school. They run into the owner, an older woman named Martha. They ask if anyone had ever bought a voodoo doll (the same as one Alison received), but Martha says they don't sell those. Inside they speak with a creepy young boy named Seth, who apparently has a "gift" that allows him to see things that haven't happened yet. He tells them that Alison was in the store two summers ago looking for a voodoo doll. He said he warned her against it, since a man and a woman with dark hair were trying to hurt her. The couple was not Jenna and Garrett as the woman was not blind. Martha sends him upstairs, but on his way out he says he's sorry for what happened to Alison, specifically citing her cause of death. The girls are visibly freaked out.

Later that night, the girls argue about the validity of Seth's claims. Spencer comes clean about her parents' belief that her sister could have had something to do with Alison's death. She also tells them about Jason being her brother. The girls are stunned. Spencer doesn't know what to think, but she knows Melissa had motive and opportunity to kill Ali.

At school the next day, Hanna decides enough is enough. They will trick Melissa into texting them, proving she is "A" once and for all.

That night, Emily watches Melissa as she runs errands while Mona and Caleb pull up to a curb nearby. They make awkward small talk until Mona explains that though neither of them want to be there, they are doing it for Hanna. She describes how her close friendship with Hanna changed once Caleb entered the picture and admits that she had been jealous of their relationship. Emily texts Mona "Showtime," and they proceed to make out as Melissa walks out of a building. Caleb pulls away, but Mona assures him they are doing it "for Hanna" and kisses him again. Melissa definitely takes notice as she walks to her car. Hanna and Spencer wait in Hanna's bedroom for the text they know is coming. When it does, Hanna takes it as proof that Melissa is "A." Spencer looks stunned.

Downstairs, Hanna packs up her laptop to bring to the police. Spencer has mixed feelings about turning in her own sister, but Hanna insists it is the right thing to do. Emily arrives after driving Caleb home and agrees with Spencer it may be wise to get more proof; that Jenna and Garrett could still be involved. Emily suggests they show Seth the video from Alison's room so he could point out the couple who wanted to hurt Ali. Hanna thinks the idea is nuts, but Spencer points out that Seth somehow knew how Alison died, which was never made public. Mona arrives interrupting their argument. She goes upstairs to shower and Hanna agrees not to tell Mona what's going on. Hanna agrees to stop by the doll store on the way to the police station.

Hanna, Spencer and Emily find the door of the doll shop unlocked. The enter, calling out Martha's name. They find a box full of the voodoo dolls Martha claimed not to sell. The lights go out and a doll's voice begins chanting "Follow me, end up like me" on a loop. Instead of running away, the open a cupboard and find a bloody blonde doll half in a grave holding a shovel - recreating Alison's death! Things begin crashing to the floor around them as they try to run out, almost leaving Hanna's laptop in the process. Hanna grabs the laptop and gets out moments before the entire shelf comes crashing down.

The other girls gather up all the items they are going to take to the police, including all of Ali's things. Spencer hopes the police can make sense of it and mentions her dream to Hanna when they hear a noise downstairs. Melissa and Garrett are in the kitchen. He helps her lift the package she picked up earlier and then they kiss. She assures him that there is no way Spencer is turning in the video, thinking that she scared her into keeping quiet. There is a knock at the door. Two detectives enter and they ask Garrett to surrender his weapon. They place him under arrest for the murder of Alison DiLaurentis. Melissa locks eyes with Spencer, who has witnessed the whole thing with Hanna and Emily from the stairs.

One week later, the girls are in Spencer's kitchen, watching the news. The local news station reports the arrest of Garrett Reynolds for the murder of Alison DiLaurentis. He became a cop in order to destroy evidence, page 5 the girls surmise. Melissa appears and tell the girls she always knew Ian didn't kill Alison, and never believed they did either, though she knows about "The Jenna Thing." If Garrett killed Alison, then he must have had a good reason. She helps herself to Aria's frozen yogurt and leaves the girls feeling more suspicious of her then ever.

They all receive a text from "A" instructing them to return the cell phone as a messenger delivers invitations to a masquerade ball along with a message from "A" that demands their attendance. Spencer is sure they can discover who "A" is before the midnight deadline because hide and seek is her favorite game.

Outside school, the girls discuss how smart and untrustworthy Melissa is. Spencer insists they overlooked a clue in Ali's bag. They change the subject to costume choices when Mona approaches. Mona suggests they all go shopping after school together. They all turn her down one by one.

Aria brings the girls to Ezra's apartment while he is out of town for a safe place to search Ali's bag. The girls look through his book collection and photo albums and plenty of comments. Hanna gets a text from Mona asking where she is since she's not with Caleb. They comb through the contents of Alison’s bag once more and find the clue they were looking for.

That evening, during a thunderstorm, they drive to the Lost Woods Resort. The innkeeper, a dead ringer for Norman Bates, taps on the window, scaring them on top of their already frayed nerves. Spencer asks for Room 1, the number on the postcard they found in Ali’s things. Hanna trips in the mud on the way to the room. Once inside the room, Hanna and Emily try to warm up while Spencer keeps an eye on the front office waiting for the innkeeper to leave. Aria volunteers to go with Spencer to get a closer look at the guest book.

Hanna decides to take a shower to wash off the mud. Emily gets a call from Maya and goes outside to try to get a better signal, but the call ends by then.

Later, the girls arrive at the masquerade together. They have 3 hours to figure out who "A" is and agree to split up for the next hour to investigate separately. Sometime later, Spencer calls Emily. Something Mona said made Spencer realize that no one had checked into Room 2 since before Ali went missing. With 2 hours 'til midnight, she and Mona drive back to the motel to look for more clues.

Then, a masked Paige dressed in a suit approaches Emily. Paige and Emily sit down and have a conversation about their relationship. Paige wishes she hadn't let Emily go the first time around. In the end, they decide to be friends.

During the dance, Hanna happens to notice the Black Swan make an entrance. Aria and Emily reunite with Hanna and they are curious about the identity of the Black Swan. They see her talking to Jenna and Lucas. When they try to get a closer look, the mystery woman runs away, escaping out the back door which locks behind her. All she leaves behind is a feather from her dress.

Hanna tries to call Spencer, who has gone to the Lost Woods Resort again with Mona, but her phone isn't working. Aria makes the call instead as they realize Hanna's phone has been set to record every time it is turned on. Spencer covertly answers Aria's video call so that her friends can see and hear her conversation with Mona. The girls come to the realization that Mona is in fact "A," leaving Hanna in a state of disbelief that her so-called friend is "A." A quick-thinking Spencer drops the hint that they are headed to Look Out Point. Aria knows a shortcut and they race to get there first.

While arriving at the lookout point, Hanna careens towards Mona but at the girls' screams, slams on the brakes just before she strikes her down. Mona screams, runs and tackles Spencer and tries to push her off Look Out Point. They struggle and Mona slips and falls off the edge. The girls run to Spencer's side and stare in horror down at Mona.

Shortly after, the authorities and an ambulance arrive, surprisingly, along with Dr. Sullivan, and they discover Mona survived the fall. Dr. Sullivan comforts the girls, who are all visibly shaken by what has happened. Dr. Sullivan reveals that "A" blackmailed her by threatening her son, which is why she disappeared. Dr. Sullivan diagnoses Mona with a personality disorder which caused her to experience a sense of hyper-reality and omnipresence.

Later, the girls head to Emily's house to spend the night when an ambulance rushes past them. The police are waiting, and Emily runs up to her mom, who tells her that the police found a body… and they think it is Maya's. Emily is distraught. She falls into Spencer's arms and screams and sobs at the sight of the stretcher taking the body away while the girls try to comfort her.

It Happened 'That Night'
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Five months have passed since Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer found out about Mona being "A" and Maya's death. The girls are having a sleepover and discussing their summer plans: Aria has been taking photography classes; Spencer has been taking a full course load at Hollis; Hanna has been expanding her vocabulary and taking cooking classes with Caleb; and Emily has been constructing houses in Haiti. Emily has clearly not been taking Maya's death well, excessively drinking and snapping at her friends when they try to take away the bottle from her.

Emily is then seen standing over Alison's grave, holding a shovel. The grave has been dug up and Alison's body is missing from the casket. The other girls join Emily at the graveyard. A dazed Emily doesn’t remember a thing after getting so wasted at the sleepover. Spencer goes through Emily's phone and finds out that Emily had received a blocked call from somebody at 11pm, and from Spencer's phone at midnight, meaning someone was in Spencer's house while they were all sleeping. That means it’s a setup for Emily to take the fall.

The girls decide to cover for Emily so Hanna and Aria wipe any fingerprints off the shovel and bury it in the middle of the woods. At Spencer's house, Spencer burns the clothes Emily was wearing so that there is no evidence against her. She then leaves a note to her mom saying they were at the lakehouse since that afternoon, providing them a solid alibi.

The next day at the lakehouse, Spencer receives a call from her mother, stating that there were no witnesses and relief spreads across the girls. Emily feels guilty but the others comfort her saying that it was not her fault. They get their stories straight, and make a decision to pretend like last night never happened.

At home, Emily unpacks from her trip to Haiti. She drapes the scarf Maya gave her when they first started seeing each other over a framed photo of them together. Pam informs Emily reporters are asking questions again and that she slammed the door in their faces as usual. She tells Emily she's proud of her for making a difference this summer and Maya would be too and that with time her grief will lessen.

During senior registration, Emily watches Aria, Hanna and Spencer from the courtyard, seeing them talking and smiling while they wait their turn to register for classes. She turns around and walks away.

Emily meets Toby in a café. He is remodeling the loft upstairs, so he gets to live there for free until he finishes the work. He seems very happy to be out on his own. When Emily asks about Jenna, he says he hasn't talked to her since she left the town. Toby asks Emily if she's okay, and she says she's not and that she has to tell him something. Emily tells Toby she spent the whole summer partying too hard. He sympathizes, not being able to imagine losing someone the way Emily lost Maya. Emily tells him she went to a party once and has no memory of it. She feels like she let her friends down. Toby comforts her by saying that her friends love and accept her for who she is.

While jogging, Emily sees a blue convertible that triggers her memory of 'that night,' but the images are vague. Emily wants to go after the car, but she receives a text stating, “I bet you remember me,” before the car drives off.

Emily goes to Spencer's, where the girls have been swimming and worrying about Emily all day. Emily promises she stuck to the story when the cops questioned her, then tells them about the car. She determined that her subconscious may be blocking memories of the that night and anything could trigger it at any time. She shows them the text. Hanna insists it can't be Mona who sent the text and proves it by telling them about her visits to the Radley. Spencer then reveals a secret of her own.

Spencer takes the other girls to the Lost Woods Resort. She shows them the 3-D diagram she created on her computer in an attempt to recreate the lair as was before it was emptied. The girls admit that they lied to Emily. The day after Maya's body was found, the other girls returned to the Lost Woods to destroy the evidence which would get themselves and their loved ones in a lot of trouble, but the room had already been emptied. They discuss the likelihood that Mona had been working with someone else, who could have given Emily the massage and helped move Ian's body from the bell tower. Spencer believes this person to be the Black Swan, who must have been guilty of something or she would have no reason to run.

Just then, the Liars hear Spencer’s car alarm go off, prompting them to go outside, leaving Spencer's laptop alone in the room. The doors are wide open, and the seats and dash and trunk are covered in photographs of the girls at the cemetery in front of Ali’s open grave. The girls then receive a simultaneous text message : "Mona played with dolls. I play with body parts. Game on, bitches. –A."

Blood Is The New Black

Emily is in English class with Spencer and Aria as Mrs.Montgomery hands back papers. She jokes by saying the kids need to spend more time writing notes instead of partying. Emily puts her paper away in her bag when she sees a necklace. She takes it out and it says "DEAD GIRLS CANT SMILE." Emily drops the necklace back in her bag and stands up terrified. Ella asks if she is alright but Emily asks if she can be excuse and Ella says yes. Spencer and Aria follow her out.

In the bathroom, Emily is washing her hands as Spencer, Hanna and Aria follow her in. Emily shows them the necklace she found that has the words and what looks like teeth around it. Hanna says that they are real because she worked in a dentist's office before. The girls wonder if they are Ali's teeth. They hear noises outside so the four girls run into the stalls together. Emily says she is sorry again for putting them through this but the girls assure her it isn't her fault. They discuss if they should give it to the police but Hanna says that they lied about the lake house so what would they tell them. Spencer says she'll keep it in her locker but Hanna says it isn't safe from A. Hanna and Aria fight over the necklace but drop it in the toilet. Spencer says she'll get it but the toilet has senors and it goes off flushing the necklace down the drain.

In the courtyard, the girls talk about this new A and how Mona was never working alone. They ask Hanna if she can go back to see Mona while Spencer goes back to talk to Garret. As Hanna leaves, Emily Spencer and Aria see Jenna come in. Emily wonders if anyone has talked to her since she got the surgery done. Spencer thinks it shady that she didn't come back in town until the first week of school. Emily, Spencer and Aria think that Jenna is related to the events that

happened at the Masquerade party and her and Lucas are connected. Aria then says that Jenna is blinder than she was last year after running into some kids.

Emily, Spencer and Aria go back into the school hallway where Emily says that she has to make up 4 tests because she went away. Spencer says that she needs a tutor and Aria says that she should ask Ezra. Emily and Spencer joke by saying that would be awkward because she has seen his underwear drawer and she couldn't think of him as Mr. Fitz anymore. Aria says that was his sock drawer but then sees Meredith in the hallway. Aria informs them that is her dad's Meredith and she just applied for a job here.



Emily meets Ezra at The Brew where he asks her if he can get her anything but she says no thank-you and calls him Mr.Fitz. He says that she can call him Ezra but Emily says she cant but she will try. Emily and Ezra sit down and he asks her what tests she has to make up. She says English, Spanish and 2 other ones. Ezra says they'll start with the one that he knows which is English. Ezra also says that he is sorry about Maya but Emily says that they don't have to talk about that. Ezra says he knows but is still sorry.

The next day, Emily is walking with Spencer, Hanna and Aria as she tells them that her meeting with Ezra was a little weird but she got through it. When they get to Aria's locker, they see a present which is a pair of earrings. They ask her who's earring those are and Aria tells them about how she trashed her dad's office with Ali after she found out they were having an affair. The girls are shocked to hear this but more shocked when Aria says she put these in the casket that Ali's mom put together.

Emily meets Ezra again but this time she is really nervous and seems distracted. Ezra says that he knows she knows the material she just has to focus on it. He tries to help her by asking what she does before a swim meet and Emily says she listens to music. Ezra says that is the key to passing her exams. Before she takes it, listen to music.



Emily is in the classroom ready to take the test. She is listening to music like Ezra said she should. Ella walks up and points at her ears saying she has to take them out. Ella also asks her if she is ready and Emily says yes. She gives Emily the test and Emily begins answering the questions. Emily is taking the test when she looks up and sees a girl put a clip in her hair. Emily flashes back to that night where she sees Jenna doing the same thing. Emily is distracted by this and cant concentrate after. Ella then says that there is 5 more minutes. When Ella collects the test, she asks Emily if she studied and if she is alright. Emily says she is fine and that she did the best she could and rushes out of the room with her test unfinished.

Emily meets up with Spencer, Hanna and Aria in the girls bathroom. Hanna tells them what Mona said as Spencer tells them that her mom is defending Garret and about what Toby found which was Jenna's eye droplets which she has not used yet meaning she isn't blind. This makes the girls wonder why her mom if defending him but Spencer has no idea. Aria also shares that the earring were not Meredith's. Emily tells her friends about her recent flashback of Jenna that she was in her car as Jenna was driving. The bell rings so the girls then leave saying they'll meet up with each other at lunch.

As the walk out, Spencer sees Jenna walking this way so she rushes Emily, Hanna and Aria back in. Spencer, thinking fast, asks Aria for the earrings she just showed them. Aria gives her the earring and Spencer puts it a place where Jenna can see it testing her to see if she can see. Spencer and Hanna go in one stall as Emily and Aria go in the other one right next to them. Jenna walks in and picks up the earring taking off her glasses. This makes the girls know that she can see. After Jenna leaves, Hanna and Aria want to slap her but Spencer says that they could use this to find out answers about what Jenna knows because Jenna doesn't know that they know that she isn't blind. The girls then smile at this because they will get answers from this.

Later, Emily goes to the Brew and confronts Ezra about taking the blame for what Ella did. She thinks he did it because he felt sorry for her, and is sick of Ezra and everybody else treating her like "she was made of glass." He apologizes if he made things worse. Then, he gives her a new version of the test, and asks her to solve it.

Birds of a Feather

Emily starts her first day of work at The Brew. As she is beginning work, Maya’s cousin, Nate, comes looking for her. As she is busy right now, they decide to meet later. He gives his number and reveals to Emily that he’s going to attend Hollis, so he will be staying in Rosewood.

Emily is surprised as Maya hadn't mentioned any cousin attending Hollis. Nate explains that he had applied before, but got in only recently. Before leaving, he tells her that he was really looking forward to hanging out with Maya again. After her work Emily meets up with Nate. He shows her a picture Emily had sent to Maya when she was in True North. Then, he gives her the gift that Maya had intended to give Emily. Maya’s mom wanted Emily to have it. Nate explains that the present had arrived a few weeks after the funeral took place.

When Em opens the box, she's clearly moved: There's note saying, 'For My Girl, Love You, Em' and a T-Shirt of the movie they went to see on their first date. Emily and Nate are at the Grille. She learns that Nate's a good swimmer too. They then talk about Maya. Nate tells Emily that Maya always talked about her. She was Maya's first real love. They're silent for sometime, then Emily then asks him for Maya's parents' address for sending them a thank you note. As he is in a hurry now, Nate promises to give it to her later. After he leaves, Emily notices that he had left behind a book.

Later Spencer tells the girls that that they need to find out who the Black Swan is pronto. They also need to find out where Melissa lost her baby so they drive to  Philly.

Hanna, Aria, and Emily are near Melissa’s Philadelphia apartment. They watch Melissa go out and Hanna calls Spencer. The plan is for Spencer to keep Melissa busy, so that the others can search her place. Spencer tells girls not go inside the apartment until Melissa meets her. After 20 minutes the girls enter Melissas apartment and they search for medical records, or anything relating to the baby.

They notice Melissa through the window right as she’s about to enter the apartment. As the girls quickly try to put everything back together and hide, Melissa walks in. Melissa heads straight for the closet that the girls are hiding in to grab her wallet out of one of her coats, and it’s a close one for the girls. As they’re hanging everything back up they notice a hanging garment bag from a costume shop. It’s empty when they open it – except for 1 feather… that matches the Black Swan costume.

Back in Rosewood Emily meets up with Nate again and gives him the book. She asks for the address, but Nate's sending them a package, and asks if he can put the letter with it. She agrees and gives him the letter. Nate says he wants to transfer, because all that people are talking about is Maya’s death, and it’s hard for him to adjust. Emily says that if he decides to stay, he’ll have a friend in her.

That Girl is Poison

Spencer, Aria and Emily are on an evening stroll  They consider going to Hanna's House with takeout, who is still brooding over her break-up with Caleb, when suddenly, they hear sirens. A police car and ambulance pull up to Garrett's house and Mrs. Reynolds is rolled out on a stretcher Aria does the side-eye and spots somebody in a hoodie watching from the shadows. She tells Emily and Spencer, but by the time they look, "A" is gone. They suspect if "A" hurt Mrs. Reynolds to get her out of the house.

The next day at school Emily spots Paige and asks her if she wants to go the movies. Paige is surprised that Emily is asking her, since she thought Emily had been avoiding her. Emily insists that it’s been her own issues keeping her from her social life. Emily then spots Jenna sauntering down the hallway in a shower of congratulations from her peers. Seeing the surprised look on her face, Paige explains that she had more surgery before school, and now she can see. Emily and Jenna exchange glances.

Emily's at work at The Brew, where Jenna's sitting nearby. Emily's boss asks her to work during Jenna's party, despite her being a guest. Emily serves Jenna who introduces her to Laurel Tuchman, who will be taking photos at the party. Emily overhears Lauren talk about firing her assistant because she caught him stealing equipment. Suddenly, Nate rushes in and makes a scene about Garrett getting out. Emily reassures him Garrett will be with the cops and that his mother’s very ill, but he doesn’t care. Emily has to get back to work, so she asks him to stay for sometime. He spots Jenna, who grins at him.

Emily has to cancel the movie date with Paige, but they'll see each other at the party. There is a lot of tension between the two. Paige spots Emily's flask. She assures Paige "I'm done with that. and says that Paige can have it.

Emily tells the girls about Laurel shooting the party and Lucas. They speculate whether Lucas was the one who dug Alison up and whether there are ulterior motives for Jenna's party.

At Jenna's party Emily sees Paige and is very happy to see her. While Paige and Emily talk, they see Nate walk in the door. Nate tells Emily about meeting Jenna the other night at The Brew. Paige appears to be adding booze from Emily's flask to her drink. Emily and Jenna spots a drunk Paige and tries to talk to her with no result. Paige later falls and hits her head.

Emily and Nate take Paige to the hospital. Hanna meets her there and shows her the jacket. Hanna asks if Emily left the jacket in Jenna's car. Emily thinks A is responsible for it getting to the rummage sale and thinks maybe she saw more than just Jenna that night. Hanna leaves the hospital. Emily sees Wilden leave and immediately sends a text.

Nate asks Emily about her relationship with Paige. Spencer drops by and wants to go upstairs to the room where Garrett's mother is in. Nate goes after Garrett but is held back by police. During the commotion Spencer jumps into the elevator. Paige comes out with a few stitches. She doesn't remember anything, but it turns out alcohol wasn't her problem. A tox screen found traces of a sleeping pill in her system. She gives a concerned-looking Emily back the flask.



Aria calls Emily and looks at the negatives. Emily looks up the drug from her flask and finds it's a sedative used to subdue aggressive patients and inmates. One of the side effects is memory loss and Emily realizes she was drugged that night.

The Remains of the "A"

Hanna visits Emily at work. She explains to her what happened at the hospital then hands her a paper with an address. The address (Riverside and State St.), is the pickup location of the bag with Emily's jacket, which was delivered to the church. After finishing her work at the brew Emily goes to the address Hanna gave her. She recognizes a cafe named 'Sputnik's' from a flashback from that night.

Emily has another flashback from "that night." She remembers someone (was it herself?) solving a maze, with the words "I'm sorry I left you" written beside it. Somebody with an eye tattoo on his/her wrist was there with her. She leaves some money on the table and leaves

Emily arrives at the party and meets Holden. He offers her a cupcake, and she sees the same eye tattoo from her flashback on his wrist. Holden shows her that it is erasable, and not a tattoo. It is for some sort of club/party. Holden tells her that he used to see Maya there. He looks uneasy, and walks away.

Crazy

Aria, Spencer and Emily run into a girl who looks and sounds just like Alison. Her name is CeCe Drake, a friend of Alison's who dated Jason. Nate tells Emily he has a date coming up with Jenna. Jenna told him the two of them were good friends, and that she knew Maya, whom she apparently drove to school a couple times. Emily helps Nate shop for a gift for Jenna at CeCe's boutique. CeCe recognizes Emily as the one who had a crush on Alison. She asks if she has feelings for Nate but Emily says they're just friends. Emily tells her about how Jenna used to be blind and that she isn't a safe person for Nate to date. Emily tells Nate a few things about Jenna. She mentions that she dated Garrett, but it doesn't seem to bother him.

That night Emily runs into CeCe on the street. While they're talking CeCe calls Jenna and pretends to be Nate's angry girlfriend who wants him left alone. Emily is shocked, but CeCe says, "We're helping your friend out. Problem solved." The next day Emily spots Nate alone, having been stood up because of CeCe's call to Jenna.

That night Aria and Hanna tells Emily and Spencer about Maya's site but they have no idea what the password is.

Stolen Kisses

The next morning, Emily tries one possible password but comes up short. Emily and Nate go to one of Maya's favorite spots in town and reminisce. he tells her about Jenna standing him up. She called and told him "something came up." Nate tells her he's thought about killing Garrett with his bare hands and Emily becomes uneasy telling him not to talk like that.

After talking to Nate Emily goes over to Paige's house to tell her that she wants to explain the truth about what happened with her flask. Hesitantly, Paige agrees to meet her after school.

The next day Emily and Paige go for a run. They stop in the woods and Emily tells her the drug was in her flask. She swears it wasn't on purpose and tells her she's not sure who was trying to drug her. Paige reveals that for at least part of the night that Emily was at Alison's grave, they were together. Paige explained that at about 11pm that night Emily was sitting on her steps. Paige took her in to her house, thinking she was drunk. Emily kissed Paige and Paige didn't stop her, although she knew it was wrong. Paige went into the kitchen and came back with a glass of water, but Emily was gone. Paige tried calling her, but nobody answered. Paige tries to apologize to Emily but Emily doesn't want to talk and Paige walks away.

That night she goes back to Maya's favorite spot and Nate appears. Emily asks Nate if a person can do something without knowing it, Nate tells Emily he believes that even when you do something in a dream or when you're drugged, it's still you. Hearing this, Emily realizes kissing Paige were her true feelings coming out.

Emily walks to Paige's house finding Paige at the pool. Paige apologizes to Emily and says she'll kill whoever put that stuff in her flask. Emily tells her not to say it or mean it. After Emily tells her that even though she was drunk that night, she was "looking for somebody." And came to Paige. Emily passionately kisses Paige. Later she and Paige are skinny dipping in the pool.

The Kahn Game

Spencer and Hanna sees Emily with Paige and Spencer thinks that Emily deserves a moment of happiness and decides not to tell her about Mayas website. Hanna later confronts Emily about having been able to hack into Maya's website a few days ago. Upset, Emily asks why she didn't tell her sooner and Hanna responds that they all saw her so happy with Paige that they didn't want to ruin that for her with past memories of Maya. Instead of giving the log-in information to Spencer like Caleb asked, Hanna gives it to Emily to see for herself instead.

That night, Emily watches the videos on Mayas website when suddenly Paige enters the room. Emily tells Paige about Maya's secret website but Paige understands how it feels to miss a loved one who is no longer alive. Emily says to Paige that she d doesn't want it to hurt anymore and Paige comforts her.

What Lies Beneath

Hanna finding a letter from Maya to Emily. She shows it to the girls. Maya wrote that she had something she wanted to show Emily, but not to contact her phone because someone had stolen it.

Nate drops by to see Emily at the coffee shop. He spots Jenna with Noel and starts getting angry. After Noel leaves Nate walks over to Jenna and starts harassing her about giving her a late birthday present. She heatedly tells him to get out of her way. Emily sends Spencer a text letting her know Noel is on his way to practice. "Opportunity knocks", she writes.



Hanna and Emily go to Noel's cabin to look around. They walk inside, not knowing that there is a security camera pointed on the location. Inside Noel's cabin, it is still messy from Noel's last party. Emily says that there is no way that Maya would have wanted Emily to meet her here, but Hanna insists on looking around.

During their search of Noel's cabin, Hanna decides to check another room. They end up finding a door hidden behind a bookshelf. Inside is a bedroom set-up and Maya's bag. Inside Maya's bag is an old birthday card Emily gave to Alison on her 14th birthday, a knife with "LJ" carved onto it, and a one-way bus ticket to San Francisco. They realize Maya never left Rosewood. The door slams shut, locking them in. They yell out asking "Who's there?" and "What do you want?" and then the light goes off.



In the cabin Emily and Hanna are trying to get out. Emily says there's no service but they think whoever locked them in has just left. Emily begins breaking windows and Hanna ends up getting a cut from the glass in her leg. Emily ties a scarf around Hanna's thigh and they are finally able to escape through a window. Outside they find a spray painted message from "A": "I'm saving you for later." Emily thinks that Hanna needs to go to the hospital. She won't go, so Emily calls Wren.

Emily shows him Maya's bag and some of her stuff. She tells Nate how she thinks Maya had been staying at the cabin. They hug and begin to kiss. At this exact moment Paige walks by and sees them. After Paige walks away, angrily pushing over some trash cans, Nate tells Emily he'd wanted to kiss her for a long time and he hasn't felt this close to anyone for a while. Emily gets a text from Paige canceling their plans.

The next day Paige casually asks Emily the next day about what she did last night. Emily said that it was intense and says she and Nate 'mostly' just talked. "Mostly?" asked Paige and doesn't revel that she saw Emily and Nate kiss.

Single Fright Female

Emily tells Paige about kissing Nate. She thinks it makes sense given their relationship to Maya and the emotion involved. After school Nate asks Emily if she wants to go out for dinner and a movie. She cuts him off, saying she wants them to just be friends. Visibly upset, he tells Emily that he recalls Maya giving the same speech to "20 different guys." Spencer asks Emily about Paige's history with Alison. Emily is upset Spencer is suggesting a dark side in Paige and eventually yells at her. We see that someone has been eavesdropping on them (probably A).

While studying Emily asks Paige about Alison. Paige says she barely knew Alison. Paige asks whether or not Emily should be questioning her friends, as Emily was the only one who was poisoned amongst the girls on "that night". Emily says "I trust these girls with my life." Paige says Emily's right but thinks she should spend some more time with them.

Emily arrives at the trunk show with Paige. While Emily tries on a dress, Paige and Spencer talk alone. Paige says being with Emily has made her feel more confident and tells Spencer she'd like to make a fresh start with her and the girls. Spencer tells Hanna about the talk with Paige and wonders if perhaps the knife is in her bag. They snag it and quickly look through. Just as Emily comes out of the dressing room, they turn around, concealing the bag. Emily notices, takes the bag, and leaves with Paige.

Paige and Emily talk on the front porch. Paige comes clean about Alison torturing her for years and begins to cry. Paige says she became suicidal but ultimately didn't want to let Alison win. Paige leaves Emily on the porch to wash her face. While she's gone, Jenna walks over to Emily and says "I need to talk to you about your friend." When Jenna realizes that Emily isn't alone, she cryptically warns her to be very careful who she spends her time with. "Very careful." Emily watches, confused, as Jenna gets into a cab. While she's distracted, Paige declines a call from Spencer on Emily's phone.

The Lady Killer

Aria, Spencer and Hanna discuss about how to tell Emily that Paige has Alison's body and is "A." They lure Emily to Hanna's house with promises of an apology for how they acted towards Paige. However, when Emily arrives, they "hit her with the truth." They show her the earring from Ali's grave that they found in Paige's bag, but Emily says that "A" has planted things where they were before. She also suggests that the girls are lying to her: "When did it become so easy for you to lie to your friends?" She leaves promptly, after saying, "Three to one. "A" wins." The girls realize that this is what "A," or Paige, wants - to separate Emily from the girls and have her all to herself.

Paige is at Emily's house. Emily says to Paige that they don't know who she is. Emily then reveals to Paige that the girls are being tortured by a new "A." Paige seems offended that the other girls think she is the new "A." Then, Paige gets a text from "A," telling her to go to Ali's grave at the Rosewood Cemetery at 10pm or Emily gets hurt.

Emily tells her mother that she is going out of town with Nate to avoid all the reporters hounding her about Garrett's trial. They are going to stay in a Lighthouse Rock Inn in Belmar. Her mother would rather have Emily stay home with family, but Emily says, "with Maya's family," and also mentions that Nate and Maya's parents will be there. Spencer and Hanna are okay with Emily going out of town, thinking that a little trip will be good for her. As Hanna leaves, Spencer looks at a flyer for a Ghost Train Party.

At the Lighthouse Inn, Emily is woken up by a phone call from "A" (presumably) telling her, in a distorted voice: "You have one minute. Get out." She looks around for Nate, but she can't find him.

Emily looks through Nate's bag and finds an envelope. He comes in the room and almost catches her. Nate says that his parents will arrive in a few hours. As he is depositing some wood into the fireplace, Emily sees yellow paint splatters on his boots. This rings a bell to her. Emily goes through her phone and looks at pictures of Maya at True North - one of the pictures shows Maya sitting on a picnic blanket, with a yellow paint-splattered boot opposite her. Emily realizes that Nate was the guy from True North that Maya had dated, and ultimately, her stalker.

Emily heads out for fresh air, but Nate stops her. He gives her her jacket. Emily heads through the woods and tries to call the girls. However, she is stopped by Nate. She says that he scared her half to death, and he says, "Not really. But I will."

Nate and Emily are back in the inn. Nate makes Emily watch a video of Maya telling Emily that she was staying in Noel Kahn's cabin because her True North stalker had come to Rosewood. Maya says that their relationship will rekindle. Right behind her, Nate continually bangs a knife against a table. As the video ends, he tells Emily that he had always loved Maya and that he was never her cousin. He's not who he claims to be - rather, his name is Lyndon James. He says that when he found Emily at The Brew talking about Maya, he was at a cross between hating her because Maya loved her, but loving her as well because he could connect to Maya through Emily.

Lyndon says that when he and Emily kissed, he thought that maybe he didn't have to hate Emily, but then Emily played him, like what Maya did. He tells Emily that since she took Maya from him, he will take Paige from her and he pulls a gagged, sobbing, Paige from the closet, knife in hand. Emily snatches her phone as Lyndon gets ready to kill Paige. However, he gets a distraction as he hears footsteps right outside the inn. Emily takes the opportunity to run out through the back.

Lyndon follows Emily all the way up into the lighthouse. Emily tries to call 911, but cannot answer as he fights her, knife in hand. In the struggle for the knife, she stabs him in the stomach. He falls to the floor. Caleb shows up and leaves his gun on a shelf in the tower while comforting and hugging Emily. Suddenly, there is a gunshot and we see in later scenes that Caleb has been shot in the abdomen. Caleb's and Lyndon's bodies are loaded into an ambulance as a completely distraught Hanna sobs, with Spencer and Aria comforting her.

The police confirm that Lyndon is dead, while questioning a traumatized Emily about Lyndon. "The deceased was a friend of yours?" Paige goes up to the police while Emily runs forth to the other girls. She says to the police that someone had sent her a text telling her to go to Alison's grave, but Nate had gotten her before she could get there.

Later, the four girls are in the hospital, waiting to hear further news about Caleb's condition. He is in surgery, and isn't dead. The girls see Garrett and Veronica Hastings walk in. Veronica walks over to the girls and apologizes for what Emily experienced. However, she says that thanks to Emily, Garrett is a free man. The girls get a five-way call from A, yet again in a distorted voice, saying: "Emily, I owe you one." Emily looks up at Garrett, who smiles in return.

This Is A Dark Ride

The Liars are walking discussing their Halloween costumes and the ghost train party together. As they're walking they see a casket in a front yard with the words "RIP Alison DiLaurentis". A very aggravated Emily walks over to take it down and Clifford Yourdly jumps out of the casket and scares the girls.

At the train station Emily is arriving with Paige and she walks up to her friends as the ghost train arrives. Aboard the ghost train Emily and Paige share a kiss unaware that they are being watched by The queen of hearts. Later Spencer tells Emily, and Hanna about Garrets secret and that Aria's father could be involved with Alison's death.

Emily tells Spencer and Hanna that she can't find Aria. Spencer, Hanna and Emily starts looking for Aria in the train and finds her in the last second before the box she was thrown in falls of the train. At the end of the ghost train ride Emily, the girls and others stay behind to be questioned by the police. Noel and Toby have a phyiscal altercation and knock over the large ice box. Alison's bodybag falls out. The liars stare in shock.

She's Better Now Emily is in her room when she receives a text from Hanna telling her that Mona is back. A ladder then leans up against Emily's window. As she goes to see where the ladder has come from, her dad enters the room and tells her that they are installing a new alarm system on all the windows in the house. Wayne tells Emily that Garrett's mother called. She is going to the Rosewood police to talk about her son's death. Emily ends the discussion by saying she is going for a run to train for the 10k Varsity Club Fundraiser tomorrow night for school, but Wayne tells her that he and her mother do not want her to be running at night with all that has happened. Later the girls are talking about Mona at school, and Emily suggests that they all befriend Mona thinking that maybe Mona will tell them something about what happened the night of Halloween, specifically about Aria's dad.

Emily apologizes to Aria later and they walk to class together. Aria tells Emily that she still hasn't told Ezra about his son. They then walk into their history class and are shocked to see that Meredith is their new teacher. During class, Meredith asks Aria a question to which she does not know the answer to as she is texting the rest of the girls. Meredith takes Aria's phone and asks her to stay after class. Aria, however, does not stay alone. Spencer, Hanna, and Emily also stay and Meredith asks them to not stop texting about her history with Byron during class.

After school Emily is sitting at home under house arrest when her dad tells her he's going out for a few hours. She quickly swaps their phones over when he isn't looking so that she can turn off the alarm system. She climbs out of the window and meets the girls at the janitor's office. They unlock the door but find that Mona's stuff is gone. However, they find the book he was writing in, which they discover to be Ali's diary.

They find a page of Alison's Diary that talks about how she was blackmailing Byron about Meredith. They hear a noise and Aria rips the page out and they leave but they run into Harold, who questions them what they were doing down and snatches the page in Aria's hand there but are saved when Toby comes down looking for them. Back home Emily's dad receives a call saying that Meredith was harmed in the fire. He asks why Emily is being so secretive with him.

Mona-Mania

Spencer, Hanna and Emily go to Harold's office looking for the diary. Spencer hears something, and a person in a hooded sweatshirt suddenly pops out and escapes from the office, but not before Hanna catches sight of their dirty, black shoes. They find the room empty of Mona's things and a diary that looks like Ali's, but does not have writing in it. All is left is a note from A that reads: "Keep moving, ladies. Nothing to see here."

Later in school Paige tells Emily her parents are being very strict and setting curfews for her since the lighthouse catastrophe. However Emily wants to go to a swim team party being held in the woods, and says that they'll just arrive and leave early.

That night on the way to the party Paige tells Emily she needs to pull over. She seems to be having a panic attack of some kind. Paige says she "can't to anything" since Halloween. Her parents don't actually have her on restriction, she says; she's just too terrified herself to leave her house. The death of Garrett has her worried about the next bad thing that might happen. Emily tries to calm Paige down and suggests they go for a walk.

Paige and Emily return to Paige's car and finds one of the tires has been slashed. They see somebody in the trees wearing a black hoodie, and Emily takes off after them. Emily loses track of the person and Paige convinces her to return to the car. After they leave, the black-hooded A is revealed to be Toby.With Paige's car out of commission, Emily crashes at Paige's place. Paige is amazed that Emily could be so brave. Emily wants her to get professional help.

Misery Loves Company

Emily is pouring the patient, Aria, some tea when she makes a comment about it smelling weird. Aria remarks that Meredith says it some herb tea. Emily goes to Toby's to get some reading, Lord of the Flies, done and tells him that she relate, that Mona brought them closer together. When he leaves, he gives her his keys to lock up, she calls Spencer to tell her she got the keys.

Em is seen having a nice lunch with Paige and questing her if she thought about getting help for her panic attacks, which she says she found someone. Hanna then comes over and steals Em to ask her to spy on Caleb for, she agrees. As she is fixing to see who Caleb is with at a cafe, she gets a text and leaves, not seeing Paige. Em, along with Hanna, are seen on Spencer's bed talking about the "A" key.



She and Hanna later go to Aria's house since they haven't heard from her all day. When they get inside, they go to Aria's room, when Meredith appears and tells the girls that she is in the basement. As they walk down the steps, Meredith shuts the door and locks them in. They find Aria and grab Em a golf club after the basement door opens. Byron appears and tells the girls that he didn't kill Ali, but saw Melissa come outside, talking on her phone.

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Inferno

Aria and Emily talk about not having heard from Spencer. Pam brings Emily a package that has just arrived in the mail from Nate's, or Lyndon's, family. Inside are a bunch of old birthday cards she sent to Alison along with her biology notebook.



At school Emily shows Spencer the notebook and asks her if Ian might be the Beach Hottie. Spencer is snappy and says she doesn't understand why they're still being loyal to Alison. Emily makes her read the portion that talks about Alison meeting with Toby after he was sent to juvie. Spencer starts to cry. She tells Emily that she and Toby broke up but she isn't ready to talk about it quite yet.

Later Emily asks CeCe who the "Beach Hottie" was in Alison's notebook. CeCe says that Alison never told her who that was. Upon seeing the picture of her and Alison in Cape May, CeCe tells Emily the memory of when they were there. A desperate and distressed Alison follows CeCe to a restaurant and tells her that she thinks she might be pregnant. She says that if the guy whom she had the unprotected sex with finds out, "He's gonna kill me."

At Aria's place Emily and Aria talk about the possibility of Alison being pregnant. It's possible the information wouldn't have showed up on her autopsy. They both think she should take the information to the police and Emily offers to go down there. Later at the police station Emily hands in the notebook to Wilden.

Dead to Me

Emily stops by the station to take a picture of the picture of Wilden in Cape May. Emily notices that the picture was taken down. Pam meets with her and pulls a postcard from Paris out of bag and Emily quickly says it's hers. Later that day Emily tells Spencer about Wilden's picture being gone. She hands Spencer the postcard, which Emily had left in Alison's casket. It was one of 24 things left, which means "A" has several chances to come after her. "A" wrote on the postcard in French: "Stop digging. The police already know it's you that's capable of murder."

Later the same day Emily meets with Dr. Sullivan She says "not talking isn't working." Emily is having trouble dealing with the fact that she killed somebody, even though it was in self-defense. Dr. Sullivan suggests hypnotherapy to help her reframe the problem that is controlling her life. Emily's up for it.

During Emily's hypnotherapy session Dr. Sullivan asks her what happened "that night", referring to the lighthouse. Emily repeats Dr. Sullivan's words ("that night") and draws attention to how ambiguous the question sounds.

Emily says she sees "her." Dr. Sullivan assumes it is Paige but it is shown to be Alison. Alison says "we shouldn't be here" and "it's dangerous" among other things. Under hypnosis, Emily grabs a shovel and hits a frightened Alison with it. She wakes up and leaves immediately.

A frantic Emily returns home and tries to call Hanna. She stares at the Paris postcard and has a flashback: It's Emily and Alison talking about taking a trip to France. Their fingers touch as they look at the postcard and Alison proceeds to flirtatiously tell Emily how nice would she would look on the Eiffel Tower. When asked how long they would stay there, she says they should go away "forever." In present day, Pam comes home and Emily tells her mother that she's not sure what kind of person she is anymore. Pam reassures Emily that she is nothing but "all good".

That night Hanna, Emily and Aria arrive at the mausoleum. Jason tells them that they shouldn't wait for Spencer as he doesn't think she's coming. At the very last minute she arrives. Jason assumes she has changed her mind, but she corrects him by saying that she only came because she was sure she could find him there. She tells Jason that Alison was pregnant when she died and the father was Wilden. Jason leaves, followed by the girls who are angry with her. The other girls think something is really wrong with Spencer. They all agree that the way she is behaving is not proportional with what they think happened.

Emily hears sprinklers and realizes that in her hypnotherapy session, she mixed up her memories. She flashes back to a night in the graveyard where a person in a black hoodie was trying to dig up Alison's grave and open her casket with a crowbar. There were sprinklers that night too. Emily was right behind them with a shovel in her right hand, desperately telling them not to do it. As Emily tried to stop them, she said exactly the same things she saw Alison say in her hypnosis session. The black-hooded person covers Emily's mouth with his or her hand while a woman in a red coat behind them watches and leaves. Emily says that she "is the one in charge."

What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted

Emily, Aria and Hanna are discussing what to do about Spencer, still obviously distraught about her new discovery and break-up with Toby. Aria asks if she has spoken to Toby and Emily replies that she left him a ton of messages. Emily suggests they bring over cupcakes to the Hastings's residence. Aria reminds her to tell Spencer what she remembers about "That night". As they are walking out of the main building, Hanna mentions that she also saw a blond girl in a red coat when she went for the interview that A set up. They pause when they see Spencer practically shouting with Andrew, a member of the Academic Decathlon team. Emily goes to talk to her only to be rebuffed.

Later at The Brew Emily sees CeCe buying a coffee, and CeCe apologizes for not texting Emily back. Emily doesn't mind, and asks her if Detective Wilden is the "hottie" from Cape May that Alison was talking about.



Later Emily knocks on the door to the Hastings residence finding Andrew in only his boxers. Emily comes in with cupcakes and questions Why Andrew left nearly naked. Spencer tells her that she was just trying to get her spot on the Academic Decathlon back.Emily thinks that she was acting stupid and completely unlike herself, and threatens to ask Toby what happened. Spencer tells Emily not to ask Toby what happened between them, and Emily is livid, not understanding why Spencer wouldn't want her to talk to Toby seeing as they're friends. Spencer says that she couldn't understand, but Emily is not allowing it. Spencer ends up storming upstairs to her room and slamming the door.

At school, Jason is sitting in a class room, and Emily walks in to talk to him. She tells him about the picture of Ali and Wilden on a dock in Cape May. Jason says that Ali gave her dad a picture of her, Wilden, and CeCe on a boat, and Emily asks him to show it to her. Emily continues to dig into Alison's past and her vacation at Cape May. Jason and Emily go to Jason's house to get the key to the apartment that the photo is in. They find his porch covered in whiskey bottles, and Emily gets an A text. At Jason's father's apartment, Emily and Jason begin to look for the picture. Emily tells Jason not to trust Mona, but Jason says that she is the only link to Ali's murder and is trying to get Mona to tell him what she knows.

Jason and Emily find out that CeCe may in fact know more than she is telling Emily, and that Ali took a picture with Wilden and CeCe on a boat. Jason tells Emily that he remembers Melissa and CeCe talking outside his house the night that Ali went missing.

As Emily and Jason leave, the elevator they get on stops suddenly. Jason is able to get the elevator doors open, and Emily jumps down to the floor. When she does, the doors close and the elevator falls down the shaft with Jason in it.

At the hospital Emily text the other girls an S.O.S, and when they meet her at the hospital, including Spencer, she tells them what happened. The picture that they found is gone. Spencer apologizes to Emily about the way she acted earlier. A nurse then comes up and asks Emily where her friend went and that the bed is empty. The girls rush in and find that Jason's bed is empty and all the tubes and wires he was hooked up to have been disconnected.

Hot Water

Emily tells Hanna that Jason is lying low at a friend's place for awhile. Hanna wants them to speak with Paige and make sure she told them everything. Hanna tells her about Jamie and the five-dollar bill, and Emily says it's probably just a coincidence. Emily and Hanna see that Paige is about to visit the Rosewood Costume Shop to check on past purchases of the Queen of Hearts costume. They say they're going with her, to Paige's reluctance.

At the costume shop Shana isn't thrilled that Paige didn't come alone. She tells Paige she can't give out information on past rentals. While Hanna and Paige distract her, Emily is able to get on the computer and send herself past credit card transactions related to the costume.

later that day Emily wonders to Hanna if Toby might have cheated on Spencer. She also admits to being worried about Paige having some sort of relationship with Shana. Aria tells the girls about Ezra being back and that she saw Mrs. Fitzgerald.

That night Paige admits that she had a brief relationship with Shana when Emily was working in Haiti over the summer. Paige says that she was a substitute for Emily and assures her that she has nothing to worry about and they kiss.

Emily goes to CeCe's apartment, where CeCe reveals that she is leaving Rosewood to, "anywhere, fast," because of Wilden. She tells Emily that she thought that she could keep the secret about Wilden and Alison. Emily tells her about the sailboat picture, and CeCe says that Alison thought he was cute, so she asked him to take them on a ride. Emily asks CeCe why she lied then, and CeCe replies that she doesn't have time to talk about it.

Emily presses her further and she says that she thought Wilden got Ali pregnant and killed her to keep it a secret. She doesn't know if it's true and Wilden is going out of his way to deny it - and "if there's one thing Ali could do, it's tell a good lie." Since Wilden has friends on the police force, CeCe couldn't turn him in. Emily says that Jason told her that he saw CeCe at his house the night Ali disappeared. CeCe says that Ali called her that night and was freaking out about some videos that "everyone wanted," Melissa more than anyone. When CeCe showed up at the DiLaurentis house, Melissa begged her to talk to Ali. After she did, Ali left to get the videos and the next day, she was missing. Before CeCe leaves, she tells Emily that Melissa took the picture of them on the sailboat.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Spencer tells Emily and Aria she believes that Toby is "A". after hearing this Emily calls Toby and says she wants to talk. She takes a key out of a drawer. In Toby's apartment Emily finds Hanna intently watching the news instead of helping her search for info on Toby. Emily isn't convinced Toby could be dangerous. They find a parking pass for Radley Sanitarium with "E. Lamb" on it in one of Toby's books that Emily gave him. Hanna thinks Emily should talk to Toby's parents.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

Emily is seen in the morning with her friends when the principal confronts them and asks them if they know where Spencer is. Later on, Emily runs into Shana at the coffee shop and finds out that she swims, something she nor Paige ever mentioned. She introduces Emily to Olympic gold medalist swimmer Missy Franklin. Emily is in awe and takes pictures with Missy. She promises Shana she will send her the pictures. Shana then leaves the coffee shop, with Emily pleasantly surprised.

In the street, we see Emily catching up to Dr. Sullivan to ask her about visiting Spencer and is told what Spencer said about Toby. No body has been found in the woods and Dr. Sullivan isn't convinced that Spencer saw what she thinks she saw.

The girls are discussing about Spencer being at Radley in the school's bathroom. Hanna suggests they pretend to be Spencer's cousins to be able to get into Radley to visit Spencer. Aria says no one will believe that. Emily chips in that they have to find out why she is absolutely certain that Toby is dead. Mona suddenly comes in the bathroom. She asks about Spencer. Aria tells her she's the reason why their friend is Radley and makes a threat.

I'm Your Puppet

Emily and the other two girls go to Radley Sanitarium to see Spencer. They all try to convince her that Toby isn't dead, but Spencer doesn't believe them. She's sure of what she saw in the woods. To prove Spencer wrong, Emily, Hanna, and Aria go to the morgue, dressed up as the candy stripers again, and look for the body, and it isn't Toby, like they thought.

Unfortunately, Emily's mother, Pam Fields tells Emily that they found another body, and that they think it's Toby's. Emily is in complete shock when she finds this out. Even though the police say they think it's Toby, it's later shown that the "901 Free At Last" tattoo on the hip of the dead body is smudging off, which is showing that the body isn't Toby's.

A DAngerous GAme

Emily, Aria, and Hanna are downstairs in Spencer's kitchen discussing Spencer and that she is now out of Radley. They also talk about the second body in the woods and that it is probably Toby. Emily is of course sad about this and Hanna comforts her and says that there could be hope. Spencer than comes downstairs telling them they lost Toby a long time ago but they didn't know it. Then she invites them to a party that her parents are hosting on Friday. They agree.

All four of the girls are seen outside of the school and they talk about "A" kidnapping Malcolm. Aria tells them not to get involved but as soon as she leaves, Hanna takes the poster for babysitting him. Emily and Spencer tell her not to do it but Hanna doesn't care. Shana then comes and Emily asks why she is here. Shana tells them her team is practicing. She then asks Spencer is she's coming and that she hopes to see her there. After she leaves, Hanna comments that she doesn't like her because she flirts with everybody but her. Emily adds that Shana is nothing but trouble.

That night while Emily is out for a run, Hanna calls her to tell her she couldn't get the name of the person that kidnapped Malcolm while she was babysitting her. Emily then sees Melissa knock on the Cavanaugh house and somebody lets her in. Emily gets on the porch to spy through the window. Melissa and Jenna are having a heated conversation that is barely audible. We then see Shana appearing next to Jenna. Emily is shocked there is a connection with the three of them.

That night, Emily, Hanna, and Aria are in Hanna's kitchen. They are all cluing each other in on what they found out. Hanna discovers that Spencer is on the A-Team. They decide it all happened when Spencer was in Radley. After Hanna realizes that someone could be listening to them, she turns on loud music and they make a plan.

The next day at school, Emily and Aria are in the bathroom stalls and Hanna is in a red coat so they can lure Spencer in the  bathroom so they can talk. After Spencer enters they girls confess they knew she is on the A-Team. Spencer tells them Toby is still alive and that she saw him last night. Spencer tells them the part tonight is a setup and Red Coat just wants them all together. They decide no matter what happens, they stick together.

That night all the girls but Spencer are in Hanna's house getting ready. It is clear they are just pretending they think it's a real party because "A" is filming them. Later, they are at The Thornhill Lodge dressed in more appropriate clothing for spying. They see Toby pulling Spencer outside but don't know Toby is just pretending.

They corner Mona in the lodge when she thinks she is alone. Mona starts freaking out because this was not apart of the plan. Suddenly, someone locks the building from the outside and sets the lodge on fire while the girls are still  there. They all try to get cell phone service with no luck. Mona tells them Red Coat is doing everything, and that she's everywhere and nowhere. In her panic, Mona reveals that she doesn't know who Red Coat is.

Next, we see someone in a red coat pulling the liars out of the burning lodge. We see them all of a sudden on the ground outside of the lodge. After they wake up, Mona, Hanna, and Spencer says that Alison is Red Coat. Emily and Aria tell them it can't be but don't know what to make of everything.

The four girls and Mona are driving when Emily asks if Mona was at the graveyard. Mona says she was but she didn't see Red Coat because she was wearing a mask but it looked just like Alison. They see Wilden's car in the middle of town. They get out of the car and see that Shana and Jenna are the ones that dragged Wilden's body away after Ashley hit him. They see the trunk propped opened so they open it. The camera cuts after they all gasped so the audience doesn't know what was in there.

 'A' is for A-l-i-v-e 
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Emily and the liars and Mona open the trunk of Wilden's car and discover a dead pig inside. Back at the Hastings', the girls confront Mona about her actions. The ask how she got Wilden's car out of the lake. Mona says she didn't. She reveals to them which crimes she did commit and which she didn't, including that Lucas gave Emily the massage (in Touched by an 'A'-ngel) and that she did not push Ian off the bell tower, but wishes she knew who did. She says that Jenna knew Shana before she came to town and that she thinks Shana is in love with Jenna. Mona states that the two of them are afraid of Melissa Hastings. When CeCe went to visit Mona at Radley, Mona believed she was Ali because she was being given the wrong medications. She recruited Toby to the "A-Team" when he got the job in Bucks County. The next morning, the girls wake up and realize Mona is gone. They think she drugged them because they don't remember falling asleep the night before. Then Mona appears, bringing coffee and breakfast for the girls. She, of course, knows what drink each girl likes, and mentions to Emily she has her own set of keys to Emily's car. Mona is determined to find out who Red Coat is and she’s expecting help from them. Mona agrees to take the girls to the lair to prove she has nothing to hide. On the way, the girls hit a road block in town. They don't understand why the area is crawling with cops and onlookers until they see a body covered by a sheet next to the car they saw last night. Darren Wilden is dead and the girls are sure to become the prime suspects. When the girls reach the lair, currently existing inside an RV in a trailer park, Mona shows them footage from the night of the Halloween train party to prove she wasn't the one who drugged Aria and put her in a box. Wilden is revealed to be the Queen of Hearts and was talking to a second Queen of Hearts whom Mona claims is Spencer’s sister, Melissa, but before we are able to see her face, the footage cuts off and the files on the computer start disappearing. Someone is hacking Mona's computer. The girls hear their names being spoken outside so they go to investigate and find a group of little girls playing. They each have a doll named after each of the Liars and Mona. When questioned, the girls tell Mona her friend Alison gave them the dolls shortly after Mona moved in to the trailer park.

In Emily's room, Hanna tells Emily she plans to keep Mona close, as the old saying goes, "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." Pam comes in and mentions that Alison’s mother moving back to her old house, even though Jason had said she hated that place. To Hanna, this is even more proof that Alison is still alive and it really was she who dragged them out of the fire at the lodge, but Emily still doesn't believe that is possible. Emily takes Pam's gift basket to Jessica DiLaurentis to welcome her back to the neighborhood. Jessica finds it refreshing to hear Emily say Ali's name since most people tend to avoid it in her presence. She asks Emily to help her bring some boxes containing some of Alison's belongings into Alison's old bedroom. Emily finds it odd that Jessica is setting up the bedroom as if Alison is alive, and afterwards, calls to tell Hanna about the creepy shrine.

The next day, at school, Emily and Aria are having lunch. Aria watches Fitz interacting with some students across the way and tells Emily she's not ready to move on and start dating other people yet. When she realizes Vice Principal Hackett is watching her and eavesdropping, she pretends to explain a passage from The Grapes of Wrath to Emily. Later, at Emily's house, Paige tells Emily that she has been accepted to Stanford University on a full-ride scholarship. She asks Emily to go to California with her, and leave all the craziness of Rosewood behind. At first Emily says she planned to go to Danby, but Paige convinces her that they could start over in California and have a great life together there. Emily happily changes her mind and decides to apply to Stanford with Paige. After Emily bids Paige goodbye in her car, Jenna shows up outside Emily's house. Jenna tells Emily that Wilden was a friend of hers ever since she moved to Rosewood. Emily notices Jenna's hand has a bad burn on it, but Jenna offers up no information about this. She asks Emily to pass on a message to Toby if something were to happen to her. Since Ian, Garrett, and Wilden are all dead, and all three saw Alison on the night she died, Jenna thinks she may be next. The message is that she never meant to hurt Toby.

The next day, Emily, along with the girls, attends Wilden's funeral. They see the casket being brought into the church and decide to try and get to it before the viewing starts and whatever evidence is inside is discovered by all the cops in attendance. The girls spot a mysterious woman wearing a face-obscuring black veil enter the church. Jessica DiLaurentis tells the girls they all look very pretty and invites them to sit next to her up front. There is no room left for Mona so she sits elsewhere. Jenna walks in on the arm of an unknown man and the woman in the black veil sits behind them before the service begins. After the service, the girls watch veiled woman get into a towncar, still wondering who she is. A man approaches them and introduces himself as Detective Holbrook, a detective with the State Police brought in to investigate the murders of Garrett Reynolds and Darren Wilden. The girls mention that Wilden liked to harass them, which Det. Holbrook already knew and questions why they would attend the funeral of man who acted so inappropriately toward them. Emily lies that they are supporting their local police department. Holbrook doesn't seem to buy it, and mentions he's one of the good guys before departing. The girls then receive an "A" message containing a video of them touching Wilden's car the night before his body was discovered. They realize this was A's plan all along - to make them look guilty and responsible for Wilden's murder.

 Turn of the Shoe 

Emily and the other liars are at the Brew, discussing the Lady in Black and Melissa's whereabouts. Emily and Hanna agree that Melissa is The Lady in Black while Spencer is using food to see if the geography is even possible for the person who jumped out of a plane could save Aria, Hanna and Emily from the fire. Hanna and Aria get into an argument about if it was Ali who saved the girls from the fire. Spencer is also a bit skeptical if it even was Ali that she saw coming out of the plane. Mona comes into the Brew. Hanna accuses Mona of putting Hanna’s mom’s phone in Wilden’s coffin. Mona says she didn't and says she will do anything to prove that all the girls are in this together, so Spencer says to take them to A's RV. Mona drives up to where the RV is, with the girls in separate cars behind her. The girls arrive and Mona opens the gate to where the RV was, and is in shock when the RV is gone, and the girls think that Mona has taken it somewhere else. Hanna and Spencer leave in their car, while Emily and Aria wait and watch Mona. Mona gets into her car and is attacked from behind by a hooded figure with an Ali mask. Emily and Aria see that Mona’s car lights are flashing, so they start walking to the car. Mona finally gets the flashlight and whacks A with it and jumps out of car, and onto to the ground, gasping for breath. Aria and Emily run over to her. Mona’s car starts up and A drives the car and tries to run over the three. They jump onto the rocks and Emily lands on one of them, badly injuring her shoulder.

The next day, in the computer lab at school, Emily and Paige are talking about their dorm in Stanford, assuming that Emily will get into Stanford for her swimming talent. Paige shows Emily a computer generated model of the dorm room she envisions them sharing at Stanford. Paige hugs her in the excitement and Emily winces in pain. She tells Paige she just slept weird, not wanting to reveal how she actually hurt her shoulder. When Emily remarks she might not be able to swim in the next meet, Paige insists that she has to; her scholarship to Stanford might depend on it. Later, at her home, Emily is on the phone with Hanna. Hanna tells her about Ashley's muddy shoes she found under the sink, but Emily doesn't think much of it. Emily's mind is focused on the swim meet. She swallows a prescription pain-killer from her parents' medicine cabinet, then takes a few extra with her in case she needs another one later.

The next day, Emily is getting ready for the big swim meet in the locker room, and takes more pain medication. Shana comes up to her asking if she has an extra swim cap. She asks Emily why her friends think she was friends with Wilden and Emily tells her she doesn't like to talk before the race. Shana tells Emily that she has her eye on the Stanford scholarship too, and may the best girl win. While Emily is swimming, she starts to get dizzy and the pool floor gets blurry. She misjudges the distance of the wall and crashes into it head first. She's rushed out of the school. The ER people ask her how she hurt her shoulder and she says she fell off her bike. Later at Emily's house, Emily tells Paige that the painkillers are the reason she slammed into the wall during the race. Emily then reveals to Paige how she messed up her shoulder while saving Aria and Mona from 'A'. Paige asks why she kept it from her and Emily says she just wants to get away from all the problems with A and just be together with Paige. She doesn't want Paige to worry about her.

 Cat's Cradle 

The episode begins with Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily at The Brew discussing Tippi and Hanna's mom. Hanna reminds the girls that Ashley didn't kill Wilden and they all agree. Emily mentions that she has a doctor appointment scheduled for her shoulder tomorrow, then explains she was able to bring Ali's old notebooks and journals and things because she snuck them out past Mrs. Dilaurentis' along with all of Tippi's stuff. Spencer asks Emily to hide Ali's stuff so Mona doesn't find it and start asking questions. Mona wasn't at school that day, and no one knows where she has been, making them nervous. In the box of notebooks, Hanna finds a mask. Then, Melissa walks in The Brew. The girls are surprised that she is back because they thought she would be gone for good after they found Wilden. They wonder if what Mona said about her being the other Queen of Hearts is true or not.

The next day, Emily goes to the doctor about her shoulder and he prescribes her the same pain medication that Emily was taking that caused the bad reaction while swimming. Dr. Vargas remarks that he doesn't see that medication in her file, and Emily, realizing she's caught in a lie, pretends she has only heard that hydrocodone can cause a bad reaction. Later, Aria, Emily, and Spencer are leaving school. Aria tells them about her mom considering the trip to Austria and how she can't even imagine her mom being a continent away. Spencer tells them she couldn't find any information about the number Tippi gave them, but she's not giving up. Emily says she started going through Ali's notebooks and asks the other girls if they want to come over tonight and search them together. Spencer says she can't because she promised Toby she would help him with something. Outside school, Emily's mom come up to them and tells Emily she's giving her a ride home. She is angry because the doctor called and asked if Emily has been taking her mom's medication. Emily denies it, but Pam says she checked the bottle and can see pills are missing. When Emily tries to walk away, Pam grabs her arm and starts yelling, making a scene, so Emily gets in the car and leaves.

Later that night, Aria helps Emily go through Alison's notebooks and she asks Emily if she told her mom about taking her pills, and Emily says yes, she had to. Aria is looking at the mask they found and she notices a second mask underneath that looks like Alison. They notice a marking on the inside - the web address of the Hector Lime, the creator of the mask. The girls call Hanna to come over and Hanna recognizes the mask they uncovered as the same type of mask that Mona was wearing on the Halloween train. She is not willing to wait for Spencer to call them back. The three of them decide to go to the studio where the mask was made to find some answers. It is dark when they arrive at the studio and they wonder if Ali came to this place alone. The studio is creepy and Hector is even creepier. He invites them inside. Next thing Emily knows, Hector is spreading plaster over her face and telling her it'll be over before she knows it. He tells the girls that Alison wanted masks because she wanted all her friends to look like her. Hector also says that Alison told him to break the mold when he was finished, and he did. When they leave, Emily says she bets that was how Alison felt to be buried alive. Hanna then shows the girls the mold that she stole from in the studio. Back at home, Pam informs Emily that Family Services called her. They want to interview Pam about Emily because someone reported that she was "excessive" with Emily outside of school. She says Family Services suspects that Emily's shoulder, her ulcer, and her trouble with the police is caused by family troubles at home. Emily texts Aria and tells her that "A" called Family Services on her mom. Later, Emily gets a message from "A" of a picture of her mom that was edited to make her look like she is behind prison bars. Pam comes in and tells Emily that her dad is coming home from the army because Family Services called him too.

 Face Time 

Wayne returns to Rosewood from his tour due to the issues with Family Services. He greets Emily and Pam solemnly and Emily leaves for school. At school, Emily joins the others and tells the girls that her father is home because "A" called Family Services on her family. Aria is concerned her family is next. The bell rings and the girls all go inside as Holbrook and Tanner watch on. At lunch with the girls, Emily expresses her worries over her issues with Family Services. She mentions how her father wants her to come home immediately after school. Spencer is shocked that Family Services thinks there's something wrong with Emily's family. Emily herself is not sure what they think. She thinks that her little lies, about getting hurt and about the pills are what caused the problem. That night, Spencer and Emily talk on the phone about questioning Melissa, and Spencer notes that if they want Melissa to provide any answers, then they need some type of “leverage.” Emily hears her mom and dad talking about the issues with Family Services and say that they know that Emily is lying to them.

The next day, Emily meets with Dr. Vargas and asks him if he spoke to Family Services. He said that he did and she tells him that there is no problem at home and that he should take back whatever he said. Dr. Vargas doesn’t seem to believe her and as she is about to leave, he tells her that the x-ray for her shoulder shows a partial tear in her rotator cuff. He says that if it doesn’t heal, she might need surgery, and that the outcome for athletes like her is unpredictable. Spencer, Emily and Aria meet up at the Brew and Spencer tells them that she wants to find out what Melissa does when she comes face to face with her mask. Will she go to Shana for some reason, straight to the mask-maker, or somewhere else? Emily then sees Paige and goes to talk to her. Emily tells Paige about what the doctor said about her shoulder, and that she won’t be able to swim any time soon. The girls embrace.

Later that night, Emily speaks with her parents. They question her about how she got the injury on her shoulder, and she refuses to tell them how it happened. Her parents demand her to tell what happened since Family Services thinks someone at hurt her and they have a right to know as her parents. Things begin to escalate and Emily tells them that she visited Dr. Vargas to explain to him that no one at home hurt her. Her dad tells her not to see that man and asks if things are happening again (meaning the messages from "A" or any sort of bullying). Her parents are worried that now Emily can't swim, how will she pay for college and Emily tries to convince them that she'll get another job. Her parents are concerned and ask her if the bullying has started up again. Emily yells that she doesn’t know and runs out of the house.

Emily visits Paige at the pool and tells her about what is going on with her family and how she is worried that she will never be able to swim again. Paige consoles Emily, telling her that they can find another dream but Emily doesn't think she can sit in the stands and watch as Paige wins. Paige tells her that she will swim again. Emily is worried that she might need surgery and that it's outcome is unpredictable. Paige thinks that unpredictable is not as bad, "Unpredictable can be good. Look at us." Paige tells her that everything will be okay and walks her home. At Emily's house, it is discovered that someone called the police on her family about a domestic disturbance. Emily tells the police that there was a misunderstanding while Paige looks on concerned.

 Gamma Zeta Die! 

Wayne stops by Emily's room. He informs her that Pam already left for the gym, which Emily deduces is to avoid the neighbors. He then brings up the college issue college issue. Emily says that without swimming, she is average, and so, even if they could afford to pay for college, she wouldn't get in. Wayne tells her that there is nothing average about her, and that he will do whatever he can to help her. At school, in the hallway, Spencer, Aria and Emily discuss Spencer’s admission counselor. Aria mentions the phone number that Tippi sang, and how all they know is that it belongs to York County. Spencer looks through her college catalogue and notices Cicero College, a college in York County whose area code and phone number prefix match the one that Tippi sang.

At The Brew, Emily is on the phone with Aria who tells her about Ella's "accident" orchestrated by 'A'. Aria tells Emily over the phone that Ella was taken to the hospital, but is home now and resting. Aria is now even more adamant that Ella goes to Austria. Emily then gets back to work and strikes up a conversation with Brendon McGowan, Spencer's private admissions counselor, who is waiting for Spencer to arrive. Emily picks his brain about her college options and he is more than happy to walk her through the selection process. He offers to go through a list of some colleges till Spencer arrives. Spencer arrives at the Brew and sits down with Emily and Brendon. She tells Brendon that she wants to visit Cicero College. He is surprised because he was under the impression Spencer was only interested in Ivy League schools. Brendon agrees to take Spencer to visit Cicero and Emily decides to tag along. While Emily's packing for her overnight stay Cicero, Wayne walks in. He gives her some money and tells Emily to enjoy herself. Emily tells him that she got paid and can manage on her own but Wayne is stubborn and tells her to buy something for herself she normally wouldn't.

At Cicero College, Spencer and Emily talk with Brendon about the campus tour. When he steps away, Spencer makes it clear to Emily that she is there to solve this phone number mystery and would never dream of attending a small school like Cicero for real. When Brendon returns, Spencer makes an excuse to follow some leads, leaving Emily and Brendon to tour the school on their own. That night, Spencer and Emily meet back up and head to Greek Row, where a party is going on at a sorority that Emily insists on visiting. She admits that the real reason she is at Cicero is to ask the sorority sisters about the possibility of getting a scholarship. Spencer rudely says that Emily's flirting with Brendon all makes sense now, and that she conveniently failed mention to him that she's gay. Emily retorts that Spencer did the same thing with Andrew to get back on the decathlon team and that she couldn't understand what she's going through right now since she will always have a safety net of her parents' money to fall back on. Before the fight can escalate further, they are regaled with a spontaneous a capella song by the sorority sisters of Gamma Zeta Chi. At the party, Emily speaks with a member of the sorority, Marissa, about how to apply. Just then, he notices a strange paddle and mask on the wall and Marissa informs her that it belonged to Mrs. Grunwald, the sorority’s house mother who had been fired years ago. She mentions that nothing could get past that woman and that she somehow knew when girls were planning to sneak out before they even knew it themselves. Emily spots Hanna across the room and begins to follows her, but is interrupted by by Brendon. When he offers to help her find her friend and takes her hand, Emily finally admits she has a girlfriend and isn’t interested. Brendon looks disappointed, but agrees to help her search the woods anyway. Later, as Emily and Spencer look on, Hanna is caught burying the gun and is arrested.

 Under The Gun 

At school, Emily talks to Hanna over the phone, who is stuck at home until the District Attorney calls. Hanna informs Emily that she is facing up to 7 years in prison. Emily thinks it is time for Hanna to tell her parents about 'A' but Hanna is resistant because she is not sure if her mom is actually responsible for Wilden's death. Emily hangs up when Shana walks into the locker room wearing a Sharks sweatshirt. She explains she has enrolled at Rosewood High mid-semester because they have a better swim program than her old private school and so better chances for a scholarship. Shana notices a flyer advertising the Brew's open mic night and asks Emily if it's too late to sign up. Emily arrives at The Brew and tells Aria and Spencer about how Hanna is waiting at home to hear from the DA. She informs them that the cops are testing the gun that Hanna found. She also tells them that Shana has enrolled at Rosewood High and taken her spot on the swim team. They think that now that Melissa is in London, who Mona told them Shana was afraid of, Shana has nothing to be scared of and so has moved to Rosewood. Just then, someone drops a tray. Emily tells them that he is the new guy she has to train. As Aria leaves to help the new guy, Spencer and Emily apologize to each other. Mona storms into the Brew and confronts the girls. She gives Spencer the opportunity to have this conversation in private, but Spencer refuses. Mona says that she has been away because she has been tracking down the missing RV and declares that Toby took it, and Spencer covered for him. The other girls believe Mona is lying, but Spencer admits it. Aria and Emily go back to Emily's house and talk about why Spencer would lie to them. They believe that there has to be a valid reason for Toby to do what he did. They think if they had the RV, Hanna wouldn't be in such a mess and that Mona may have some proof that Ashley is innocent. Just then Hanna calls Aria.

Later that night, Emily visits Hanna at her house, using homework as an excuse to see her. Hanna tells her she feels like she's in purgatory. Emily wants Hanna to hand over the footage from Wilden's dash cam because it proves Shana and Jenna are connected to Wilden, giving the police 2 additional suspects besides Ashley. Hanna thinks "A" will retaliate if she gives the hard drive to the cops, but Emily wants to turn it in anonymously. Hanna reluctantly gets the hard drive out of her jewelry box and gives it to Emily.

The next day, Emily goes to the police station and hangs some flyers for The Brew's open mic night. When Lt. Tanner walks away, she leaves a copy of the Wilden's dash cam footage on Lt. Tanner’s desk with an anonymous note attached. At school, Spencer tells Emily that she called the sorority. The sorority told her that Carla Grunwald, the house mother, used to disappear from the house and reappear out of nowhere. Spencer thinks that Mrs. Grunwald talked to Ali in that room. However, Emily is mad that Spencer still won't tell them why she lied about Toby taking the RV. Emily walks away and notices Shana practicing violin in the music room. Later, Emily approaches Mona at school demanding information about this new "A" they're all facing. Mona reminds Emily that "A" is now in control of the lair which contains tons of evidence against them. One wrong move and everything goes up in flames.

At The Brew, While a singer performs on stage at open mic night, Emily offers Aria a choice of pastries - sympathy food to help her get over the whole situation with Connor. Emily selflessly put Connor on garbage duty, which lifts Aria's spirits a bit. Spencer arrives and tells them about what has happened in Ravenswood. Lt. Tanner shows up and tells Emily to find someone to cover her shift; her presence is requested at the police station. Confused, Emily leaves with Lt. Tanner. At the station, Lt. Tanner shows Emily a CD which had been left on her desk anonymously about an hour after Emily had been seen their posting flyers for open mic night. The handwriting on the note matches a card from Emily found on Pam Fields' desk. A video of Red Coat wearing a black wig and an Emily mask, holding a sign that says GUILTY plays. Emily realizes that "A" switched the videos after she left and tells Lt. Tanner that it must be a bizarre prank. Lt. Tanner leaves, but says that they’ll talk later.

 Crash and Burn, Girl! 

The girls are over at Hanna's house helping her deal with her mother's arrest. Emily's shoulder is still hurting her, and Spencer is still not ready to reveal what's going on with Toby and "A." Aria is glad Emily and Spencer are talking again. The three of them strategize on how to get Hanna to eat and agree to be there for her for whatever she needs. Later, Emily's mom stops by her room to tell her she has made an appointment for prolotherapy treatment for Emily's shoulder. Insurance won't cover the first few sessions, so Pam is concerned about they will pay for it, but won't let Emily contribute her own money. Physical therapy hasn't been helping, so Pam emphasizes how important it is to try this new treatment. She tells Emily she needs to focus on healing her shoulder, and let Hanna spend time with her father.

Emily talks to Hanna at school about where Shana might be hiding and when she'll pop up again. Some boys nearby are staring at Hanna because her mom was arrested. Emily starts to get in their faces, but Ezra steps in. After school, Emily talks to Pam at the station and tries to suss out if Lt. Tanner told her about the video of the person wearing the Emily mask. She gives Emily the insurance card for her appointment that afternoon. Some detectives stop by Pam's desk and have her lock up the key to Wilden's apartment in the evidence box. Emily asks if they are investigating other suspects besides Ashley. Pam tells her the investigation is ongoing. When Pam steps away to print directions to the clinic, Emily plots to steal the key out of the evidence box.

Aria and Spencer get together at Aria's. Emily rushes in and tells them to hurry up- tonight, they are breaking into Wilden's apartment. Wilden's apartment is a big mess. Spencer points out that the cops had already been there searching for clues about his murder. Aria hands out gloves so they don't leave any fingerprints behind and Emily, Aria and Spencer split up to look around. The phone rings and spooks them. The girls don't turn up much in their search. They notice there aren't very many personal items or knick-knacks around the apartment, though Aria points out Wilden's 'film collection' counts as rather personal. Then the girls spot a box on the floor. They open it and find a bunch of rotten steaks. There's a note inside that says, "Can't wait to see you at our little barbecue. Kisses, A."

The next day, Emily goes back to the station to return the key, but the cops have already noticed it missing. They are searching through Pam's desk and Emily overhears that if they don't find that key, they are going to have a problem. Back at home, Pam asks Emily why she rescheduled her appointment with the clinic. She lies she had to help Hanna with something. Pam understands Hanna is in a tough situation, but getting treatment for her injury should be Emily's number one priority. Emily apologizes, then Pam tells her she has been suspended from work and leaves to call her husband. Later, at night, Emily is unable to sleep. She overhears her mom talking to Wayne about being suspended without pay. She doesn't know how they are going to make ends meet and wonders if she should be looking for another job while things at the station are sorted out. Rightfully feeling guilty, Emily starts to go downstairs with the key she stole, but before she can, a car comes crashing through the living room. Pam dives out of the way and Emily comes running to help.

 The Guilty Girl's Handbook 

Emily and Pam are temporarily staying at a motel because of the car which drove through their living room in the previous episode. All they know is that it was a stolen car and no driver was seen fleeing the scene. Pam tells Emily not to miss the appointment she has with Mr. Fitz to talk about college. Emily texts Spencer, Aria, and Hanna that they're okay, and also asks about how Hanna's mom is.

At school, Ezra is on the phone with Malcolm when Emily walks into the classroom. Ezra ends the call when he spots Emily and he and Emily begin talking. He is surprised she showed up to their meeting after hearing about what happened to her house. He says he's sorry and asks if they have any leads. Ezra brings up how last year Emily and her friends were dodging some serious threats which Mona ultimately confessed to, and asks if anything similar is happening again. At first Emily doesn't respond, but then denies that anything is going on and quickly changes the subject by asking about a college. Emily thinks she'll have a hard time getting into a good college since she can't swim anymore. Ezra says she has a better shot than most people because of the work she did in Haiti over the summer. He asks her if she's in touch with any of her old supervisors, and she says there was one named Zoe. Ezra tells her to get in contact with Zoe and get a recommendation letter.

Later that day, Zoe approaches Emily outside the Brew. Emily says it's great to see her and gives her a hug. She apologizes for losing touch, but Zoe understands and asks how she's been dealing with losing Maya. Emily replies that still misses her. Zoe recalls how devastated Emily had been last summer, but how she threw herself into her work, and pulls out her phone to show her a picture she had taken. Zoe praises Emily's work ethic and Emily asks where Zoe will be going this summer. She says Nicaragua and asks if she'd like to come. Emily tells Zoe about hurting her shoulder and not being able to swim. Zoe suggests they find a less physical role for Emily on the Nicaragua trip, but Emily says she will be fine by then. Zoe says that she could write Emily a glowing recommendation in her sleep. Just then, Pam walks up to them to talk to Emily, and apologizes for interrupting. Pam greets Zoe before telling Emily that they won't be back in their home for months. Pam asks Emily to drop something off at the police station, and she agrees, to spare Pam from having to her former colleagues. Zoe is sorry to hear Emily is living in a hotel and has so much going on. Emily asks for the form to sign up for the Nicaragua trip next summer and Zoe happily hands it over.

Emily comes home to their motel room and finds her mom has bought some groceries. Emily tells her she dropped off the insurance papers at the precinct and says they are going to want her back, but Pam is going to look for other work in the meantime. Emily is excited to tell her mom about going to Nicaragua next summer with Habitat for Humanity, and Pam starts crying, probably because she's upset about Emily growing up and leaving, in combination with their money troubles and their house being damaged. Emily hugs and comforts her mother. Later, Emily also gets a text. Emily, Aria, Spencer, Hanna, Caleb, Veronica, and Jake go to the police station. The four girls and Veronica all look shocked as they see Mona sitting in an interrogation room. Mona smiles at them as the blinds are closed, leaving them all to wonder what Mona is up to.

 Into the Deep 

Paige and Emily discuss Mona's confession. Paige believes she could have done it, with her track record of hitting Hanna with a car. She changes the subject and invites Emily to come with her to her aunt's lake house for a fun night just between the two of them. She presents Emily with an early birthday present, a business card for a well-established swimming trainer called Dominic Russo. Paige claims she has made an appointment for Emily this afternoon to see him in Philly. Emily doesn't see swimming in her future, but Paige convinces Emily to consider all of her options. She says Emily can take a year off of college to train instead of going to a state school she doesn't want to go to. Emily, hesitant, reminds Paige that she can't swim, but Paige says that it's not forever. Emily agrees to go, if it means she could spend her college years with Paige.

Emily visits the trainer, who tells her about the rigorous program. Emily is not afraid of a little hard work. Dominic asks to see her recruiting video. Dominic watches Emily's recruiting video and critiques her form. He points out some issues, but says he sees a lot of potential. He'd like to get started right away. Emily is excited to start, as soon as her shoulder heals. Dominic was not aware Emily had an injury. If she requires surgery, he wouldn't put her back in the pool for 6 months, and that is losing too much time. He won't be able to help her compete for next year's scholarships. Emily is crushed.

Emily arrives at the lake house for her surprise birthday party just as the guests hide. When she walks in to the dark room, she asks Paige why she lied to Dominic, then everyone jumps out and yells 'surprise!' Emily is stunned as everyone comes up to her give her a birthday hug. At the party, Emily tells Aria she had no idea Paige was planning a surprise party for her. Aria points out Jenna and bluntly explains that Jenna is losing her vision. Later, Paige joins Emily down by the lake and says she didn't tell Dominic about Emily's injury because she wanted to make sure he would take the appointment. Emily tells Paige how she had gotten her hopes up, but Dominic won't be able to help her get a scholarship. Paige recommends getting a second opinion and Emily asks why she is pushing so hard for this. She says that she knows how badly Emily wants to swim, but Emily says, "or how badly you want me to swim?" Paige starts crying because she wants Emily to go to Stanford with her. Emily cries too and says that they have to face that they're not going to be together next year. Paige tells Emily that a lot of people came to see her tonight. She asks if Emily could at least pretend to have a good time, and Emily agrees she can do that. Back at the party, Aria and Emily look around for Spencer outside. They see Jake leaving the party and Aria talks to him for a moment. Then Emily screams 'Spencer!' because she sees a body floating face down in the lake. She rushes in and turns the body over to see that it's Jenna, not Spencer. She shouts "she's not breathing!" and to call 911. As Jenna is being loaded into an ambulance, the girls wonder if someone pushed her in. Emily says she was hit on the back of the head and has blood on her sleeve to prove it. Emily tells Hanna what happened to Jenna over the phone.

Later that night, getting ready for bed, Emily and Paige talk about Jenna. Paige isn't as sure as Emily that someone purposely hurt Jenna, but Emily is positive she didn't get that gash on her head by accident. Emily thinks whoever hit her did it to make sure she didn't tell the girls what she knows about Alison. In bed, Paige asks Emily if she's still awake. Emily is, but she pretends to be asleep, so Paige turns out the light and gets into bed next to her.

 The Mirror Has Three Faces 

The Liars are late for school because they had tried to go see Jenna at the hospital earlier, but were turned away at the visitors desk. Aria yells at them to keep it down so they can sneak back into school, but Spencer sarcastically replies that none of them are going to graduate anyway. Hanna suggests Spencer talk to Shana because if CeCe drowned Jenna, then she must know the reason, but Emily doesn't think Shana is trustworthy and Hanna doesn't trust Jenna so they are back at square one. Hanna decides she's going to hunt down CeCe, even if she's been AWOL since Wilden was alive. Emily gets a text from her mom saying that Jessica DiLaurentis has offered to let them stay in her house while their home is being repaired. Emily is creeped out by the very idea, but Hanna says she has to do it since it might be their best chance of finding CeCe.

At Alison's house, Emily and Spencer walk into Ali's bedroom. Emily points out how strange it is Ali's mom turned the room into a shrine and expresses her reluctance at staying there. Spencer says it's not that unusual and that it's a great opportunity to find useful clues. It turns out Emily will be staying there alone because Pam is out of town. Ali's mom comes in and gets teary when she goes through Ali's old closet. She says she's happy seeing the girls in Alison's room, as if they'd never left.

​Someone watches Emily through a window in the DiLaurentis house. Ali's mom offers to fix Emily something to eat and accidentally drops some papers. She sadly tells Emily that her husband has decided to divorce her and she is still in shock. Mrs. DiLaurentis tells Emily that after Ali disappeared, Ken boxed up her things and put the house on the market, but she was not ready to let go yet. She would see Alison everywhere. One time she saw a girl who looked just like Ali jogging in the park, and practically tackled her. She ignores Emily's question, "So it wasn't Ali?" and continues to explain why she redid Ali's bedroom. Jessica expresses that she didn't know her husband as well as she thought she did. Emily sympathizes and tells her she is going through something similar with the person she is dating. Jessica assumes Emily is seeing a boy, but Emily lets her know she is dating a girl. Jessica tells Emily she is proud of her. Emily lets Jessica know that she's not the only one who's seen Ali, and she is not surprised because Emily loved Ali as much as she did. She wishes Ali could have returned those feelings. Later, at the DiLaurentis residence, Spencer tells Emily and Hanna that Jessica must have been at Radley at some point because when Toby spoke to Dr. Palmer, he used her name specifically. Spencer claims that Toby was there following a lead from Nigel's phone. Emily points out that Dr. Palmer has dementia, but Spencer is sure. She wants to ask Jessica about it, but Emily thinks she's too fragile at the moment because of the divorce. Emily then leaves for work.

After work, Emily finds Mrs. DiLaurentis in the living room knitting. The heater repair guy informs her that he fixed the circuit breaker, but she may have bigger troubles. Mrs. DiLaurentis and Emily head into the basement. They look into the crawlspace and find evidence that someone had been using it as their temporary home. Jessica says that whoever lived there is gone now and that they probably moved out before Jason moved back in. She dismissively mentions something about the gardener cleaning it up and leaves, but Emily continues to investigate. She notices the several holes drilled in the ceiling, perhaps a method for the intruder to keep track of who is upstairs.

 Bring Down the Hoe 

The four girls sit at lunch, discussing the crawlspace under the DiLaurentis home. They are sure that CeCe has been camping out there, and Emily no longer wants to live in the house. They wonder why CeCe has it out for them and Jenna, unsure what Ali may have told her about their involvement in getting her kicked out of college. Hanna arrives and tells the girls that her mom hasn’t had any luck finding a new lawyer. She wishes Veronica could stay on the case. Lt. Tanner shows up and approaches the girls to tell them they are still investigating who drove into Emily's house. She tells them that while they were sorting through the wreckage, they found a muddy shoe that matches the print of the shoes found at Wilden’s crime scene. When she mentions being able to test it to identify the owner, Hanna gets upset and walks away. The girls catch up to her and tell her not to worry, and that "A" probably planted the shoe there because Mona made a false confession. Spencer relays a plan to find out for sure if CeCe is back in town and living in the crawlspace, in turn giving Tanner a new suspect to harrass. She tells Hanna to go shopping with Mrs. DiLaurentis while she, Emily and Aria check out the crawlspace. They leave Hanna in the hallway. Later, Emily tells Paige she has a lot going on and probably can't attend the country-themed dance tonight. She shows her the recommendation letter Zoe wrote. Paige reads the letter and thinks that Zoe likes Emily, but Emily doesn't think so. She gets defensive about it and leaves. Emily finds Ezra in his classroom and shows him Zoe’s letter. She asks him if it is too positive. He snaps at her, saying some people have real problems to worry about, but before she can leave, he apologizes and tells her that Maggie is taking Malcolm away and to not tell Aria.

​In the crawlspace, Aria and Emily wait for Spencer to arrive. Emily tells Aria that she should call Ezra, but doesn’t say why. They find a black button that they think might belong to Red Coat before Spencer finally arrives. They hear someone upstairs and when Aria looks through one of the drilled holes in the ceiling, a knitting needle almost stabs her in the eye. Someone is repeated jabbing it through the holes, attempting to stab the girls, or at least make sure they don't see them, then the person upstairs leaves. Because of the incident, Emily decides that she no longer wants to live at the DiLaurentis house and wants to move into Spencer’s house. Spencer, who had been upstairs, hears the question and seems not to want Emily to move in. Aria asks who Spencer was talking to upstairs. She says "Toby. Why? What did I miss?" Aria asks, “What did we miss?” Spencer reluctantly tells them that Toby thinks that his mom was murdered, and that he has been getting messages about it from "A."

Later that day, Spencer helps Emily pack up her things in Ali’s old room. Emily gets a text from Paige about the dance that night, but she doesn’t respond. She sees a bottle of blue nail polish, and Emily has a flashback of Ali painting her toenails with that same color. In the flashback, Ali tells Emily that she needs to break up with Ben because he's a flathead and deep down, Emily knows he is not what she wants. Emily protests, but Ali insists staying with Ben sets a bad precedent for the rest of her life. She offers to break up with Ben for her, adding that she has done it for a lot of people. Ali describes one time when a friend of hers couldn’t break up with a “really scary dude,” so she did it for her. Unfortunately, the guy had a gun and pulled it on her. When Emily, astonished, asks if a boy has a gun in their school, Ali says that the guy doesn't go to their school “anymore.” After the flashback, Emily tells Spencer that she thinks Ali helped CeCe break up with Wilden, who pulled a gun on Ali when she tried to do it. Emily says that she assumed that Wilden had been seeing Ali, but now thinks that CeCe was seeing Jason and Wilden, and that when CeCe returned to Rosewood, Wilden may have tried to hook up with CeCe again, which led to CeCe killing him.

Aria, Jake, Spencer, Toby and Emily arrive at the hoedown. Emily sees Paige with a group of people, but neither of them make any move to talk to each other. We see that someone is watching Emily. Aria approaches Emily and Emily tells her to go talk to Ezra. She tells her that Maggie is taking away Malcolm, and Aria quickly goes to talk to Ezra. Emily looks up at the second floor of the barn and sees Red Coat walking away. Emily tells Spencer that she saw Red Coat. They see her run out of the barn and the girls chase after her. By the time they get outside, they see someone running away ahead of them. They beg a man to use his truck that is used for hayrides, but he says no. They get inside it anyways and while they try to start up the truck, they see something crawling towards them in the hay behind them. They get out and grab a hoe, and start poking the hay, but no one is there. They recover a red coat, however, one that is missing a button. Back at the hoedown, Spencer and Emily look over the red coat but find nothing. Spencer walks off to call Toby while Emily walks over to Paige. She tells her that she wants to dance with her, and the two dance before they shut off the music.

Now You See Me, Now You Don't

News of Travis’s testimony spreads through Rosewood and is seen by Aria, Emily, Spencer and Hanna in Spencer’s kitchen. It is revealed that the cops want Ashley to be in a lineup for Travis. A package addressed to the four girls is delivered to the house. Inside are Magic 8 balls for each of them, which spell out the phrase: “If she goes free, you’ll hear from me. Kisses —A”. They worry that if Hanna’s mom goes free, CeCe will come after them. Emily says to let her, but Spencer notes that she might have just declared “World War A”. After school, ​Paige and Emily sit outside of the school. Paige says she is thrilled for Hanna and her mom, but is worried about Emily. Emily replies that A is a terrorist and it’s working on them. She says that they now know to look out for CeCe. Paige offers for Emily to stay with her at night, and Emily happily agrees.

​At Hanna's house,  the girls receive another package. They open it and find a small white coffin, and inside is a doll that represents Mona. They get a text from A, which threatens that if they don’t find Mona, the cops will think that they killed her and Emily says that they have to find Mona fast. Hanna, Paige and Emily go off to look for Mona. At school, Paige and Emily enter the French club and meet Jackie, a fellow student. Jackie says that Mona called the club and said that she would be there but she didn't show up. Emily is at Paige’s house, looking tense. Paige tells her not to worry and that she is safe here, but Emily says she is worried about Mona. Paige says that she understands worrying about CeCe, but not Mona. Emily replies that they made Mona how she turned out to be, but Paige says that Alison did that. Emily says that they let her.

The next day, the four girls are gathered at Spencer’s house. None of them have found Mona and they are worried. Another package arrives; an empty black wooden box. However, Spencer opens it a certain way, thanks to her expertise with magic tricks. A saw with a message appears in the box. "Watch me make a girl disappear. Kisses, - A". Hanna studies the box while the others go online to see if there are any magic shows going on nearby. They find one that is taking place in Ravenswood that very day, and they decide that it can’t be a coincidence. They head out for Ravenswood. ​The girls find a sign leading them to Charlemagne’s Magic Show, an outdoor magic show hosted by a strange mime. The mime picks Aria for a disappearing act and after much hesitation, she agrees. The trick goes well, but afterwards, they notice that Emily is missing. They get a text from A that reads “leger de main”, which means “sleight of hand”. The girls realize that while they were distracted, A kidnapped Emily.

They call Emily’s cell, and she is awoken by the ringing, in a box. She tells the girls that she has no idea where she is and she begins to panic when she hears a saw coming for her. The girls turn and see Red Coat running away from them, turning a street corner. The girls chase her into an old warehouse, and see a wooden coffin chained up on a conveyor belt, headed for an electric wood cutting saw. The girls race to the coffin and try to open it, with Emily screaming inside. They try to cut the chains, but it seems too late until Red Coat presses a button and stops the machine. The girls turn and see her leave the building, but there is another Red Coat heading up the stairs. The girls realize that there are two Red Coats, and while Hanna opens the coffin and gets Emily out, Aria chases one Red Coat while Spencer pursues the other.

​As the girls are comforting Aria about CeCe's fall, they realize that CeCe is gone. Spencer rushes the girls out of the warehouse quickly, saying that she needs to show them something. She says that the Red Coat she chased might have been Ali, because she waited for Spencer to catch up, as if making sure Spencer followed her. They arrive at the apartment building Red Coat brought Spencer to. They go up to the apartment and find the entire apartment filled with blown-up pictures of Alison— portraits, candid shots and more. In one painting, a small hole is cut out, and we see that someone, who is wearing mascara, is watching them. There are whiteboards showing a timeline of each girl’s lives since the A text messages began, reaching all the way back to Ali’s funeral. Emily picks up what appears to be a large scrapbook, filled with pictures of Ali posing, and she is wearing the same outfit in each one. Hanna says she remembered buying the shirt with Ali, and she had said that she'd needed it for a date that night with an older guy. Aria calls the girls over to Ali’s timeline, and says that A hasn’t only been following the girls, but also Ali, too. He has pinned Ali to the fire at the lodge and has been following her trail to Ravenswood. The girls stare at it in shock, and Emily wonders out loud, “If Ali has been alive this whole time, then whose funeral did we go to?” They realize that Board Shorts thinks Ali is going to be at the celebration. Spencer says that they need to find Ali first.

​As the girls are unable to unlock the computers in the lair, they walk out of the building. Night has fallen, and the celebration will be starting soon. They are approached by Mrs. Grunwald, who tells them that it is dangerous for them to go chasing after Ali. Spencer says that she thought she never knew Ali, but Grunwald says that she lied to protect Ali. According to Grunwald, Ali called Grunwald that summer to find out who was stalking her. Mrs. Grunwald believes herself to be a psychic, which is why Ali called her. The night Ali went missing, Mrs. Grunwald had a bad feeling so she drove to Ali's house. She walked into her backyard and saw Ali's hand reaching up from the ground. She pulled Ali out, who was bleeding from the head and was very confused. She put Ali into the car and drove her to the hospital. When they got there, Mrs. Grunwald ran in to get help, but while she was gone, Alison ran away. When the girls ask for confirmation that Ali is still alive, Mrs. Grunwald says, “Haven’t you all felt it? She was never really gone.” She says she hasn’t seen Ali since that night, and says she probably won’t until she finds someone that she can trust. The girls say that Ali can trust them and she knows that, but Mrs. Grunwald says she isn’t sure about that. When asked why she didn’t go to the police, Mrs. Grunwald says, “She doesn’t want to be found!” When asked why she is telling them this now, she says that they are all being watched and they need to leave Ravenswood. She says that "he" is hoping that they will lead him to Alison. They hear laughter — the celebration is beginning. Mrs. Grunwald walks away, saying: “He’s here.” The girls decide that they need to find Alison and go into a costume shop to get dresses for the celebration.

Grave New World

Dressed in their costumes, Aria, Hanna, Emily and Spencer make their way into the graveyard party. Emily is hesitant to continue on—she isn’t sure she is ready to see Alison, but Aria says that they already have. With that, they all walk through the graveyard’s gates. At the party, the four girls are gathered in the tent, wondering why Ali would go to a party like this. They spot a strange person dressed in a gas mask costume, similar to the one they found in A’s lair. He is with a girl as well, and they talk to each other in low voices. As Spencer spies on him, Aria and Emily follow the girl as she walks out of the tent, but Emily is stopped by Mrs. Grunwald, who tells her that they should all leave.

As they walk through the graveyard, they spot Red Coat running into a tomb. They all quickly chase after her, but once they get there, she is gone. They spot an area that has no leaves, so they push away a statue, which reveals a hidden pathway of tunnels down under the graveyard. They walk down into them, and then the secret door shuts, trapping them in the tunnels. Panicked, they make their way through the tunnels, one of which is very windy. They all hold hands and stand against the wall, but Hanna gets separated from the group. Spencer, Aria and Emily make their way into the house from the tunnels, looking for Hanna. They hear what they think is Alison talking, and Spencer runs off to look for her, and Aria and Emily lose her. ​Aria and Emily find Spencer in the greenhouse and wake her up, and they quickly run out of the room, following Ali’s voice. They follow it into a room, and see that it wasn’t Ali’s voice at all, but just a recording. Mrs. Grunwald walks in and tells them that they shouldn’t be in there. The girls say that they think they followed Alison into the house, and Mrs. Grunwald reveals that the tape was a recording of one of Ali’s sessions with her. Six months before, the tapes were stolen, and Mrs. Grunwald gets a bad feeling—that Emily, Aria, or Spencer has touched the one Alison fears the most. They leave the house and return to their car, and they find that their tires have been slashed.

​Hanna rejoins the girls just as Ezra arrives and offers them all a ride home. They drive back to Rosewood and get out of the car. Once Ezra has driven away, they spot Red Coat staring at them in the woods. She runs away, and they chase her back to Spencer’s barn, where she stops and pulls down her hood. She turns around, and it is Alison, alive and well. She looks nervous, and she greets them with shaky “Did you miss me?” The girls are all overcome with shock and joy. Ali looks back into the woods and sees a light, and says that she doesn’t have much time and that it isn’t safe for her to be in Rosewood. They beg her not to leave again, and Ali says that she wants to come home, but she needs their help. They hear someone approaching, and Ali fearfully puts a finger to her lips. The girls turn. Ezra walks into the backyard, supposedly to give Aria back her cell phone. When the girls turn back around, Ali has run off again.

Who's In The Box?

​After just encountering Alison moments before, the four girls now sit in Spencer’s room, visibly shaken. They are all confused and wonder where Ali has been hiding all of this time, and even question if she is A. No matter what, they resolve to try and make Rosewood a safer place for Ali to return to. They travel to the mausoleum where Ali’s body was believed to have been buried.

A week later, Emily visits Jessica DiLaurentis, who still changes Ali’s sheets. Emily asks her about Jason, but Jessica replies that he has been on a cross country trip but she would be able to get a hold of him if it was an emergency. At school, Emily tells Aria and Spencer about Jessica and Jason, and Spencer expresses that someone needs to know where Jason is. All three girls are nervous because things have been quiet ever since they saw Ali outside Spencer’s barn. Later, Paige and Emily discuss swimming, but Paige notices that something else is on Emily’s mind, resulting in Emily lashing out at her. In an empty classroom, Hanna shows Spencer and Emily the website for a missing girl named Sara Harvey, who was last seen Labor Day weekend, the same time that Ali went missing. Sara is from Courtland, not far from Rosewood. She is blonde and is similar in appearance to Alison, so Hanna decides to arrange a meeting with some of Sara’s friends, disguising the meeting as a support session. As the girls look at the webpage, the projector flips on, showing an old film laced with a message from A: whoever finds Alison first gets to keep her. At the Brew, Hanna tells Emily and Aria that she made an appointment with Tina, a friend of Sara Harvey’s, and that she doesn’t want to meet up with her alone. Emily says that she doesn’t want to go, and is mad that Ali never reached out to any of them or told them that she was alive. Hanna says that no matter what Ali has been up to, they need to bring her back to find out what has been going on.

The next day, Emily and Hanna sit with Tina and her friend, Claire, and they discuss Sara Harvey. Sara is described as being very similar to Ali, and Sara and her friends also went to a movie theater in Rosewood. However, she was last seen before the hole had been filled with cement, meaning that Sara was not the one buried in Ali’s grave.

Later that evening, Emily cleans up the Brew when someone knocks on the door—it is Claire, one of Sara Harvey’s friends. She had remembered that Emily worked here, so she had decided to stop by. At the Brew, Claire explains that another one of Sara’s friends, Avery, has been inconsolable ever since Sara went missing. She describes how envious she is of the situation with Alison—she wishes that Sara were dead as well, because it has been very hard being one of her friends. She describes Sara as being someone perfect, but someone that would also take away two things for everything she give you. She says that she wished that Sara were dead even before she’d disappeared, and she runs out of the Brew, crying.

Later, Emily tells Paige that Ali let her kiss her, but that when she realized that it meant nothing to Ali, she was very hurt. She says that she doesn’t think that Ali ever loved anyone, but all she did was collect love. She says that Ali broke her heart. Paige asks if this is how she finally says good-bye to Ali, and Emily says it is.

Love ShAck, Baby

The girls look through Ali’s diary, and quickly realize that the stories she wrote are shrouded in pseudonyms and half-truths. Hanna is still hesitant about showing the girls the journal; because of this, Spencer and Emily lash out at her, but Aria interrupts, saying that the important thing is that they have the diary now. They decide to read the stories and weed out the ones about them, and whatever is left over they’ll investigate. Emily decides to take the journal first.

That night, Emily is awoken by Ali, who seemingly climbed through her bedroom window to see Emily. Alison is apologetic towards her, saying how much she missed her. Emily, however, is not enthusiastic about seeing Ali again. Ali acknowledges that she hurt Emily the most, but says that she is a different person now. She also says that she doesn’t know who is after her, but she needs Emily because Emily always saw the best in her, the person that she wants to be. Emily says that she doesn’t see Ali that way anymore. Ali notices Emily’s bracelet that she gave to her—and Emily wakes up in the morning. The window is wide open and she isn’t wearing the bracelet.

At school, Ezra spies on Emily looking through Ali’s journal. Meanwhile, Aria leaves a pen on Ezra’s desk, and Spencer openly asks her is she is still in love with him. They join Emily, who has come up with a color coding system to label the stories in Ali’s journal. They find a poem, "The Busy Bee" in the journal. Aria recognizes what Ali is writing about—the Busy Bee Inn in Killingworth, and they wonder if that is where Ali is hiding. They all agree to take a ride out there.

At the Brew, Emily finds a note in her bag that says: “I want to come home. Meet me at our spot.” She quickly leaves. Emily visits the Kissing Rock to wait for Ali to show up. Emily waits long enough before finally taking off her bracelet and leaving.

That night, the four girls leave Rosewood for Killingworth. Emily’s car stalls and Aria notices that Emily's car’s GPS is different than Aria’s phone. The girls get outside and check Emily’s engine, but they are unsure what to do. Hanna texts Travis, who says that he won’t be able to meet them for another two hours. Aria realizes that Ezra’s cabin is not far from where they are stranded; she suggests she waits there, but tells the others that the cabin belongs to her uncle. At the cabin, Hanna goes outside to get a signal to call Travis, and Emily goes with her. Inside, while Spencer and Aria go into the laundry room to get blankets, the door shuts behind them. Aria looks through the keyhole and sees a hooded figure walking around. They open a window and scream outside for help, and Hanna and Emily both hear them. They break a window to get into the cabin since the front door was locked. They open the door and let Spencer and Aria out, but discover that Ali’s journal is gone, but the bracelet that Emily left at the Kissing Rock was left in its place. Travis then arrives to bring them all home.

At Aria's, Emily shows Aria the note that Ali seemingly left for her, and tells her about the “dream” she had about Ali visiting her. A then sends the girls a text of the Busy Bee Inn, thanking them for the tip. The realize that they basically gave Ali to A due to all of the post-its and notes from the journal

In the final scene, 'A' is seen hacking into the GPS system, hinting that it was 'A' who messed up Emily's GPS settings.

Close Encounters

Emily, Aria, Spencer and Hanna immediately follow up on their lead by taking a trip to the Busy Bee Inn. Upon their arrival, they are met with a mess. Alison's clothes were laying all over the place, and a window had been smashed. The Liars begin to theorize what may have made Alison leave the Busy Bee Inn. Did A finally get to Alison? Before they could come up with more theories, the door slowly closed, revealing a message from A: YOU'RE TOO LATE! -A

The next day, Emily enters the church with a pie in one hand, and her phone in the other. She and Hanna are discussing the events of the night before on the phone. Hanna informs Emily about her theory: Could the struggle at the Busy Bee Inn be a complete set up? After Emily sets down her pie for the Church bake sale, someone slowly enters the church and creeps out of Emily's view. Emily finishes up lighting candles when she hears someone moving behind her. She rushes over to a door finding it locked, turns around and sees Shana standing behind her. Shana tells Emily she has a message for her from Alison, but Emily assumes it's just a way for Shana to rub in her face, the fact that Alison is dead. Shana tells Emily they both know Alison never was truly dead and Alison wants the Liars to stop looking for her since A almost got to her at the Busy Bee Inn. Shana reveals that she's known Alison her entire life having been living next to Alison's grandparents house in Georgia. After Emily questioned Shana's friendship with Jenna, Shana tells Emily that Jenna was on Alison's suspect list to who might have been trying to kill her. Looking at Shana, Emily challenges her to prove that she really knows Alison. The girls are at Aria's talking about what Emily and Shana had been talking about earlier that day. Emily tells her friends that Shana confirmed Alison really did save Emily from the locked up barn in Over My Dead Body. Spencer asks Emily what she and Alison talked about outside the barn, but Emily refuses to tell them saying "I want to keep that between us.". They begin to theorize about Shana and Alison's relationship, still believing that Shana could just be one of A's minions.

Later, in the park, Shana tells Emily that Alison missed her the most because Emily was Alison's favorite. Emily, believing in Shana's words, demands to know where Alison is right now. Shana tells her she never knows where Alison ever is, because Alison is always the one who comes to Shana, not the other way around. Shana also informs Emily she's known Alison was always alive since the final events of Unmasked. Emily asks why Shana never told anyone that Alison was alive, but Shana ignores her telling her that in order for her to see Alison, she needed to go alone. Emily tells Spencer that Shana completely checks out. She knew word for word what Alison told Emily at the barn, and she really did grow up next to Ali's grandparents. Spencer is still suspicious of Shana, though. She tells Emily that maybe Alison wanting to meet her was all just a ruse cooked up by A. Emily doesn't think so, believing it really is Alison trying to reach out to her. Spencer tells Emily she does not want Emily going there alone, but Emily gives Spencer a frustrated look, telling her "It's the only way Alison will meet with me!"

Shana and Emily drive up to a warehouse. Emily asks Shana if she's going to come in to see Alison with her, but Shana shakes her head. Emily gets out of the car and heads up the steps and Shana drives away. Once she enters, Emily takes a look around the place. She hears something behind her and goes to look just as Alison creeps out of her hiding place. Emily turns around and gasps when she sees Alison. The two hug and Emily wants to help Alison. She assures Alison that she can trust herself and the other Liars. Alison tells Emily that she realizes that Emily never stopped carring for her, and she is sorry for everything she put Emily through. She wants Emily to help her find A so she can go home. Another noise is heard behind them and Alison gets scared, asking if Emily told anyone else about their meeting. She runs away as Emily tries to find out who followed her. Spencer appears from behind a shelf just as Alison enters an elevator. Emily tries to stop her, but she's too late. She looks back at Spencer with a glare on her face. Emily and Spencer get into an argument, and Spencer tries to apologize to Emily for scaring Alison away. Emily tells Spencer it's going to take more than an "I'm sorry" for Emily to forgive Spencer. Emily realizes that she betrayed Ali, and is afraid that she will no longer trust her. Spencer immediately theorizes that Alison is still up to her old tricks, but Emily refuses to believe it, saying Alison was actually sincere tonight. She leaves the warehouse, leaving Spencer infuriated.

Bite Your Tongue

Aria and Emily returns from a movie. Aria comments on how she missed half the movie because the dude in front of them was making sales call and that if Spencer was there she would have pegged the dude with her jelly beans. Emily gets a little annoyed to hear Spencer’s name. Aria tells Emily that Spencer is sorry but Emily should not keep holding on to the grudge she felt. According to Aria, Spencer was “just trying to protect” Emily. But Emily thinks that Spencer was trying to control the situation like she always does and she made a mistake by trusting Spencer. They are at Aria’s front door when they hear loud music coming from inside the house. They go in and find that a party is going on inside. Aria orders Mike to get all the people out in ten minutes. She and Emily go upstairs. Aria and Emily finds Mona coming out of Aria’s bedroom. When Mona is asked what she is up to, she says that she was invited by Mike who does not tuck and toll every time Mona walks into a room. Before leaving, Mona comments on Aria’s wallpaper and zips her bag.

The next day, Emily’s dad comes home from a car mechanic and tells her that her car stopping in the middle of the road was just a computer glitch and now it is fine. But Emily is still afraid of driving the car and decides to take her bike. Emily’s father is concerned about her behavior, but Emily tells him she is worried about school stuff and that she will get through it. Her dad offers her a drive to school but she declines. At school, Emily tells Hanna that 'A' tampered with her car in the woods last week. Hanna thinks that they cannot be sure without more proof. Emily confides in Hanna that she does not feel safe even in her own house anymore. Hanna asks Emily to bury the hatchet with Spencer as none of them will win in this fight of theirs. Spencer walks into the conversation and tries to talk to Emily, but Emily ignores her.

Later that night, Emily wakes up to weird noises. She closes the window. But when she hears the stairs creaking, she gets scared and gets ready to attack whoever the intruder is with scissors. The door to her room opens and the person that enters is her father. He holds a scared Emily. We see a handprint on Emily’s window pane.

The next day, Aria and Emily are talking about Aria's incident with Maggie on the way to school. Aria thinks that Maggie will never let Ezra see Malcolm anymore. Emily assures her by saying that she was just acting as Ezra’s friend and so he is not going to be mad at her. Aria asks Emily to cover for her in Ezra’s class and that’s when they catch Mike and Mona kissing! An infuriated Aria walks away.

On Wayne's request to keep Emily more involved in school, Ezra has given Emily some extra work to do. While working late at school Emily hears noises. She calls out but nobody answers. Suddenly, loud music metal music starts coming through the PA. The lights start flashing and Emily gets terrified and calls her father to come get her. She sees shadows of someone moving in the hallway and a sign flashes "Act normal, bitch." Emily runs into a classroom and locks herself in. Through a window, Emily sees her father pull up but can't get the window to open. Wayne finds the door to the school closed. A shadowy figure tries to get into the classroom. Emily breaks the window and yells for her father to help her. Wayne climbs up the side of the building, opens the window and gets her out. The hooded figure gets into the classroom just after Emily and her father reach the ground. Suddenly Wayne collapses. An ambulance arrives to take Wayne to the hospital. He tells Emily he's had some tests done and there are issues with his heart.

Emily is at Aria's who picked her up from the hospital. Aria assures her that her dad is in great hands. But Emily is worried that 'A' might harm him. Spencer arrives at Aria's house after receiving a text from Aria. Spencer asks Emily to not send her away. They share a hug. Hanna walks in looking terrified. She explains to the others about what happened at the dentist and she thinks that she was treated by 'A'. Her lips were still half-frozen according to her. The three of them looks inside Hanna's mouth and Spencer pulls out a very small piece of paper from inside her mouth. It reads: "I told you. Dead girls can't smile. Stop looking. -A"

Hot for Teacher

Emily and the other girls walk into the Brew. They discuss whether they should trust Shana now that they know she is working with Alison. Emily thinks so, but Hanna and Aria disagree. Emily informs them her dad’s chest pains were caused from anemia, not a heart attack, and disagrees when Hanna says Shana was probably the one who tried to attack Emily at the school. Spencer suggests it could’ve been someone from the crew working on Ezra’s play. After A’s message at the dentist, Hanna thinks that for safety’s sake they should wait for Ali to find them instead of looking for her, and the others promise not to.

The next day, Emily sees Shana and asks her if Alison is all right. Shana acts cold towards her and doesn’t give any information, but she halfway agrees to tell Alison that Emily is sorry for what happened at the warehouse. Later that day, Hanna and Emily are sitting outside Spencer's house in Hanna's car and call Spencer. They ask Spencer to let them in. Spencer tells Hanna she’s at the library, and when Hanna calls her out on it because her car is in the driveway, she tells her she walked there. Hanna asks her to come over later to help with her closet, but Spencer lies again, saying she has to redo an essay for Ezra. Hanna and Emily stay parked outside of Spencer’s house trying to figure out why she’s lying. They see Shana leaving the DiLaurentis house, and Emily wants to follow her. But Hanna is still paranoid about researching anything involving Alison after her incident at the dentist's and so she drives away.

That night, Shana shows up at Emily’s house asking for her help. Someone is seen taking pictures of them on the doorstep from a parked car. Up in Emily’s room, Shana tells her she didn’t know Paige was into Emily when she dated her at swim camp, and she acted like she wanted to come between them to get information, like that Emily is protective and loyal. Shana says she answered Wren’s ad asking for help packing up quickly, and he asked her to be discrete when he found out she went to Rosewood High School. She says she remembers Ali taking the snow globe from her grandmother’s to give to someone special. Shana explains that she was trying to get something from the DiLaurentis house for Alison but didn’t get the chance, and she asks Emily to help.

The next day, Emily is in Ali’s bedroom pretending to search for a pair of her mother’s earrings she left when she stayed there. When Jessica DiLaurentis goes to check the bathroom, Emily takes down the French twin poster and finds an envelope inside the paper backing. She opens it and finds $5000 cash and a note. Emily goes to work and calls Shana to tell her she got the envelope, and Shana tells her to keep it safe until she can stop by the coffee shop after her swim meet. Emily puts it in a bag of coffee beans.

Later that night, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily discuss the new findings. Spencer informs Emily about the camera she found hidden in the vent opposite to Ezra's apartment. She deduces that he is 'A' since 'A' also likes to watch people through hidden cameras. Emily is shocked and unable to believe that Ezra could be 'A' since he helped her with her college essays. Spencer thinks that he was so sweet to the liars to get close to them. Emily is worried about Aria and wants to call her tell her about this but Spencer stops her. They decide not to tell Aria until they're positive Ezra is A, assuming she's safe in Syracuse with her dad. Emily then tells them about helping Shana and says Shana never showed up to meet her at the Brew. Emily then shows them the money she has. The girls realize that Alison must be running out of money. The girls think that since Ezra has also not been seen since that evening, he must have got Shana. Spencer thinks Ezra wants Shana to lead him to Alison.

EscApe From New York
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Emily, Hanna and Emily hold a distressed Aria back as Ezra is being loaded into the back of an ambulance. Emily tells Aria that they’ll find out where they’re taking Ezra and they’ll get Aria there.

Outside of a convenience store, Emily gives Alison a can of deodorant, telling her it was the strongest one they had. When Emily asks Alison if she’s sure she wants to do this and Alison tells her that Ezra just saved not only her life, but all of theirs. Emily tells Aria that she knows A wants to shut Ezra up “but Ali is still a target”. Emily asks if they’re sure they want to split up and Spencer tells her a wise commander takes measures to always let his opponent react to the wrong set of circumstances before Hanna cuts her off, telling her they get it, they’re decoys. As Aria and Alison start walking away, Emily tells them they’ll give them 10 minutes before making the call. Spencer and Hanna start walking in the opposite direction of Alison and Aria, but Emily lingers as she watches Alison walk away. Spencer tells her if they want to get to the hospital first, they have to go now, to which Emily reminds them that A is always one step ahead.

Arriving at St Andrew’s Hospital, Hanna takes Emily and Spencer in the direction of the surgical waiting room, and they spot A making a phone call in one of the corridors. As Emily and the girls are pretending to read magazines in the waiting room, she tells them she “hates this”, and Spencer says they should just hope it works. After Alison’s name is paged to the emergency department, the girls watch as A walks past them and into an elevator, and Spencer suggests them to take the stairs.

In a playground, A steps behind Alison telling her it’s over, but Alison tells he/she that it’s not, and Emily, Hanna and Spencer step out from various places around the playground, “we paged Alison so you’d know she was there”. After Alison sprays deodorant in A’s eyes, the four girls find themselves surrounded by multiple people claiming they are A. As the police drive past and break the flash mob up, Alison tells the other girls A was one step ahead of them.

On the phone to Aria, Emily says that once Ezra is out of surgery, it’ll still take him a couple of hours to wake up, “we need to find somewhere to go”. After the call to Aria is ended, Emily tells Alison that with Ezra unavailable, she’s the available target.

Alison takes Emily, Hanna and Spencer to a Theater, and Hanna makes a comment about how this would impress anyone. Alison tells them that Ezra didn’t bring her here to impress her, this was kind of his special place. Hanna picks up a rifle from the fireplace mantle on the Theater stage and comments how it’s a real gun before Emily takes it off her. Spencer’s stomach rumbles loudly and when Alison asks what they sound was, both Hanna and Emily tell her “Spencer’s stomach” in unison. At the concession stand Spencer says she was that hungry she was about to eat the foam out of the seat cushions; Hanna says she saw that episode, and so did Emily, “that lady went through three couches in a year”.

On the stage, Spencer asks Hanna and Emily if it feels as though Alison is already shutting them out again. Emily says that it makes sense that “Ali had people helping her. You know if it were us, we’d want her to call. We’d want to know she was okay”. Emily goes on to say they just need to wait it out a few more hours, “once Ezra tells us who A is, this will finally be over”. Emily asks them to imagine what life would be without A, and Spencer asks when they last time any of them had a hobby. Hanna says that she’s never had a hobby, but wouldn’t mind taking up a sport, which surprises both Emily and Spencer. Emily asks Hanna which sport, and Hanna tells them she’s always liked Spencer’s field hockey skirt. Emily then asks Spencer, and Spencer tells her she wouldn’t want to go back to the person she was before, now she just really wants to be happy.

Emily is awake when Alison gets back to the Theater and asks her where she has been. Alison begs Emily not to wake up the others, and Emily tells her they’re all in this together, “at least that’s what we thought”. Alison says that there are some things they don’t need to know about her, but Emily tells her that it’s not a good enough answer. Taking Emily’s hand, Alison leads her away from the stage.

In a dressing room, Alison tells Emily that Ezra was paying CeCe for information and that’s why CeCe was in Ravenswood. Alison goes on to say CeCe was never really Red Coat, Alison had just asked her to wear it, hoping that she’d distract A long enough so Alison could turn off the saw. Alison tells her CeCe didn’t put Emily in the box, A did, and CeCe helped Alison save Emily’s life. Emily asks why this has to be a secret, Alison says that CeCe killed a cop and part of why she did that was for Alison. If CeCe gets busted boarding the plane, Alison’s face is on the passport, and that makes her an accessory, and Emily too now Alison’s told her. Alison goes on to say that Emily and the girls have done so much for her, they don’t need to go out on a limb for CeCe.

Once the phone has stopped ringing, Emily asks Alison is she recognised the voice, to which Alison tells her she didn’t. Emily steps into Hanna, Spencer and Alison’s argument, telling them they can argue in the cab, “let’s just grab our stuff and go”. As the girls run out onto the stage, the lights in the Theater go out and Shana walks onto the stage with a gun. Shana tells them they she thought she had them all locked in the lodge, but Alison was late to the party. Emily admits to Shana that “Ali’s made mistakes” and asks her, “what makes you better?” Emily starts to say that “we never meant to”, but Shana cuts her off, telling her to step back or she’ll blow Emily’s head off. After Aria knocks Shana off the stage, Emily walks down the stairs to the floor and checks Shana for a pulse, “she’s dead”. Walking back up to the stage, Emily tells Aria that Spencer is right, “she would have killed all of us”. Aria says to them that it’s over, and Emily and Spencer embrace her, before Emily says, “let’s go home”.

Whirly Girlie

Emily and the other liars arrive back in Rosewood with Alison. Alison hesitates when she starts to get off the bus, but Emily manages to convince her to take the final few steps. Off the bus, they all agree Alison needs to tell the Police everything.

At the Hastings’ house, Veronica tells Emily to call her mother as Pam's flight had been cancelled. Sensing that Veronica wants to talk with Spencer alone, Emily says she’ll call her mother from outside.

Emily is outside the front gate talking to Pam, and only adding to Alison's kidnapping story. Spencer isn't happy when she overhears the last part of the phone call. She's sick of being dragged back into Alison's mess, and as she puts it, "we're back on planet Alison!" Emily starts defending Alison, but their conversation is cut short when they spot Jason cleaning out his car. Wanting a closer peek, Spencer and Emily creep over to the DiLaurentis house after Jason has headed inside. When Alison spies them, she throws down a roll of toilet paper with a cell phone inside. Picking it up, the girls see the text message Ali wanted to show them - "the truth will bury you in a New York minute."

The next morning Emily and Spencer start walking towards the DiLaurentis house so Emily can give Alison her phone back. Spencer tells her that Hanna told Aria about the text and now Aria is super paranoid. Spencer believes the text may have come from Jenna, but Emily believes they can take on Jenna because there is five of them and only one of her. After Spencer goes dumpster diving in the DiLaurentis bins, everything falls into place for Emily in regards to Jason, “if Mrs D thought that someone just killed her child who else would she cover for besides her other one?” In Alison's bedroom, Emily tells Ali about her and Spencer's findings. Alison tells them that Jason was watching her sleep the night before; Emily tells Alison that she can’t sleep in her house anymore, she needs to ask her Dad if she can spend the night at Spencer’s. Still not wanting Alison sleeping in her house, Emily tells her that her mom is coming home tomorrow and she should stay at her place.

Emily arrives at the cabin in the woods having received a text message from Aria. Aria explains they have to make it look like Ali has been living in here. She confides in Emily how guilty she feels and how angry she is at Emily and Spencer for not telling her about Alison's text message. Emily tries to reassure her that she did the right thing at the time. Emily goes on to tell her she knows what Aria is going through, because she went through the same thing when she shot Nate.

Emily interrupts Kenneth and Jason arguing on her way out of the DiLaurentis house, Alison having asked her to walk Pepe. Getting just outside of the living room, Emily stops to eavesdrop on the least of Kenneth and Jason’s conversation and finds out that Jason is heading to Philadelphia and that Kenneth believes he is going to see Jessica.

Hanna drops some papers off to Kenneth that could help in locating Jessica, and when he offers both her and Emily to stay for dinner, Hanna makes an excuse and rushes them out of the house. In the car, Hanna tells Emily about the email she found, while Emily tells her about the conversation between Mr DiLaurentis and Jason that she overheard. Jason knocks on Hanna's window, frightening both girls, and gives them a stern warning about meddling in places they shouldn’t be. Watching as Jason jumps into his car, Emily tells Hanna to follow him, "no you follow him. I have to change my underwear!"

In Philadelphia, Emily and Hanna follow Jason to a rundown apartment building. After he leaves, they get out of the car and walk up to the building, but are unable to get inside as they’re not sure which buzzer Jason had pressed. A man approaches them and Emily tells him she heard there may be a vacancy in the building. Knowing it to be a lie, the man chases them off.

Having gathered at Spencer's, Aria tells Hanna and Emily she's determined to go to the cops and tell them about what happened to Shana. Emily tries to tell Aria that Mona doesn’t know about Shana. Placing her hands on Aria’s shoulders, Emily tells her that Jason was the one in New York, and when they prove that he was the one who made Ali tell the kidnapping lie, all will be okay. Emily however, doesn’t know how the will prove the theory and that’s why they’re having a meeting.

The girls hear Pepe barking in the garden and run out to the back porch. Emily calls out to Pepe, leading to Aria to ask Hanna whose dog it is. Walking over closer to Pepe, they discover Mrs DiLaurentis' hand poking from the ground.

Surfing the Aftershocks

Emily, Aria and Spencer are waiting in the DiLaurentis' living room as Alison gets dressed for her mother's funeral. They overhear Mr DiLaurentis telling Jason he does not want any police or press at the funeral or cemetery. After Hanna rejoins them after having been up with Alison, Emily says that she believes Jason was the one who buried Jessica in the Hastings backyard, something Spencer won’t believe. As Aria and Hanna usher Alison out of the DiLaurentis living room, Emily mentions to Spencer that coincidences happen, only for Spencer to reply, "yeah, all the time. They grow on trees like coconuts, just waiting for you to walk under them"!

A few days later the Liars are back at school and have been called into Vice Principal Hackett's office. He tells them that he is relieved they are safe and back in the "halls of Rosewood High School", something Emily says they are also happy about. Hackett goes on to say that the school will do what they can to protect them from the press and the curious, but in return he needs to know the girls will do their part in "keeping the disruptions to a minimum".

In the school courtyard, Emily mentions to Spencer and Hanna that now the funeral is over, the cops are going to start punching holes in Alison’s kidnap story, and when it happens they need something real to tell them and a reason as to why they lied in the first place. Emily again says that she believes Jason was the one who killed his mother, and again Spencer is on the defense. After Spencer walks off, Emily asks Hanna if she’ll come to Philadelphia with her, to find out what Jason really was doing in the rundown apartment building.

Having bumped into someone on the staircase, Emily's notebook goes flying to the ground. Before she has the chance to pick it up, Paige does so for her. Paige says that she’s really sorry about what happened to Alison, and Emily wonders if there’s anything else she is sorry for. Paige doesn't answer, and it's then that Emily notices somebody starting at her, something she wishes people would stop doing.

The same girl who was staring at Emily on the staircase, is staring at her again as Emily grabs some books from her locker. It is here that Emily, tired of being stared at, confronts the newbie, "people have been staring at me and my friends all day. So why don't you take a really good look and we can all move on with your lives, okay. And yes, I know the dead girl who isn't dead anymore." The new girl, who is a little taken aback, tells Emily she was only looking at her, and her trophies because she's Emily Fields. After introducing herself as Sydney Driscoll, Emily apologises for shouting.

Having watched Sydney swim, Emily and Sydney head into the locker rooms, where Emily begins to measure Sydney's height to arm span ratio. Paige walks in and starts helping Emily, leading to an awkward conversation filled with suggestive innuendos.

In Philadelphia Emily and Hanna walk up to Arnie, the man who chased them away last time, and ask about Jason. It is then the girls find out Jason came to this building to get sober when he said he was at Clark.

In the car on the way back to Rosewood, Emily and Hanna question who Mrs DiLaurentis was sending the email to since it wasn’t Jason. He was at the dry-out place with no less than half a dozen people the night Jessica died and the Liars were in New York. Hanna then asks Emily what it was like to come out, since she had never really asked before. Emily tells her she always knew was she gay, and when she came out it was her finally admitting it to herself.

Back from Philadelphia, Emily and Hanna walk into the Brew. Emily is surprised at Hanna’s request for coffee but Hanna tells her that her body is made up of seven tenths of caffeine and she needs to maintain a consistent level.

Paige is waiting on Emily’s porch for her to get home. Paige comments that Pam knows they’re fighting, but Emily tells her they’ve finished fighting. Paige then asks Emily what they are to each other, and all Emily can tell her is that maybe they’ll be friends. Paige tells her that she practiced what she was going to say to her, but when she got to the porch, she forgot everything and all she can say is “I love you”. As Paige is walking away, Emily calls out to her, telling her she deserves the best of everything.

Thrown From The Ride

Emily and Sydney walk into the girls locker room at Rosewood High after one of Sydney’s training sessions. Sydney is disappointed with her time, but Emily tells her that her technique is so much better and they should keep focusing on her strength before asking if they want to meet up tomorrow. Remembering that tomorrow is Saturday, Emily tells Sydney that she’s doing what she can to avoid spending time at home, “ever since my friend Ali came back, all my mom does is ask me questions. And when she’s not asking questions, she’s staring at me, waiting for me to talk”. Emily goes on to say she’s started taken longer showers but “when the hot water runs out, I’m screwed”. Sydney says it’s only natural to have questions. As Sydney asks what time they’re meeting up tomorrow, Emily’s phone rings, seeing that it’s Alison, Emily declines the call, telling Sydney that they’ll meet at the same time as today. Turning to leave, Emily nearly bumps into Paige on her way out.

Meeting Spencer, Hanna and Aria the front of the school to eat lunch, Emily says that some people have been kind of nice when they ask questions about Alison, but Hanna says most people have been rude about it. As all of their phones go off at once, Emily and Aria think it’s an ‘A’ text, Spencer tells them it’s not, it’s Ali. Spencer reads out the text and says the family has to wait for cause of death. Spencer tell the three girls they don’t have to pretend like Jessica wasn’t found in her backyard. Emily tells her that they know Spencer’s family had nothing to do with what happened to Ali’s mom.

Emily walks into the locker room at Rose High looking for Sydney, when she sees Paige. Paige tells her she’s doing a great job with Sydney, and Emily tells her it’s nice to hang out with someone who sees her more than “just a friend with dead girl walking”. Paige then asks about Ali, and Emily tells her she doesn’t know, “it’s hard to know what to ask. Or what to say”. Sydney comes in and apologises for being late. As Paige says her goodbyes, Emily asks if she wants to join them.

At the Pizzeria in town, Emily, Sydney and Paige grab some food after Sydney’s training session. Emily comments that her pizza is too hot, Sydney tells her she doesn’t care if it burns the roof of her mouth, she’s starving. Emily says she doesn’t know how Paige can eat her pizza with ranch and buffalo chicken as toppings. Sydney tells her to not knock it before she’s tried it and Emily tells her Paige made her try it after a party one night.

Emily, Spencer and Aria are in Emily’s bedroom where she tells them about her and Paige hanging out with Sydney, where they were laughing and joking, and then all of a sudden Paige totally shut down. Aria mentions that perhaps Paige is scared of getting close only to be rejected again. Aria notes that she’s noticed Emily has kind of been MIA about Ali, and Spencer tells Aria she has as well, only for Aria to say that’s why she’s noticed Emily’s absence. Emily asks Aria if she thinks she’s scared of getting close to Ali again, and when Aria asks if she still has feelings for their returned friend, Emily tells her she doesn’t know, “I really don’t”. Emily says that it’s crazy, they wanted a life without ‘A’ and Ali back for so long, “I thought everything would feel like it did before, but it doesn’t”. Aria then asks Emily how she dealt with what happened with Nate, and if she wanted to know about everything about him. Emily tells her that when she received the package from his mom, she obsessed over it. She kept thinking what it would have been like for his mom to write her name, the person who had taken her son away from her. She studied the printing, and kept imagining the places where she felt as if her hands might have shaken.

Paige drops by Emily’s house where she tells Emily that if Alison comes back to school, Emily should keep her distance. When Emily says that perhaps it wasn’t a good idea for them to hang out, Paige tells her it has nothing to do with them. Paige goes on to say that Alison hurt a lot of people, her included, and while she’s not interested in continuing that, she’s also not going to out the people who feel as though they need to protect themselves. After calling out to Paige as she walks away, Emily notices the trees rustling before heading back inside.

In Alison’s bedroom, Alison shows Emily the backpack Kenneth brought for her, and Emily says it’s nice. Emily tells Alison that perhaps Kenneth was right, maybe she should start over somewhere else. Emily says she doesn’t think it’s safe, before Alison reminds her the only reason she got off the bus was because Emily convinced her to. Alison then asks Emily if Hanna gave her the recording, and Emily tells her she’ll memorise the tape but “this is the last time Ali. Okay. I mean it”.

Miss Me x 100

The five girls are in Aria’s living room, where Emily tells Spencer that nobody like lying to Toby but "if he finds out what happened in New York", before she can finish Aria cuts her off, telling Spencer that she should just tell him the truth. Alison is constantly looking out the window, looking for Jenna, and Emily tells her to relax, Jenna isn't coming over. When Spencer tells the girls that Toby said Jenna sounded broken, Emily asks if she is still full on blind, and Spencer nods an affirmative answer. Aria suggests maybe Jenna is back because she wanted to be close to her family, but Emily thinks if she's sad, she can cry in New York. Emily thinks that Jenna came home to finish what Shana started, and comments that A's dead, but they're still plotting their zone defense in the dark.

Emily, Aria, Hanna and Spencer are waiting for Alison to arrive, and when Aria wonders why they didn't pick her up, Emily reminds her that Alison's dad wanted to drop her off. Watching as Alison stops by Cindy and Mindy, Emily explains that Alison used to call them 'gayrons', "like gay morons". Finally getting to the other four girls, Alison thanks them for waiting, and all together they make their way into the halls of Rosewood High. As they come to a stop, Aria asks if Alison knows where her first class is, and Alison tells her that she's supposed to go to the guidance counselors office, but she can't remember what it is. Emily says that she has Chem Lab and it's close so she can walk her.

Emily is leaving Spencer a voice mail when Hanna says she hasn’t seen Ali since first period, so maybe they skipped together. Emily explains that Alison sent her a text and she’s in guidance counsellor hell, before Hanna goes back to Spencer and says that with everything going on with Spencer’s family, she doesn’t like not knowing where she is. Aria mentions that she’s thinking of going by Jenna’s after school, so she can swing by Spencer’s to check in on her. Emily wonders what Aria could do to help Jenna, but Aria tells her and Hanna to back off. As Aria tells Emily she hopes she has a carefree senior year, she needs to find a way to live with what happened in New York. As Emily tries to talk, Aria cuts her off, telling her that she be sorry for Jenna's loss, that's what she can do.

In the locker rooms Sydney excitedly tells Emily that the school Glee club are sponsoring a Frozen sing along tonight, and Emily tells her she thinks she’s more of an Adele Dazeem than an Idina Menzel. Sydney reminds her that there will be free pizza, and Emily will avoid playing 20 questions with her mother. With Emily finally agreeing, only if she can hum, Sydney tells her she’ll see her at 7.00pm. Noticing Paige, Emily walks over and says she's surprised Paige came to practice as she heard Paige has gone home early. Paige says she wasn’t feeling well, but it’s passed, and Emily asks if it’s because of Alison. Emily says that if Paige is skipping school to avoid Alison, it means Alison still has power over her. Emily says that she hates to see Paige so upset, but Paige tries to assure her that she is fine. Before leaving, Emily tells Paige that she is one of the bravest people she knows, "and I'm not going to let you forget that".

Having gotten Alison and Paige in her bedroom, Emily asks each of them if they want her to leave, but ultimately they both leave it up to her. Deciding to stay, Emily takes a seat as Alison thanks her for getting them together and that she and Paige are lucky to have a friend like her.

Sitting on Emily’s bed, Alison asks if Emily wants to order some food, but Emily tells her she already has plans. Alison asks if she could come with her and Emily says she’s already invited Paige. Alison then asks if she could stay a little longer, her dad’s working late and she doesn't want to go home to an empty house. Emily says she can and that Pam is in the den if she needs anyone. As Emily is leaving, Alison tells her that when she was talking to Paige she realised that she owes Emily an apology as well. Alison tells her she knows she always made Emily think the kisses they shared were one-sided, but that wasn't true, they weren't just for practice. Not knowing what Alison wants her to say, Emily wants to know why Alison is telling her this now, and Alison says she just thought she should know.

In the Rosewood High courtyard, Emily and Sydney are buying popcorn when Paige comes up to them saying that Bridget Woo just told her that she saw Jenna tonight, and Emily comments that she was probably drunk. Paige goes on to say that apparently Shana is dead, and when Sydney asks who these people are, Paige explains that Jenna is a blind girl who used to go to Rosewood High, and she and Shana were dating. Turning to Emily for confirmation, Emily tells Paige she doens't know what they were. Sydney picks up that Emily doesn’t like Jenna, and questions her about it. Emily tells Sydney that Alison and Jenna hated each other, "my friends and I didn’t realise we’d been drafted into their war before it was too late". As a three minute warning is heard over the school’s PA system, Paige asks Emily if she’s Anna or Elsa, to which Emily tells her, "I'm humming".

In Alison's bedroom after Alison's run in with Mona, Emily hands Alison a cup of tea and comments that Alison's hands are shaking, so Aria takes the cup from her.

When Emily ends her phone call with Pam, Alison asks if she remembers what she told her when she pulled her out of the barn. Emily tells her she remembers every word, but doesn’t know what’s real and what she’s made up, “you said you missed me the most”, and Alison tells her she was the hardest one to leave behind.

In Alison's bedroom, Emily asks if Alison is sleeping. Rolling over to face the centre of the bed, the girls stare at each other before Emily leans in for a kiss, which leads to another, and another.

Emily, Aria and Alison walk up to a hung over Hanna and Spencer in the halls of Rosewood High. Walking into the cafeteria, Mona and her army confront the Liars, with Mona coming forward and exposing Alison's lie with a video to prove that Alison slapped her. In the girls bathroom, Alison is leaning over the hand basin, when the Liars, Emily in front, walk in. Emily wonders how Alison is going to spin this, as they all know she's a great liar. Alison explains that everything she told them last night was true. Emily tells Alison that maybe Mona deserved the slap, but Alison went out of her way to lie to them, again.

In her bedroom, Emily is trying to watch a movie, still annoyed at Alison. Alison tells her that she knows she screwed up, and Emily wonders why Alison didn't tell them the truth, "it's so much easier than lying". Sitting down next to Emily, Alison tells her that she didn't tell them everything because she was afraid she was going to Emily. Leaning in, Alison tries to kiss Emily, but she moves away, telling Alison that a kiss is not going to fix this. Suddenly the movie crosses to a breaking news story about the Jane Doe who was buried in Alison’s grave.

Everyone has gathered in Emily's living room for the breaking news story in regards to the identity of the Jane Doe who was buried in Alison's grave. As Hanna and Caleb arrive, Emily tells them that it's starting. As reporters on the television comment about the mystery surrounding Alison's disappearance and who was buried in her grave, Alison and Emily hold on to each others hands tightly, something that doesn't go unnoticed by Hanna. The Police Chief explains that they've received confirmation tonight that the girl that was buried alive on the DiLaurentis property was Bethany Young. As the Police Chief is finishing up the press conference, a large boom is heard and windows of Emily's lounge room explode. Recovering from the glass blast, Emily and the others walk out onto the street to find the Cavanaugh house on fire and rubble lying all over the road. After Toby has run off to see if anyone was inside the Cavanaugh home, the Liars' cell phones all start beeping and ringing.

Run, Ali, Run

The Liars' cell phones are beeping and ringing with an incoming text message, and Alison says that it is from A, and when Ezra asks what it says, Aria reads it out loud, "Did you miss me, bitches. -A". Emily says that it can't be, "Shana is dead", and when Hanna asks Spencer where Toby is, a second explosion inside the Cavanaugh house occurs leaving Emily and the others ducking for cover.

In Emily's bedroom, Alison wonders if the text message they received means they were wrong about Shana, but Emily says that it's impossible, "we all heard what Shana said in that Theater". Aria reminds her that Shana never said she was A, she never used those words, but Emily says that Shana had everything but the letter painted on her. Hanna tells Emily that they got a text seconds after the house blew up, so either Shana can cause explosions from the grave, or A is back.

In the school cafeteria, Emily, Hanna and Alison meet up with Spencer and Aria, and seeing Emily looking uneasy, Aria asks if she's okay, only for Alison to say that Emily practically jumped out of her skin when somebody dropped their lunch tray. Hanna makes a comment about the new normal, and Emily says she knew it was too good to be true. Emily asks Hanna how long Caleb's in town, and Hanna shrugs, telling her she doesn't know. After her phone goes off, Alison is shocked at what she sees, and with the other Liars leaning in, they watch a snapchat video of Jessica DiLaurentis being buried in the Hastings backyard, along with an 'A' message.

In Hanna's kitchen, Alison tells the girls that 'A' killed her mother, and when Emily reels off a list of possible suspects, "Mona? Somebody working with Shana?", Aria suggests that it could be someone they haven't even thought of yet. Aria comments that Ezra thinks Bethany can ultimately lead them to 'A', and Spencer says that they have to try and help Ezra find out as much as they can. Emily wonders if perhaps they're stretching it a little bit, so Spencer asks her if she has a better plan. Alison says she's can't stick around for answers, she needs to leave town, and when Emily says Alison only just got back, Alison tells her the only reason she came back was because she thought 'A' was dead. Emily tells Alison that is she leaves Rosewood they can't protect her, and Aria says that it's not like before, the cops are watching her every move.

In the Rosewood High locker rooms, Paige has just gotten out of the pool when Emily comes up to her demanding Paige tell her who Mona is working with. Paige says that she can't tell her, especially after the way Alison treated Mona. Emily says that Mona altered that video, and Paige tells her even if Mona did, Mona didn't make Alison say the things she said and Alison isn't sorry about the way she treated anybody, she's still the same manipulative person she always was. Sitting down next to Paige, Emily tells her whoever blew up the Cavanaugh house is now threatening Alison, and when Paige says she thought it was a gas leak, Emily tells that someone caused that leak. Getting that Emily thinks Mona was behind it, Emily tells her it's possible, "with a little help from her friends", and Paige wonders why Mona would want to blow up the Cavanaugh house. Emily says that's what they're trying to figure out, and that she's aware how Paige feels about Alison, but could "you live with yourself if something happened to her, knowing that you could have done something to stop it?"

Rushing into Hanna's bedroom, Emily tells her that Paige named names, "Lucas and Melissa are working with Mona. And they're all after Alison". Surprised to hear Melissa is involved, Hanna asks Emily if she's told Spencer yet, and Emily tells her she hasn't. Emily asks where Alison is, and Hanna tells her that she's gone to have dinner with her dad. Turning to leave, Emily says that she has to tell Alison, but Hanna tries to stop her, wondering if she can wait until morning to do that. Emily tells her it's too important to wait, and it is then that Emily notices a train ticket, and questions Hanna, "eight o'clock train?" Hanna tells her that she was thinking of visiting her grandma, but Emily tells her she's going in the wrong direction, and that New Jersey isn't on the way to Oklahoma. Noticing the bag of clothes on Hanna's bed, Emily grabs it and finds some money hidden beneath it, and works out that Alison is leaving. Hanna tells her she's not, she stopped her, but Emily doesn't believe her. As Emily starts to walk out of Hanna's room, Hanna stops her and admits that Emily was right, and Emily wonders how Hanna could let Alison go without telling anyone, but Hanna tells her that it's not safe for Alison to be here, and it's what Alison wants. Emily asks if that's the only reason Hanna wants Alison gone, and when Hanna asks what's that supposed to mean?, Emily shrugs, "your hair, your clothes. You know a lot's changed with you since she's been back". In response Hanna tells Emily she saw her and Alison holding hands last night, and Emily tells her Alison was frightened and reached for her hand, and what was she supposed to do, "slap her hand?" Turning to leave, Emily tells Hanna, "don't you dare follow me".

Pulling up out the front of the DiLaurentis house, Emily cuts the engine and heads inside. Hearing something brake, Emily runs into the living room where she finds A attacking Alison, and with a shove, she pushes A away, and grabbing for a book off the bookshelf, hits A before she's thrown into buffet. Crawling over to Alison, Emily wraps her arms around her and pulls her into a hug. Turning the lamp back, Emily tells Alison that they're calling the police, but Alison tells her she can't. Emily reminds Alison that somebody broke into her house and "attacked you". Alison tells her that if anybody finds out she will never be able to leave, and Emily says that if she doesn't want anybody to know, "then fine, okay. But you're not going anyway. At least not tonight".

In Emily's bedroom, Alison tells Spencer about her attack in the DiLaurentis house and that it wasn't 'A', and Spencer wonders who would want to scare her. Alison shrugs, and Emily suggests "Lucas. Your sister", and when Spencer questions Melissa, Emily explains that she's part of Mona's gang. When Aria walks into Emily's bedroom and asks how this could have happened, Emily says it happened because Alison was alone, "Hanna wasn't with her". Spencer asks where Hanna is, and Emily says she didn't call her, "she was going to help Ali leave town tonight". Alison tells them not to be pissed at Hanna, tonight proves she should leave town as they're no closer to finding out who 'A' is. Aria hands Alison a picture Eddie Lamb left for Ezra, and as Emily, Alison and Spencer looks it over, Aria tells them that she and Ezra think that Bethany drew it while she was in Radley. Emily comments that it looks as though Bethany didn't like Mrs DiLaurentis much, and Spencer sarcastically asks her what gave it away, the demon or the spear. Emily wonders why Eddie would leave it for Ezra, and Spencer says that Eddie wants Ezra to know that there's something to look into at Radley. Emily says one of them has to get into Radley, and Aria is quick to vote for Spencer, but Spencer says she can't go back in there, she was committed, but she thinks she has a way in. As Alison gets another text message from 'A', Aria mentions that she doesn't get it, for two years A has been hunting Alison down like a warrior cat, but before she can finish what she was saying, Emily does it for her, saying that "A wants you alive and in town".

Alison says she never thanked Emily for what she did tonight, and Emily tells her she didn't do anything, but Alison says she risked her life for her. When Emily says it's getting late, and asks if Alison wants her to take her home, Alison tells her she doesn't want to be alone tonight, and asks if she can stay over. Emily tells her "of course" and tucking Alison in, Emily wonders what to do before climbing onto her bed. Staying up the entire night, Emily watches Alison sleep.

Outside the DiLaurentis house, Alison thanks Emily for stopping here, and as they're about to get into Emily's car, they see Lieutenant Tanner pull up, and Emily wonders "what's she doing here?" Tanner asks Alison if her dad is home, but Alison tells her she's just missed him, and wonders if there is anything she can help Tanner with. Tanner says she would like Alison to answer some questions about Shana, and when Alison says she still can't believe Shana is gone, Emily adds, "it's so sad". After Tanner has walked off, Alison get's a text message from 'A', and looking over Alison's shoulder, Emily listens as Alison reads it out to her, "Time for the caged bird to sing. -A".

The Silence of E. Lamb

Walking through the halls of Rosewood High, Pam mentions to Emily that Mr Ivar is the only teacher that wouldn’t schedule a video conference with her while she was in Texas, before asking Emily if he’s new, and Emily tells her he is, and he’s very low tech, “he won’t even use an electric pencil sharpener”. After noticing Alison and the other girls walk past, Emily starts to walk off in their direction, but Pam stops her and asks Emily to ask Alison to come by for dinner. Emily asks Pam when, and Pam tells her tonight, it will be a spur of the moment thing, and the other girls can come along to. When Emily reminds Pam that Alison was just at the house, Pam tells her that she knows, but she and Alison didn’t really get a chance to talk, and she wants Alison to know if she ever wants to talk to somebody, she’s there for her.

In the bathroom, having told the girls about her mom’s dinner party, Spencer asks Emily what her mom wants with all of them, and Emily tells her she thinks her mom is mostly asking Alison. Alison tells Emily that it’s not like her mom to put a dinner on at the last minute as Pam is planner, and Hanna comments that Emily’s mom is not one of Mona’s secret ninja’s. Aria tells Emily that she doesn’t think she’s going to be finished at Radley, as she can’t just put the Bethany drawing up on a bulletin board with her phone number, so it may take a while. Spencer, with a half shrug, tells Emily she’ll try and make the dinner, and Alison asks Emily if she can put her mom off, but Emily tells her no, “not without an epic excuse”. After Hanna, Spencer and Aria have walked out of the bathroom, Alison asks Emily if she could walk her home after school, and when Emily tells her sure, Alison asks how her arm is, and Emily tells her it’ll be fine. Alison mentions that she doesn’t think she’ll be fine, and toying with her scarf, she wonders if the teachers will notice her bruises as that’s the sort of thing they have to report. Emily tells Alison to breathe as her concealer covers most of it. Sydney walks out of one of the stalls and after greeting Emily, she introduces herself to Alison.

At Sydney’s locker, Emily exclaims, “a rat?”, and Sydney tells her someone left it in Paige’s swim cap yesterday after practice. After Sydney asks that Emily didn't hear about this, and Emily tells her no, Sydney says that Paige was shaking all over. When Emily asks who did it, Sydney tells her no one has fessed up, and the coach wants a team meeting, but Sydney doesn't think it was someone on the Sharks as everyone loves Paige. Emily comments that she hasn't seen Paige yet, and Sydney says she doesn't think she came to school. As Emily turns to walk down the hallway, Sydney asks if she’s okay, and after telling Sydney that she’s fine, Emily spots Mona walking down the stairwell, and asks what she knows about what happened. Mona tells her that she’s going to have to give her a hint, and when Emily mentions, “what happened to Paige”, Mona says that she’s irked just thinking about it. Greeting Sydney, Mona says that it’s such a creepy thing to do to someone as sweet as Paige, and asking Emily how Paige is, Emily tells her she stayed at home today, “scared”. Mona says that a dead rat has boy written all over it, and when Emily asks her any particular boy, Mona says that none come to mind. Noticing Mona carrying one of Noel’s book, Emily suggests, “not even Noel Kahn?”, and Mona tells her that he leant her his notes, as a favour, before excusing herself and walking away.

Walking towards her house with a bag of groceries, Emily notices Mona watching the Cavanaugh house, and comments that Mona is a little out of her neighbourhood, to which Mona tells her hat sometimes she just likes to walk. Mona says that it’s pretty awful how things change so quickly around town, and Emily says that if Mona or “one of your goon squad, played that trick on Paige”, but cutting her off, Mona tells Emily that she can call her a lot of names, but don’t call her an amateur. Telling Emily to give her love to Alison, Mona walks away, leaving Emily standing in the middle of the street.

Emily walks in the Marin house from the backyard, and tells Hanna she got her text, “cramps, really?” Emily tells Hanna that Aria is stuck at Radley and Spencer bailed, and sitting down, she says that it can’t just be “Ali, my mom and me”. Noticing the beer bottle on the kitchen counter, Emily asks when Hanna’s mom started drinking, and Hanna tells her that she washes her hair in it. Hanna tells Emily that she kind of has a headache, but Emily tells her, “you can have a headache in two weeks. To go with your cramps”. When Hanna says she doesn’t know, Emily says that her mom is making pop overs, “you know what that means”, but Hanna says that she’s hit her Ali limit for one day, and every minute with her just sucks so much energy. Emily says that Alison is really nervous about it all, and when Emily says the cops have been breathing down Alison’s neck, Hanna tells her that it’s not the cops, it's Emily’s mom. Hanna goes on to say that maybe Alison could use some practice getting her story straight, they all could, and Emily says that’s why Hanna needs to be there. When Hanna asks Emily what’s going on between her and Alison, Emily tells her she doesn’t know, “Ali’s just been really needy”. Hanna gives in, telling Emily that she’ll get some shoes, and standing up, Emily suggests that Hanna also brush her hair, “ten minutes. My house. Thanks”.

Leaning against of the porch posts, Emily uncomfortably listens to Alison and her mom laughing. After Pam greets Hanna as she walks up to the Fields’ house, Pam asks Emily to give her a hand to finish getting dinner ready, and they head inside.

At the dining table, Pam explains to Alison that they were given a bad luck discount on the replacement windows, and when Alison says that she could do with one of those, Emily mentions that they all could. When Hanna says that people tend to make their own lunch, Emily tries to explain what she thinks Hanna means, but Hanna cuts in and says that Hanna knows what Hanna means. Alison tells Pam that she was ashamed of what happened to her, and that’s why she asked Emily, Hanna and the others to not tell anyone when she came back. Pam tells Alison that she has some very special friends, and Alison states her she knows, before reaching out for Emily’s hand. As Hanna chokes on mouthful of her drink, Pam asks if she’s okay, before Alison asks Pam if she would like some help to clear. Standing up from the table, Alison looks from Emily to Hanna, before grabbing Emily’s plate and walking from the dining room. After Alison and Pam are out of the room, Emily reaches over to take Hanna’s drink, and taking a sip, she bewilders, “Hanna?” Hanna asks her what, before saying that she needed something to wash down all the baloney they had for dinner, and reaching across the table, Hanna attempts to grab her glass, but Emily keeps her arm and the glass just out of reach.

In her living room, Emily is going through Hanna’s jacket, and when Hanna asks Emily what she is doing, Emily tells her that she’s taking her keys, “you’re leaving. But I don’t think you should drive”. Hanna says that she thought she was helping, and Emily says she needed her help, “but you weren’t helping”. Grabbing the keys from inside one of the pockets, she thrusts Hanna her jacket, and tells Hanna that she’ll tell the others that Hanna’s mom called and she had to leave. As Emily is walking Hanna towards the front door, Hanna tells her that Pam didn’t buy the story Alison told about blaming herself, she didn’t buy any of it.

Emily is sitting on her bed on her phone when Pam pokes her head into the bedroom and tells her it’s her last chance for chocolate mousse, but Emily tells her she’s good. Pam says that she’s sorry Hanna had to leave, but it was nice having time with Alison, and when Emily asks why it was so important to have Ali over tonight, Pam admits that she wanted to see the two of them together. Pam tells Emily that hindsight is 20-20, and she just realised that maybe Emily thought of Alison as more than just a friend before she left, and Emily tells her, “I did”. Pam mentions a lot has changed while Alison was gone, and asks Emily how she feels now, to which Emily tells her, “I’m working on it”. Taking a few steps closer to Emily, Pam tells her that she still talks to people, people in the police force, and the story Alison told about being kidnapped has some problems. Pam goes on to say that she can’t tell Emily how her heart should work, but to just remember that she may have saved Alison once, she don’t have to keep saving her.

Emily leaves Paige a voice mail, telling her that she heard about what happened, and that she should have called sooner. Emily says that she's sorry if this was because of what Paige told her about Mona, to which Emily thinks it was. Emily goes on to say she's sorry she put Paige in the middle of all this, and if she needs anything, to call, "even if you don't need anything, just call, please". As Emily goes to end the message, she stumbles over "I love..." before recovering and telling Paige, "I'd love to hear from you. I hope you're alright". After ending her call, Emily receives an ‘S.O.S’ text message from Spencer.

In the Hastings’ kitchen, Emily and Aria watch the security video of Alison, and Emily comments that Alison wasn’t dressed like that when she left the Fields’ house. Aria asks Emily how Alison was acting when she left Emily’s house, but Emily says it was hard to tell, she left pretty early, “might have been Hanna’s fault though. She was drinking”. When Aria asks if she was doing it in front of Pam, Emily explains that she had to kick Hanna out, “she knows I’m mad. She might not even show up”, but Spencer says that she has to come as they have to figure out what Alison’s up to. All three girls’ phones start beeping and ringing with an incoming text message, and after reading it, they look up to Hanna who has just arrived. Aria asks if Hanna just got the text that came in, telling her that it’s from ‘A’, but Hanna tells her no. Emily asks if she’s sure, and to check her phone, and after doing so, Hanna says she doesn’t know what text they’re talking about. Spencer hands Hanna her phone, where Hanna reads the message aloud, “New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. Ali’s keeping secrets, maybe that’s because of Hanna’s big mouth. –A”.

Scream For Me

In choir class, Emily and the other Liars sing while keeping an eye on Alison who is being questioned by Lieutenant Tanner in a small room just off of the music room. When Hanna looks over to Emily’s sheet music, Emily points out to where they are up to on Hanna’s own page. As class finishes, Emily wonders why Tanner would “do this in here”, and Spencer says to make a point, and they’re next. Aria suggests that maybe the police saw Alison sneaking out of her house last night as well, and when Emily asks Aria if she told Alison about Spencer’s tapes, Aria tells her of course not. As Alison joins them, Emily asks what it was about and Alison says Shana, it was all about Shana. As Aria is leaving to go call Ezra, Emily watches as Alison walks over to a music stand and grab her sheet music book, and noticing Alison’s reaction when she walks back over, Emily asks her what’s wrong. Alison wonders when someone had the opportunity to mark her book, and when Spencer asks if she had her bag on her all morning, Alison tells her she did. Hanna reaches for Alison’s book and flips through the pages as Emily and Spencer look over her shoulders. After seeing a reaction on Emily, Hanna and Spencer’s faces, Alison asks if there is something else, so Spencer reads out what they found, “glad to hear you singing. Last time you were all choked up. –A”. Looking over their shoulders, the girls look around the music room to see who could have left the note for Alison.

Emily and Spencer walk through the halls of Rosewood High, and Emily comments that it’s not an outrageous theory and that Mona may have recruited half of the school to torture Alison. Spencer mentions that it’s not just Alison, they are all hearing from ‘A’ again and they still have no idea who was in The Brew with Hanna and Sydney, before Emily says that maybe Sydney can help them. At Hanna’s locker, an empty beer can falls out and Emily wonders what is going on with her. When Hanna asks what she’s talking about, Spencer tells her that yesterday her blouse was on inside out and today her locker smells like Oktoberfest. After Spencer gives Hanna a look, Hanna tells her no to start and that she already has one friend throwing her shade. Emily asks Hanna if she’s apologised to Aria and when Hanna mentions that she left a message. Spencer says Hanna may need to apologise to Aria again, and Emily adds that Hanna also needs to apologise to Alison, “Hanna, you nearly outed her in front of my mom”, and they were there is support her story, not throw peanuts at the stage.

In the locker rooms, Emily approaches Sydney as she is getting changed. After Sydney asks if Emily was watching practice, Emily tells her she got hung up in language lab, before Sydney tells Emily that she bet her freestyle record. Emily tells Sydney that she wants to thank her for helping Hanna sober up last night, and when Emily says she heard Hanna was totally out of it, Sydney says that she didn’t seem that bad. Emily explains that Hanna is Amish when it comes to booze, “two sips and she’s blotto”, and that she goes around making stuff up and telling people her grandfather invented the paper clip. When Sydney asks if he did, Emily questions “Hanna’s?”, before telling Sydney no. Emily goes on to say that Hanna called her from home and started rambling about them going back to New York, “we’ve never been to New York together”. Emily questions whether Hanna invited Sydney to, but Sydney says that she doesn’t think Hanna ever mentioned New York. Sydney wonders if Emily isn’t going to tell her the real reason she came into the locker rooms, and when Emily doesn’t answer, Sydney questions if they didn’t make the offer. When Emily asks her what offer she’s talking about, Sydney mentions the team took a vote on Emily becoming an assistant coach. Seeing the look on Emily’s face, Sydney comments that either she’s an amazing liar or she’s a total idiot, before asking Emily to please say she’s thrilled. Emily says that she doesn’t know, she has so much stuff going on, and a despondent Sydney apologises, saying she had thought Emily would have wanted the position.

Listening to music while reading a text message from Aria, Emily notices a shadow fall on her doorway before Sydney peers into her bedroom. Sydney explains that Emily’s mom said she could interrupt, and reaching into her bag, Sydney says that something was delivered to her house and she’s not sure what to do with it anymore. As Sydney passes Emily a hooded sweatshirt, Emily asks if Sydney ordered this for her, and Sydney says that she guesses she should have waited before she pulled the trigger. When Emily states that Sydney won’t take no for an answer, Sydney tells her that maybe because their training sessions aren’t happening anymore, she just wanted to know Emily would still be in the bleachers. Sydney goes on to say that it kind of sucks being the new kid on the team and no one is cheering you on, and when Emily asks Sydney about her parents, Sydney explains that her mom’s not into it and her dad’s always travelling. Sydney says her dad’s opening frozen yoghurt shops all over, and that Emily probably saw one when she was in New York. Stopping her, Emily questions, “when was I in New York?”, and as Sydney starts to question that Emily said she and her friends were, Emily tells her no, “that was Hanna”. Going on, Emily says that Sydney said that Hanna never mentioned, but before Emily can finish what she was saying, Sydney tells her that her brain is mush and that she’s spent too much time under water.

In a small room off of the Rosewood High music room, Emily is talking with an administrator. After walking over to Spencer, Emily says that the administrator wanted to know why Hanna was absent, and when Spencer asks what Emily said, Emily comments that she said she doesn’t know, “it’s the truth”. Emily comments that Hanna is just trying to avoid Aria, but Spencer says that avoid is not returning a phone call and chasing down your morning muffin with malt liquor is something else. Getting a text message, Emily tells Spencer that found out the name of the stables, and Spencer suggests that they go after school. When Emily asks what exactly they would be looking for, Spencer mentions that they always thought that Mrs D was protecting however hit Ali out of love, but what if it was out of fear. Spencer goes on to ask what if this person has someone on her, and Emily questions if they are now thinking that Bethany hit Alison. As Hanna walks into class, Spencer asks where has been, and Hanna says that she fell asleep in Caleb’s car. After Hanna turns around to look around the classroom, she asks where everyone is and if class has started yet, but Emily tells her that it’s over before asking what is in her hair. Hanna tells her that it is a crispy treat and asks Emily to get it out. As Emily tries to get the crispy treat from Hanna’s hair, Hanna tells her not to pull so hard, but Emily says that it’s glued to her scalp. Spencer asks what other stuff Hanna has going on, and after Emily makes a comment about ‘A’, Hanna tells them that it’s not ‘A’, but she had a really weird moment with Emily’s boss last night. Emily questions her boss, “Zack?”, and Hanna explains that she went to the Brew to get a sandwich and he got a little bit too friendly. Emily asks what Hanna is talking about, and Hanna tells her that Zack put his hand on her back and it was there for way too long. Spencer asks Hanna if she’s sure she’s not reading into what happened and Hanna tells her no, before Spencer questions if she was buzzed. Standing up, Hanna says they should just forget she said anything, and when Emily tries to get her to wait, Hanna tells them that the only reason she said anything is because part of her wants to tell Aria, but if the two of them don’t believe her. Emily cuts Hanna off, saying that’s not what they said, before Spencer adds that if Hanna misinterpreted what happened at all, she doesn’t want to be putting it out there two days before Zack’s engagement party. Emily goes on to say that once it’s said, Hanna can’t take it back. Hanna tells them that she’s right, and that she’ll see them later. As is walking out of the music room, Emily tries to get her to wait, but Hanna tells her that she has to go to the bathroom.

At Tilting Windmill Equestrian Center, Emily and Spencer walk up to a guy named Declan, and Spencer explains that the lady inside said he was the guy to talk to for lessons. Declan asks Emily if she’s up here on some sort of dare because she looks spooked around Zara, but Spencer steps in says that she’s not spooked, just shy. After Declan has untied Zara and taken her into the stables, Spencer turns to Emily and asks if she’s mute.

After having found Declan again, Declan saying that the lady they are talking about came up to Tilting Windmill with the strange girl. When Spencer questions if the strange girl was named Bethany, Declan says that he doesn’t remember names, but after the bucket incident, he doesn’t think they ever came back. When Emily questions what happened with the bucket, Declan explains that the lady wanted the girl to call her aunt Jessie, girl has a meltdown and throws a bucket at her. Spencer wonders if perhaps there was a third person, another blonde girl who called Mrs DiLaurentis, mom, but Declan tells her that a lot of people come through the center and he doesn’t take attendance. As Emily and Spencer turn to walk off, Emily questions Spencer why she asked if Alison had come up to the stables, “she told us she never met Bethany”, to which Spencer reminds Emily that Alison has told them a lot of things. When Emily asks Spencer where she is going with her inquiry, Spencer says that she doesn’t know and that she just thought it would be worth it to float the question. Emily comments that it’s about to start pouring and that they should go, but Spencer tells her no, she has to take a look around first. Trailing behind her, Emily asks Spencer where she is going.

In the stables, Spencer is going through a visitors list, and when Emily says that they’re not going to list every visitor, Spencer says that she does no know that, and that she’s looking for Alison’s handwriting. After Emily has walked into a stall, she picks up a riding helmet, and Spencer asks if she’s found something before asking why it is in the stall. As there is a crack of thunder, Emily asks what the horse in the next stall over is doing, but Spencer doesn’t answer, and when Emily reads out “M. H”, Spencer says that she recognised the riding creases from where they used to take lessons. The horse in the next stall continues to act up and Emily again asks what he is doing, and Spencer explains that it is the thunder. Emily comments that they should go, but Spencer tells her no, not yet. Emily tells Spencer that she can take the riding helmet with her, to which Spencer mentions that she wants to check the list again and that maybe Melissa signed in with a different name. Emily tells Spencer that she is “out of here”, and as she goes to leave, she comments that the gate is locked, “how do we get out of here?” The horse in the next stall starts to kick at the fence, and after Emily attempts to yell her help, Spencer tells her to quickly grab the other end of the ladder. Emily wonders if they’re going to climb to the roof, before Spencer says that they need to push it up against the gate. As the horse kicks the fence, a piece of wood snaps off and hits Spencer in the eye. While Emily is holding Spencer, the horse kicks the railing again and with the force of the kick and the ladder, the gate is forced open. With the gate open, Emily and Spencer run out of the stall and the stables.

On the phone in Alison’s bedroom, Emily says that she’s not leaving another voice. When Alison asks who she is trying to call, Emily tells her Aria, “she won’t call me back”. Spencer walks in and when Emily asks if she’s heard from Aria, Spencer tells her no, but she did just get off the phone with Hanna. Emily asks Spencer how Hanna’s mom is, and Spencer tells her that Ashley is a basket case. Spencer says this is not the same ‘A’ who got their jollies by breaking into their lockers and leaving nasty notes, this ‘A’ is, but before Spencer can finish, Alison tells them it was Noel Kahn. Emily questions what Alison said, and Alison says that she asked Noel to break into Hanna’s house tonight, and that she needed someone who mattered, someone like Hanna’s mom to stop questioning what happened to her.

March of Crimes

Alison is putting some clothes away in Hanna’s wardrobe when Emily asks her why Noel would help her break into the Marin house, before Spencer questions how he would have explained himself if he was caught. Emily mentions that Spencer’s eye is getting worse, but Spencer says that she can see plenty out of the other one. As Hanna walks into her bedroom, Emily asks her how her mom is, and Hanna tells her she’s freaked. After Alison’s phone rings and Spencer asks if it’s Noel, and if he’s the one who she’s been sneaking out of her house in the middle of the night to meet, Alison asks Spencer what that’s supposed to mean, and if she’s been spying on her. When Alison doesn’t get an answer, she says that maybe now they’ll understand why she turned to Noel, and at least someone still has her back. As Emily says her name, “Ali”, Alison tells her that she sees what is going on, one of her best friends doesn’t even show up to her S.O.S call and the other one is shadowing her, like she’s the enemy. Alison starts walking out of Hanna’s bedroom, and when Emily asks her where she is going, Alison says that she’s going to call her dad back. After Alison has left, Emily sits down on the edge of Hanna’s bed, and Spencer mentions to her and Hanna that Alison never answered that question about Noel. Spencer goes on to say that the only thing she can’t figure out is how he had time to break into the Marin house and lock her and Emily in those stables. Emily tells Spencer that “it wasn’t Noel’s helmet in those stables. I mean, we should be wondering if Melissa…”, but before Emily can finish, Spencer cuts her off and says that her sister wasn’t the one who hired Noel Kahn to terrorise Hanna’s mother, and that Alison has clearly gone rogue. As Emily says that she walked in on Alison being choked and it wasn’t Noel, Spencer asks if she’s sure. Getting a text message from her mom, Emily tells the other girls that she has to leave, and Hanna begs Emily took take her with her. Emily tells Hanna that she cannot stay at her house, but Hanna tells them that she has to get out of her own house. Turning towards Spencer, Emily tells her to make sure Hanna doesn’t “drink and dial”.

Riding down the street, Emily comes to a stop when something comes loose on her bike. Hearing a noise, Emily peers around a building to see Noel sitting in his car listening to an audiotape of Alison. Hiding when Noel leans out of his car to look around, Emily watches as he drives off into the night.

Sitting in Coach Mazzara’s office, Emily reaches for her phone when it starts to vibrate and checking the message, she places it in her lap when the Coach asks if she’s taking a language. Telling him that she’s in AP Spanish, the Coach checks his notes and comments that apparently she’s doing very well, before starting to say something in Spanish which Emily finishes. Coach Mazzara asks Emily if she’s still working at The Brew, and Emily tells him she is, “but I can scale back my hours. I mean especially when it comes to meets”. As Coach asks how her shoulder is, Emily tells him that she’s much better, before noticing a book of locker assignments leaning on a shelf. When the Coach asks if Emily is free for practice on Tuesday, Emily tells him that she is, and standing up, the Coach tells her that she has a new job. Placing her phone on the desk, Emily stands up and stakes Coach Mazzara’s hand and thanks him when he congratulates her. Grabbing her bag, Emily leaves the office and once Coach Mazzara has left just after her, she sneaks back in. Picking up her phone, Emily grabs the ‘Boy’s Locker Assignment’ book off the shelf and flipping through the pages she finds Noel Kahn’s name and takes a photo of his locker combination code.

Sneaking into the boy’s locker room, Emily finds Noel’s locker and entering his combination code, she opens it. Finding Noel’s car keys, Emily quickly closes the locker door and leaves when she hears a noise.

Walking out the front of Rosewood High, Emily opens Noel’s car and going straight for the glove box, she pulls out an envelope that has photos of Alison inside. After looking through the photos, Emily pulls out a recording device, and putting everything back in the envelope, she stashes everything in her bag when she hears someone leaving the school. Answering Spencer’s phone call, she asks if she can call her right back, but Spencer tells her no. Emily mentions that she is in Noel’s car, but Spencer tells her that Jenna is at the eye doctors, with another Jenna. Emily asks Spencer “what?”, and Spencer explains that they gave her these eye drops and she thought that she was hallucinating, but she’s not. Emily mentions that she got Noel’s keys out of his locker and she searched his car, “he has pictures of Alison from when she was dead”. Spencer tells Emily that it makes no sense, and Emily wonders if seeing two Jenna’s does. Spencer asks Emily to define dead, and Emily tells her “the last two years of her life. He put them in the same envelope as the tape he was listening to”. When Spencer wonders why Noel would even have that stuff, Emily tells her she doesn’t know, but she needs to drop off his car keys to lost and found before he…, but Spencer cuts her off, telling her that she needs her to come to the eye doctors right now. Emily says that she can’t, but Spencer says that her eyes are not playing tricks on her and something freaky is happening. Backing into the bushes, Emily tries to conceal herself and when Spencer recalls her, she explains that she thought she saw Noel coming out the door, “false alarm”.

Emily rushes into the waiting room of the Optometrists and asks Spencer which room the chart was in. Telling Emily to shhh, Spencer tells her that they are in there, and when Emily asks who is in there, Spencer says Jenna…. and Jenna. Reaching into her bag, Emily asks if Spencer wants to see what she found, but Spencer tells her no, she can’t even see her feet right now. Hearing a walking stick, Emily pays attention of how is walking out, and removing her sunglasses she comments, “Sydney?” When Emily asks Sydney what she is doing at the Optometrists, Jenna explains that Sydney was her ride, before asking if that is a problem. Emily tells her “yeah, kinda. Unless you’re driving a taxi”, before wondering when they became friends. Spencer tells Sydney that Emily asked her a question, but stepping in, Jenna says that it sounded more like an accusation. Emily asks Sydney why she never mentioned she and Jenna were friends, and Jenna comments that maybe it never came up. Jenna asks Sydney if they can please leave, and when Emily tries to get them to wait, Jenna wonders how long it is going to take them to realise that they are nervous around the wrong person, and that she’s not Alison.

On the phone with Spencer, Emily leaves her house and wonders if Spencer couldn’t find somewhere to hide the envelope. As Spencer says she would rather not have Noel break into her bedroom, Emily tells her that it’s going to take forever to get the Lake House and back and she “can’t miss this party”. Spencer tells her that she’ll be there and for Emily to just save her a shrimp, but Emily tells her that Aria is already on a war path with Hanna, “if it looks like we’re taking sides…” Spencer tells Emily that the photos decimate Alison’s story and they have to be in a safe place, and telling Spencer “fine”, Emily says for her to just hurry. As Emily’s about to get into her car, Sydney comes up behind her and asks if she’s got a minute. Turning back around, Emily questions why Sydney is parked on her street, and Sydney tells her that she wanted to explain. Emily asks if Jenna is hiding in the trunk, and Sydney pleads with Emily to let her explain. As Emily questions how she’s going to trust anything Sydney ever says again, Sydney tells her that she met Jenna a couple of years ago, and she used to volunteer at the school for the visually impaired. As Emily confirms she knows the place, “yeah, in Philadelphia”, Sydney says that she was there the day Alison came to visit Jenna and she pretty much glued Jenna back together when Alison left. Emily comments that was a long time ago, “she’s been through a lot since then”, and Sydney mentions that so has Jenna. Going on, Sydney says that when Jenna heard that Alison was alive and coming home, Jenna panicked and called her. Emily wonders what Jenna exactly asked Sydney to do, “besides taking her to her doctor’s appointments”, and shrugging, Sydney says Jenna wanted to feel safe, and make sure that Alison, but cutting her off, Emily tells Sydney to forget Alison, “you latched onto me, Sydney” .Emily says that Sydney gave her gifts, took over her weekends with training and told her sob stories of how she had no one cheering for her in the bleachers, and when Sydney comments that she didn’t expect to like her, Emily questions her, “what?” Shrugging, Sydney tells her that she didn’t expect that Emily would be such a decent person, and after trailing off, Sydney mentions that this is so messed up. Emily tells Sydney that it’s about to get a whole lot messier, she’s taking the coaching position just so she can be in Sydney’s face, “watching you much as I can”. Emily goes on to say that she wants to see Sydney underwater long enough for her to feel that twinge of panic when she needs air and she can’t get it. Commenting that she wants Sydney to know what it feels like to be sucker punched. Turning her back on Sydney, Emily gets into her car and drive off.

A Dark Ali

In Alison’s bedroom, Emily and the other girls are shocked to hear that Alison said she didn’t know who her ‘kidnapper’ was, and therefore Cyrus Petrillo is still in police custody. When Alison wonders what she was supposed to say, Emily offers, “how about no?”, before Alison reminds her that she was ‘blindfolded’. Emily tells the girls that “this is A”, and Alison said that Cyrus knew about the rock that hit her, knew where she was kept, what she ate, and what mattress she slept on, before Hanna realises that it’s the same story that Alison told the doctor.

Walking out of the DiLaurentis house, Hanna wonders if it’s weird they haven’t got a text message from ‘A’ yet, to which Aria says that she doesn’t need a creepy text to read the writing on the wall. Emily tells Hanna and Aria to keep their voices down as they walk passed a police car parked outside, and Spencer sarcastically comments that with them there they won’t have to worry about being imaginary kidnapped. Aria mentions that once Tanner finds out the kidnapping story is a lie, it won’t be long before they figure out about New York and Shana. Emily says that Alison isn’t an idiot and she’s not going to walk right into an obvious ‘A’ trap, but Spencer says they don’t know that anymore. Aria says that someone needs to go back in and make sure that Alison doesn’t ID Cyrus, and Hanna is quick to nominate Emily. When Spencer agrees, Emily points out that Spencer is the convincing one, but Aria tells Emily that she is the hardest to disappoint. As Spencer mentions that it is about her eyes, Emily tells them “awesome”, before walking back towards the house.

Back in Alison’s bedroom, Emily tells her that Aria was right and that if Alison identifies Cyrus, it will be way too easy for ‘A’ to prove that she’s lying, “we don’t even know who this Cyrus person is. Or where he came from”. Alison says that she gets it, but she can’t just say that he is innocent. As Emily asks why not, Kenneth knocks on and opens the door. As Kenneth asks Emily if he can have a word with Alison, Alison tells him that she already told her. Kenneth tells Alison she wasn’t supposed to do that, to which Alison tells him that Emily helped save her life, so she deserves to know what’s going on. Emily stands awkwardly as Kenneth mentions that Cyrus confessed already, and that the police think he could have also killed Jessica and Bethany Young. Kenneth tells Alison that they’re all there to support her, and they all want the same thing, before he looks up in Emily’s direction, guiding her to say something. Feeling uncomfortable, Emily tells Alison that they all want her to be safe.

Walking down the street, Emily is on the phone with Spencer and tells her that “Mr D kind of kicked me out”, when Spencer questions how it went with Alison. Emily asks Spencer if she found a place for the “thing you got from you know who”, and when Spencer asks if she’s speaking in code now, Emily says that it sounds like a good idea. Spencer asks Emily what she’s up to, and Emily mentions that she’s avoiding the Brew as much as possible, “Zack went back to Austria but the place is still tainted”. Looking at her takeaway cup of coffee, Emily asks Spencer if she’s ever tried out Blue Lite Café, and when Spencer tells her she hasn’t, Emily tells her good, “well don’t”, and then throws her coffee into the bin. Hearing Spencer breathing heavily, Emily asks her what’s going on, and when Spencer says that it’s gone, Emily questions what’s gone. As Spencer tells her the recording Alison gave them all, Emily questions if it’s “gone as in stolen or gone as in…”, and Spencer tells her that she’s not speaking in code. Calling out Spencer’s name and not getting a response, Emily ends the call.

Walking into the DiLaurentis living room, Emily asks Alison how long her dad will be, and Alison tells her about an hour and that he’s meeting with a social worker. Emily questions why, and Alison explains that her dad thinks she’s afraid of retribution, before Emily says that “he thinks that’s the reason why you don’t want to ID this guy”. Emily mentions that she knows Alison’s dad is putting pressure on her, and she knows he’s convinced that this is the guy who “took you and killed your mom”, as well as Bethany Young. Going on, Emily says that she’s sure Tanner would love to wrap up all three nightmares with a neat little bow, “and you…”, cutting in, Alison asks what about her, and as Emily says, “you love that for once everyone seems to believe you”, Alison tells her that it’s not about that. Telling her good, Emily says that she swears if Alison lets some stranger go to jail because she’s trying to cover her ass, but before Emily can finish, Alison cuts in and says that he is not a stranger. Emily questions who, “Cyrus?”, before asking what Alison means by that he’s not a stranger, “do you know him?”, and Alison tells her that she doesn’t know how ‘A’ found him. As Emily looks around in shock, Alison pulls up her dress and says that he was the one to give her the scar on her thigh.

Sitting down next to Alison, Emily questions, “you were living with this person? In an abandoned basement?”, before asking whether Cyrus knew who she was. Alison explains that all he knew was that she was on the run, and when Emily asks her what happened, Alison says that Cyrus didn’t want her, he just wanted her stuff, her money, and he looked at her as if she was nothing, worse than nothing. Grabbing Alison’s hand, Emily says that she’s sorry, “but ‘A’ is using this creep to trap you, to trap all of us”, and that ‘A’ wants Alison to identify him, and that Alison has to let him go. As Emily questions if Alison knows what she has to do, Alison nods, saying that she knows.

Closing her bedroom door, Emily tells Spencer that she was supposed to meet her outside her house, “not in my room”, but Spencer says that Emily’s mom let her in on her way out. As Spencer offers Emily a carrot stick, Emily tells her that she doesn’t want “this stuff” in her house, “if it’s not safe at your place, it’s not safe at mine”. As Spencer’s phone rings, Emily asks if it’s ‘A’ again, to which Spencer tells her that it’s Noel Kahn. Emily tells Spencer not to answer, but Spencer says she has to, and that he may have more pictures or information that they can use. Reaching for Spencer’s phone, Emily questions, “use for what? Turn on our friend?”, before saying that Aria filled her in on Spencer’s great idea, “it’s not going to happen, Spencer”. Emily says that they should be burning the photos, and as she goes to reach for one, Spencer snaps her hand down on the photo and tells her that Alison is not their friend right now, she’s a dangerous person who has no problem gambling with their lives. Emily says that Alison isn’t dangerous, “she’s hurt”, and when Spencer questions her, Emily says that Alison doesn’t want her to tell anyone. As Emily gather’s up the photos, Spencer says that of course Alison doesn’t, and it’s always the same with the two of them, to which Emily tells Spencer to trust her, “she’s not going to ID this guy”. Going on, Emily says that Alison is going to wait out the 48 hours and after that the cops have to let him go and it’s all over, and when Spencer asks if Emily believes her, Emily says she does, “we’re either all in this together or we’re not”. As Spencer shakes her head, Emily tells her that Alison is not the problem, “Melissa is”, and that she’s the one who gave Cyrus the recording of Ali’s medical exam, “I’ve did my part, I talked to Ali. If you really want to help, talk to your sister”.

Sitting on the DiLaurentis porch, Emily stands when Alison and Kenneth pull up and get out of the car. Emily asks Alison if she can talk with her, and Alison tells Kenneth that she will be right in. Alison questions that Emily heard, and Emily says she did, “but I didn’t understand”. Questioning that Alison identified Cyrus, Emily says she thought they were all in this together. When Alison says that they are, Emily tells her no, they’re not, “whatever A has planned affects all of us, not just you”. Alison says that she waited for as long as she could, and after saying that Emily wasn’t there, in that place, Emily wonders when wasn’t she there, “when Hanna broke her leg because of A? When I almost died in an elevator because I was trying to find out who killed you? Or when Spencer had to check into Radley because of everything your disappearance put us through?” Emily goes on to say that the past several years hasn’t been easy for any of them, but what makes it okay is that they stick together, “we don’t turn on each other”. Alison tells Emily that she has a plan, and Emily says she’s sure Alison does, “but the problem is you’ll throw us all under a bus to pull it off”. Emily tells Alison that she stuck up for her, “against Paige, against Spencer, against everyone”, and that she wasted so much time on her. As Emily starts to walk away, Alison says that she’s going to make it right, and she can still find out who ‘A’ is, but Emily tells her that she’s done, “I’m so done with you”.

Walking into the Marin kitchen, Emily tells Spencer that she was right, they can’t trust Alison, “not after tonight”. As Aria questions her, Emily hands Aria the envelope of photos and says that she knows it affects her more than the rest of them, but she really hopes Aria can get on board, “we need to cut ties with Ali now. Tonight”.

No One Here Can Love or Understand Me

Walking towards the Rosewood Police Department, Emily and the other girls stop across the street at look towards the precinct. Aria comments that it seems as though they’ve been here before, to which Hanna says that they’ll get it right this time. When Emily comments that this time is different, Spencer mentions that after this, Alison is on her own. Looking over her shoulder as the other girls begin to walk off, Emily notices the television screens in the shopfront flickering and tells them all to wait. Walking back towards the shop, security footage of Alison leaving Hanna’s hospital room start playing, before a message materialises over the images, “we’re all in this together. A”. Emily says that they can’t tell now, and when Aria questions why not, Hanna tells her because no one will believe that they didn’t know Alison was alive. As Spencer picks up a brick and runs towards the shopfront, Emily and the other girls yell out to her and stop her from smashing the window. When the Alison security footage suddenly changes to the girls standing on the sidewalk looking at the shop window, they start to head back in the direction they originally came from.

In The Brew, Emily walks over to Spencer on the couch with two coffees, and Spencer tells her that Hanna went to go check on Caleb and Aria went home. As Emily tries to give Spencer her coffee, Spencer tells her that she can’t drink coffee right now, to which Emily says that it’s decaf, “I bought it for the whipped cream”. Emily asks if Spencer is feeling better, and Spencer tells her that she doesn’t feel better, but she does feel less stupid. Spencer thanks Emily for stopping her, and Emily tells her to “save it for a real target”, and when Spencer questions if the real target is ‘A’ in the flesh, Emily says that “that’s one candidate”. When Spencer asks Emily who she’s thinking of, Emily shrugs, “we’re all in this together. I mean, that could be ‘A’ or… it could be Alison”, to which Spencer suggests that it could be ‘A’ wanting them to think it's Alison. Spencer’s phone rings and when she says that it’s Alison, Emily asks if she’s going to answer. Declining the call, Spencer says that she thinks they need to hit the mute button right now, before asking how Emily is. When Emily looks up to Spencer, Spencer mentions that she was the one who hung in there the longest, to which Emily says that she wasn’t defending Alison, “I was defending somebody from a long time ago. Maybe somebody who never existed”. Emily goes on to say that the thing that she had with Paige was “so genuine”, and now… After Spencer asks if Emily can fix it, Emily sarcastically tells her, “sure, yeah. Go up to Paige and say ‘so you were right all along. My bad’, let’s kiss and make up”. Picking up her cell phone as it starts to vibrate, Emily tells Spencer that it’s Alison, and when Spencer says that she’s looking for them and that she must be nervous, Emily mentions that Alison isn’t as nervous as her dad, “he’s taking her out of town. He’s worried about the kidnapper”. Spencer comments that Alison is lucky that they realised him when they did, after looking towards Spencer out of the corner of her eye, Emily says that it’s “real lucky”. When Spencer notice Emily playing with the whipped cream on her coffee, she tells her not to play with her comfort food.

Knocking on Ezra’s apartment door, Emily asks Ezra if she can talk with him.

In Ezra’s apartment, Ezra asks Emily how Alison could identify the kidnapper when she was never really kidnapped. Emily explains that Alison knew him from when she was on her own, “the name he gave the police was Cyrus Petrillo”, before asking Ezra if he’s ever heard the name, “from all the time you were doing your research”. Ezra tells her no, and that he doesn’t have much from when she was gone, it’s a blank, before he wonders why Cyrus would confess to a crime he didn’t commit. Emily suggests that perhaps he knew it wouldn’t stick, or maybe he knew Alison wouldn’t confirm the story until it was too late. Ezra questions why you would take that chance, before he realises that somebody has something worse on Cyrus to use against him. Reaching into her bag, Emily passes Ezra the photo of Alison and the mystery man at the bank ATM and asks if he’s seen it before. Ezra tells her no, and asks where she got it, to which Emily tells him she got it from a “friend of a friend”. Looking over the photo, Ezra says he’ll find out what he can on Cyrus, and after Emily has thanked him, Ezra thanks her for trusting him. When Emily says he’s the only one who might be able to help her get the answers she needs, “I have to trust you”, Ezra thanks her for her honesty.

At school the next day, Aria tells the girls that if she tells Mike that Mona isn’t who he’s looking for, but before she can finish Emily does for her, “you won’t be able to separate them with a crowbar”. Spencer says that Emily’s comment is colourful, graphic, but colourful. Walking down the hallway, Emily and the others listen as Hanna shares her bad thought and that ‘A’ doesn’t want them telling the truth about Alison because they’d like to see them suffer, but who besides ‘A’ wants to keep them quiet. When Aria suggests Mona, Hanna tells her not Mona, and after Aria questions who’s left, Emily mentions Alison. As the school bell rings, Aria says that she has to go and Emily says she has to as well, “later”.

Sitting with Paige at one of the tables out the front of Rosewood High, Paige says that Sydney may be a liar, but she’s a damn good swimmer. As Paige comments that she liked having Sydney on the team, Emily says that she still is on the team and that way they can keep an eye on her. Paige asks Emily how it feels being back in the locker room, and Emily tells her that it feels good. Emily mentions that it seems that’s the only place she sees Paige is at practice, and Paige says that she knows and that it’s…, As Paige trails off Emily fills the rest in for her, “complicated”. Emily tells Paige that they need to talk, “maybe tonight”, but Paige says that she has something tonight, but, yeah, they should talk. Getting up from the tables, Emily and Paige awkwardly look at each other before turning and walking off in opposite directions.

Walking down the street, Emily and Aria listen as Hanna tells them that the note Melissa left for Spencer said that Spencer would know everything soon. Emily asks what that’s supposed to mean, and while Hanna shakes her head, Aria says that it means what it always means, that nobody tells you anything when you want to know it, only when they feel like telling it. Emily wonders if anyone has talked to Alison and Aria mentions that Alison calls but she doesn’t pick up. Hanna mentions that she’s had another bad thought, and when Emily asks “what’s this one?”, Hanna says that Alison left town, but ‘A’ said she couldn’t, so what changed. Aria says that Alison made a deal with Noel, so maybe she made a deal with somebody else. Emily questions if Aria thinks Alison made a deal with ‘A’ to leave town, “what kind of deal?”, but neither Aria or Hanna have an explanation. Emily, Hanna and Aria all turn around when they hear Lieutenant Tanner’s voice greeting them, before the Lieutenant comments that it’s lucky to get most of them at the same time, and that she was hoping that they could talk, her treat.

Sitting down at an outdoor table with coffees, Emily and the girls listen as Tanner tells that that if they’re concerned about the suspect who was released prematurely and she wants to assure them that they will catch him. As Emily says that it’s good to know, Tanner tells them to take reasonable precautions and report anything out of the ordinary, and let the police decide what’s relevant. As Tanner gets up to leave, Emily shares a quick look with Aria, before Tanner turns back and questions who the girls think killed Bethany Young. Aria mentions that she hasn’t given it much thought, something which surprising Tanner, and Emily says that none of them knew Bethany Young. Tanner tells her that she knows that and that they haven’t been able to find a single connection between them and the dead girl; except that she was killed 30 yards away from where they all were sleeping. After Tanner has walked away, Aria comments that she thinks she’s going to be sick, and Emily her to “just hold it until she’s out of sight”.

At the Brew, Emily walks out of the kitchen and finds Paige at the counter with two takeaway coffees. Startled, Paige says that she thought Emily didn’t work this particular shift any more, and Emily tells her she doesn’t and that she’s just helping out tonight. Emily wonders if Paige is going somewhere, “I mean you must be going somewhere”, and Paige tells her yes, she is, going somewhere. After an awkward silence, Paige says that in fact she has to go, and Emily tells her to have a goodnight, before watching as Paige walks out of the establishment.

After close at the Brew, Emily listens as Ezra tells her that the photo of Alison and the mystery man was taken 16 months ago at a branch off the turnpike near Donegal, and that you can tell by timestamp. Going on, Ezra explains that if you have that code you can find all sorts of other interesting things, before he hands Emily a photo where the man with Alison is facing the camera. When Emily says that it’s “Cyrus Petrillo”, Ezra says that he’s also known as several other alias’, but none of them are solid citizens, and that he’s been arrested half a dozen times. Seeing Emily’s face, Ezra says that you have to know where to look. Emily wonders what Alison promised Cyrus to get him to confess and Ezra says that Emily seems pretty sure that’s what happened, to which Emily says that it makes sense, “at least the way Ali thinks”. When Emily says that Alison “has an amazing gift for knowing what a person wants, what they’re missing”, Ezra comments that it’s a very special talent, and one that causes a lot of damage.

In Spencer’s bedroom, Emily tells Aria that she’s not talking with Tanner, and when says that she isn’t either, Aria says that she didn’t think it was them. Emily asks where Hanna is and Spencer says that she called all of them but Hanna’s phone went to voice mail. Aria says that it’s not Hanna, and Spencer realises it has to be Alison, to which Emily says that maybe they can stop her. As Aria asks how, Emily grabs a piece of paper showing Cyrus facing the bank ATM camera, and passes it to Spencer who passes it to Aria. When Spencer asks where she got the photo, Emily tells her “Ezra”, and seeing the look on Aria’s face, she questions who else was going to help them. Aria mentions that it’s the end of Alison’s kidnap story if they use the photo, and Emily tells her maybe, “depends on what truth she decides to tell this time”. Spencer tells Emily and Aria that she has to show them something and that it can’t wait for Hanna.

After Emily and Aria watch Melissa’s video, Spencer explains that she just got it today and that it took her a while to decide whether or not to show it to them. Emily tells her “understood’, and Aria comments that Melissa killed Bethany Young. Spencer says that Melissa thought that she had just buried her and that Spencer was the one who killed her, and Emily mentions that Melissa doesn’t sound so sure of that now. Emily makes mentions that when Melissa saw Bethany she was wearing Alison’s clothes, and Spencer says that it was another set of Alison’s clothes, and that there had to be a duplicate set as Alison wasn’t walking around naked. Emily says that they need to “figure out a way around that picture of ‘A’ at the hospital. Or we’re busted”, and Aria asks what picture of ‘A’. Emily says the picture of Alison, but Aria tells her no and that she had said a picture of ‘A’. Emily tries to deny it that’s what she said, and when Spencer tells her that yeah she did, Emily says that it was a slip of the tongue.

Taking This One to the Grave

Standing by a police vehicle as a house is taped off as a crime scene, Emily and Hanna, along with Aria and Ezra, stand huddled together, visibly upset and shaken. Officer Barry Maple approaches them and says that he’ll take their statements now, one at a time. As Hanna turns slightly towards Emily, Emily draws her in and holds her close. Emily, Hanna and Aria’s cell phones ring with an incoming text, and Emily reads it aloud, “it’s all your fault. –A”.

Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Aria stand in the foyer of Mona’s house, waiting for Mona to come down from her bedroom. After Mona’s mother has left the girls to it, Mona questions why they are sporting grim faces, and if someone has died. After the four girls share a look, Hanna tells Mona that they need her help. After quick looking to see where her mother is, Mona asks what she did to them, to which Hanna says that she has done nothing… yet. Aria mentions that they think it’s about what she’s about to do, to which Emily says they’ve just found out Alison is at the police station and that she’s talking to the cops, and Mona realises that the girls don’t know what Alison to telling the police. Hanna says that they’ve been lying for Alison ever since she got back, and therefore they need to know what story she’s telling the cops. Confused, Mona asks why they don’t just ask Alison, to which Emily says that they don’t believe that Alison will tell them the truth.

Emily and the other girls listen as Mona tells them that Alison stole her life from her when she crowned Mona, Rosewood’s biggest loser. Mona goes on to explain that she’s already number one on Alison’s hit list, and she’s afraid of what Alison would do if she found out she was siding with the Liars. Leona walks in, saying that she doesn’t mean to interrupt their girl talk, but she wanted to bring some cookies out while they were still warm. Hanna says that it was so nice of Leona, to which Emily says, “but we have to go”. As Emily, Aria, Spencer and Hanna start to stand up, Mona asks them if they’ve ever been so focused on something that it takes over everything else, turns you into someone that you’re not. Pausing slightly, Mona says that she took all her Ali anger out on the Liars and she’s sorry for that. In the foyer as Emily, Aria and Spencer wait for Hanna to get some cookies, Aria asks Spencer if she’s figured out what she’s going to do with Melissa’s going away present. When Spencer says that Melissa sent her that video, she wanted Spencer to know the truth, her confession doesn’t actually help any of them, Emily comments, “she said it out loud. She buried Bethany. She killed her”. Spencer says that Melissa thought she was the one who hit Bethany, and in Melissa’s story, Spencer is an accessory to murder.

In the girls bathroom at Rosewood High, Mona tells Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Aria that Alison volunteered to take the polygraph. Emily asks how she knows that, to which Hanna, Aria and Spencer tell her that she’s Mona. Mona says that she thinks Alison took it because she’s not having fun anymore, and that she can’t play with her dolls if the girls won’t let her. Going on, Mona says that this is how Alison is ending the game. Hanna wonders what game, and when Emily says “the game”, Mona says the game Alison stole from her. Mona mentions that Alison assembled the perfect group, smart, loyal, admiring, and compassionate. Aria asks what the perfect group is for, before Spencer realises that it’s the perfect group for a sociopath to manipulate. Emily questions if they’re really saying that Alison’s ‘A’ out loud, before adding, “she never loved me”, to which Aria mentions that she never loved any of them. Mona says that she can find out what Alison told the cops, and maybe it’ll give the Liars a fighting chance to get their story straight. Hanna asks Mona why she’s help them, and Mona explains that she’s got early acceptance letters from three colleges, but she has to survive senior year, and she can’t do it alone. Emily comments that they need her help, “but this doesn’t suddenly make us besties”, only for Mona to tell her that she doesn’t want to hold Emily’s hand in the hallways. Mona tells them that no one can know that she’s doing this, otherwise the deal is off, and that includes their bed buddies. Mona tells them to do whatever they were going to do today and to act normal. As Cindy and Mindy walk into the bathroom, Emily and the other girls try to make themselves discreet.

As Emily opens her locker a book falls out. Paige picks it up for her, and after Emily thanks her, Paige asks if she’s ready for Thanksgiving. Emily tells her she’s not really, no, explaining that her family usually decorate early for Christmas and this year she’s totally behind. Paige tells Emily that if she needs any help, before Emily asks Paige how her night was, “the one you got all dressed up for”. Paige explains that it was a costume thing, and that hers didn’t really fit, before she and Emily share a telling look. Emily mentions that they never had their talk, and after Paige says she’s tired of talking, she leans in to kiss Emily.

Emily is on her porch pouring glasses of eggnog when Hanna walks out from inside the house and comments that when Mona said to act normal, she probably didn’t mean that they needed to decorate Emily’s house. Emily explains that this is the one thing she does every year for her and her family, “I’m not going to let Ali take that away from me”. After Emily offers Hanna a glass of eggnog and Hanna refuses, Emily says that if Hanna can’t find Christmas in her heart, she’s not going to find it underneath a tree. Paige calls out to Emily to see if the snowman figure is in the correct position, to which Emily tells her it needs to go a little to the right, “no, my right, not Snowy’s right”. When Paige questions the snowman’s name, Emily tells her yeah, “I named him when I was three”. Emily goes on to say that two penguin figures are Pingy and Wingy.

Caleb and Hanna are having trouble with the fairy lights, and walking past, Emily tells them to try one of the red ones because they always go out. When the lights start to work, Emily comments that she told them so, “let’s deck the halls and fa la la la la”.

When Emily questions where Jesus is, Paige lifts him up and tells her that he’s up on the balcony with her.

As Emily places Jesus back in the nativity scene, Caleb approaches her and comments that she and her family really go all out. Emily tells him that her dad always finds a way to come home for Christmas, “so after Thanksgiving dinner, my mom and I come outside, turn on the lights, and we know it won’t be long until we see him”. Caleb mentions that now he knows why she loves Christmas, and looking down at her shirt, Emily laughs and agrees. Hanna walks over after being on the phone and tells Caleb that Ashley wants cranberries because Hanna’s grandmother likes the canned kind that you slice. Emily pipes in and says that she thought Hanna’s grandmother always made a salad with cranberries and marshmallows in it. After Hanna gives Emily a look, Emily says, “or not”, before Paige calls out to Emily asking for her to grab the staple gun.

In Spencer’s kitchen, Emily, Hanna, Spencer, Aria and Mona watch Alison’s polygraph test where she says that Aria, Hanna and Emily were in the barn that night and that they were all still asleep when she left. When asked where she last saw Spencer Hastings, Alison says that Spencer came to her house. The conductor questions that Alison was the leader of the group, and Alison tells him she unofficially was. He proceeds to ask if her friends would do anything to help her, if she needed them, and Alison comments that she thinks so. When asked if Spencer was a loyal friend, Alison says she was as far as she knew. The conductor proceeds to ask why Spencer was at Alison’s house, and Alison says that it was her fault and that she pushed Spencer to that place. When asked what place, Alison explains that Spencer was angry. The conductor asks whether Alison knew that Spencer was abusing amphetamines, and when Alison tells him that she found out that night, he questions if that’s because Spencer was under the influence, to which Alison says that Spencer dropped her pills and that she saw what they were. Alison is then asked if she would say that Spencer was desperate, and when Alison asks what for, the conductor questions if Spencer was desperate enough for Alison to keep her secret. Alison explains that Spencer was emotional, but Alison promised her that she wouldn’t say anything. The conductor questions what in return for Alison’s silence was Spencer willing to do, to which Alison says that she wouldn’t know, they never discussed it again. The conductor then proceeds to ask if there is something else Alison would like to tell him, and Alison takes the opportunity to say that she didn’t have anything to do with Bethany Young’s murder.

Emily comments that nothing Alison said was really that incriminating, however, Mona says that she thinks that the questions they’re asking tells them more about their investigation than what Alison’s answers do. After Caleb walks in and Mona explains that she asked for Caleb’s help, Emily asks if there are any other helpers coming, to which Aria quickly states that she didn’t tell her bed buddy, and Spencer says that she didn’t either. Caleb tells the girls that he unlocked two more files, and as the girls gather around his laptop, Caleb explains that the cops gained access to Bethany’s Radley files yesterday. The girls read over an affidavit Caleb unlocked, which details Alison being let off the hook for Bethany’s murder, and Spencer’s now on it. Emily reads aloud, “the information we obtained from Bethany Young’s hospital records inform the theory we’ve been working since day one. Spencer Hastings murdered Young to gain favour with the group’s leader, Alison”. As Spencer goes to call her parents, Mona wonders if she wants to know what the cops know, and that the affidavit was sent the day after they saw Bethany’s Radley files. Emily picks up on what Mona is trying to say and comments that there must be something in the files that link Alison to Bethany, “let’s find out what that is”. Spencer says that this is on her, they don’t have to do anything else, but Hanna tells her they’re going to stick together, and the girls all rally around Spencer.

In her bedroom, Emily is on the phone with Paige, telling her that she’s sure it’s nothing, “just a scratchy throat”. Going on, Emily explains that she was just about to crawl into bed. As Paige says something, Emily tells her that she will, “thanks, Paige”. As Emily is ending her phone calls, Alison calls out Emily’s name, and turning around, Emily finds Alison standing in her doorway. Alison says that she didn’t mean to scare her, and when Emily tells her that she didn’t, Alison says that she seriously saw the hair rise on the back of Emily’s neck when Emily heard her voice. Alison steps into Emily bedroom and mentions that she was surprised to get Emily’s message as Emily made her feelings for her crystal the last time they saw each other. Emily’s phone rings with an incoming text from Hanna asking where ‘A’ is. Emily apologises, saying that her mom’s at the store, “um, last minute shop”, and send a reply to Hanna, “W/me. I hate this”. Alison questions why she is there, and Emily says that it bothers her, “I mean, tomorrow is Thanksgiving and you and I aren’t speaking”. Alison mentions that she wasn’t that surprised when the others turned on her, but Emily was the one who she trusted. Emily mutters “the loyal one” under her breath, and when Alison questions her, Emily says that it’s nothing. Saying that she’s sorry she disappointed Emily, Alison turns to leave but Emily calls out to her, telling her to wait. Stepping up behind Alison, Emily says that she doesn’t want things to be like this, and turning around, Alison says that she doesn’t either.

Emily sits at her desk with Alison sitting on the bed, as Alison says that there’s no way the others are going to let them be friends, if that’s what Emily wants. Emily tells Alison that she makes her own decisions, “it’s not a group vote”. Saying that she’s had the chills all day, Alison asks if Emily has any tea, and Emily asks if she’d like camomile, before standing up and beginning to walk from the room. As Emily reaches her door, she turns back to find Alison holding her cell phone. Alison says that Emily’s mom never shops at the last minute, and that Emily’s got a text from Hanna, who wants to know if Emily’s still keeping Alison busy. Alison questions if the girls thinks she’s ‘A’, and Emily tells her that she doesn’t know, “are you?” As Emily grabs her phone off Alison, Alison tells her that she actually believed her, to which Emily says that it must hurt when the loyal one betrays you. As Alison begins to walk out, she deliberately brushes shoulders with Emily before turning back once she reaches the door, telling Emily that it was quite the performance, bravo.

Emily is working in the Brew, and walking over to refill Spencer’s coffee, Hanna comments to Emily that she can’t believe they’re making her work on Thanksgiving. Emily explains that she gets off at noon, “people still need there fix”. Aria tells Spencer that it’s not her fault, and Emily says that Toby, who has a broken leg, is going to be fine, Spencer said so herself. Paige walks up to Emily and says that she needs to talk with her. Emily starts to say that now is not a good time, but Paige talks over her, telling her that she bought her some soup last night because Emily said she wasn’t feeling well. Emily begins to stutter and say that she lied, because…, but cutting her off, Paige tells her to explain it all later. Paige tells Emily and the other girls that she saw Alison leaving, and that Cindy and Mindy were her ride. Going on, Paige says that she followed them to an abandoned farm, before announcing that Alison is building an army of her own. Suddenly, Detective Holbrook walks into the Brew and announces that Spencer is under the arrest for the murder of Bethany Young. Emily watches on shocked as Spencer is placed in handcuffs, before joining in a chorus with Hanna and Aria who plead Spencer’s innocence. As Spencer is lead out, Hanna tells Spencer that they’ll call her parents, and Emily adds that they’ll get Spencer out.

Walking into the Vanderwaal residence, Emily, Hanna, Aria and Ezra are shocked to see Mona’s house trashed with blood hand prints of blood in the entryway, “Oh my god!” As Hanna shouts out for Mona, and she and Emily start to run up the stairs, Emily calls out for someone to call 911, “Oh my god! Hurry!”

Standing by a police vehicle as the Vanderwaal house is taped off as a crime scene, Emily and Paige, along with Hanna and Caleb, and Aria and Ezra, stand huddled together, visibly upset and shaken. Emily listens on as Detective Holbrook tells the waiting press that while the investigation is ongoing, they have ruled what has happened a homicide and that Mona Vanderwaal was murdered.

How the 'A' Stole Christmas

The Liars are walking down the main street of Rosewood, when Aria asks Spencer what she got for Toby. Spencer reminds her that she’s abstaining from Christmas this year, and that when you’re out on bail for murder, it just feels like the right thing to do. Emily questions if Toby is okay with that, to which Spencer says that Toby agreed to not giving presents she if agreed to surprising each other with a gesture. Hanna then asks if the gesture is like the clowns, and when Emily asks, “what clowns?”, Hanna says court jesters before asking if they’re clowns, and everyone laughs in response. Walking past a window display, Emily comments that she’s always loved “these” windows, before noticing a snowflake tree, “let’s make a wish. Yeah, let’s make a wish for Spencer”. Emily hands out snowflake cards to write down their wishes, and when she tries to give Hanna a snowflake, Hanna tells her that the last time she was here, she was with Mona, and that wishes don’t come true. Emily mentions that she’s still holding out hope, to which Spencer says that hope is a dirty four letter word. Emily says that they live in an ‘A’ world, “they still haven’t found Mona’s body”, and Spencer says it’s because ‘A’ likes to bury the bodies herself. When Aria says that she thinks Alison is throwing a Masquerade Ice Ball to rub it in their faces about ruining their lives, Spencer reminds her that technically Alison only ruined her life, to which Emily comments, “ruin one of us, ruin all of us”. A lawyer in charge of Mona Vanderwaal’s affairs approaches Hanna and passes her an envelope. After the lawyer leaves, Hanna comments she’s too afraid to open it, so Emily does for her. Emily says that the papers inside are drawings of Alison’s house, and Aria adds that it also includes all of Alison’s hiding places. After Hanna reads out a letter Mona wrote to her, Hanna questions that ‘A’ keeps souvenirs, and when Emily corrects her, asking if she means Alison, Spencer comments that it’s a different name, but the same bitch. When Hanna says that there must be something in Alison’s house that clears Spencer’s name, Emily realises that Mona may have just “handed us a way to give you Christmas, Spence”. Aria receives a snow globe from Santa when she donates some money, and after shaking it up, Aria finds a photo of the Liars inside, and Emily questions if that’s them. Turning the snow glove over, Aria finds a message from ‘A’, “A takes a holiday. You should too”.

Emily is part of the school choir who are singing Christmas songs for Shady Days Nursing Home, along with Paige, Lucas, Sydney and Jenna.

After Emily has said “Merry Christmas” to one of the Shady Days Nursing Home residents, Sydney approaches her, and asks if Emily’s got a minute. Emily questions what Sydney wants, and Sydney comments that it looks as though Emily and Paige worked things out. Looking around the room, Emily asks why Jenna doesn’t come over here and talk with her, “you don’t have to be her eyes and ears. She can still hear, right?” Sydney says that Jenna is not a bad person, Emily just wouldn’t know that because Alison convinced her that Jenna was the enemy. Emily asks if “that’s all”, and Sydney tells her that she just wanted to say Merry Christmas. Emily mumbles a “yeah”, before turning around and walking over to Paige who is having an intense conversation on the phone. As Paige hangs up, Emily asks what’s wrong, and Paige tells her nothing, before adding that her parents want her to go to California after Christmas. Confused, Emily says that it sounds like a fun winter break, before Aria walks past and tells both Emily and Paige to look up. As they do, they find that they’re standing underneath a piece of mistletoe, and the two share a kiss.

At the Masquerade Ice Ball, Emily, Aria, Spencer and Hanna stand under a lit up gazebo. When Hanna comments that she still doesn’t see Alison anywhere, Aria says that she’s probably waiting to make her grand entrance, and Emily adds that Alison will have her arrival timed to the perfect song. As Spencer mentions that she’s going to have her picture taken with Santa Claus, Emily, Aria and Hanna head off together in another direction.

Emily and Paige, along with Aria and Ezra, and Hanna and Caleb, slow dance under the lit up gazebo, until everyone turns their attention to the top of the staircase. Walking to the edge of the gazebo, Emily, Paige, the other couples and Spencer watch as Alison, followed by four other girls, make their grand entrance.

Emily is staring though the crowd when Aria comes up behind her and taps her on the shoulder. As Emily turns around, she asks Aria, “aren’t you supposed to be on ‘A’ watch?”, and Aria tells her yeah, but Emily has to see something. Emily asks what it is, and Aria says that she just saw Ali kissing Santa Claus. After Aria grabs Emily’s hand, she tells her to come on.

In the room where Aria spotted Alison kissing Santa, she tells Emily that Alison and Santa Claus were just there. Emily asks if it was a “guy or girl?”, and Aria tells her that it was a guy. Emily asks if she’s sure, and Aria tells her that she is as she definitely got a sense of male butt. Telling Aria okay, Emily says that she’s going to go get her photo taken with Santa Claus.

Lining up, Emily watches as two of Alison’s new followers have their photo taken with Lucas, who is dressed as the official Santa Claus.

Emily watches over the crowd from the staircase. Noticing two of Alison’s followers looking at her, Emily begins to follow them into an area which has been draped off with fabric. One of Alison’s followers walking up behind Emily, telling her that she doesn’t have to be afraid, before taking off her mask and revealing herself to be Sydney. Sydney explains that she led Emily here because she doesn’t want Alison to see them talking. As Sydney walks towards the other masked follower, Emily tells Sydney that she really gets around, “does Jenna know you’re with Ali now?” The second masked follower then removes her mask, revealing herself to be Jenna. Jenna then tells Emily that when she first moved to Rosewood, Alison offered to be her friend, but she made the mistake of saying no. Going on, Jenna says that when Alison asked her this time, she gave Alison the right answer. Sydney tells Emily that she promises that they’re not the enemy, but Emily says that they are “sleeping with the enemy”. When Sydney rolls her eyes and comments that she’s not gay, Emily says that’s not what she meant. Jenna tells Emily that until someone puts Alison away, they’re just doing what they have to do to survive, and she’s sure Emily and her friends can understand that. After looking around the room, Emily tells Sydney and Jenna that they think Alison killed Mona, and Sydney comments that she and Jenna do to.

Emily, Ezra, Aria, Paige and Caleb discuss the possibility that Holbrook was the one who Alison was kissing. Emily reveals to the group that she promised Alison she wouldn’t tell, “because I thought I was protecting everyone”, but CeCe showed up in New York “that night”, and Alison helped get her out of the country. Ezra questions if Emily thinks Holbrook was in on it, and Emily says that she thinks Holbrook helped CeCe escape, “and he did it for Ali”. The group watches as Alison and someone dressed in a white coat and hood walk towards the exit, before Holbrook starts to follow. Caleb tells Emily and Aria to follow Ali, while he and Ezra follow Holbrook, and Paige adds that she’ll grab Lucas.

Emily and Aria follow Ezra and Caleb as the boys bail Holbrook up, and the girls keep on the path of trailing Alison and the person in the white coat and hood.

Walking through hallways, Emily and Aria keep quickly following Alison and the person in the white coat and hood, until Lucas and Paige block the other end of the corridor. Aria questions if Alison is leaving her own party, before Emily asks what the rush is. Alison and the person in the white coat and hood turn back around to face Aria and Emily, revealing that they’re wearing Alison masks. As Emily questions, “Alison?”, Alison and the person in the white coat and hood take off their masks, revealing themselves to be Cindy and Mindy. Emily and Aria share a shocked and confused look, before turning their attention back to Cindy and Mindy.

At the Hastings’ house, Emily is on the phone, “give mom and grandma B a big kiss from me”. Turning towards the TV in the kitchen which has a special report on the storms, Emily adds that she promises she’ll be on the road as soon as it’s clear, “thanks dad. I love to too”. Walking into the living room, Emily, along with Paige and the other couples, listen as Toby says that the letter Hanna found proves that Alison knew Bethany, and that it may create enough reasonable doubt to clear Spencer’s name. As the clock strikes midnight, Emily and Paige squeeze their held hands, before Paige kisses Emily’s hand.

Emily tells the Liars that her mom called her friend at highway patrol, and that they don’t expect the roads to be cleared until tomorrow. Spencer tells Emily that she’s so sorry, and Emily mentions that it’s the first time she’s not with her parents on Christmas, and Aria says that it’s the same for her. Hanna tells them that her mom always said that Christmas was wherever they were, as long as they were together. Suddenly Caleb’s voice tells the girls that they are together, and looking up, Emily, Hanna, Spencer and Aria find their partners standing on the stairs in nothing but Santa boxers, “oh my god”.

Emily and Paige walk into the Hastings’ kitchen with armfuls of produce as everyone else huddles around the island bench.

Walking over to Paige who is looking out a window, Emily asks if she’s okay. Paige tells Emily that her parents don’t think Rosewood is a safe place anymore, and that they don’t want her to visit California, they want her to move there. Emily questions if she’s leaving before graduation, and Paige explains that she’ll have enough credits by the end of Spring quarter. As Emily says that she thought they had more time, Paige wraps her in a hug.

Emily and the others sit at the table, as Ezra serves up Christmas chicken. As Ezra sits down, Aria tells them that they should all say a prayer, and they link hands with one another.

Laughing and enjoying each others company, everyone starts to serve their plates with food.

Raising her glass, Emily gives a toast, “to this family, may we always stay together”, before clinking glasses with everyone. Suddenly everyone hears the sound of bells and something falling down the chimney. Getting up from the table, everyone heads outside where they find a Christmas tree all lit up in Spencer’s backyard. Spencer wonders who decorated the tree, before asking if it were Emily, but Emily says that it wasn’t her. As they’re admiring the tree, snow starts falling and a message over Spencer’s barn lights up, “Merry Christmas, Bitches. –A”.

Through a Glass, Darkly

Emily, along with Aria, Hanna and Spencer walk out of the Rosewood Church following Mona’s funeral service. Emily questions if they know Mona’s coffin is empty, and Spencer tells her that it’s a casket and it still weighs a tonne. Hanna explains that Mona’s mom put keepsakes in it – stuffed animals, photo albums, an old retainer. Spencer says that it’s called a cenotaph, and that they have them for soldier’s whose bodies are never found, Hanna tells her to never say never. When Emily reminds Hanna that it’s been over three months, “no body, no murder weapon”, Aria adds that there hasn’t been an arrest either. Emily and the girls notice Alison approach Leona Vanderwaal, Hanna comments that they have to get her out of here and they all start to move towards Alison. Pausing as Alison starts talking with Leona, Emily, like everyone else, is stunned when a grieving Leona slaps Alison.

Sitting on her bed as Paige lays against her shoulder, Emily asks if Paige has finished packing, and Paige tells her she has. Emily mentions that she thought that after three months she’d get used to the idea of Paige leaving, “but I haven’t”. Paige says that she hadn’t either, and when Emily says that she’ll miss graduation, Paige tells her that her parents think it’s just a technically, before Emily comments that Paige will also miss prom, “that was a technically I was looking forward to”. After pausing for a beat, Emily suggests that perhaps they should try and talk with Paige’s parents again, and shaking her head, Paige says that her parents can’t hear anything, and she has enough credits to leave early, and that’s all that counts. Paige adds that her parents want her somewhere safe, and when Emily says that “California has earthquakes”, Paige tells Emily that she had pointed that out, but it didn’t work. Emily says that she’ll take Paige to the airport, and when Paige tries to tell her that her parents are taking her there and that Emily doesn’t have to do that, Emily says that she doesn’t have to, “I want to”. Sitting up, Paige looks at Emily, who questions her, “what?”, before Paige takes a moment and then tells her that she heard a song the other day, old song, and girl says, your eyes, it’s a day’s work just to look in them.

At the Hastings house, Emily listens as Spencer says that Bethany Young’s family are talking with the judges right now, it could be today, it could be tomorrow. When Spencer adds that Veronica is at the courthouse and she’s trying to fight it, Hanna tells her that they can’t just revoke her bail. Aria says that if they can prove that Alison killed Mona, the cops will realise that these two crimes are connected, that one motivated the other, and that Spencer is innocent. Emily questions that if it were easy to prove that Alison is a murdered, would they have done that already, to which Aria says that if Mona can find proof, so can they. Emily mentions that as long as Alison has an alibi she’s untouchable, and Spencer says that they tear down her alibi. When Emily says that Kenneth won’t budge, Spencer says that she’s not talking about Alison’s dad.

Emily and Spencer are let into the DiLaurentis house by Jason who points Emily in the direction of the kitchen if she wants to look for her mom’s whatever it was. Emily tells him that it was a muffin tray, “she’s sure she left it here”. After sharing a look with Spencer, Emily heads off into the kitchen, leaving Spencer and Jason in the living room. Jason calls out to Emily, asking if she’s found the muffin tray yet, but Emily calls back, telling him she hasn’t yet.

Walking into the Hastings’ great room with Spencer, Emily listens as Spencer tells her that it was a bust with Jason. As Emily says Spencer’s name, Spencer tells her that she should just go be with Paige, because at least one of them deserve a good last day in Rosewood. Sitting down on the couch, Emily pulls a hairbrush out of her bag, and when Spencer asks what it is, Emily says that she stole “Ali’s hairbrush”. Spencer asks why she would do that, and Emily tells her, “let’s just say the cops do another sweep at Mona’s house. Sure Ali has an alibi, but how strong can it be when Ali’s DNA is found at the crime scene”. Spencer tells her no, and that first of all, you can’t just tell the cops to go back and again, and second of all, creating false evidence is an actual crime. Emily then reminds Spencer that she’s being charged with an actual murder.

Emily and Spencer gain access of the Vanderwaal residence by Spencer unlocking the front door with a credit card. Spencer asks Emily if she knows how long Mona’s mom will be gone, and Emily says that she doesn’t, “we have to act fast”. Walking into the living room, Emily looks around and comments that the last time she was here…, after Emily trails off, Spencer says she was stepping over Mona’s blood. Taking the hairbrush off Emily, Spencer says that the police have already searched, so they need to think of places the police may have missed, or places the hair could have moved to since then. Emily takes the hairbrush back off Spencer and begins to look around, but is stopped when Spencer says bingo and begins to look through an air vent. Spotting a camera, Spencer looks back to Emily, and the two share a look.

Back at Spencer’s house with Hanna, a bewildered Hanna tells Emily and Spencer that they can tell Mona’s mom that she’s got cameras in her moulding. When Hanna questions why it has to be her, Emily tells her that Leona likes Hanna, “if you suggest the police should take another look, she’ll listen”. Spencer then says that Hanna should tell Leona that Mona said something about cameras, and how she was scared. Hanna asks what makes them so sure it was Mona’s camera, and Emily says that it Mona’s mom knew it was there, she would have told the police. As Hanna tells them that she has to take a step back from the Mona of it all, Emily mentions that the blood they saw inside of Mona’s front door, “that camera was pointed right at it, okay. It must have seen what happened”.

Emily leads Aria into her bedroom, and asks if Ezra knows that Aria was attacked in The Brew. Aria tells her no, and that she’s going to keep it that way. Emily asks if she’s sure it was Alison who attacked her and took Mona’s laptop, to which Aria questions who else it could be. Emily says that’s not what she asked, and Aria tells yes, she’s sure. As Emily’s phone beeps with a text message, Aria asks what it is, and Emily explains that it’s Paige, “I wanted to take her to the airport, but she has to leave now”. Aria says that maybe that’s what Emily should do, but Emily tells her no, “we have to do this together”. Shouldering her handbag, Emily walks from her bedroom with Aria close behind.

Emily, Aria, Spencer and Hanna block Alison’s path as she’s tries to run from the police. Alison tells them to get out of her way, no, but the girls don’t budge. As Alison tries to run through the girls, they stop her be pushing her back. Emily listens as Alison says that ‘A’ set her up, and that they’re letting ‘A’ win. Alison asks them who will protect them when she’s gone, before saying that if they do this, they will all be next. As Lieutenant Tanner comes up behind Alison, telling her to put her hands above her head, Emily crosses her arms over her chest and continues to look in Alison’s direction. Tanner tells Emily, Aria, Spencer and Hanna to move, and taking a step back, the girls watch as Tanner tells Alison that she’s under arrest for the murder of Mona Vanderwaal.

Emily rushes through the airport to Paige’s departure gate, but is stopped in her tracks when she finds the gate lounge empty. Emily starts to become upset when she desperately looks out the window, before noticing Paige’s reflection coming up behind her. Turning to face Paige, Emily rushes over to hug her, commenting that Paige is here, “you changed your mind”. Paige explains that the airline changed her gate, and her flight is boarding now, before questioning how Emily got passed security. Looking down at a plane ticket in her hands, Emily says that she bought a $69 flight to Atlantic City. Emily mentions that Paige doesn’t have to go, “they arrested Alison for killing Mona. She’s now in jail”, but Paige says Alison won’t stay there. Emily comments that she will, and therefore Paige needs to tell her parents that she can stay, it’s safe now. Tearing up, Paige tells Emily she has to go, and when Emily says doesn’t, Paige says she does, she’s thought about it for months, and she does. Emily questions why, and Paige explains that first it’s because her parents want her to, and when Emily mentions that they can fight that, Paige says she doesn’t want to fight anymore. Saying that she’s tired of fighting, Paige shrugs and says that she’s used so much energy fighting and being afraid, and that she’s worried she’s not going to have anything left to just live. Paige says that Emily knows what she means, and fighting back tears, Emily tells her that she gets it, “I guess I do”. Paige says that maybe it’s not such a bad idea to do, and when Emily says that it’s a terrible idea, Paige mentions it’s not if they decide to pretend it’s a good idea. As a final boarding announcement for the 214 flight to San Francisco is called over the PA, Emily begs Paige not to go. When Paige says that she has to, Emily tells her to take another flight, but Paige says it’s not going to be any easier tomorrow. Emily says that it isn’t fair, and saying that maybe it’s not, Paige tells her that right now, this is what is supposed to happen with them. With a final goodbye kiss and hug, Emily watches as Paige picks up her duffle bag and walks out of the gate lounge.

Sitting on the Hastings’ back porch steps, Emily tells Hanna, Aria and Spencer that for a minute she thought of getting on the plane to Atlantic City, “fly away… But I didn’t”. Hanna comments that she’s been to Atlantic City, and that Emily made the right choice. When Aria says that Paige was wrong, and that she should have stayed, Emily says that she doesn’t think Paige was wrong, “she got out”. Emily gets up and walks into the backyard, and following suit, the girls do that same. When Spencer says that there’s nothing keeping them in Rosewood anymore, Emily comments that after they graduate they can go wherever they want to. As Emily says that they could have an actual life, the other girls smile, before they all focus their attention to the skies when a fireworks display starts. Noticing the fireworks form an ‘A’, Emily comments that Alison is ‘A’, and she’s in jail. Hanna says that they don’t allow fireworks in prison, and Aria mentions that this must be something she set up before the police got her. As the fireworks start to fall into Spencer’s backyard, the girls run up to the French doors, before turning back to the falling sparks.

Fresh Meat

In the Rosewood High School courtyard, Aria listens as Hanna mentions that Alison’s in the penalty box, yet she’s still playing offence. Toby says that maybe this is just Alison being iced out, getting desperate, but if they think there is somebody on the outside helping her, and Hanna tells him there totally is because there was a fireworks display. Emily suggests that maybe Alison planned that before she got arrested, but Spencer doesn’t agree, saying that someone is helping Alison. Hanna questions Toby that Tanner said Holbrook was assigned to a case in in Pittsburgh, and when Toby tells her that Holbrook is off that case, and that he had to take a personal leave to take care of his sick dad, Emily comments, “that’s convenient”. As the school bell rings, Emily and the girls walk into the hallway and towards Hanna’s locker, and Emily tells Spencer that none of them want to put Toby in danger, “maybe this weekend we could come up with a plan”. Hanna says that she’s not here this weekend, and when Emily asks where she’ll be, Hanna tells her she’ll be on a college visit to Ballard. Emily questions, “Ballard?”, before saying that she thought Hanna was visiting Skidmore. Aria changes the subject back to Holbrook, and mentions that it smells like Wilden all over again. When Hanna comments that Holbrook is not Wilden, Emily tells her that he “may be worse’. Hanna says that Holbrook’s not that bad of a cop, he’s just a really bad kisser, and Emily, Aria and Spencer all question when Hanna kissed him. Hanna clarifies that it was on kiss, closed mouth, and it was because he helped her mom with the whole Wilden deposit box thing, and he stood up for Travis’ dad in court. Hanna goes on to theorise that if Holbrook’s helping Alison, she probably convinced him she’s the victim, and if he knew who she really was, then… The school bell cuts Hanna off, and telling them she has to go, Emily watches Aria walk off.

Following Aria into Aria’s art class, Emily asks if they can talk for a minute. Aria tells her sure, but to let her finish texting. Aria then explains that Ezra’s bugging out, and that the opening went from then bookworms and a jug of drink to an event with caterers and publicists and he’s basically to hire everything but a belly dancer. When Emily says “damn”, Aria wonders if she’s into belly dancers, but Emily tells her that she was going to ask Ezra for a raise, “I need the cash”. Emily tells Aria to forget it, but Aria asks what she needs the cash for. Emily explains she wants it for a plane ticket to go see Paige over Spring Break, “my mom won’t even let me touch my college savings”. Going on, Emily says that with every day that goes by, she and Paige are growing further apart. When Emily mentions that the last time she and Paige spoke she even considered looking into a liberal arts school in Oregon, Aria cuts her off and asks if they not do this now because she can’t talk about it. Emily questions if Aria can’t talk about Paige and her, to which Aria tells her she can’t talk about college. Saying that the whole subject is making her hair fall out, Aria tells Emily that she’s been rejected from every single college she’s applied to, and yesterday Talmadge waitlisted her. Aria asks Emily to tell her that ‘A’ isn’t the one responsible, to which Emily says that a waitlist “doesn’t mean rejection”. Aria comments the rest of the girls will be waltzing off to Sorority rush, and she’s going to be stuck picking up trash in Rosewood, that’ll be her, dodging ‘A’ messages and wearing a big floppy hat to cover her bald spot. Stating that Aria can turn a waitlist into an acceptance, Emily explains that her cousin wrote an amazing letter to Yale and totally won them over, but Aria tells Emily no and that this is Alison’s revenge, keeping her here.

Walking into The Brew, Emily greets Aria, before going to organise some books in preparation for The Brew’s reopening party. Emily listens as Ezra tells the caterer that he’s opening a bookstore and that nobody’s coming for the tamarind dipping sauce. When Ezra tells Emily and Aria that the caterer just quit on him, Emily tells him that she can do it. Ezra asks what she can do, and Emily says she can cater his party, “pays more than a barista, right?” Ezra questions if he missed something, before asking when she became a professional chef, to which Emily says she’s been helping her mom in the kitchen since she was could walk, “let me do it”. Aria steps in and says that she’s sure it’ll be amazing, and that it’s not like Emily’s a stranger to The Brew’s kitchen. Emily adds that Ezra’s guests are going to be here in less than 27 hours, so they can either debate the issue or she could get started, stick to his budget, and blow him away, “your choice”. Ezra asks if Emily even took home economics, and after Aria gives him a look, Ezra apologises and tells Emily to go for it.

Emily is looking over a recipe in The Brew’s kitchen when Aria walks in and asks if she can show Emily something before Ezra gets back. Handing a letter to her, Aria explains to Emily that she spent all of last period in the library writing the letter to Talmadge. Saying that she doesn’t want to sound desperate, Aria says that she just figured if they see like a hundred of the letters everyday… Emily tells her it’s good, “but um…”, and when Aria asks her but what, Emily says that she needs to make it more personal. Aria questions the word personal, before asking Emily what she wants her to tell them that she spent all of Junior Year being hunted down by ‘A’. When Emily goes to say that’s not what she meant, Aria adds that she could write she wanted to write the letter two weeks earlier, but she was too busy being suffocated by a plastic sheet. Emily mentions that she’s spiralling again, but Aria tells that you can’t spiral when you’ve already crashed. Aria goes on to say that Talmadge was supposed to be her slam dunk, but then yesterday she got a letter that was all slam and no dunk, and she’s already missed every other deadline. As Aria says that if she doesn’t get bumped up from the waitlist she doesn’t get to go to college next fall, Ezra walks into the kitchen, overhearing the last of the conversation. Passing the letter back to Aria, Emily grabs her phone and says that she’s going to go call her mom.

Sitting on the bench in The Brew’s kitchen, Emily swipes through recipes on her iPad. After finding a recipe for Goat Cheese Stuffed Grapes, Emily begins to deseed red grapes.

Emily tries to stuff the deseeded grapes with piped Goat’s Cheese, but instead of filling the grape, it pipes straight through. So throwing the grape away, she tries again.

Moving onto a pastry dish, Emily drops the pastry, before rolling it in a ball and chucking it at the wall. Emily is on the phone with Pam, asking about the fillings and whether she should start with that first. Turning around, Emily notices Ezra having walked into the kitchen and tells Pam that she’ll call her right back. Emily mentions that she thought Ezra went home to crash, to which Ezra tells her that he did, but he couldn’t sleep. Emily gathers that he’s nervous about tomorrow, only for Ezra to say that he swerved right past nervous and he’s into full blown panic attack. Ezra questions if they should be calling in some help, and when Emily asks what he means, Ezra tells her that perhaps they should call a professional chef. Emily wonders why, before saying that everything is totally under control, “food is going to be awesome”. Saying okay, Ezra questions if they’re going to eating dinner off the walls, and looking over her shoulder, Emily explains that that was an experiment, “but I just spoke to my mom, and she gave me her famous empanada recipe”. Ezra suggests that he can always call a restaurant, or he can ask…, but cutting him off, Emily tells him he shouldn’t, and there’s no need to panic, “everything is going to be great”.

Emily is sitting up in bed when Aria asks what time she got home, to which Emily says about three hours ago. Aria hopes she didn’t wake her, but Emily comments that she hasn’t been to sleep. Looking at her phone, Emily mentions that “she” still hasn’t written back, and when Aria asks who she means, Emily tells her, “Paige”. Aria wonders when the last time the two of them spoke, but Emily tells her to forget it. Emily asks for the new letter Aria has written, and looking over it one more time, Aria hands it over. Emily reads over it, and when Aria turns back around asking her, what, Emily questions if this is Aria’s way of getting personal. Aria comments that if she’s pitching herself to Jackie, why not lob it over the plate. Emily asks Aria to tell her that she didn’t send it, and asking why, Aria adds that it hits Jackie in her sweet spot. Emily reads aloud, “I regret that I squandered my high school career getting involved with an old guy, I was robbed of all the rituals my classmates enjoyed. This secret relationship kept me in a fishbowl separating me from my family, my friends, even myself…” Grabbing for the letter, Aria tells Emily that she doesn’t need a dramatic reading, she was the one to write it. Emily comments that if Ezra saw it he would be “so hurt”, but Aria thinks he wouldn’t, and that he would know exactly what she’s doing. Aria adds that once she’s accepted she can just take back every word. Emily asks Aria to “please tell me” that she didn’t send it, and exasperated, Aria wonders why Emily keeps saying that, before admitting that she has, she emailed it last night. As Aria says that it’s done, Emily’s phone vibrates, “oh shoot”, and throwing off a pillow, Emily says that she has to go. When Aria asks why, Emily tells her that she has “200 empanadas to fill”.

Walking into The Brew, Emily finds Ezra sampling some food. When Ezra notices her, he tells Emily that he wants her to meet Talia. Talia tells Emily that it’s nice to meet her, but giving a wary look, Emily asks what’s going on. Ezra explains that he asked Talia to help out tonight in the kitchen, and when Emily says the she doesn’t understand, Ezra pulls her aside, telling her that’d just prefer that Emily came tonight as a guest. Emily says that she doesn’t want to be a guest, and when she begins to say that Ezra hired her to…, Ezra cuts her off, saying that he knows, but he thinks they can both relaxing knowing there’s a professional back there in the kitchen. Saying that they should think of Talia like a saviour, Ezra adds he’s still going to pay Emily for the work she did last night. Emily mentions that it’s not just about last night, “I was hoping I could maybe be more than a barista”, to which Ezra comments that he didn’t realise, before adding that they can revisit that at a later date. Emily tells him “right”, and that she has work to do, before walking off towards the kitchen.

Entering the kitchen, Emily finds Talia sniffing at something in a glass bowl. Talia asks Emily what it is, and Emily tells her that it’s filling, “for empanadas”. Taking the bowl from her, Emily grabs some dough from the fridge, and when Talia tries to tell her that if they dough has been in the fridge all night she may…, but cutting her off, Emily tells her that if she wanted advice she would ask her mother, “we go way back”.

At The Brew’s relaunch party, Spencer approaches Emily and asks if she’s seen Toby. Emily says that she hasn’t, before telling Spencer to take an empanada. When Spencer says no thanks, Emily questions her, before saying that she made them, “eat one”. Taken aback, Spencer mentions that she’s just walked in, to which Emily urges that Spencer is starving and she should eat one. As Spencer takes an empanada, Emily wonders that “wasn’t Caleb coming with you”, to which Spencer explains that Caleb bailed as he wasn’t feeling up to it. Spencer comments that there’s a hair in the empanada to which Emily defensively says she should “eat around it”. Emily looks over Spencer’s shoulder to Talia, and noticing Spencer turns to look. Spencer asks who the woman is, to which Emily says she doesn’t want to talk about it, before walking away.

In The Brew’s kitchen, Emily is throwing out her disaster empanadas when Talia walks in. Talia tells Emily not to do that, and that they can be saved, but Emily bites at her, telling her that she’s not looking for a saviour. Talia tells Emily that if she told her how many times she bombed before she perfected even one signature dish, to which Emily says that she didn’t take this on to flaunt her brand, “I needed the cash to save a relationship”. Emily goes on to say that it doesn’t actually make sense because that relationship doesn’t exist anymore, “and now I’m stuck here making plans to go see someone who’s moved across the country, started a new life and can’t even find a second to return any of my stupid emails”. As Emily, now upset, goes to throw away the empanadas again, Talia rushes over and asks if she can have the tray. As Talia plates up some of the empanadas, she tells Emily that the first kitchen she ever worked in had a hard and fast rule, and that just about any tapas can be rescued with either some slivered almonds or the right sauce. Offering Emily the dish she just created, Talia tells Emily to just try it. Talia tells Emily that if she hates it, she can spit it in her face, before Emily reluctantly takes an empanada. Taking a bite, Emily finds that it’s actually pretty good and gives Talia a small smile.

Cleaning up after the party, Emily approaches Aria and asks why she was late, and if she got up to Talmadge. Aria nods, and when Emily asks if she was able to stop…, Aria cuts her off, telling her no, Jackie read the email. Emily comments, “oh no”, before asking if Jackie’s going to forward it to Ezra, but Aria says no, it’s hers and Jackie’s secret. Saying that it worked, Aria shows Emily her acceptance email. Emily questions what she’s going to tell Ezra, and after questioning if Emily means tonight, Aria says she’s not going to say anything, she can’t. After Aria has walked off, Emily listens as Ezra tells Talia that thanks to her, he’s royally screwed. Ezra questions what he’s going to do when he opens the place up, and Talia tells him that he knows where to find her. Emily is then approached by Ezra, who tells her that he doesn’t want her to feel resentful or unappreciated. Emily tells Ezra to “hire her”, and when Ezra questions, what, Emily tells him that she’ll get over it, “besides, she can’t touch what I can do with a cappuccino”.

Over a Barrel

Sitting in The Brew, Emily questions Spencer that the knife she and Caleb found was covered in blood, before Aria wonders if it was Mona’s blood. Spencer tells them all, yeah, and that any of their prints could have been on it. Emily asks if they think Holbrook planted it, and turning to Hanna, Aria says that she vouched for him, so does she think he’s a good guy. Emily listens as Hanna says she’s not so sure anymore, and that she bailed on her college visit to go track down Holbrook’s dad. Aria theorises that if Alison’s ‘A’ and Holbrook’s on her side, they could pin Mona’s murder on the girls, to which Spencer says she doesn’t know, before asking Emily if she wants her to drop a package, which is sticking out of Emily’s handbag, off in the mail. Emily tells her she’s good, and that she’ll go later. Spencer tells Emily that if she’s having trouble letting go of, the girls can do it for her, but Emily says that this is not holding on, “this is strictly ‘here’s your stuff’. I promise”, before adding that she found like three pairs of Paige’s swim googles and some of her CD’s in her car. Aria asks if Emily is still going for Spring Break, and when Hanna says she thought Paige asked for some space, Emily tells them that Paige did, “so I’m not”. Saying that her shift is about to start, Emily grabs her handbag and the girls all stand to leave. Hanna comments that Emily’s wearing a cute shirt and asks whether she’s borrowed it, and when Emily tells her, “probably not”, Hanna says that maybe she should. Emily walks behind The Brew’s counter and grabs her apron, and tying it up, she’s asked by Aria for a refill. As Aria says that she didn’t sleep last night, Emily tells her that she was “here” all night, and that Holbrook didn’t come to the party, “there’s no way he could have left you that bookmark”. Aria tells her that somebody did, and that she really needs to find another college to apply to before Ezra finds out how she got into Talmadge. Aria asks how much for the coffee, and tying up her hair, Emily tells her to just “take it”. Aria tells her no, she’s already lied to Ezra she doesn’t need to steal too, and typing the order into the register, Emily tells her it’ll be 50c. Aria asks since when has it been so cheap, and Emily tells her, “New Bew, new prices”. Emily turns to refill Aria’s cup as the receipt starts to print out, and when it starts printing longer than it should, Emily turns back and comments, “new register”. Emily is unable to cancel the receipt from printing, and picking the receipt up, she notices Aria’s Talmadge letter being printing. When Aria asks her what it is, Emily tells her that it’s the letter she wrote to Jackie. Aria tells her to make it stop, and pressing the cancel button, Emily says that she can’t. As the receipt stops printing, Aria grabs the paper, and when Emily asks what it says, Aria reads out a message from ‘A’.

Emily is making a cappuccino, and tells Talia, “careful, cup’s hot”, Emily walks passed and places it down on the counter. Talia comments that Emily’s made some nice foam, before suggesting that if she starts from the top and works her way down to the bottom…, but cutting her off, Emily says she’s pretty sure she can figure it out, “thanks though”. Emily listens as Talia comments that she’s in Emily’s territory and she’ll give Emily her space, before Emily smiles when Ezra walks in. Ezra asks if everything is okay between Emily and Talia, and Emily tells him yeah, “just ah, defining job duties”. Ezra wonders if Emily wants him to say anything, but Emily tells him no, it’s okay, “we’ll work it out”, before walking away from the counter.

Emily walks back behind the counter as Ezra is walking into the kitchen, and giving Aria a look, Emily watches as she follows.

Emily is serving some customers when Aria calls her over, saying that she just got a message. Walking over, Emily looks reads out the text message Aria was sent, “stop looking for me, I’m tired of hiding. Grille at noon. H”, before questioning if ‘H’ is for Holbrook. Going on, Emily tells Aria that she’s not meeting him by herself, and asking why, Aria says that it’s in the middle of town in the middle of the day. Emily listens as Aria says she doesn’t think that this is an ‘A’ trap, she can handle this alone, and the least she can do is hear him out. Aria adds that if Holbrook’s sick of dishing out Alison’s revenge, she may not have to tell Ezra about the letter.

Walking through The Brew with a tub of glasses, Emily notices Talia grab the cleaning supplies from under the front counter. Saying that there’s some in the kitchen if Talia wants to clean, “I could show you”, Emily then listens as Talia says that she knows, they’re in the supply closest. Talia says that she was just going to put these supplies with the rest, but Emily says that’s not where they usually go. Telling Emily to listen, Talia explains that she just had some downtime and she doesn’t do well with idle hands. Emily says if there are some things that Talia thinks they should change, “then great”, just bring it up before she decides on her own, “deal?” After dealing, Talia mentions that she did want to ask if Emily would think Ezra would go for a new uniform. Emily questions the word uniform, and Talia tells her she wouldn’t want it anything fancy, just a polo with the logo, something casual and cohesive, something a little neater. Emily asks what it would be neater than, and Talia says that she was just noticing earlier that there is a little hole in the shoulder of Emily’s shirt, and so she starting thinking that maybe…, but cutting her off, Emily tells her that it’s a t-shirt, “it’s comfortable”. Talia then says that perhaps they could wear something a little darker, so the stains don’t show, and saying okay, Emily tells Talia that perhaps she should only come up with one new idea at a time. As Talia says okay, Emily watches as she grabs the cleaning supplies and heads back into the kitchen.

On her cell phone, Emily listens as Aria says that it’s a flower shop. As Emily questions “what’s a flower shop”, Aria says that that’s where she’s meeting Holbrook. Aria explains that he must have seen her talking with Jason and got spooked, and that he wants to meet her alone. Emily tells Aria that if Holbrook’s really crossing Alison, she would guess that Holbrook doesn’t want it to get back to her, “just check in, okay”. Walking into the kitchen, Emily goes to grab some milk from the fridge when Talia asks her if her t-shirt was a gift. When Emily asks, “what?”, Talia asks if it was from the text, before mentioning that Emily got defensive when she pointed out the hole in her shirt. Emily tells her that it’s “not a big deal’, but Talia says that it is, and she’s sorry because when someone’s important to you it can be hard to let go. Emily doesn’t say anything, and it’s then that Talia says that there’s a dish, a beef stew, called Ropa Vieja and it literally means old clothes. Going on, Talia explains that it’s one of those old that comes from a hundred different places and everyone makes it the same way, over and over, but then every once in a while you’ve got to add some yellow peppers, green olives, flavour, colour, and then, the same old thing can feel brand new. Emily mentions that she’s not sure if she’s ready to feel brand new, to which Talia wonders how she can when she’s carrying her old relationship around on her back. Taking in Talia’s words, Emily walks out of the kitchen and back into The Brew.

Sitting on her bed, Emily mends the hole in the shirt she was wearing, before folding it and placing it in the envelope with the rest of Paige’s belongings. Peeling off the sticky part, Emily closes the envelope, before looking down on Paige’s name and address.

Walking into The Brew, Emily approaches Ezra who comments that this time next week he’ll have an actual office in the back. Ezra asks if Emily’s here for her pay cheque, and telling him yeah, Emily says that she can grab it when Ezra says he thinks it’s by the register. Ezra tells her no, let him get it as it’s his first pay day as boss, and he’s kind of looking forward to it. As Talia walks from the kitchen, Emily comments on the bottle of soda she’s holding, and Talia explains that she doesn’t want a coffee, but loves caffeine. Talia questions that if this is what Emily wears outside of work she may have to rethink the whole uniform idea, to which Emily tells her that she’s not dressed up for anything, “just picking up my cheque”. Talia comments that casual looks good on her, and after Emily thanks her, Talia wonders if she can ask Emily something and it’s not work related, she promises. Emily tells her “okay”, so Talia questions what Emily thinks of the cute buns on the boss man. Feeling uncomfortable, Emily pulls a face and shrugs, “yeah. Yeah I guess”.

The Bin of Sin In Caleb’s apartment, Emily listens as Aria asks if they seriously think Mona’s body is in the barrel in the storage unit, and Caleb tells her they do. Emily says that they knew Alison was crazy, “but to do something like that”, to which Spencer comments that it makes Alison even sicker than they thought. Hanna passes Aria the lease agreement for the storage unit, and when Aria says that it must be payback for Hanna visiting Alison, Emily questions how Aria know about the visit and they're just finding out. Emily listens as Caleb tells the Liars that Hanna visiting Alison has nothing to do with the lease agreement, and that the storage unit was rented in Hanna’s name four months ago, the day before Mona was murdered. When Hanna says they should get rid of the stuff in the bin, Emily reminds her that if they touch anything that’s tampering with the evidence, “evidence that could convict Ali”, but Hanna says that it could also convict her, and she doesn’t have a good alibi. Caleb notes that they do have one thing going for them, they’re a step ahead of Holbrook and he doesn’t know they’ve traced Mona’s laptop back to the storage unit. As Emily questions how they know Holbrook’s behind it all, “it could be anyone of Ali’s little minions”, before saying that yesterday they thought Holbrook was reaching out to Aria. Caleb tells the girls that his point is that he can corrupt the data files and make sure Hanna’s name is no longer connected with the storage unit. Spencer says that they can then tell Tanner that they traced Mona’s laptop there, and Aria adds that Tanner will then put the pieces together and realise Holbrook’s behind it all. Hanna says that if Tanner doesn’t realise it all it will just boomerang back on her, to which Emily tells her “that’s not going to happen”, but Hanna’s not so convinced and questions how Emily can be so sure. Emily, Aria, Caleb and Spencer are then left standing in Caleb’s apartment as Hanna storms out.

At The Brew, Emily tells Aria that thinking about Mona in that barrel gave her nightmares. Aria mentions that she barely slept, and when she did, she dreamed that Holbrook wallpapered Ezra’s entire apartment with her letter to Jackie. Aria tells Emily that she needs to tell Ezra about the letter, before asking if Ezra’s back in his makeshift office, but Emily tells her no, net yet, “he’s meeting with vendors all morning”. As Aria says she’s going to try and call him and see if she can meet him between meetings, Emily watches as she walks off, before heading back towards the counter. As Talia places a card on top of a pie she’s made, Emily asks if she made that for Ezra, to which Talia says that she heard pecan was his favourite. Saying that she’s getting the feeling Talia thinks Ezra’s available, Emily tells Talia that he’s not, but Talia tells Emily that the pie is just a thankyou for hiring her, not a marriage proposal. Talia says that she’s sorry if she’s stepped on Emily’s turf, but backing up, Emily comments that she’s not interested in Ezra, “or any guys”. Talia realises that Emily’s ex is a girl, and after confirming the fact, Emily tells Talia that Ezra is dating one of her good friends, “so you might want to back off”.

Walking down the main street of Rosewood with Aria, Emily says she can’t believe Aria told Ezra and lived to talk about it. Aria can’t either, before saying that she wasted so much energy worrying about how he was going to react when she could have been worrying about all the other things she has to worry about. Saying that Aria can worry about likes like Hanna, Emily mentions that Hanna is not taking her or Spencer’s calls. Emily then questions whether Aria has talked with her, but Aria says she hasn’t, but hopefully she can lure Hanna out of the house with a hot fudge brownie. When Spencer pulls up on the street in front of them, Emily listens as Aria she doesn’t thing that’s an actual parking space. Ignoring Aria’s comment, Spencer tells Emily and Aria that the laptop is moving, and when Emily questions her, Spencer explains that someone has taken Mona’s laptop out of the storage unit. Aria questions if it was Holbrook, but Spencer says her money is on Hanna as she wasn’t in school today. Emily comments that Hanna might be scared, but she wouldn’t do something like that, to which Spencer asks if Emily’s sure. Aria says that there’s only one way to find out, and the three girls get in Spencer’s car and drive off.

Emily navigates Spencer towards the location of Mona’s laptop, “take this left”. Spencer asks how much further they’ve got to go, and Emily tells her that the GPS says they’re about a mile away. Aria wonders why Caleb would help Hanna do this, and when Emily says they don’t know that Caleb is, Spencer reminds Emily that they’re not at Hanna’s house, and they’re not calling them back, so he’s got to be helping her. Looking down at the GPS on Spencer’s phone, Emily mentions that their location is up ahead on the right.

In a factory, Emily, Aria and Spencer walk through in the dark with flashlights guiding their way. Emily asks where they are, and spotting a label on a barrel, Spencer comments that it looks like it’s an old ice cream factory. Aria questions why Hanna and Caleb would come all the way out here, and Emily says it’s because “they knew no one else would”. Hearing a noise the girls turn, and after looking back at Emily and Aria, Spencer leads the girls to where the sound came from, “Hanna? Caleb?”. Hearing another noise, the girls look back to where they came from, before Spencer comments that it must be the wind moving stuff around. Aria comments that the factory is huge and they should probably split up, and agreeing, Emily says that she’ll go check out the second floor.

Walking down a set of stairs, Emily heads towards a sheet of plastic that is moving in the wind. Pulling the plastic back, Emily screams when a cat jumps out of a box and a dead rat falls to the ground. Picking up a bag that also fell from the box, Emily reads the label, finding that the cardboard box contained packets of freeze-dried almonds.

Hearing an alarm start to go off, Emily drops the packet of freeze-dried almonds and goes to investigate.

Walking around a corner, Emily heads Spencer and Aria calling out to her and starts to run towards their voices. Finding Spencer and Aria trapped in a freezer, Emily desperately tries to stop the liquid nitrogen at the controls, but is unable to. Looking around, Emily finds a wrench and begins to hit the control box with it until the box sparks and shocks her, causing her to fall to the ground. Turning to see Aria and Spencer now on their knees starting to freeze, Emily crawls over to them in horror. Telling them to “hang on”, Emily watches as the glass door starts to ice over, “Oh my God”, before she notices the freezer valve. Hitting the valve with the wrench until it breaks, Emily quickly opens the freezer door. As Aria and Spencer collapse to the ground, Emily wraps Aria in her jacket and holds onto Spencer.

At The Brew, Emily leaves a voicemail for Hanna, “Hanna, it’s me. Again. Where are you? Call me as soon as you get this”. Walking into the kitchen Emily finds Talia cooking, and after greeting her, Emily comments that she didn’t think anyone else was back here. Talia says that it’s just here and her apples, and as Emily looks around the kitchen, Talia asks if Emily’s okay. Emily says she’s good, before explaining that Ezra asked her to close up, “so I’ll just wait outside”. Talia calls out to Emily, asking if she wants to take over cooking, so she can finish cleaning up. Emily comments that they both know she’s not much of a cook, to which Talia says that Emily will be doing her a favour. Emily agrees, and as she walks over to the stovetop, Talia tells Emily to grab the wooden spoon she’s holding and stir. As Emily begins to stir the apples, Talia mentions that that’s all there is to it. Noticing something in Emily’s hair, Talia picks a leaf out and questions what Emily was doing, and if she was running through the woods. Laughing, Emily says she has no idea how that got in there, and throwing it into the trash, Talia says she’s going to put some things away. Emily gets a text message from Hanna, “I did go to the bin. And so did Toby and Tanner”, and as Emily is reading the message the apples catch on fire, “Oh my God”. Talia rushes over and diffuses the situation, telling Emily not to worry, before assuring that this happens sometimes. Saying that she’s sorry, Emily listens as Talia tells her that it’s nothing, and that the last place she worked at she almost burned the whole kitchen down. Talia tells Emily that on second thought perhaps she should go wait out the front and she’ll finish up in the kitchen, and grabbing her jacket, Emily heads back out into The Brew.

Sitting at one of the couches, Emily is on the phone telling Hanna that she’s not even sure if this is Holbrook anymore. Questioning why Holbrook would be willing to kill for Alison, Emily mentions that Spencer and Aria almost froze to death tonight, “and I”… Looking over shoulder, Emily watches as Talia walks out of the kitchen, and telling Hanna she has to go, “I’ll call you when I get home”, Emily ends the call. Talia tells Emily that she’s almost done, she just needs to wipe down the counters, and when Emily begins to apologise for ruining her dish, Talia says that Emily didn’t ruin it and that her apple pie is now apple flambé. Emily goes on to say she’s not really herself today, and sitting down on the couch next to her, Talia asks if Emily wants to talk about it. Emily tells Talia she doesn’t really want to talk about it, and that she just needs some sleep, “rest… you know, recharge”. When Talia asks if Emily’s eaten, Emily admits that she hasn’t had much. Talia proffers Emily a plate of food saying that she can’t recharge on an empty stomach, and when Emily questions if Talia made the plate of food for her, Talia explains that mashed potatoes always make her feel better, so maybe they’ll do the same for her. Emily thanks her, before saying that she can’t imagine what Talia thinks of her, and when Talia just looks at her, Emily goes on to say that ever since Talia got here, “I’ve been a mess”. Emily says that first she tried to kick Talia out of the kitchen, “I broke down about my ex”, and now this… Talia goes to say something, but Emily cuts in before she has a chance, saying that she wouldn’t say she’s the smoothest person, “but generally I’m a little less”… Talia takes the opportunity to fill in the blank, suggesting the word neurotic, and Emily laughs in agreement. Talia mentions that being neurotic is probably better than coming across like a total control freak which is how she imagines Emily seeing her. Telling Talia “no”, Emily listens as Talia mentions that the other day when she made the comment about Ezra being cute she wasn’t saying it because she was interested in him, she said it because she’s interested in Emily. Talia goes on to say that she was trying to figure out if Emily was into guys or girls by her reaction. Quickly changing the subject, Talia tells Emily that she should go finish cleaning up the kitchen, and a confused Emily watches Talia walk off.

Oh, What Hard Luck Stories They All Hand Me

Emily stands outside of The Brew with Spencer and Aria. Asking if Toby can tell if it were human remains in the drum, Emily listens as Spencer says that the police don’t know, and even if they did, Toby probably wouldn’t tell her anyway. Spencer tells Emily and Aria that she knows why Toby joined the police force, she even encouraged him, but it’s as if it’s now tearing him apart. Aria looks across the street to the Rosewood Police Department, and on asking Spencer is that’s her mom standing out front, Emily and Spencer look across. Emily comments that for lawyers to be working on a Saturday it must be serious, to which Spencer mentions that her mom says you get more with a smile than a subpoena. Emily listens as Aria asks what Veronica is trying to get from the two others lawyers she’s standing with, and Spencer explains that the other lawyers on part of Alison’s defense team and her mom is a paid strategical consultant. Emily questions that Veronica’s helping Alison’s defense, but Spencer says she’s not helping, she’s consulting, and she’ll get more out of them than they will of her. Aria asks why Veronica is doing it at all, and when Spencer says that Veronica wants to know what they know, Aria questions such as what, and Emily realises, “such as who gets called to testify”. After watching Alison’s lawyers pass Veronica a file, Emily and Aria wish Spencer luck as she spots Hanna and goes to patch things up. Once Spencer has walked off, Aria asks Emily if Ezra is inside The Brew, but Emily tells her no, “he’s in Harrisburg for the weekend”, which appears to be news to Aria. Emily questions that she didn’t know, and when Aria says that she knew, she just forgot, Emily wonders if Aria forgot “or he forgot to tell you”, to which Aria insists that she forgot.

Emily and Aria are still standing outside of The Brew when Hanna and Spencer walk over to them. Aria asks if they’re good, and when Spencer confirms that they are, Emily comments, “maybe not so good”. As the other Liars follow Emily’s line of sight, they watch as Holbrook exits his car out the front of the Rosewood Police Department. Emily listens as Hanna questions what Holbrook is doing back after all this time, and Aria comments that Alison probably wanted him torturing them in close range. Spencer tells them to forget about torturing, Alison wants to take them down with her, to which Emily says that Holbrook was doing such a good job, “why bring him out in the open?” Emily questions Spencer, but Spencer doesn’t have an answer.

Inside The Brew, Emily listens as Aria questions why Alison would bring Holbrook out into the open, before she suggests that it’s to know he’s here, “to scare us without doing anything”. Spencer mentions that it’s pretty passive-aggressive, to which Hanna reminds her that ‘A’ is aggressive-aggressive. Noticing Talia check over some supplies in The Brew’s kitchen, Emily excuses herself, “I’ll be right back”, and heads off into the kitchen.

After lingering in the doorway of the kitchen, Emily walks over to Talia who is sitting at Ezra’s makeshift desk filling out some paperwork. After greeting her, Emily asks Talia is she’s feeling better, and when Talia questions the word better, Emily comments that Ezra left a note saying she called in yesterday. Talia says that she wasn’t sick, she just had to take care of something, and as Talia goes back to her paperwork, Emily turns and walks out of the kitchen.

Emily hands someone there coffee, before asking what she get can the next person in line. The girl says she’s actually looking for Hanna Marin, and when Emily questions why she’s looking for Hanna Marin, the girl explains that Mrs Vanderwaal said she might find Hanna here. The girl introduces herself as Lesli, before saying that she was a friend of Mona’s.

Sitting on the couches, Emily and the other Liars listen as Lesli says she’s still having a really hard time believing what happened. When Emily says that they are as well, Lesli explains that she was supposed to see Mona at Thanksgiving, and that she was with Mona’s mom when the police called. Emily listens as Spencer asks if Lesli knew Mona a long time, and Lesli mentions that they met a couple of summers ago at her grandparents place. Emily says she doesn’t recall seeing Lesli at the memorial service, to which Lesli explains that she had exams, and a professor who won’t reschedule for anyone or anything. Lesli then says that the Liars were there for Mona and her mom when she wasn’t and she wants to thank them for that.

Emily questions that the police suspended Holbrook, to which Hanna says that it was for inappropriate behaviour. When Emily asks what kind of inappropriate behaviour, Hanna tells her to take her pick. Emily starts to list off a few ideas, “noodling with a witness, letting Cyrus get away”, and Hanna explains that Caleb heard the cops say that Holbrook tampered with the lie detector test, and that’s the straw that broke the chameleon’s back. Emily says that if the cops are onto him that’s one less thing they have to worry about, but Hanna tells Emily that if she saw the way Holbrook looked at her she wouldn’t be saying that, and that she thinks Holbrook blames them for what happened to him. Emily comments that she wished she didn’t, “but that makes an awful lot of sense”, to which Hanna tells Emily to call Aria and Spencer, as she has to go keep an eye on the new girl in town. As Emily starts to call either Aria or Spencer, she notices Talia talking with Jonny.

Stepping on a step ladder, Emily goes to reach for something on the top shelf in the kitchen when her apron comes undone. As she’s stepping down, Emily steps into Talia who re-ties her apron, “thanks”. Talia’s hand linger on Emily’s waist as she tells Emily not to mention it, before she walks away.

Emily walks up to Caleb who is sitting on the grass in the middle of town doing some homework. Emily questions if anyone told him it was Saturday, to which Caleb comments that he needs to work on his academic cred. Emily wonders if it’s because of Hanna, and Caleb says that Hanna keeps surprising you with all the hidden smarts, and that he doesn’t want to get left in the dust. Caleb comments that he should probably be focusing on criminal law, and looking over her shoulder to the Rosewood Police Department, Emily asks if it’s going to make a difference now Holbrook’s suspended. Telling Emily maybe, Caleb adds that someone like that can make a lot of trouble from the sidelines. Looking over her other shoulder, Talia watches as Talia talks with a fresh food delivery driver. Caleb notices and asks her how the new situation is going, and saying that it’s still “very new”, Emily sits down on the grass. When Caleb asks Emily what’s up, Emily explains that Alison’s going on trial for murder and she’s trying to bring them all down with her, “and I keep trying to figure out if a girl is flirting with me or not”. Caleb mentions that in the middle of a war you have to remember what you’re fighting for, before asking Emily what answer she wants to hear, flirting or non-flirting? Emily admits that she doesn’t know what she wants, before saying that she knows what she wants, “I just don’t know what I want”, and Caleb tells her that the scary thing is, is that it makes perfect sense to him. When Emily questions how anyone gets together with anybody, Caleb tells her that you take a calm, clear look at everything and you work it out logically in your head, and then, you flip a coin.

Walking out of The Brew’s kitchen, Emily finds Talia looking at Jonny’s invention. Emily says that she thought Talia had left, and Talia tells her she was just looking at what Jonny had made. Talia questions if Emily knows what it’s supposed to do, and Emily tells her that Jonny said it was about catching whispers. When Talia wonders how it works, Emily says that Jonny told her, “I can show you”. Talia agrees, and laughing, Emily tells Talia to sit down and to place her elbows on the disks, leans forward and covers her ears with her hands. Telling Talia to stay like that, Emily walks over to where the microphone is, and after turning it on, Emily explains that she says something from where she is and the sound travels through the bones in Talia’s arms and into her ears like she was right next to her, “whispering”. Going on, Emily says that she should have said something that night, “but I didn’t”, and she guesses she was surprised. Emily mentions she’s been thinking of it ever since, about what Talia said, “it was like you were asking me to decide something right then and I couldn’t do that”. Emily tells Talia that she knows nothing about her, and she doesn’t know much about Talia, but one thing Emily does know is that Talia is good at what she does, “really gifted”. Emily says that she knows sometimes that makes things lonely, and she knows what that’s like, “to be alone… to be lonely”. Walking back over to Talia, Emily says that maybe she reads too much into situations, “what people say”, but Talia says she doesn’t think so, and she thinks that Emily’s a very good judge of a situation. Emily asks about the other night, and Talia explains that the other night took all the courage she had to say what she said. When Emily says that she doesn’t believe that, Talia mentions that a chef once told her to cook with the confidence of experience, even if you don’t have much of either. Getting up from the seat, Talia grabs her jacket and tells Emily that it’s late. As Talia is moving towards the door, Emily grabs her elbow and after the two share a look, Emily pulls Talia into a kiss. When they break from the kiss, Talia pulls Emily in for another.

Out, Damned Spot

At the Rosewood Blood Drive which is being held in the Rosewood High cafeteria, Emily, having grabbed a cookie, sits down next to Spencer, Hanna and Aria. Hanna questions where Emily’s donating blood sticker is, to which Emily explains she cannot give blood for another year because of her summer trip to Haiti. Spencer holds out her hand, and when Emily asks, “what?”, Spencer tells her no blood, no cookies, and that she didn’t make the rules. Emily comments that Spencer’s too lazy to go get a cookie herself, and when Spencer flips her hair back to show that she’s hooked up and in the process of donating, Emily hands over her cookie. Ashley Marin approaches the girls, and Emily listens as Ashley thanks them for coming to the drive, before telling Ashley that they’re happy to help. When Ashley offers Emily a brownie, Emily slyly looks at Spencer as she takes one from the plate. After Ashley has walked off, Aria holds out her hand to Emily, and asking “seriously?”, Emily hands over the brownie when Aria motions for her to pass it over. Emily and the Liars are startled when a plate drops to the ground, and they watch as Mike is the culprit.

By Aria’s locker, Emily listens as Aria tells Spencer to ask Mike why he was at the drive because she already knows his answer. After Aria says that Mike will say to mind her own business, Spencer says that it is there business, and they all saw that he was standing near the coolers where they keep the blood, their blood. Aria questions if Spencer is serious, and when Spencer if Mike is trying to get his hands onto something that can help Alison, Aria asks if that’s it, Mike’s guilty, before commenting that the court of public opinion in this town really sucks. Emily tells them to all take a breath, to which Hanna comments that it’s hard to breathe when someone’s trying to set you up as an accessory to murder. Emily listens as Aria says she knows they’re all desperate to find out who’s helping Alison, but just because it isn’t Holbrook doesn’t mean it’s Mike, he was in love with Mona and would do nothing to hurt her. Emily begins to say something, “Aria”, but Aria cuts her off, saying that she can’t talk about this right now and that she has a math test. As Aria storms off, Emily, Hanna and Spencer watch her leave.

Emily and Talia ride their bikes through Camp Koatohee. When Talia comments that she hasn’t done this in years, Emily asks if she’s having fun, to which Talia tells her that she is, and Emily was right. Emily then comments that riding downhill, “standing on your pedals”, is the closest thing you can get to flying. Talia tells Emily that they’re here, and after the girls get off their bikes, they walk through the trees towards a lake. Emily questions, “here?”, and when Talia confirms, Emily queries that this is where Talia had her first kiss. Emily listens as Talia says that it was with Marvin Biglioni in the summer after 4th grade and that he looked like a frog. Emily guesses that Talia was trying to turn him into a prince, and shrugging, Talia comments that a girl can dream. Talia tells Emily that they were standing right where they currently are, and just as Marvin leant in to seal the deal on her very first kiss, he burps and it’s wet. Commenting, “eww. Gross”, Emily listens as Talia says that all she could think about was a do over, all she wanted was a do over. Talia then tells Emily that it’s her turn to tell her something, and after questioning if Talia wants her first kiss story, Emily says that she doesn’t think they can bike there from here. Instead, Talia asks Emily to reveal her biggest fear, but when Emily avoids answering, Talia says that it was a stupid question. Turning back, Emily tells her no, it’s not, “it’s just…”, and when Emily trails off, Talia questions if it’s too soon. Noting the look on Emily’s face, Talia tells her that there are some things she’s not ready to talk about either. Leaning in, Emily impulsively kisses Talia, and when Talia asks what that was for, Emily simply tells her, “do over”.

Walking into The Brew, Emily finds Ezra sitting on one of the couches. Questioning that he’s doing paperwork on a Friday, Emily listens Ezra tells her that he’s just trying to stay ahead of the game, and it turns out that he doesn’t get weekends off anymore, to which Emily adds, “or summers”. As Emily is grabbing the broom, Ezra asks if Talia has already left, and when Emily tells her she has, “I was just saying goodbye”, Ezra comments that the two of them seem to be getting on a whole lot better these days. Emily just smiles, before wondering whether Ezra can believe that Aria might be in Savannah next year, “we could have our very own Southern Belle”. As Ezra questions that Aria got into SCAD, Emily realises that Aria hasn’t told him, “Oh, um, I thought you knew”, before saying that Aria is really excited about it. Saying that she’ll let Ezra get back to work, Emily starts sweeping, but it’s then that she notices Talia’s name on some paperwork, “isn’t Talia’s last name Sandoval? Why does it say Mendoza on her file? Picking up the file, Ezra says that Mendoza may be her married name, and that a lot of people use their maiden name professionally, to which Emily insists that Talia is not married. Opening the file, Ezra says that she is, and that Talia has her husband listed under her emergency contact.

Emily walks into The Brew’s kitchen with a tub full of dishes, and when Talia tells her to come over, Emily says she has another table to bus. Talia says that Emily has to try what she’s cooking, to which Emily comments that she’s really not hungry. Walking towards Emily, Talia mentions that there’s always room for dessert, but as Talia tries to get Emily to try what’s on the spoon, Emily backs away, “no, I’m good”. Placing a hand on Emily’s back, Talia asks her what’s wrong, and slipped from the embrace, Emily tells Talia that she’s married, “that’s what’s wrong”. Adding that she saw Talia’s last name, “Mendoza”, Emily says that it’s the same as her husbands. Emily then questions whether Talia was ever going to tell her, and when Talia says she was, Emily asks, “when?” Talia just stands there, and as Emily comments, “I don’t understand”, Talia tries to at least begin to explain, but Emily talks over her, “I don’t understand how you can stand there all this time and not tell me this. How you can kiss me. How you can tell me you like me, and not tell me any of this”. Talia begins to say Emily’s name, but stops herself short when Ezra walks into the kitchen. Taking the opportunity to grab the dish tub, Emily storms out of the kitchen.

Jumping on her bike, Emily begins to ride away from The Brew, but spotting Mike at an ATM she stops. Emily watches as Mike withdraws a large sum of cash, and after he’s walked off, she heads over to the machine. Pulling Mike’s ATM receipt from the teller, Emily sees that Mike has withdrawn $400 and the account he withdrew from has a balance of $18,356.25.

Knocking on the Montgomery’s front door, Emily tells Aria that she needs to speak with her when she opens the door. Aria looks over to the couch, and following Aria’s direction, Emily finds Andrew sitting there, “hey, Andrew”. Aria ushers Emily outside, and it’s there at Emily shows Aria the ATM receipt. Aria questions where Mike got $18,000, to which Emily poses her own question, “doesn’t ‘A’ always have access to a tonne of money. Maybe this is one of Ali’s secret accounts”. Aria then tells Emily that last night Mike got a call from the women’s correctional facility, and when Emily wonders, “from Ali?”, Aria says that she thinks so, but all Alison did was call, said her name was Hank Mahoney, and then she hung up. Listening as Aria mentions that it’s got to be some sort of code, Emily adds that Mike now has $400 burning a hole in his pocket. Hearing a car door slam, Emily and Aria watch as Mike drives off, “we need to follow him”. Turning back to face Emily, Aria asks how before commenting that she’s not riding on Emily’s handlebars. Looking over to the front door, Emily and Aria walk back inside and Aria asks Andrew if they can borrow his car. Emily says that it will be just for a little bit, and as Andrew asks if either of them drive stick, Emily and Aria look towards each other.

Sitting in the back of Andrew’s car, Emily tells Aria that Spencer will meet them there. Andrew questions whether Aria often follows her brother places, and Aria says that she doesn’t usually. As Andrew wonders what exactly is going on with Mike, Emily pipes up and says, “drugs”. After Aria gives Emily a look and Andrew questions her, Emily says they think Mike could be dabbling in stimulants and amphetamines. Getting a text message, Emily tells Hanna that there’s still no word from Hanna, “but Spencer’s getting on the highway so I’ll just text her when we get”…, and as Aria shoots Emily a looks, Emily rephrases herself, “get to get where we’re going”. Pulling up outside Jonah’s diner, Andrew wonders if he should go inside with the girls. Telling him no, but Aria tells him that they’ve got it from here. Andrew then asks how the girls are getting home, and Emily says that Spencer can give them a ride. Getting from the car, Emily and Aria head towards Jonah’s Diner and it's then that Aria questions that Emily used Mike being on drugs as there cover.

Walking into Jonah’s Diner, Emily and Aria find it to be more of a truck stop. The girls watch as a guy approaches Mike, and when Aria questions that the guy is Hank Mahoney, Emily tells her no, “that’s Cyrus Petrillo, Ali’s fake kidnapper”.

In the trees outside of Jonah’s Diner, Emily listens as Spencer says that she got here as fast as she could. Looking into the Diner, Spencer asks if they know anything, and Emily explains that they think Mike brought Cyrus money, “$400”, and that they tried to get close but Mike and Cyrus almost saw them. Spencer questions that the message sent from jail was her way of telling Mike Cyrus’ new name, and when Aria says it was so Mike could find him, Emily adds that that’s what they think. Aria says that she doesn’t care if Mike is working for Alison, she’s not going to let him get hurt, and as Aria begins to walk towards the Diner, Emily and Spencer manage to pull her back, “if we go in there we won’t know any more than we know now”.

Still hiding behind Spencer’s car, Emily tells Aria that she told Ezra about Savannah, “I thought he knew”, to which Aria mentions that she had have told him already. When Emily asks why she didn’t, “are you guys fighting?”, Aria admits that she honestly doesn’t know what they are. Emily listens as Aria explains that Ezra thinks he’s the reason why she didn’t have the perfect high school experience, before Aria questions whether that’s a thing, and if anyone really has that. When Emily says that she doesn’t know, Spencer mentions that she knows Emily must be missing Paige right now, but at least her love life isn’t full on confusing. Emily, Aria and Spencer’s cell phones ring, and checking their phones, Emily reads text aloud, “thanks for donating to my get-into-jail fund. –A”. Looking over to the diner, the girls find the spot where Mike and Cyrus were sitting empty. Walking closer to the diner, Emily realises that the envelope wasn’t filled with money. Upon hearing a car start up, Emily, Spencer and Aria runs towards the sound, but arrive too late. Turning when they hear a motorbike behind them, the girls start to run when the person on the bike starts to rev the engine. The motorcycle chases the girls until they’re cornered at some dumpsters. The person on the motorcycle turns out to be Cyrus who asks the girls if they’re at the diner to watch the kid or him. The girls don’t answer, and it's then that Cyrus tells him that he doesn’t like being followed. Spencer says that he has something that belongs to them, and when Aria says that they just want it back, Cyrus comments that maybe they can work out a trade. Stepping out of the shadows, Andrew tells Cyrus to back away from the girls. After Cyrus has ridden off, Andrew asks the girls if they’re okay.

Arriving home, Emily gets a text message from Talia asking if they can talk. After thinking about it, Emily sends back, “not a good time”, and hearing a car door, Emily turns and sees Talia getting out of her car.

Sitting on the porch steps, Emily listens as Talia explains that she and Eric started dated in 9th grade, and they were married right after high school. Talia goes on to say that they loved each other, but they barely knew themselves, before she adds that they still love each other, however it’s not romantic. Listening as Talia says that Eric knows she’s attracted to women, and he knows that she has to be true to herself, Emily wonders why Talia would stay with Eric, to which Talia explains it’s because Eric is her best friend and he’s been with her through everything. Talia goes on to say that she knows that it’s complicated and that no one wants complicated, to which Emily comments that she’s starting to think that there’s “no such thing as simple”. Emily listens as Talia says that she shouldn’t have lied, she just didn’t want to scare Emily away, before adding that she knows how it all sounds when she says it out loud, and for that she’s sorry, she just wanted to say it all in person. As Talia goes to get up from the step, Emily asks if Talia remembers when she asked her what her biggest fear was, and when Talia nods, Emily tells her that there are things she’s not ready to share either, “things that would scare you away from me”. Listening as Talia says that she finds that hard to believe, Emily, in response, interlocks their fingers.

Pretty Isn't the Point

Emily and the Liars are looking through Mike’s bedroom. As Aria picks up something from inside one of Mike’s desk drawers, Emily asks if she found something, to which Aria comments that her brother has jock strap. Hanna questions how much Mike paid for all the new gym equipment, and when Emily tells her that they’re not shopping, Hanna says she wants to know why Mike is suddenly training to become a ninja. Aria tells them all to stop, before saying that this all feels wrong. Emily questions if they’ve looked through the gym bag, and rushing over, Aria says that she’s got it. Aria finds a necklace inside the gym bag, and asking if she found it in the bag, Emily listens as Aria explains that it was under a really disgusting gym sock. Finding the receipt, Emily mentions that Mike only bought the necklace last Friday. Aria wonders why Mike has the necklace, and Emily suggests that perhaps he ordered it for Mona and it’s only just come in. Hanna proposes that perhaps it’s a Mother’s Day gift, to which Spencer comments that she doesn’t think Mike was telling his mom, ‘I’m with you’. Emily listens as Spencer says that they aren’t just beads on the necklace, it’s a message in Morse code and the beads spell out words. When Aria questions who Mike’s with, Spencer says that the necklace is probably for Alison and that’s who Mike’s with.

Walking into The Brew, Emily finds Talia on the phone, and when Talia notices her, she explains that it’s Pam on the other end. As Talia ends the call, Emily wonders if her mom wanted to talk with her, but Talia tells her no, and that Pam just called about the left over cobbler that Emily took home last week. When Talia notices a look cross Emily’s face, she questions if Emily thinks it’s nice that she and Pam have something in common besides Emily. Emily then asks whether Talia thinks that Pam “knows about…”, and cutting in, Talia questions if Emily meant them, before saying that it hasn’t come from her. Emily listens as Talia says that they’re moving slowly and she’s perfectly fine with it staying just between the two of them. When Emily adds, “and your husband”, Talia tells her that’s right, before she leans in to kiss Emily. As Talia asks if Emily just wakes up this beautiful, Emily laughs, before walking behind the front counter. As Emily is reaching for her apron, she notices Mike walk in, and after greeting him, she comments that they’re not actually open, “yet”. Mike mentions that the door was open, before asking if he can get a coffee to go. As Emily gets him a takeaway cup and starts to fill it, Mike says that he’s going to need two cups. Saying, “okay”, Emily fills a second cup and asks if Mike wants to take a pastry “or something”, to which Mike tells her no, and that both coffees are for him. Listening as Mike says that it was a long night, Emily questions what he was up to. Mike tells Emily that he already has one big sister, and he’s not looking for another. Watching as Mike walks out of the establishment, Emily reaches for her phone in her back pocket.

In The Brew, is putting away some tall coffee cups when her cell phone beeps. As Emily is reading the message from Hanna, “cancel your life this weekend. You’re dancing with me. Will explain later”, a customer walks up to the counter and says that he’s looking for Talia. As the man asks if she’s in the kitchen, Emily mentions that he’s just missed her, “she had to leave early for a catering gig in Philly”. Listening as the guy says that he forgot and that he’ll just call the landlord, Emily wonders if she can tell Talia who stopped by. After apologising, the guy introduces himself as Eric, Talia’s husband. Eric then realises who Emily is, and as he stumbles over his words, Eric manages to say that Talia talks about her all the time. Questioning that Talia does, Emily listens as Eric says that she must be something special to get Talia to take a bike ride, when he can’t get her to stop work long enough to walk to the mailbox. As she’s putting some napkins out, Emily comments that it was an easy ride, “single lane”, and that they hardly got off the bikes. Eric tells Emily that he knows what’s going on and she doesn’t have to feel weird, but Emily says that she does feel weird, “I didn’t know about you until…”, and cutting in, Eric says that it's okay and he understands. Emily questions if he really does, “’cause I’m still…”, but again cutting in, Eric mentions that he and Talia have been together a really long time and if she needs to experiment, have a one-time thing, he can live with that because he loves her and he expects to be doing that way longer than anyone else.

Having knocked on the Marin’s patio doors, Emily is let in by Ashley who mentions that Hanna is still in the shower. Listening as Ashley asks if she can get her some breakfast, Emily says she’s okay, “can’t dance on a full stomach”. Ashley comments that she didn’t know Emily could dance at all, but Hanna said Emily had been taking lessons since she was four, to which Emily says she was three, “I stopped when I was in seventh grade”. Emily then adds that her mother was hoping for a ballerina instead of a jock. Ashley questions whether Hanna knows what she’s getting herself into, before saying that she’s having disturbing flashbacks to that campaign for homecoming queen, but Emily says that this is different and that this pageant isn’t about proving something to herself, it’s only about winning tuition money. As Ashley uncomfortably looks away, Emily apologises, “I didn’t mean to…”, but Ashley says that it’s okay, it is what it is, and she didn’t expect to be in this position. Emily wonders if she can ask Ashley something, and when Ashley tells her sure, Emily questions whether it’s okay to date a person even if some part of you knows it’s not going to last forever. When Emily adds even if it’s amazing, “in the moment”, but ultimately you think it’s probably doomed, Ashley wonders if Emily is talking about she or herself. Emily tells her she’s talking about neither, “I’m just curious”, to which Ashley mentions that people get hurt and disappointed in relationships every day, but no one should jump into one with that intention. As Ashley’s words sink in, Emily picks up a pancake and takes a bite.

At Rosewood High, Emily and Hanna practice the dance routine Hanna will be performing at the beauty pageant. When the girls finish their routine, Hanna tells Caleb, who has just walked in, that that’s where he applauds, to which Caleb tells her that he’s holding two cheesesteaks and he doesn’t have the hands. Caleb passes the cheesesteaks to Emily who listens as Hanna asks Caleb what he thought, and Caleb says that it was good. Hanna questions him, before saying that good is not good enough. Emily steps in, telling Hanna to relax and that they still have time to make it great. Hanna says that in two hours her coach is coming over to check on her progress, and when Emily says that she’ll be here to support Hanna, Hanna questions if Emily has met her coach. Hanna adds that her coach makes you feel like the girl at fat camp who got caught eating her toothpaste, and when Emily and Caleb both just look at her, Hanna questions them, before saying that it was minty. Looking inside the paper bag Caleb had previously handed her, Emily questions if he forgot the mustard, to which Caleb says that it’s already on the cheesesteak. Hanna, having noticed an unease to Caleb, asks what is wrong, and Emily listens as Caleb mentions that somebody else signed up to be in the pageant. As Caleb is passing the signup sheet to Hanna, Emily asks what he means, “who?” When Hanna reacts to seeing who it is, Emily again asks who it is, to which Caleb explains that Kate Randall has reserved this room tomorrow at 7pm. Questioning Caleb, “Kate Randall?”, Emily wonders if it’s Kate Randall as in Hanna’s stepsister, “no, this has to be someone else”. Hanna questions Emily, before asking how it could be someone else because this Kate Randall goes to the same school as her. As Hanna starts to storm from the dance room, Emily tells Hanna to wait, “where are you going?”, before Caleb comments that she cannot go and punch Kate out. Hanna tells them that she’s going to the bathroom, to pee, and when she gets back, she and Emily are going to rehearse until it’s perfect. Listening as Hanna adds that she’s not going to let Kate take this away from her, Emily watches as Hanna leaves the room.

Emily and Hanna are back to perfecting the dance routine.

Emily helps Hanna perform in front of Hanna’s pageant coach. When Hanna starts to break from the routine, Emily moves off to the side and watches as Hanna does her own thing. As the routine comes to an end, Emily listens as Hanna’s coach says that the dance routine was revealing. When the coach tells Hanna that she’s not pageant material, Emily steps in, saying that it’s her fault, “I picked the song. Doesn’t show what Hanna can really do”. The coach says she’s pretty sure she’s seen enough to know what Hanna can really do. As Hanna walks from the dance room, Emily tells the coach, “that was a really lousy thing for you to say”, but the coach says that she’s doing Hanna a favour and that taking her money would be criminal. The coach goes on to say that Hanna would only crash and burn in a much more humiliating and public setting. Listening as the coach says that Hanna doesn’t have what it takes to go the distance, but she does, Emily mentions that she only came here to “help a friend”. The coach says that it’s very generous of her, and when Emily says that Hanna needs to win this, the coach notes that Hanna might need it, but she doesn’t want it, and there’s a big difference. Turning, Emily grabs her bag and walks from the room.

Running out of Rosewood High, Emily calls out to Hanna, who in turn starts her car and drives off, “Hanna wait!” Turning when Talia calls out her name, Emily asks what she’s doing here, “how did you know I was…”. Talia explains that Emily’s mom told her, before saying that she got Emily’s message from earlier and she sounded weird. Talia then asks what Happened at The Brew yesterday, and when Emily looks away, Talia wonders if Ezra found out about them. Emily tells her no, and after a beat, Emily says that she met Eric, “you told him I was an experiment, a one-time thing”. When Talia says that she didn’t know where what they have was going, Emily tells her that it’s going nowhere, “I’m not into girls because it’s trendy”. Emily begins to walk off, and when Talia tells her she doesn’t think of her that way, Emily comments that their relationship now has three people in it, “and you’ve been lying to every one of them”. Saying that she has to go, “I have a friend who needs me right now”, Emily runs off.

Walking in the Marin’s patio doors behind Hanna, Emily asks whether Hanna heard out the front of school. Emily comments that that women is not a coach, “she’s a gorgon”, and she doesn’t care how many beauty pageants she’s won, “she’s an ugly person”. Ashley walks into the kitchen and on greeting Emily and Hanna, she mentions that she didn’t hear them come in. Emily listens as Ashley tells Hanna that she spoke with Tom and he doesn’t know anything about the pageant, or how Kate could have signed up for that room because she’s not even in Pennsylvania this weekend. When Emily questions Ashley, Hanna says that it doesn’t matter anyway, thinking she could do this was asinine. Ashley questions how’s saying that, and Hanna says that her coach is, before adding that her coach would much prefer to be Emily’s coach. Noting that Emily and Hanna need to talk, Ashley tells them that she’s going to take her shower. After Ashley has walked from the kitchen, Emily asks Hanna if she stuck around long enough to hear what happened she said that. When Hanna doesn’t react, Emily says that she told the coach off, “she had no right”…, but Emily is cut off by Hanna’s cell phone beeping with an incoming text. As Hanna is reading the text, Emily asks who it is from, and sliding her phone over, Hanna lets Emily read the message, “Kate won’t win the pageant, but she’s already won your daddy’s heart. –A”. Emily questions that ‘A’ put Kate’s name on the signup sheet, but Hanna reminds her that ‘A’ is sitting in jail, Mike did this and Alison’s going to use whoever she can to keep them here forever. Listening as Hanna says that it’s worked, she’s not doing the pageant, Emily tells her that she is, “for you”. As Emily says that she knows how much Hanna needs the money, “and I swear I’m going to win that prize for you”, Hanna tells Emily to stop. Hanna goes on to say that ‘A’ is just going to come after her too, to which Emily says that ‘A’ can come after her any day of the week, anywhere, “that’s not going to stop me from helping someone I love”.

In the Hastings’ great room, Emily questions that the necklace they found was for Mona to which Aria explains that Mike was holding onto any grain of hope, but not anymore as he realises she’s really dead. When Hanna comments that Mike didn’t realise how vicious ‘A’ can be, Spencer mentions that she can’t believe that Mike knows about ‘A’ at all. Emily says that for Mona to tell Mike she must have really trusted him, and Aria comments that Mona did more than she did. As a silence falls on them, Emily wonders what they do now, “do we tell Alison?”, but Spencer questions how they can, before adding that they destroyed a lot of evidence that could have proved that she was innocent. Aria mentions that they basically made a barricade so the police had to throw her behind bars, and when Hanna wonders if they’re going to say anything before Alison’s trial, Emily says that they have to. As Emily says that they accused Alison of being ‘A’, “to her face”, Aria wonders how they take that back.

Bloody Hell

In the visitation room at Chester County Women’s Correctional Facility, Emily listens as Aria asks if she heard back from Hanna, to which Emily tells her she doesn’t know, “they have our cell phones”. Aria mentions that this feels weird, and when Spencer says of course it does, they’re in a locked room with razor wire on the roof, Aria says that she means coming here with their tail between their legs. When Emily questions that Aria doesn’t think they owe Alison an apology, Spencer reminds Aria that they formed a human blockade, and Emily adds that Alison’s locked in a cell because of them, to which Aria says that Alison’s locked in a cell because of karma. Emily gives Aria a lock, and Aria concedes that Alison’s locked in a cell because of them as well. Mentioning that no one is saying that Alison is a saint, Emily listens as Spencer comments that no one’s saying she’s a decent human being either, before Emily tells Aria that Alison is on trial for a murder she didn’t commit, “Mona set her up and then was killed herself and now Ali’s going down for it”. As Emily says that she wouldn’t wish that on her worst enemy, Aria mentions that Alison is definitely runner up. Hearing the outer door of the room open, Emily, Aria and Spencer watch Alison be led in. Having taken a seat, Emily tells Alison that Mike was scared to say anything, “he still thought Mona was alive and he didn’t want to put her in danger”. Alison questions that Mona’s plan was to let her rot in here, and Spencer says that it was only until Mona found out who ‘A’ was and then she was going to come back. Emily adds that Alison would then be released, to which Aria says that Mona is now not coming back. As Emily notes that they’re going to figure out a way to Alison out of jail, Alison asks where Hanna is, to which Spencer says that she really wanted to be here, but she had to spend the day with her mom. A guard enters the room, telling them all that their visiting time is over, and before getting up to leave, Emily tells Alison that they’ll be back soon.

Standing by Hanna’s locker at Rosewood High, Emily listens as Spencer asks where Hanna was, to which Hanna apologises, saying she chickened out. Hanna goes to say that she couldn’t go back there after calling Alison a liar and a murderer to her face, and when Spencer points out that Alison is a liar, Emily comments that up until yesterday they all thought she was a murderer too. Emily then listens as Hanna tells them that they didn’t make a personal appearance and cut Alison open, pour salt into the wound and then exfoliate. Hanna asks if Alison was upset, to which Spencer says that she doesn’t know as Hanna’s absence took a second position to the bomb they had to drop about Mona, and Emily adds that after they left Alison was still pretty much in a state of shock. Looking to Aria, Spencer comments that the stake of shock seems contagious, before asking her what’s going on. When Aria says that she’s fine, Emily wonders if this is about Mike, to which Aria tells them that if they don’t figure out who ‘A’ is before Alison’s trial starts.., before Spencer realises that Alison is going to feed Mike to her defence team. Asking if Alison’s lawyers can make Mike take the stand, Emily listens as Spencer says they can, and Mike will be a hostile witness. Aria mentions that it’s not about Mike getting in trouble with the law, it’s that once he becomes Alison’s get out of jail free card, he’ll become A’s number one target.

Clearing the outside tables at The Brew, Emily tells some customers to “have a nice day” when they get up to leave. Emily is then approached by a woman who introduces herself as Claire Handleman, and when Emily greets her back, Claire comments that she’s had Emily’s picture staring up at her from her desk, and that she’s the contestant coordinator of the Glass Slipper Collective. Again Emily greets Claire, “oh, hi”, before asking if everything was okay with her application, to which Claire tells her no, and that Emily forgot a parent signature. Apologising, Emily says that she must have missed that, before she mentions that her mom is visiting her dad at his base. As Emily questions if her mom can fax her permission, Claire tells her sure, no problem. Looking through the folder Emily asks what one of the pieces of paper are, and Claire explains that it’s the events calendar. Listening as Claire says that each contestant is also assigned a fairy godmother to help them walk through it, there version of a den mother, Emily says that she had “no idea” it was such a time commitment when Claire adds that they like to keep the girls busy. Claire asks if that’s going to be a problem, to which Emily tells her no, “not at all”. Saying that her boss is out of town for the day, “but when he gets back I’ll talk to him about swapping some shifts”, Emily listens as Claire tells Emily to tell her boss that she’s a very promising contestant, and she only wishes Emily had started sooner as she could have collected a couple of glass slippers by now.

In Spencer’s bedroom, Emily listens as Hanna says that Spencer cannot leave now, they just found out that Alison isn’t ‘A’ and they still don’t know whose trying to turn them into a chain gang. Spencer asks what she’s supposed to do, and Hanna suggests that she misses her flight. As Spencer says they shouldn’t underestimate Veronica waiting in duty free to make sure she catches the next flight, Emily questions what Toby say about all this. Listening as Spencer says that she didn’t tell Toby, and the only way to get his attention these days is over a police scanner, Emily questions if Veronica can postpone the interview, to which Spencer says that if Emily has any suggestions on what to say to Veronica, she’s all ears. Hanna suggests that Spencer tell her mom the truth, and when they girls all look at her, Hanna says she thinks it’s about time Spencer finally comes clean and asks her mom for help. Emily listens as Spencer asks if Hanna is serious, and when Aria says that they can’t do that, Hanna questions why they can’t. Emily comments that perhaps Hanna is right, “what do we have to lose?”, and when Aria says her brother, Emily tells her that Spencer’s mom can help Mike. Aria says that Veronica can’t help them find ‘A’, before asking if they really want to rattle A’s cage by telling now because they all know what happens when they do.

Walking into The Brew’s kitchen, Emily asks Talia if she can speak with her. When Talia doesn’t say anything, Emily says that she knows Amanda was going to be helping her in the kitchen this week, but something has come up and Emily was hoping she’d be able to cover her shifts instead. Talia says that she doesn’t think that will be possible, to which Emily questions her, “really?”, before wondering whether this is how it’s going to be. As Emily says that she didn’t say what she said to hurt her, Talia tells her that it’s not about that, today is her last day and she’s already told Ezra she quit.

Emily is walking down the street outside of The Brew, and when she spots Talia getting out of her car. Approaching Talia, Emily greets her, and in her own way of greeting, Talia comments that she’s just here to pick up her last check. Noticing Talia’s car is packed, Emily asks whether she’s going on a trip, and looking over her shoulder, Talia tells her not exactly. Talia explains that after what Emily said, she had a talk with Eric, a real talk, and she was pretty open with him, and it didn’t go so well. When Talia says that she and Eric are separating, Emily hopes that she didn’t force her to have a conversation she wasn’t ready to have, to which Talia says that it was going to happen sooner or later. Asking what Talia is going to do, Emily listens as Talia says that she’s booked a hotel over by another catering gig, so as long as there’s hot water and clean sheets, she’ll stay there for a while, but after that she don’t know. Emily tells Talia that if she needs a place to stay for the next few days she can crash at her house, and when Talia questions if Emily’s mom will be okay with that, Emily mentions that her mom is away. Listening as Talia thanks her, saying that that would be great, Emily watches as Talia heads off in the direction of The Brew.

At Rosewood High, Emily goes through her dance routine for the beauty pageant. As she’s completing a spin, Emily notices Talia watching her through the glass window in the door of the dance studio. Walking over to turn off the music, Emily listens as Talia tells her that she’s really good, and that she just came by to drop off Emily’s key. Emily takes the key and when Talia adds that she guesses Emily didn’t get her text, Emily tells her no, “I was rehearsing for this pageant thing”. Talia notes that Emily doesn’t sound thrilled, before asking why she’s doing it, to which Emily explains that she’s doing it for a friend, “to help her win money”. Talia sits down next to Emily, commenting that she doesn’t buy Emily’s reasoning. Emily questions her, “what?”, and Talia again says that she doesn’t buy it, because nobody works as hard as Emily did when she danced just for money. Emily comments that to get the money she has to win the pageant, and it’s not as though she can half-ass it, to which Talia tells her okay. Emily says that it’s for Hanna, and when Talia tells her that it was a compliment, Emily reasons that maybe it’s for her too. Listening as Talia says she never really saw Emily as the beauty pageant type, Emily tells her she’s not, “but that’s part of it”. Emily adds that she keeps thinking that if she works hard and wins, she’ll know she has it in her to take control of her life. As Emily says that it must sound pretty stupid, Talia tells her it doesn’t at all. As a silence falls between them, Emily turns the music back on, and reaching out to Talia, Emily tells her to come on. Talia asks what Emily is doing, to which Emily says that she’s going to dance with her.

Emily takes Talia through her dance routine, and when Talia says that she can’t do it, Emily assures her she can, “mirror me”. As Talia loses her footing and falls down backwards, both girls laugh, before Talia breaks down in tears. Emily takes Talia’s hands, and getting Talia up on her feet, Emily slow dances with her to calm her down.

Emily greets Claire as she walks into the dance studio, who in turn mentions that she stopped by Emily’s work and they told her Emily was rehearsing here. Emily says that she is, “my routine for the competition”, before asking if everything is okay, “my mom said that she sent over”…, but cutting Emily off, Claire says that she got Emily’s mom’s signature, but that’s not why she’s here. Claire asks if Emily read the entire application when she filled it out, and when Emily says that she did, “except for the permission part”, Claire explains that the application form explicitly mentions that all contestants must be of good moral character. Emily comments that she’s not following, to which Claire says that Emily should have at least mentioned it to her, and that she would have known she would have made the board apprehensive about her participating as a contestant. Emily asks if Claire is forcing her to drop out, but Claire says that they can’t force her to do anything, they can only encourage. Emily then questions that Claire doesn’t want her in the competition because of who she dates, and when Talia asks if Claire is serious, a confused Claire says that this is about Emily’s close connection to the Alison DiLaurentis case. Claire goes on to say that the board is concerned that if Emily participates their sponsors will drop out to avoid any negative association.

Walking out of Rosewood High, Emily listens as Talia says that she really did have fun. As Talia thanks her for everything, Emily tells her “of course”. The girls go to go their separate ways with Emily grabbing her bike from the rack, but when she sees Talia heading in the direction of Claire, Emily chases after her, “Talia? What are you doing?” Talia tells Emily to trust her, and that she followed her lead, so now Emily needs to follow hers. As Claire goes to her in her car, Talia calls out to her, but Claire says that she really has to get going. Talia says that Emily just wanted Claire to know that she understands the board’s decision, to which Claire mentions that she’s sorry it had to come down to this, and Emily says she is as well. Emily listens as Talia goes on to say that they’re just concerned that if anyone found out that the board wanted Emily to drop out because of a friendship she has, and when Claire mentions that the friend is on trial for murder, Talia mentions that in this country you’re innocent until proven guilty, unless the pageant judges know better the ones on the supreme court. Claire questions whether Talia is threatening her, to which Talia says that she’s encouraging her. Saying that perhaps the pageant sponsors could make a donation to Emily’s education, Emily and Talia watch as Claire gets in her car and drives off. Emily questions if Talia seriously just asked Claire to send her a check, “they’re not going to do that”, to which Talia shrugs, telling Emily that she never knows.

To Plea or Not to Plea

In a classroom at Rosewood High, Emily tells Aria that Hanna said Alison doesn’t know anyone named Varjak. When Aria questions if Emily really believes that, Emily questions why Alison would lie, “her life is on the line”, to which Aria points out that Mike’s is as well. Saying that they need to talk with Cyrus because if Varjak paid him to set up Alison, than Varjak knows who ‘A’ is, Emily listens as Aria mentions that she called the hospital this morning and the nurse said Cyrus had a setback and he’s in the ICU. Emily notes that maybe Mike should tell the cops what he knows, but Aria tells her that Mike will then end up in jail with Alison. Commenting that it’s better than being in the ICU with Cyrus, Emily listens as Aria says that she’s not letting either of those things happen to her brother. Emily then suggests that maybe Ezra can help them, “he did do a lot of research for his book” and maybe he came across that name at some point. Before Aria can answer, the school bell rings and as students come filing into the classroom, Emily and Aria take a seat at their desks.

In the school courtyard, Emily listens as Hanna says that she can’t believe this is happening to her. Emily comments that Alison’s not going to take the plea, she’s innocent and she knows Mona planned this game, to which Hanna exclaims that it’s not going to be easy to prove. Saying that even if Alison does take the plea, she won’t name Hanna as her helper, “she wouldn’t sink that low”, Emily listens as Hanna says that she wants to believe that, but they all know Alison looks after herself first, and she’s the easy target. Emily mentions that she’ll go to the jail and talk with Alison, but Hanna tells her no, she’ll go, and maybe if Alison sees her it’ll make it harder for her to ruin her life. Emily then tells Hanna that she can’t go, she’ll just be giving Tanner more ammo. When Aria walks over, having been on a call of her own, Hanna asks what Jason said. Aria explains that Kenneth is with Alison right now, but she’s not taking any other visitors. Emily questions why Alison would do that, and Hanna says that it’s because Alison doesn’t want to face them. Aria then tells Emily and Hanna that Jason said that Alison’s lawyer got her so rattled about the trial that she’s considering taking the plea.

Walking through the hallways, Emily tells Aria that she’s going to call Spencer. Aria tells her not to as Spencer will either bomb her interview or skip it and come home, before questioning whether Emily wants to be the one responsible for Spencer not getting into St. Andrews. Telling Aria no, Emily notes that Spencer will kill them if they don’t tell her what’s going on. Aria says that she knows, and that they should hold off until they know more, to which Emily tells her fine, “but we should go talk with Ezra”. Adding that if Ezra has any information on Varjak they need to know, Emily listens as Aria says she can’t right now, she has a history test in a few minutes and if she doesn’t get her grade in, she may lose her spot at Savannah. As Aria opens her locker, Emily and Aria watch as a note falls out, and picking it up, Emily reads it aloud, “good luck on your test. Hope your ankle is better. Dinner tonight?” As Aria grabs the letter, Emily questions that it’s from Andrew. Aria specifies that it’s Andrew Campbell, and Emily questions if there’s something going on between them. Listening as Aria says that he’s helping her study, Emily asks, “besides that?”, to which Aria shakes her head, no. Emily then wonders why Andrew is asking Aria to dinner, “and why are you blushing?”, to which Aria confesses that they kissed. Aria asks if Emily is happy, and bewildered, Emily questions that Aria kissed Andrew. Aria tells Emily not to look at her like that, and when Emily continues to give Aria a disbelieving look, Aria explains that Andrew helped her with her ankle last night, and when he was comforting her, she kind of got caught up in the moment. When Emily questions what about Ezra, Aria tells Emily that she doesn’t know what’s going on between them and she can’t think about that right now. Aria closes her locker, and as the school bell rings, she tells Emily to go talk with Ezra, and she’ll meet up with her after the test. Watching as Aria walks off, Emily takes a moment, before she too walks away.

In The Brew, Emily listens as Ezra says he never came across the name Varjak in any of his research. Ezra then questions whether they’re sure Alison didn’t know him, Hanna found that Holly Varjak passport in her attic, to which Emily explains that Alison said all that stuff was planted, “everything the lawyer gave us was a setup”. Ezra questions if it was setup by Mona, and Emily says they don’t know, “it could have been Mona or A”. As a beat passes, Emily presses, asking if Ezra’s sure he’s never seen Varjak’s name in any of his research, before asking if Ezra can please go back and have a look. Ezra tells her that he would remember that name, and relenting, Emily says that she knows, but she promised Hanna she would help her, “and finding Varjak is our only hope. We have nothing else to go on”. While Emily says that Alison and Hanna could be convicted, “and I could be next, or Aria”, Ezra questions if Emily remembers the name of Mona’s lawyer. Thinking for a moment, Emily tells him that the lawyer’s name was James Neilan, and asking why, Emily listens as Ezra mentions that Mona was working for ‘A’ at the time, and he’s betting Neilan was in on it.

Leaning against her car outside of James Neilan’s office, Emily waits for Ezra who is inside. Noticing Aria arrive, Emily listens as Aria says that she got here as fast as she could. Emily explains that Ezra’s just in there talking with Neilan, and noticing a look cross Aria’s face, she asks if Aria is okay, and Aria mentions that she hasn’t seen Ezra in a while. Aria adds that she doesn’t want things to be weird, and Emily says she’s sure it’ll be fine. Ezra walks over to the girls, and after Ezra and Aria greet each other, a silence falls between them, unsure of what to say to the other. Emily cuts in, questioning what James said to Ezra, and Ezra says that Neilan wouldn’t tell him anything. Aria notices James leaving his office, and telling Emily and Ezra to look, the three watch as James rushes from his office and gets into his car. As Emily comments that Neilan seems to be in a rush, Aria heads back towards her own car. Aria asks if Emily and Ezra are coming with her, and after looking to each other, Emily and Ezra head towards Aria’s car.

Sitting in the backseat of Aria’s car, Emily mentions that Neilan’s “going in”, as she watches him wait for a large double gate to open. Ezra comments that whoever lives here really wants to keep people out, before the double gates open and Neilan drives in. Noticing the gates starting to close, Emily tells Aria and Ezra that they have to go, before she gets from the car and starts running towards the gates. Getting through just before they close, Emily is separated from Aria and Ezra, who are on the other side. Commenting that they were just behind her, Emily listens as Aria tells her to stay right there, and Ezra mentions that he’s going to try and find another way onto the property. Looking around, Emily comments that it looks as though the fence goes around the whole place, before saying perhaps she could just take a look around. Aria tells Emily no, they’re not letting her go in there by herself, to which Emily tells Aria she’ll be fine. Ezra reminds Emily she has no idea who’s in the woods or the house, but Emily tells Ezra that by the time he and Aria find a way to get in the property, Neilan could be gone and he came here for a reason, “don’t we want to know what it is”. With a last look to Ezra and Aria, Emily turns and starts down the gravel track.

Lifting the lid to the trash can, Emily starts to rifle through it. Finding a pizza box, Emily goes to dispose of it on the ground, but stops herself when she notices a receipt with the customer name of Varjak, on the box. Hearing a noise inside the house, Emily quickly grabs the receipt and darts off the porch.

Looking through a window, Emily watches as Neilan opens a safe and moves money, a gun and some documents into a duffle bag. As there’s a sound out on the porch, Neilan looks towards the window, startling Emily, who backs away from the window and tips over something on the porch. Emily then hides under the window, as James looks out of it.

In the bushes near the house, Emily watches as Neilan leaves the house. Emily’s cell phone starts to ring, and silencing it, she presses her back further into the bushes, terrified of being seen.

Running through the double gates after Neilan has left, Emily listens as Aria says that she scared the crap out of them, before asking why Emily didn’t answer her phone. Emily tells them that it’s Varjak’s house, and when Ezra questions that Neilan is Varjak, Emily says no, “but he’s working for him”. Aria’s cell phone beeps, and when she reacts to what she’s read, Emily questions her, to which Aria announces that Hanna’s been arrested.

At the Rosewood Police Department, Emily listens as Caleb tells her and Aria that they have to show Tanner all of the pictures and all of the texts on their phones. Ezra then notes that if the girls do, Tanner will have no choice but to believe Hanna. Emily says that should wait for Spencer to get back in the morning, before her and Aria’s cell phones beep with an incoming text. Emily reads the text aloud, “let’s all start with a clean slate. –A”, before Aria comments that all the text ‘A’ sent her are gone. Emily notes that hers are as well, and when Caleb questions that they’ve got nothing to help Hanna, Emily says that there is one thing, “I found this receipt at Varjak’s house”. Handing the receipt to Ezra, Emily explains that the receipt doesn’t just have his name on it, “it also has his phone number on it”, to which Ezra concludes that either Varjak is ‘A’, or Varjak is working for A, but nonetheless, the receipt could help Hanna.

In The Brew while working a shift, Emily takes the Varjak receipt out of the pocket in her apron and attempts to call the number.

The Melody Lingers On

Sitting at the island counter in Spencer’s kitchen, Emily and Aria listen as Spencer comments that if her head hadn’t been so jetlaggy she would have remembered sooner, but the number off the Varjak receipt is the same number as the personal ads in Alison’s house. Emily wonders how this helps Hanna, and Spencer mentions that if Alison’s not guilty, they can’t charge Hanna as an accessory, and you can’t help someone commit a crime they didn’t commit. Aria notes that Alison already told them that the letter and the passport are fake, so why should they think the number in the ads are real, to which Spencer admits she doesn’t know, but they didn’t find the number with the other things. Emily then questions what if the numbers are the same, what does that mean, before saying they call and it just rings, “no pickup, no voicemail, nothing”. As Aria adds that meanwhile Neilan’s law office is closed and locked, Spencer notes that the number appearing twice has got to mean something, they just have to figure it out, to which Emily wonders what will happen if they don’t figure it out in time. As Veronica comes down the stairs, the girls hide the personal ads and Varjak receipt, before turning and listening as Veronica comments that the girls are going to be late for school. Spencer says that there are teacher conferences, and they dropped the first two periods. Veronica then mentions that this is her chance to talk to the three of them, before saying that she wants to strongly suggest that the girls stay away from Alison’s trial. The girls look to each other, before Spencer questions that this is a suggestion, to which Veronica tells her that for Emily and Aria, yes, but her Spencer it’s more than a suggestion. Emily wonders what Alison will think if they’re not there, but Veronica says that she’s more concerned by what other people will think, and that jury’s have eyes. Spencer mentions that the whole town knows they’re friends with Alison, and when Aria adds that if they don’t go it’ll look like they think Alison’s guilty, Veronica tells Aria that she can’t tell her and Emily what to do, but they should consider their actions. Spencer then questions what they’re going to do when Hanna goes to trial, and if they’re supposed to turn their backs on her too, and when Veronica says that they’re not talking about ethics, Spencer tells her that that’s for sure. Emily and Aria share an uncomfortable look, and when Emily suggests that perhaps they should go, the two get up from their seats and head off towards the door.

In The Brew, Emily, Aria and Spencer sit with Caleb, who tells them that everything he’s tried to trace the Varjak number back to a source just disappears into a black hole of nothingness. As Caleb comments that the phone on the other end could be on Mars of the other side of the room, Spencer questions that it’s an insanely secure phone and someone uses it to order pizza. Emily suggests that perhaps the person on the other end doesn’t know what they have, and Aria wonders why they don’t pick up when they call, which leads Spencer to ask Caleb if he has a burner phone. When Caleb passes Spencer one, Emily mentions that the number is just going to keep ringing, to which Spencer says they’ll see what happens when she puts it in writing. Spencer shows Caleb, Aria, Emily and the text, “did you miss me? Love, Holly”, and Emily questions if Spencer meant Holly Golightly or Holly Varjak. Caleb tells Spencer to send it, and as Spencer is doing so, Aria asks what happens if they’re not in the same book club. Spencer tells her that they'll figure out something else, before she passes the burner phone back to Caleb. Emily comments that Alison is running out of him, and when Caleb adds that Hanna is as well, Spencer tells them that she knows. Aria then asks if Spencer will be at Alison’s trial tomorrow, but Spencer says that she doesn’t know. After Spencer gets up and leaves, Emily asks Caleb if he’s going to visit Hanna, and Caleb tells her he is tomorrow. Caleb adds that Hanna said she’ll try and call him today, and Emily mentions that Hanna has to get to Alison and tell her about the phone number.

In her bedroom, Emily closes her bedroom window, before answering her ringing phone. Saying hello, Emily listens as an automatic voice says that this call is from the Chester Women’s Correctional Facility and she has a call from inmate Alison DiLaurentis. Accepting the call, Emily greets Alison, and once Alison greets her back, Emily asks if she’s okay. Alison says that she’s never been better, and when Emily tells her that she’ll be fine, Alison questions what makes Emily say that. Emily apologises, but Alison tells her no, she’s the one who’s sorry. Alison says she didn’t call to say that, she just… Alison trails off, before questioning whether Emily will be at the trial tomorrow, and Emily says that she’ll try. Listening as Alison questions her, Emily says that she’ll be there. Alison thank her, and mentioning that somebody said it was raining, Alison wonders if it’s raining back home. Emily confirms that it is, “yes, it’s raining”, and after a stretch of silence, Alison says goodnight. Saying goodnight back, Emily ends the call.

Walking into Alison’s trial, Emily and Aria look towards Alison. As proceedings get underway, Aria listens as the prosecutor goes through his opening statement, asking the jury to remember high school, before saying that Ms. Marcus, Alison’s lawyer, will soon be telling them of an amazing story about Alison DiLaurentis and how she was kidnapped and traumatized by two years of captivity, how she escaped her captors and returned home with the help of her closest friends, but the Commonwealth will proved with direct testimony of witnesses that Alison DiLaurentis’ epic tale of abduction and escape is a lie. Douglas then adds that Alison planned and carried out the murder of Mona Vanderwaal, consigning her to a cruel, anonymous end.

Outside the courtroom, Emily listens as Aria tells Spencer that the prosecution know about Alison not being kidnapped and they probably know about New York too. As Aria repeats Cyrus’ name, Emily questions what Aria and Spencer mean by Cyrus. Turning when Kenneth barrels up to them, Emily and Aria listens as Kenneth questions that they all knew about Alison’s fake kidnapping story, and they told the police. Emily listens as Kenneth concludes that the four girls talked Alison into lying and it was their idea, before Jason steps in, telling Kenneth that Alison lied to the girls the same way she lied to them. Rebecca steps in between the DiLaurentis men, telling them not to get into it here, and giving Emily and Aria one last look, Kenneth turns and walks back down the hall. As Rebecca and Jason turn and follow Kenneth, Emily watches their retreat.

In The Brew, Emily listens as Aria questions if the phone number is a dead end or not, and Spencer tells her that if it’s Mona’s then it’s a dead end. Emily notes that Mona’s dead, before questioning who the lawyer was talking to, “he had to be getting his instructions from someone”. Aria’s cell phone rings, and looking at the caller ID Aria tells Emily, Spencer and a newly arrived Caleb that it’s the Varjak number. When Spencer tells her to answer it, Aria question why it has her number and that she never called it from her phone. Emily tells Aria to answer it, “quick”, and when Aria says that Varjak will then know where they are, Caleb snatches the phone out of Aria’s hand, saying that they don’t have time for this. Answering the call, Caleb listens, before he places Aria’s cell on loud speaker for the girls to hear music playing on the other end of the line.

In Caleb’s apartment, Emily, Caleb, Aria and Spencer play the recording that Aria received on her cell to Hanna. Caleb asks if she’s getting it, and when Hanna says that she is, Spencer comments that they don’t know what it means. Hanna tells them that she knows what it means, or she doesn’t know, but she’s heard it before. Emily asks where, and Hanna tells them she’s heard it in Mona’s room, before explaining that Mona used to play this song, French music. Turning off the music, Caleb tells that girls that Alison was wrong, it was never Mona taunting her, it was ‘A’, and when Emily questions why ‘A’ would call back and play that song, “why not let us keep thinking it was Mona”, Caleb says it’s A’s way of rubbing it in their faces. Aria concludes that Mona never sent the lawyer, but it doesn’t mean she left them in the dark, and Emily mentions that Mona hid the tape Hanna found in the book. Adding that the police went all over Mona’s room and never found it, Emily listens as Hanna wonders so, to which Spencer says that maybe there’s more and maybe the answers are still in Mona’s bedroom. Emily notes that they’ve got to get back to Mona’s room, and Spencer tells Hanna that she spent more time in that room than any of them, so she should try to think of places Mona would have hid stuff. Aria then mentions that they need to talk to Mona’s mom, and when Emily comments that Leona wasn’t at the trial, Spencer says that it’s got to be hard to hear people talking about your dead daughter. Hanna then exclaims that if there is something in Mona’s room that could get her out of prison, she doesn’t care how upset Leona is, they just need to find it. Caleb tells Hanna that they’ll do it, and as there’s a beeping coming over the line, Hanna says that she’s about to be cut off. As Spencer tells Hanna to hang on, Aria comments for her to stay strong, and Emily says that they love her, the call ends. As Emily, Aria, Spencer and Caleb all take a step back from the cell phones, Caleb hands Aria her phone back, apologising for grabbing it from her. Aria says that it’s okay, but Caleb tells her it’s not, if they start stepping on each other, none of them are going to make it out alive. Emily then questions if they should go see Mona’s mom, and Spencer says that shouldn’t all go at once, it’s just going to scare her. Aria volunteers to do it, saying that she’s the least intimidating, and Emily volunteers to drive her. As the three girls turn to all leave, Caleb calls out to Spencer. All three girls turn, and when Spencer tells Emily and Aria that she’ll call them later, Emily and Aria walk out the door.

Sitting in her car outside the Vanderwaal house, Emily waits for Aria. Getting back in the car, Aria tells Emily that there was no answer. Emily wonders if Aria really thinks there’s something up in Mona’s room, or if they’re just chasing smoke, to which Aria comments that she doesn’t know, but whatever Mona was, she wasn’t stupid, so if she knew what might happen, she could have left them a clue. Commenting, “if, might, could”, Emily listens as Aria mentions that it’s all they’ve got. Emily questions what if it’s not enough, before saying that they’re running out of time and they’re all going to get dragged down the rabbit hole with Alison. Aria then asks if Emily wants to just give up and go shopping, and when Emily just looks at her, Aria just smiles. Rolling her eyes, Emily tells her not just yet, before she starts her car and drives off.

Along with the rest of the courtroom, Emily watches the video of Mona being attacked on the day she died. Emily listens as the prosecutor asks why Jason has decided to tell the truth about Alison’s alibi, Jason comments that he doesn’t know. When the prosecutor wonders if it’s because of something Jason saw on the video, Jason says that he doesn’t think so. Jason then adds that he now believes that Alison couldn’t have been the one to attack Mona. The prosecutor then asks Jason if knows a girl named Hanna Marin, to which Jason says he does, before confirming that Hanna is one of Alison’s friends. Emily then listens as the prosecutor asks Jason who Ashley Marin is, and after Jason explains that she’s Hanna’s mom, he’s asked to point Ashley out for the jury. As Jason says Ashley is in the third row wearing a blue dress, all eyes go to Ashley. The prosecutor goes on to ask whether on occasion Jason met with Ashley out of the office, and when Jason tells him yes, Mr Sirk asks whether their meetings were social, to which Jason confirms that they were. Mr Sirk then questions whether these social meetings were always in public places, and after Jason says that most of them were, the prosecutor questions that not all of them were and some were in private. When Jason admits that some of his meetings with Ashley were in private, Aria turns to Emily and asks if Jason is saying what she thinks he’s saying, and Emily questions, “seriously?” Mr Sirk questions whether Jason would describe the meetings as intimate, to which Jason says that they were private. As the prosecutor asks whether anything happened during these private meetings with the attractive woman seated in the gallery that lead Jason to alter his testimony, Jason tells him no.

Outside the courtroom, Emily questions whether they think Hanna knew about her mom’s affair with Jason, and Aria comments that Hanna did, and it looks like ‘A’ knew about it too. Emily then questions that what was said in the courtroom hurt Alison, and Spencer says that it made it sound like Alison’s own brother thinks she did it. Aria says it was until Hanna’s mom convinced Jason to change his story, and Emily wonders if they think that’s what she did, “Hanna’s mom”. Spencer then tells Emily and Aria to hang on, and the two watch as Spencer makes her way down the hallway towards Jason.

After Jason has walked off on Spencer, Emily and Aria approach approach. Aria asks what Jason said, and turning to face the girls, Spencer says that the truth will set you free but first it turns you inside out. Spencer tells the girls to come on, and when Emily question where they’re going, Spencer tells them they’re going to Mona’s house.

At the Vanderwaal residence, Emily and Aria stand back on the porch as Spencer knocks on the front door. Emily questions if they think Leona is in there, before Aria calls out. Emily then questions that if Leona’s not here, and she wasn’t at the trial, “then where is she?”, and Spencer comments that Leona is hiding, and she doesn’t blame her. Aria mentions that it was a long shot, and walking down the porch stairs, Spencer tells her that long shots are all they have. As the girls are walking down the path, Emily comments that they should try to get to Hanna, before they are stopped when music starts to play. Looking up towards Mona’s bedroom, the girls notice the window open. Rushing towards the front door, Emily finds the door open, and the three girls run inside and up the stairs into Mona’s bedroom, finding it trashed. As Spencer says that it was a good idea, Emily walks over to the record player and finds a note stashed in a dolls head, “finders keepers, losers weepers. Quelle tristesse. –A”. Spencer comments that Emily’s accent is getting better, before Aria tells the girls to wait. When Spencer asks her what, Aria questions how you would stop someone from searching a room. Asking what Aria means, Emily listens as Aria wonders why they think ‘A’ found something just because they said so. Spencer realises that the note was written to taunt them, and Aria suggests it could also have been to trick them. As Emily says they should think like Mona, both Aria and Spencer give her a look, and Emily tells them it just has to be for a minute. Emily begins to look around the room, before watching as Spencer picks up a handheld mirror from Mona’s dressing table. Shaking the mirror, Spencer hears it sound, and pulling off the glass, she finds a message Mona had hidden, “Chandelier’s rituals. Sister launched lair. A ruler’s list chained”. Walking back down the stairs, Emily, Aria and Spencer leave the Vanderwaal house.

Walking into The Brew, Emily listens as Aria wonders what the hell a chandelier ritual is. Saying she has no idea, Emily tells Aria to let her change, “I think better in lower heels”.

Cleaning The Brew after close, Emily wipes down Jonny Raymond’s secrets machine. Taking a seat at the desk, Emily turns it on, and placing her elbows on the disks, she listens as one recorded secret is that someone took money from her mom’s purse and her mom thought it was her brother. As someone confesses that the dog didn’t run away, he left the gate open on purpose, Emily is shocked. The next message, French music, freezes Emily in place before she sits back, shocked.

I'm a Good Girl, I Am

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Game On, Charles
 * -|Season 6=

Songs of Innocence

Songs of Experience

Don't Look Now

She's No Angel

No Stone Unturned

O Brother, Where Art Thou

FrAmed

Last Dance

Game Over, Charles

Of Late I Think Of Rosewood

Charlotte's Web

The Gloves Are On

New Guys, New Lies

Do Not Disturb

Where Somebody Waits For Me

We've All Got Baggage

Burn This

Did You Miss Me?

Hush Hush Sweet Liars

Relationships
Alison DiLaurentis: Kissed and briefly dated. (see "Emison") First Kiss:
 * Started: The Perfect Storm - Flashback
 * Reason: The Liars wait in the library before an exam, when Emily gets a text from "A" that sends her on a hunt for the book "Great Expectations". Seeing the book makes her flashback to when Alison had been reading the same novel one day alone in the library.

Second Kiss:
 * Started: Over My Dead Body
 * Reason: Emily is trapped in a barn due to "A". Someone drags her out, and Emily hallucinates that she sees Alison. Alison says that it's good to see her again, and that she misses her the most. It has since been revealed that Emily did not hallucinate Alison, and Alison did in fact drag Emily from the barn.

First Hook-up: First Relationship:
 * Started: Miss Me x 100
 * Reason: In Alison's bedroom, Emily asks if Alison is sleeping. Rolling over to face the center of the bed, the girls stare at each other before Emily leans in for a kiss, which leads to another, and another.
 * Ended: Miss Me x 100
 * Reason: Emily finds out that Alison lied about slapping Mona. In Emily's bedroom, Alison tries to kiss her, but Emily moves away and tells Alison that a kiss is not going to fix this.
 * Started: The Glove That Rocks the Cradle
 * Reason: Alison admits her feelings to Emily and they start their first relationship.

Ben Coogan: Broken Up.
 * Started: Before "The First Secret"
 * Ended: "To Kill a Mocking Girl"
 * Reason: They began dating before 'The First Secret' and the relationship ended when Ben tried to have sex with Emily in the girls' locker room. Emily also realised she was a lesbian while in this relationship.

Maya St. Germain: Maya Died. (see "Emaya")

First Relationship
 * Started: "Please, Do Talk About Me When I'm Gone"
 * Ended: "Know Your Frenemies"
 * Reason: Maya was sent to juvenile camp, and when Emily called Maya, Maya seemed uninterested in her. They presumably broke up even though it was never "official."

Second Relationship
 * Started: "I Must Confess"
 * Ended: "UnmAsked"
 * Reason: Maya was murdered.

Paige McCullers: Broken Up. (see "Paily")

First Relationship
 * Started: "A Person of Interest"
 * Ended: "A Person of Interest"
 * Reason: Paige wanted to keep their relationship a secret, which Emily refused to do, but offered to remain friends.

Second Relationship
 * Started: "Someone to Watch Over Me"
 * Ended: "Monsters in the End"
 * Reason: Paige said she is ready to take steps toward coming out, but her actions suggested otherwise. Emily, tired of the constain drama and not keeping their relationship a secret, ended things. Also, Paige was rude to Samara, backing up her decision to end their relationship.

Third Relationship
 * Started: "Stolen Kisses"
 * Ended: "Unbridled"
 * Reason: Emily found out Paige told the police about Alison being alive, effectively breaking her trust. While Emily can forgive Paige for doing what she did, she can no longer trust her.

Fourth Relationship
 * Started: "Taking This One to the Grave"
 * Reason: Emily wants to talk about their relationship, but Paige says that she is tired of talking and kisses her.
 * Ended: "Through a Glass, Darkly"
 * Reason: Paige moves to California to be with her parents, as her parents don't believe Rosewood is a safe place to live.

Samara Cook: Briefly Dated. (see "Emara")
 * Started: "The Goodbye Look"
 * Ended: "Picture This"
 * Reason: Emily gave her number to Zoey behind Samara's back, because "A" had instructed her to do so and causing Samara to believe she was hitting on her. She broke up with her and told her to talk to her after coming up with "a reason" for her actions.

Talia Sandoval: Kissed and Briefly Dated. (see "Emalia")

First Kiss:
 * Started: "Oh, What Hard Luck Stories They All Hand Me"
 * Reason: As Talia walks away, Emily grabs her elbow and after the two share a look, Emily pulls Talia into a kiss. When they break from the kiss, Talia pulls Emily in for another.

Second Kiss:
 * Started: "Out, Damned Spot"
 * Reason: Standing in the the exact place Talia would have had her first kiss, Emily kisses her, telling her that their kiss is a do over.

First Relationship:
 * Started: Between "Out, Damned Spot" and "Pretty Isn't the Point"
 * Reason: Talia tells Emily the truth about her husband, and they agree to take things slow.
 * Ended: "Pretty Isn't the Point"
 * Reason: Emily finds out that Talia told her husband that she was an experiment. Saying that she's not into girls because it's trendy, Emily ends their relationship before it has a chance to get started.

Sara Harvey: Kissed and briefly dated. (see "Sarily") First Relationship:
 * Started: "O Brother, Where Art Thou"
 * Reason: After Emily found out that 'A' chipped them, she returns to her bedroom and finds Sara sleeping. When she wants to check if Sara is chipped too, she wakes up and turns around. She then kisses her and they proceed to make out.
 * Ended: "Game Over, Charles"
 * Reason: Emily finds out that Sara is Red Coat and Black Widow.

Trivia

 * Out of the four Liars, Emily's parents have the most stable relationship, neither having cheated on the other before.
 * Also out of the four liars, Emily arguably has the best relationship with her father.
 * Emily is the most sensitive out of the four girls.
 * Emily tends to show a great deal of compassion and empathy for people who are outcasts or act suspiciously.
 * Emily comes face to face with "A" during Season 2, although she does not see A's identity.
 * Emily is the second person to be seen drunk, after Wren.
 * Emily was a competitive swimmer until she blew out her shoulder.
 * Emily has received 25 individual messages from "A," plus 21 messages sent to all 4 girls.
 * She is the second Liar to be "visited" by Alison, which was in the Season 2 episode, Over My Dead Body, the first one being Hanna.
 * She is a lesbian, unlike the other Liars.
 * Emily is the character that appears to have shown the most growth in the show.
 * Emily used to be considered the "weakest link" by A, but now she's arguably the bravest and strongest of the four girls.
 * Emily was born in November. Her birthday is the only one to have been celebrated.
 * Emily is Filipina, Korean, Irish and Scottish as mentioned in Gamma Zeta Die!
 * Emily's favourite holiday is Christmas as mentioned in Taking This One to the Grave.

Book Comparisons

 * Emily is bisexual in the books.
 * Emily becomes pregnant and gives the baby up for adoption, this doesn't happen in the show.