I'm Your Puppet

"The last time I saw someone in this state, clinging to a secret this hard, it was Alison. A few weeks later she was dead."

- Veronica Hastings to Spencer

I'm Your Puppet is the twenty-third episode of Season 3 of Pretty Little Liars. It aired on March 12, 2013. It was the last episode before the season 3 finale....

Synopsis
As "A" continues to play games, the stakes are raised higher as each girl is forced into difficult positions. Aria starts to seriously contemplate her relationship with Ezra as his new family situation continues to eat away at her. Hanna is thrown into the middle of Caleb's family drama when Jamie's shady past comes back to haunt him. Emily is determined to prove Spencer wrong in hopes of helping her, but she might not be ready for what she finds. In the end, will the Liars be able to get out of their sticky situations or will "A" have them right where he/she wants them?

Meanwhile, Spencer searches for answers about Mona's time in Radley Sanitarium and finds something.

Title

 * The title seems to foreshadow Red Coats (the leader of the A-Team) employees that Red Coat is a puppetmaster controlling his/her "puppets" into getting the one he/she hates hurt or in trouble.
 * This could be a reference to Alison's and Spencer's conversation before she disappeared. Spencer says "You think just because you brought us together you can treat us like puppets," to which Alison replies, "But you are" or Alison manipulating the Liars into her schemes (like what happened in 'The Jenna Thing').
 * Another is that the A-Team likes to control the Liars' lives.
 * In the promo, Large wooden puppets are seen to be controlled in the carnival scene.

Main Cast

 * Lucy Hale as Aria Montgomery
 * Ashley Benson as Hanna Marin
 * Troian Bellisario as Spencer Hastings
 * Shay Mitchell as Emily Fields
 * Sasha Pieterse as Alison DiLaurentis

Guest Cast

 * Janel Parrish as Mona Vanderwaal
 * Julian Morris as Wren Kingston
 * Ian Harding as Ezra Fitz
 * Lesley Fera as Veronica Hastings
 * Nia Peeples as Pam Fields
 * Holly Marie Combs as Ella Montgomery
 * Tyler Blackburn as Caleb Rivers
 * Reggie Austin as Eddie Lamb
 * Bernard Curry as Jamie Doyle
 * Teo Briones as Malcolm