Pretty Little Liars Wiki
Register
Advertisement
Pretty Little Liars Wiki
This article is about "That Night". You may be looking for It Happened 'That Night'.


"That Night" refers to the day when Emily Fields goes missing after drinking from a drugged flask, and is found at "Alison DiLaurentis" grave, and her body has been stolen. The Liars were having a sleepover at Spencer's. This occurred the Friday before Labor Day, August 31, 2011. Most of Season 3 revolves around what had actually happened during that night.

Overview[]

Before Sleepover[]

Emily drinks Alcohol from the flask that Alison had put Melizopam in all that time ago to make sure the liars slept the night she went missing. It is a sleeping pill and sedative used to subdue aggressive patients and inmates. When mixed with alcohol, one of the side effects is memory loss. Emily is at Spencer's house, with the girls, drinking and talking about the summer and Maya. The group falls asleep seemingly induced by alcohol.

Middle of the Night[]

Emily leaves Spencer's House. Emily goes to Paige's house. Paige takes her into the house, thinking she is drunk. Emily kisses Paige. When Paige goes into the kitchen and comes back with a glass of water, Emily is gone. Paige tries to call her, but nobody answers. (around 11:00 PM) Emily receives a phone call from an unknown number at around 11:00, presumably Paige. At some point of time, Emily is with Holden. They go into Sputnik's Diner for coffee. Emily writes "I'm sorry I left you" on a place mat, which can be pressumed to be about Paige. Also, may have double meaning since she left Paige that night, but also earlier when Paige would not come out. Jenna and Noel see Emily coming out of Sputnik's drunk, and allegedly try to help her. (around 12:00 or 12:30 AM) Emily remembers being in the back seat of Jenna's car. Around midnight, someone breaks into Spencer's house, and calls Emily from Spencer's phone to frame the girls. (around 12:00 AM)

Late Evening/Early Morning[]

Aria and Hanna awake to find the doors to Spencer's house wide open and Spencer and Emily missing. Spencer comes downstairs and tells them she can't find Emily anywhere. Emily is in front of Alison's grave. Mona is in the grave, taking her body. Emily screams, and Mona covers her mouth. Emily sees a blonde female (Red Coat) in a red coat, a few feet away. Mona confirmed in "A DAngerous GAme" that she was at the cemetery and Red Coat wore a mask. Hanna, Spencer, and Aria find Emily at the graveyard. Emily is holding a shovel, and is standing over Alison's recently dug up grave. She has no memory of the night's events. Hanna and Aria bury the shovel in the woods, and wipe off any fingerprints. Spencer burns Emily's clothes in her fireplace, erasing anything connecting her to being at Alison's grave that night. While going back to Spencer's, Hanna and Aria spot Lucas running to his car in a suspicious hurry. Hanna and Aria return to Spencer's house where she has written a note to her mother, giving them an alibi by claiming that they were all at the Hastings's Lakehouse since that afternoon. The girls pack their things, and head to the lakehouse.

Morning After[]

The graveyard caretaker discovers the vandalization of Alison's grave and calls the police.The girls receive a call in the lakehouse from Spencer's mother. Everyone seems to believe their alibi until Season 4.

Aftermath[]

  • The girls receive body parts and tokens of theirs from the girl in Alison's grave.
    • Emily - A bracelet made of teeth and the words "DEAD GIRLS CAN'T SMILE" ("Blood Is The New Black") and a Paris Postcard reminding Emily of Alison telling her about moving to Paris forever. ("Dead to Me")
    • Hanna - The ouija board planchette that she and Mona had played three days before the body was found. ("Crazy")
    • Aria - The earring that she and Ali found in the couch of Byron's office. They thought was Meredith's, but it wasn't. ("Blood Is The New Black")
    • Spencer - Alison's finger bones attached to the corset of the dress she was wearing at Jessica DiLaurentis' bridal fashion show. ("Unbridled") - confirmed later that "A" used the bones of a cadaver from a medical school.
  • Big "A" reveals that there is photographic evidence that places the girls standing over Alison's grave the night it was dug up. ("It Happened 'That Night'")
  • Jason posts a reward of $50,000 for anybody giving information regarding the recovery of Alison's stolen remains. ("Birds of a Feather")
  • A few pills of Melizopam (the pills that were used to drug Emily) are found in Lucas Gottesman's photography bag. ("That Girl is Poison")
  • Hanna finds Emily's lost jacket from the night in a box of donations at the church clothing drive she is volunteering at. The address the box came from is from a donations pickup outside of Sputnik's Diner where Emily and Holden had coffee during that night. ("That Girl is Poison").

Navigational[]

Events
Advertisement