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Radley Sanitarium was a mental institution, located in Darkette County, Pennsylvania,[1] that treated both children and adults with mental illness. The Sanitarium and its employees were involved in several cover-ups, lies, and illegal treatments and activity. The Sanitarium was closed and converted into an upscale hotel, The Radley. The remaining patients were either sent to nearby psychiatrics facilities, or released and bused out of town.
It was a key place and location during Season 3, Season 4, Season 6, and appeared in flashbacks during Season 7.
Series
Pretty Little Liars
The Radley Sanitarium is located in the fictional Darkette County, Pennsylvania. It plays into the series when Mona Vanderwaal is in this facility, but we can guess it has something to do with the story Alison told Hanna about the girl who was sent to a mental institution after killing her twin sister.
The first time in the series the name "Radley Sanitarium" is referenced in "The First Secret". The Liars are walking across a street when they think they see someone in the window of a haunted house. As they walk away, the door opens and the camera cuts to a taxi parked in front of the house with the words "Radley Sanitarium" on the side of it.
Mona is sent to Radley Sanitarium after revealing that she is "A" in "UnmAsked". She is visited by someone in a red coat, similar to that of Vivian Darkbloom's: as we'll learn in Season 3, that someone was CeCe Drake. However, it has been stated by Marlene King that this was a hallucination, and the event did not actually occur.
In "Blood Is The New Black, Hanna has been visiting Mona at Radley for answers. Mona remains quiet the first few times Hanna visits. She finally talks to Hanna.
In "Kingdom of the Blind", Mona freaks out when Caleb comes to Radley to visit. He tells her that she better not do anything to hurt Hanna. She then starts screaming and throws a table across the room. This results in her doctor making the decision to allow no visitors.
In "Crazy", Mona leaves her room while Hanna and Aria are visiting and runs to the Children's Ward, where she brushes some dolls' hair.
- In "The Lady Killer", Mona breaks out of Radley by dressing as a nurse and flashing the guard a fake ID (taken from Hanna in an earlier episode). In "She's Better Now", Mona is released. In "Out of Sight, Out of Mind", Spencer Hastings was placed in Radley after she was found wandering around, covered in blood, and in a catatonic state. She was identified as "Jane Doe" when a hiker found her.
In "Cat's Cradle", Spencer and Toby go back to Radley to investigate what really happened to Toby's mother the day she died.
In "The Guilty Girl's Handbook", Spencer goes back to Radley to ask Eddie Lamb about the inconsistencies of Dectective Wilden's police report for Marion Cavanaugh's death.
In "Into the Deep", after Mona confesses about shooting Wilden, she is sent back to Radley.
In "The Mirror Has Three Faces", Mona has a psych evaluation with Wren in her room. She doesn't tell him anything, because she doesn't trust him anymore. Veronica Hastings goes to Radley and threatens her. Jessica DiLaurentis tells Hanna and Spencer that CeCe Drake once checked into Radley dressed as Alison.
Mona is again released from Radley in "Now You See Me, Now You Don't".
In "Close Encounters", it's revealed that Alison's mother, Jessica DiLaurentis, was on the board of trustees before she died.
The girl revealed to be in Alison's grave is the former patient Bethany Young. ("Miss Me x 100")
Eddie Lamb gives Ezra a drawing Bethany made at Radley. ("Run, Ali, Run")
Aria starts volunteer work at Radley to find out about Bethany and finds her roommate, Big Rhonda. ("The Silence of E. Lamb")
Rhonda tells Aria that Bethany was given gifts from Jessica and figured it had something to do with Toby's mother's death. ("Scream For Me")
Spencer and Mona break into Radley disguised as nurses to find information on Bethany Young and to see if there's a connection between her and Alison. ("-Taking This One to the Grave")
In "Game On, Charles", Radley is revealed to have shut down in light of the events surrounding Mona Vanderwaal and the Liars.
In "Don't Look Now", Charles DiLaurentis is revealed to have been in Radley since he was a child. The Liars try to find his file before it gets shredded with the others.
In "She's No Angel", The girls find out that Lesli Stone was a patient at Radley and was roommates with Bethany Young.
In the mid-season finale, "Game Over, Charles", the newly-revealed "A", Charlotte DiLaurentis (alias CeCe Drake), planned to bomb Radley with the assistance of Sara Harvey. Her plans fail, and she threatens to jump off the roof. After Alison pleads with her to stop, and with the police roaming the ground below, Charlotte jumps back onto the roof and says, "Game over", meaning her reign as "A" has ended.
In the following five years, Radley was transformed into a hotel called The Radley which was managed and owned by Ashley Marin.Original Sin
While investigating the mysterious death of Angela Waters in Millwood, teenagers Tabby Haworthe and Imogen Adams learn that Angela's mother, Rose Waters, suffered a psychotic break after her daughter's death. She attacked a group of male students at Millwood High School with a butcher knife. Subsequently, she was sent to the Radley Sanitarium in Rosewood. The girls learn that the sanitarium was closed down, but head to the newly redesigned Radley Hotel in search of answers. They are directed to speak with Eddie Lamb, a man who worked in the building for years as an orderly. When the sanitarium was converted, he was offered a job as a maintenance man. Tabby and Imogen sit with Eddie the following day and learn that he was at the sanitarium when Rose Waters was being treated for trauma induced psychosis and later, schizophrenia. He shows them Rose's visitors log, which shows five different signatures of "A. Waters", who Eddie knows as five girls who came in turns to visit Rose. He identifies them as being the mothers of Imogen, Tabby, and their friend. When the sanitarium closed, some of the patients were sent to the Sisters of Quiet Mercy in Riverdale, while others were released and bused out of town. After looking at the signatures longer, Tabby realizes there are six versions of the A. Waters signature, not five. They wonder if the fifth signature belongs to their anonymous stalker.[2]
Staff
| Name | Job | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Mainway | Owner | Bought out by The Carissimi Group |
| Jessica DiLaurentis | Member on the Board of Trustees | Died |
| Louis Palmer | Docter | Retired |
| Eddie Lamb | Nurse | Quit and left town |
| Lisa | Nurse | Unknown (Sanitarium was bought out) |
| Sybil | Nurse | Mentioned by Mona |
| Wren Kingston | Volunteer Doctor | Quit and left town |
| Anne Sullivan | Volunteer psychologist Volunteer therapist |
Quit after being harassed |
| Aria Montgomery | Volunteer | Only a volunteer to get information Quit |
| Dr. Cochran | Doctor | Fired due to his job being a liablity |
Patients
- in chronological order of admittance
Former
- Rose Waters - Rose was admitted to Radley in 2000, shortly after the death of her daughter. She was treated for trauma induced psychosis and schizophrenia. It's unknown what happened to her after Radley converted into a hotel. She was either transferred to another hospital or released.
- Marion Cavanaugh (deceased) - Marion was admitted to Radley at some point and was later killed by Bethany Young who pushed her off the roof in an unstable outburst.
- Bethany Young (deceased) - Before her death. She had escaped the day Alison disappeared. Also known as The Fragile Patient (who was responsible for the death of Marion Cavanaugh).
- Charlotte DiLaurentis (transferred)- She was admitted by her mother, Jessica DiLaurentis. She stayed until she escaped between April 2011 and September 2011. She was then admitted to another sanitarium after she was revealed as A.
- Big Rhonda - Bethany Young's ex-roommate at Radley.
- Donna - A blonde that rips up her artwork in "The Silence of E. Lamb". It is unknown what happened to her after Radley was shut down, though most patients were transferred to other psychiatric hospitals.
- Nicky - A girl was being hauled away when Aria was visiting Mona. It is unknown what happened to her after Radley was shut down, though most patients were transferred to other psychiatric hospitals.
- Sandy - A girl who was painting in Aria's art therapy volunteer program.
Discharged
- Mary Drake - She was admitted after her sister, Jessica DiLaurentis set her up for the murder of a child she was babysitting. She stayed until she was 18 but was readmitted on and off until she was let out for good.
- Charles DiLaurentis - He was admitted by his parents when he was five after he accidentally placed a baby Alison underwater while the water was hot, thinking he was giving her a bath. He stayed there until his "death." However, he was re-admitted as Charlotte DiLaurentis after his transition.
- Lesli Stone - 'Revealed in "She's No Angel" to have spent some time in Radley long enough to know Charles, Mona, and Bethany, and was a roommate of Bethany's. She was discharged.
- Mona Vanderwaal - Mona was admitted twice. Previously for 7 months (March 2011 - early November 2011) and a few days after she claimed to have killed Detective Darren Wilden.
- Spencer Hastings - Formerly: Stayed for the required 72-hour evaluation in November 2011. She was also born in the Sanitarium alongside her twin sister, Alex Drake.
Book Comparisons
- In the books, Radley was a place for "troubled" kids. However, both Radleys (TV Show and Books) later became a hotel.
- In the TV show, Mona Vanderwaal and Spencer Hastings go to Radley. While in the books, neither of them do because Radley is shut down before Alison goes missing.
- In the books, only Courtney was a patient at Radley.
Notes and Trivia
- Janel Parrish revealed in an interview that the Radley Sanitarium plays a significant role in Season 3.
- The place was named after the character, Boo Radley, from the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, which makes an appearance in the series as book Ezra's class reads their junior year.
- Radley Sanitarium was established in 1931.
- In Season 6, The Carissimi Group bought out Radley Sanitarium from its owner Elizabeth Mainway and shut the hospital down.
- In "5 Years Forward", the sanitarium is revealed to have been converted into a hotel called "The Radley."
- Many patients had children while in the Radley, and one of them was Mary Drake.
- Charles DiLaurentis, Alex Drake, and Spencer Hastings were all born in Radley Sanitarium.
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