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"All it took was one little pencil drawing of a demon and a stint at Radley to connect Bethany Young to Mrs. DiLaurentis. But will it help solve her murder? Does anyone even care now that A is back with a signature &amp;quot;Did you miss me, bitches&amp;quot; text? Accessory of the Week It was a close call and Spencer&amp;#039;s ratty knit cap was a strong contender, but in the end I simply could not abide Alison&amp;#039;s mega shoulder pads.   What is happening here? They aren&amp;#039;t even like the warrior-style shoulder pads of yore; these are rounded, and look more like tiny wads of paper towel jammed into the sleeves of a jacket and forgotten, like tiny padded half moons of doom. This is the hell Lady Gaga hath wrought, isn&amp;#039;t it? It&amp;#039;s a little monstrous.  Shana the Dead Toby&amp;#039;s house blew up and he disappeared completely. He&amp;#039;s fine, just slinking around the hospital off camera and probably getting a new haircut. No one is investigating the blown-up house, since the incompetent police declared it a gas leak accident, but our girls know better. The Liars are freaked out by the resurfacing of A, who seems to have been hiding, watching, and waiting for the right moment to come back; Aria is very worried, because A probably watched while she murdered Shana and will surely use that information to blackmail her at some point, but no one is more worried than Alison, who only came back to life (and Rosewood) when she thought A was dead. Rookie mistake! A will never die.  Of course Alison wants to leave town immediately, and Hanna, realizing how much better her life is without Alison around, offers to help her GTFO. I love that Hanna doesn&amp;#039;t even try to hide her motives \u2014 she&amp;#039;s just like, &amp;quot;Oh, you want to leave? Here, take all of my clothes and money already, time&amp;#039;s a wastin&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; To her credit, she&amp;#039;s a little preoccupied with Caleb, who is still skulking around town looking like a Guy Fawkes mask sprung to life and being openly sour that Hanna is dating Travis. Guess what, Caleb: When you decide to leave with no plan to come back and break up with someone on your way out of town, you no longer have a say in who they date. He keeps threatening to go to Montecito and I&amp;#039;m like, GOOD, GO. Your mom is living her best life, Oprah-style, and she gave you that crazy expensive car \u2014 go be with your people, Caleb! Leave Hanna alone and stop slut-shaming her for moving on.  Aria took her guilt baby, now in its second trimester, over to Ezra&amp;#039;s house, where he makes the brilliant deduction that while Shana wasn&amp;#039;t innocent, she also wasn&amp;#039;t A. Ezra, we&amp;#039;re like five chapters ahead of you; please catch up. He&amp;#039;s at least helpful this time, using his book research to draw a connection between Bethany Young and Mrs. DiLaurentis, who was on the board at Radley when Bethany was a patient. He&amp;#039;s also able to figure out that Eddie Lamb from Radley was the one who left Bethany&amp;#039;s drawing on his doorstep because he still has those creepy hallways cameras hooked up.  Earlier in the lunchroom, Aria told Spencer she had &amp;quot;slipped&amp;quot; with Ezra, which she justified because he took a bullet for them. Spencer, patience worn thin from her own family drama, rightfully reminded Aria that he also wove an intricate web of deceit and lied to her for years. Something must have set in because Aria gives Ezra the boot later, but I bet you $10 she&amp;#039;ll find a way back to him next week. Lt. Tanner is sure to tie them together; when she rolled by Ezra&amp;#039;s place she saw Aria&amp;#039;s purse on the table. Busted!  Who Died This Week?  \u2028\u2028No one died, but A did try to kill Alison with her own scarf. Did A kill Mrs. DiLaurentis? Ali got a Snapchat video of her mom being buried with a message saying, &amp;quot;I watched your mom get buried the same way I watched her bury you,&amp;quot; but was A the one who did the killing? Probably. I love that A has grown with the times; remember in the first couple of seasons when A was still using thumb drives and slow video transfers to plant evidence? That Snapchat was cold-blooded, but incredibly savvy. It&amp;#039;s also enough to get Spencer&amp;#039;s dad off the hook; he insists he went for a drive with Melissa when Mrs. DiLaurentis was killed, but Spencer&amp;#039;s mom is still kicking him out of the house. There are more terrible, irredeemable offenses than murder, like all of his outfits and his alcoholism.  Alison arranges for Noel to pick her up at a train station but wants to say good-bye to her dad before she disappears again. When she gets to her house, she takes some fake IDs, cash, and a purse, throws on a bright scarf, and then A tries to strangle her with it. The best part of this struggle was when Ali picked up a sharp letter opener and then just sort of let it fall, like fighting back was entirely too much effort. No need to worry, though; after Emily saw the train ticket at Hanna&amp;#039;s house and caught on to Ali&amp;#039;s escape plan, she busted over to Ali&amp;#039;s house, surprised A in the fight, and took A down herself.  EMILY, NO!  Why are you fighting A, with a book no less? Emily, no! When A is strangling the formerly dead girl you have the hots for, you should run to the kitchen and get a cleaver or just call the damn cops! You should treat A like a bear \u2014 yell at A, make your presence known, but don&amp;#039;t touch them or let them touch you. A skittered away alive as the day is long, so A will live to torment another day.  What Happens Next?  Emily was just fired up because Paige confessed that Mona has a cabal of baddies now, and she named them. Now Emily knows that Lucas and Melissa want to take Alison down, but shouldn&amp;#039;t they always be on the lookout for shady, manipulative, murderers? Of all the TV characters in the world, this is the group that should have the least amount of trust, but week after week they reveal major plot points to virtual strangers. Spencer told Eddie everything about her friends when she was a patient at Radley, and Hanna trusts Travis to come to her house and cart her around to parties. Either of these guys could be A! At the end of the episode, Paige gets a dead rat in her locker; it could have come from Mona or A, but either way I have a feeling Paige is going to be very quiet about her connection to the A Team next week.  Alison doesn&amp;#039;t want anyone to call the police about her attack because she won&amp;#039;t be able to leave if it&amp;#039;s reported, but guess what? You can&amp;#039;t leave anyway, Alison! She gets a text from A telling her that if she leaves Rosewood, A will kill her. Well, that was a small window of time! Sorry, Ali.  In the end, Travis broke it off with Hanna, Aria gets hired on at Radley so she can be a better snoop, and Lt. Tanner lets Alison and Emily know that she knows they weren&amp;#039;t in Philadelphia when Shana was killed. A dons their black veil once again; first they send some flowers to Bethany Young&amp;#039;s family, and then they send Ali a text that says, &amp;quot;Time for the caged bird to sing.&amp;quot; R.I.P. Maya Angelou, and R.I.P. Alison 2.0. Oooh, I love that A is back! RELATED: Read Last Week&amp;#039;s Pretty Little Liars Recap Follow Danielle on Twitter.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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