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"#TeamPLL, all I can write is, &amp;quot;Finally!&amp;quot; Finally, Ali&amp;#x27;s insistence on going rogue has caught up with her. Finally, Hanna starts to get her life under control. And finally, Melissa might be ready to reveal her big secret. Clearly, a lot of transitional stuff went down on last night&amp;#x27;s episode of Pretty Little Liars, so let&amp;#x27;s dig in and see how this is all going to prepare us for the summer finale in two weeks. Mr. DiLaurentis continues to protect &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; from danger, but should he be protecting her from herself? &amp;quot;A Dark Ali&amp;quot; opens where we left off last week: at the police station. Det. Tanner and Mr. DiLaurentis are staring at the mystery guy from last episode via a one-way mirror. His name is Cyrus. Considering he might be in cahoots with Noel, he is probably hella shady, so I don&amp;#x27;t trust him. But on the other hand, he&amp;#x27;s a hot piece so.... Det. Tanner and Mr. Di then go to Ali and asks if that was the dude that hurt her. She says, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know.&amp;quot; OMG! Seriously, Ali needs to go live... ...and get out of everyone&amp;#x27;s lives with this garbage. I&amp;#x27;m sick of this goofy-ass heifer stacking lies on top of lies on top of lies like she&amp;#x27;s building a model cabin out of Lincoln Logs. Turns out I&amp;#x27;m not the only one who feels this way because the Liars give her crap about Ali&amp;#x27;s IDK comment. Next, Spencer shows Hanna and Aria Noel&amp;#x27;s blackmail items (photos of a non-kidnapped Ali and audio recordings of Ali talking to Shana) and tells them she&amp;#x27;s going to hide it at her secret spot in her bedroom. Cut to me looking at the the TV screen the same way I do when the Starbucks barista flirts with my boyfriend in front of me and my friends: We all know &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is going to break into her room while she&amp;#x27;s sleeping and steal that stuff. Sigh. When will Spence learn? Meanwhile, Emison are talking about Cyrus when Mr. Di comes in and says that Cyrus confessed to the kidnapping: Ella is Mary J. Blige sad about her broken engagement and sums up her feelings about trifling Zack: While Spencer is on the phone with Em, she discovers that her secret stash, which included the recording of Ali lying during her medical exam, is gone. Spence hangs up, looks for it, and then gets another phone call. It&amp;#x27;s the stolen recording: Spence and Aria watch the surveillance footage: Melissa is talking to a guy we can&amp;#x27;t see. Spence thinks it&amp;#x27;s Cyrus, and Melissa gave him the audio recording, so that he could know what to say to the police. Spence then suggests telling the truth to Tanner: Aria tells Ezra what&amp;#x27;s going on and he wants to go talk to Ali, but Aria makes him promise he won&amp;#x27;t. He does, and I&amp;#x27;m like: His dumb ass is definitely going to confront Ali and probably get shot again. I HATE EVERYONE ON THIS SHOW. Emison talk about Cyrus. Emily doesn&amp;#x27;t want an innocent stranger like him to take the fall. That&amp;#x27;s when Ali says she met him before and he gave her the scar on her inner thigh: Hanna and Mona are about audition for choir when Mona faints: She wakes up and asks Hanna to get her purse. When Hanna grabs it, she opens it and sees a print of Cyrus&amp;#x27; mugshot. Hmm, what is this all about, Mo? Em tells Spence that they&amp;#x27;re not going to turn on Ali and are all in this together, and then she suggests that Spence talk to Melissa, who is the real problem. Um, how about both Ali and Melissa are the problem: At The Brew, Ez talks to Ali&amp;amp;#8212;told you&amp;amp;#8212;but is interrupted by Mr. Di. Then we see Hanna join Mona in her car, which is parked outside of the police station. They see Tanner, Ali, and Mr. Di get into a car and drive off: Mo hacks into Tanner&amp;#x27;s in order to track them and says that they&amp;#x27;re going to track Cyrus. Aria chews Ez out about talking to Ali. Next, we see Spence step to Melissa. Melissa still won&amp;#x27;t tell her secret but does say it&amp;#x27;s not safe for either of them to be in town and that maybe they should leave: JUST REVEAL THE SECRET ALREADY!!! Det. Tanner, Ali, and Mr. Di go to the basement where Ali says she was kept. Then we head to a flashback: Ali and Cyrus are boo&amp;#x27;d up. She introduces him to her friends in the basement. One night, she catches him trying to steal her bag full of money, she fights him, and he slashes her leg with a pocket knife. Ali IDs the basement: Not! Back outside the police station, Mo and Hanna are waiting for Cyrus to be released from police custody when they hear Tanner on the police radio that Ali ID&amp;#x27;d the location and that Cyrus is not allowed to go free. Aria and Ella talk about Ez. Aria wants to trust Ez again, but she&amp;#x27;s not sure. Their conversation gets interrupted by a text from Hanna telling her that Ali implicated Cyrus. Em finds out as well and has it out with Ali, who promises to fix everything. That&amp;#x27;s when Em says she&amp;#x27;s done with her. DAMN! Emison is dead: I know, I know. I&amp;#x27;ve been on #TeamEmison, but with all of Ali&amp;#x27;s lies over the course of this season, Em can do better and get a boo that isn&amp;#x27;t selfish or shady. Hanna tells Caleb what&amp;#x27;s going on. Turns out Tanner called in her request too late, and Cyrus left the station. Next, the Liars meet up, and Em says they need to cut ties with Ali immediately and go to the police: We&amp;#x27;re now in the woods with Cyrus, who meets up with Ali&amp;#x27;s alter ego Vivian Darkbloom. All of this trash was a part of her plan?!?! Someone please kill this girl. Melissa is filming her confession to Spence, but of course we don&amp;#x27;t hear it: We end on &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; folding a bunch of hoodies and a candy-striper uniform: Seriously, I have no idea what &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is up to. And guess what: The writers of this show don&amp;#x27;t have a damn clue either. So, yay, I guess? Alrighty, what did you think of this episode? What could be Melissa&amp;#x27;s big secret?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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