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"It&amp;#39;s been less than a day since the season five premiere of Pretty Little Liars ended and my face has yet to revert back to normal. Before the intro music started playing last night, I had no doubt this season would be just like the others\u2014full of unanswered questions as to who &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is, paired with gratuitous shots of Lucy Hale&amp;#39;s great brows and the Liars&amp;#39; signature style, of course. But guys, the game totally changed.\n\nLast night&amp;#39;s episode started right where the finale left off. Ezra had just gotten shot by &amp;quot;A,&amp;quot; and as he was being rushed off to the emergency room, I&amp;#39;m pretty sure I heard a collective &amp;quot;Don&amp;#39;t die!!!&amp;quot; being shouted at TVs around the world. (Or maybe that was just me I was hearing.) So it was only fitting that the next thing we&amp;#39;d see is &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; already on his/her way to the hospital...riding on top of the ambulance, of course, because we&amp;#39;d never expect anything less from our favorite hooded villain.\n\nWhile the Liars (Ali included!) were trying to figure out how to get to Ezra before &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; did so he could reveal who&amp;#39;s been ruining their lives once and for all, Spencer&amp;#39;s sister Melissa was just about to divulge something huge herself. But of course we didn&amp;#39;t get to hear it, thanks to police lights flashing outside her window (standard). Either way, I&amp;#39;m pretty sure she was up to something sneaky. And when Officer Holbrook came in to inform her and her parents that CeCe Drake escaped their custody and could be extremely dangerous, there was a distinct feeling that Ali&amp;#39;s lookalike could possibly be behind this whole mess.\n\nAfter the Liars arrived at the emergency room, it didn&amp;#39;t take long for them to ditch their magazines in the waiting area and fall for &amp;quot;A&amp;quot;&amp;#39;s game of follow the leader. Everyone but Aria seemed totally clueless that they were walking straight into another trap, leaving Alison face-to-face with her worst nightmare: a creepy playground, a black-hoodie-slash-pants-slash-gloves ensemble, and oh yeah, the scary guy wearing it. When a man&amp;#39;s voice said, &amp;quot;Wanna play? It&amp;#39;s over!&amp;quot; I couldn&amp;#39;t help but cringe. But then something miraculous happened: The rest of the girls (armed with a big can of pepper spray) came out of the shadows, thinking they&amp;#39;d turned the tables on their enemy\u2014until more hooded monsters started circling them. The only thing worse than one &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is so many you can&amp;#39;t even count them all, but luckily the cops made yet another appearance and scared everyone away before something extra bad happened. Which is good, because otherwise I wouldn&amp;#39;t have any fingernails left.\n\nSince they didn&amp;#39;t seem to be safe anywhere, the Liars took Ali&amp;#39;s advice and stayed at a spot she knew they&amp;#39;d be safe: the theater, where we learned Ezra took her during their brief romance. It&amp;#39;s a good thing Aria was still at the hospital, because things could have gotten real awkward if she had to sit through the entire story of the moment Ali realized she really had feelings for him. In a moment of why-not-make-the-best-of-it, the girls raided the gummy bears and other drool-worthy candy at the theater&amp;#39;s concession stand. But right in the middle of their bonding sesh, Ali decided to make a few mysterious phone calls, at which point everyone, myself included, decided we might not be able to trust her.\n\nBeing the great friend she supposedly is, Shana (yep, she&amp;#39;s back too!) went to the hospital to make sure Aria was OK, but we all know that wasn&amp;#39;t her only motive. After Aria fell asleep in her chair, she woke up to find Shana standing beside Ezra&amp;#39;s hospital bed as he still lay there unconscious. (And yes, he&amp;#39;s still super attractive, even in a hospital gown.) When he opened his eyes, he noticed Shana standing behind Aria and his heart started racing, making the machines go crazy. I like to think his heart probably does that every time he sees Aria, but this time it put him into a full-on seizure. Maybe the brunette beauty has that effect on her teachers...or maybe there was something seriously wrong with the suspicious girl lurking in the background.\n\nAs Ali was sound asleep at the theater\u2014so much sleeping in this episode!\u2014she woke up to someone putting their hand over her mouth, and guess who it was? CeCe, who looked exactly like Kesha&amp;#39;s long-lost sister. Don&amp;#39;t worry though, you can scratch her name off the list of potential &amp;quot;A&amp;quot;s (for now) because it seemed like all she wanted was some help making a run for it, and that&amp;#39;s exactly what she did.\n\nUp to this point, it&amp;#39;s clear the episode has already been totally insane, but trust me when I say the true craziness hasn&amp;#39;t even gotten started yet. Our love/hate relationship with Mona took a total turn to the hate side when we saw her hanging out with a new posse\u2014a bunch of people Ali treated badly over the years, including Lucas (where did he go, anyway?) and even Emily&amp;#39;s girlfriend, Paige. It turned out Ali had a bunch of horrible nicknames for her classmates\u2014Pussface, really?\u2014and she wanted them to join forces to take down their bully once and for all. Even Melissa walked in and joined the group, saying they &amp;quot;didn&amp;#39;t have much time&amp;quot; and making us question everything all over again.\n\nAnd here&amp;#39;s where the...stuff...really hits the fan. Like, you better sit down because this gets serious. Aria finally gets Ezra to tell her who &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is in some crazy, mumbled whisper that only Ezria has the power to understand. The next thing we know, Shana\u2014yes, Shana!\u2014is pointing a gun at the Liars in the theater, wearing the hoodie we despise so much. Everyone is shocked she&amp;#39;s the one who&amp;#39;s been hurting them since Ali disappeared, and her reason why? She&amp;#39;s in love with Jenna, who Ali accidentally blinded from the fire she started in the very first season. Yikes.\n\nJust as she&amp;#39;s about to shoot the girls we love so much, Aria saves the day and knocks the gun out of her hand with a rifle that just so happens to be sitting on stage as a prop. Shana&amp;#39;s weapon fires, putting out a light and sending her flying off the stage to her death. Shockingly, she is actually dead. I was totally expecting the body to be gone by the time the police got there, which, let&amp;#39;s face it, would be pretty normal for this show, but she was still lying on the floor with not even a blink of the eyes when they arrived. Even though one &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is down, we can&amp;#39;t imagine their lives will be going back to normal just yet\u2014especially since the show was just renewed for two more seasons, giving Mona plenty of time to unleash her evil clan on the girls.\n\nThis season premiere definitely took the cake as the most insane PLL premiere (or finale!), like, ever. Are you as shocked as I am that &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; was finally revealed? Or do you think she&amp;#39;s not the only crazy person in a black hoodie we&amp;#39;ll have to watch out for? Let&amp;#39;s chat in the comments below!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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