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"TeamPLL, I imagine most of you were in the midst of a prayer circle at approximately 9:00 P.M. last night following the end of the Pretty Little Liars summer finale, but I was alone in my apartment, so I just said a couple of &amp;quot;Mama say mama sa mamakusas&amp;quot; and hoped that would help get me through the evening. It did not, y&amp;#39;all! In fact I didn&amp;#39;t get much sleep because I stayed up and went over every moment in the show&amp;#39;s four-year history. I gotta tell ya, I don&amp;#39;t trust the answers we were given in last night&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Now You See Me, Now You Don&amp;#39;t.&amp;quot; That&amp;#39;s right, I don&amp;#39;t believe that [REDACTED] is &amp;quot;A.&amp;quot; C&amp;#39;mon, did you honestly think I was going to reveal PLL&amp;#39;s biggest twist yet in the opening paragraph? You should know me better than that! We have to talk about e&amp;#39;erything that went down before we get the juicy ending.\n[WARNING: Spoliers ahead. So please stop reading if you haven&amp;#39;t watched the finale and don&amp;#39;t want to know what happened.]\nPinterestFacebookAria &amp;amp; Co. are hot on Red Coat&amp;#39;s tail, which leads them to Ravenswood. Dun, dun, dun!\nWe open with the Liars watching the news re: Wilden&amp;#39;s case when they get a package in the mail. They open it. Inside are four magic eight balls, each one addressed to one of the girls. The message from A is, &amp;quot;If she goes free, you&amp;#39;ll hear from me. Kisses, A&amp;quot;:\n\nTravis is at the police station to identify Mama Marin in the lineup as the one leaving the crime scene the night Wilden was murdered. This is when he says he&amp;#39;s not sure he can do this. And I&amp;#39;m like:\n\nSeriously, if I hadn&amp;#39;t been eating, I would&amp;#39;ve cussed him out. Alas, my mouth was full, so all I could manage was an eye roll. Travis, it ain&amp;#39;t about you. Just tell the damn truth already, so MM can go free.\nBack at school, we witness what Aria did to Ezra&amp;#39;s feels after he thanks her for coming over, and she replies that she was happy to be there for him as a friend:\n\nYep, she pretty much took his heart, dropped it on the ground, and let it get dusty like a lost Chapstick under a movie-theater chair, picked it up, and kicked it the hell out her life. Then she gets on the phone with Jake to confirm their date for the evening.\nHaleb are with MM at the police station. The DA comes over to them says that they&amp;#39;re dropping the charges against her. Yay!!! Hanna and MM embrace while Caleb and Travis give each other a head nod. Uhhhhhh, did Caleb pay Travis to spin this story about Hanna&amp;#39;s mom so that she would get off?\n\nMeanwhile, Paige asks Em to stay with her until &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is gone. Spence leaves Toby a voicemail, asking him to let her know he&amp;#39;s OK, and I did this while these completely unimportant plot points happened:\n\nI know I&amp;#39;m not the only one who took a bathroom break during those scenes.\nMM goes out on a date with Ted, which leaves the girls alone at Hanna&amp;#39;s. The doorbell rings. Another package from &amp;quot;A.&amp;quot; This time, it&amp;#39;s a mini coffin with a doll that looks like Mona. Just then they all get a text message from &amp;quot;A.&amp;quot; They have to find Mona or else the cops will think they killed her:\n\nCaleb comes over to Hanna&amp;#39;s, and they all see on the news that the police has released a sketch of CeCe as the main murder suspect in Wilden&amp;#39;s case. Hanna gets off the phone and tells them that Mona is no longer a patient at Radley, so the girls split up to find Mo. I&amp;#39;m like:\n\nSpence goes to Wren&amp;#39;s place; he doesn&amp;#39;t answer, so she peeps in the window. Tons of moving boxes and luggage. As she&amp;#39;s leaving, she sees Jenna&amp;#39;s car (the blue car that she and Toby saw in Ravenswood). She looks back at the window and just misses Shana peeking out of it:\n\nFor real, I wanted to try and figure out why Shana is at Wren&amp;#39;s place, but I decided it&amp;#39;s not even worth the brain cells.\nEm and Paige look for Mona at the school&amp;#39;s French club. Jackie, the chick who runs the club, acts ignorant and tells them she will only speak to them in French. After she pulls this foolishness for a few moments, she tells them that Mo was coming back and that the French club thing was supposed to be Mona&amp;#39;s welcome-back party:\n\nMeanwhile, Toby&amp;#39;s looking sad as per usual and rummaging through his mother&amp;#39;s things. BORING! He starts crying and sees a message from Spence asking him to call her. He doesn&amp;#39;t and heads to the Brew. He sees Shana collect her things and bounce. He goes to follow her when he notices that she dropped something: a moving slip. It&amp;#39;s addressed to Wren c/o of Melissa Hastings in London. He calls Spence and says they need to talk:\n\nSpoby don&amp;#39;t figure out the mailing slip, but Toby does apologize for dropping off the grid and making Spence worry. They make up like we knew they would:\n\nAria and Jake are watching a movie at her place where he has fallen asleep. He wakes up, says he&amp;#39;s pretty wiped, kisses her goodbye, and leaves:\n\nI mean...why was this scene including in the finale? It added nothing&amp;#8212;unless it turns out that he&amp;#39;s part of team &amp;quot;A,&amp;quot; Jake has been completely worthless on this show to me.\nNext we see Haleb are chilling outside of Mona&amp;#39;s house, waiting to see if she&amp;#39;s going to pop up there. Em is at Paige&amp;#39;s and is worried about Mo. Paige suggests watching a movie to take her mind off things and I&amp;#39;m like:\n\nAria shows up at the brew just as Ezra gets up from his chair. They get coffee and talk. Eventually, she kisses him as Red Coat watches them from outside:\n\nThe Little Liars are at Spence&amp;#39;s. They get another package from &amp;quot;A.&amp;quot; It&amp;#39;s an empty box, or so we think. Spence lifts the trick handle and a saw appears with the words &amp;quot;Watch me make a girl disappear. Kisses. A.&amp;quot; Spence deduces that &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is putting on a magic show and that they&amp;#39;re a part of her act. So they search on the Internet for a magic-supply store and find out that the Great Charlemagne is putting on a magic show at Ravenswood park that same day. Spence doesn&amp;#39;t think this is a coincidence, and they head to the magic show. Y&amp;#39;all, say it with me, &amp;quot;This is getting...\n\nSeriously, this is sooooo convoluted that I can&amp;#39;t even keep up anymore.\nCaleb and Toby meet up. Toby takes over watching Mona&amp;#39;s house. Nothing happens for a while, and then we see the gate to the house open and that blue car exiting. Toby follows. I&amp;#39;m like:\n\nBack at the magic show, Charlemagne has Aria come on stage and get inside a giant box. He does the magic trick of making her disappear and reappear, and then the show ends. She gets off stage and the Liars discover that Em is missing. They get another text from &amp;quot;A&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;Leger de main&amp;quot; a.k.a. sleight of the hand:\n\nIt makes absolutely no sense that &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; snatched Em without Hanna or Spence knowing, especially because the three girls were standing so closely together. This sleight of hand idea would&amp;#39;ve worked if it was set up well. I&amp;#39;m sorry, but this was lazy writing in order to put one of the Liars in peril. Moving on.\nEm gets a call from Aria. Em thinks she&amp;#39;s locked a coffin. Next she hears a saw. The other girls believe that she might be at a saw mill on Saw Mill Road, and when they turn to head there, they see Red Coat running. They chase after her and go inside the saw mill:\n\nThey find the coffin. It&amp;#39;s chained to a conveyor belt that&amp;#39;s moving towards a giant saw. Thankfully, they undo the chain and Red Coat turns the conveyor belt off. Then we see another Red Coat. Aria and Spence chase after the RCs, who are running in different directions while Hanna gets Em out of the coffin:\n\nSpence follows Red Coat #1 into a building, while Aria and Red Coat #2 starting fighting on another floor within the saw mill. Aria kicks the mask off. It&amp;#39;s CeCe, who then jumps on a rope to get away. It snaps, but Aria catches her in time. Still, it&amp;#39;s not enough, and CeCe falls to her death:\n\nSpence comes back and sees that CeCe is dead. Except that she isn&amp;#39;t because they turn around and see her body is gone:\n\nHow the heck does CeCe get up and run away in the 2.2 seconds the Liars aren&amp;#39;t looking at her body? She fell like 10 feet. This is so stoopid. Anyway.\nSpence thinks the other Red Coat is Ali and takes them back to the building. Inside is &amp;quot;A&amp;#39;s&amp;quot; lair. It&amp;#39;s tricked out with advanced surveillance and features giant boards with a timeline on all the Liars. I know this show isn&amp;#39;t real, but that doesn&amp;#39;t stop me from reacting like:\n\nTo make the scene extra crazy, Hanna sees a diary on the desk and puts it into her purse without the other girls knowing it. Girl. Gurl. GURL. Your sneaky ass is about to put the Liars in more danger. I just know it.\nShana arrives at River Valley Bed and Breakfast. She meets Mona as Toby watches them. But before we can find out what&amp;#39;s going down there, we go back at &amp;quot;A&amp;#39;&amp;quot;s lair. Hanna can&amp;#39;t successfully hack in the computer, so she asks Celeb to come help and he says he&amp;#39;ll get on a bus to meet them. Meanwhile, there&amp;#39;s a hole in the wall and we see someone is watching them:\n\nHanna opens up one of the closets and says that &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is a guy based off the clothes: a bunch of suits. Next, Aria looks at all the boards and it seems like &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; was following Ali as well. Then the Liars see an invitation for a 1920s period party at Raveswood Cemetery and they think Ali might there, and so will &amp;quot;A&amp;quot;:\n\nMrs. Grunwald sees the Liars head out to the street. She tells them it&amp;#39;s dangerous to go chasing after Ali and admits that she was trying to help Ali figure out who was threatening her. Finally, she tells them about the night Ali went missing. Mrs. G says she felt something terrible that evening, so she drove to Rosewood and walked in to her backyard. Ali was reaching from the ground, so Mrs. G helped pull her out. Then she drove Ali to the hospital, but as she ran in to get help, Ali disappeared. Mrs. G says Ali doesn&amp;#39;t want to be found and that the Liars need to leave Ravenswood because &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is watching them, hoping they will lead him to Ali:\n\nI absolutely LOATHE when TV shows do a giant chunk of exposition like this in order to get info to the viewers. Sure, it provided answers, but in the most clumsy way possible. No me gusta, but at least we know that Ali is officially alive.\nThe Liars, fed up with &amp;quot;A,&amp;quot; go into a costume store and get outfits so they can crash the party. &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is watching and starts walking away and goes back to the lair. The camera pulls back and reveals that &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is... EZRA! At first, I&amp;#39;m like:\n\nThen I&amp;#39;m like:\n\nEzra is not &amp;quot;A,&amp;quot; y&amp;#39;all. First of all, he wasn&amp;#39;t wearing a black hoodie. He was rocking a blazer and baseball cap. Why all of a sudden would &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; change his go-to outfit? Secondly, we end the epi by seeing &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; put on that weird 1920s gear for the party. If it was Ez, the camera would&amp;#39;ve shown Ez putting the mask on his face, so we could be absolutely sure it was him. Thirdly, he shows up to the lair and gets pissed off. We&amp;#39;re led to believe that he&amp;#39;s mad that the Liars discovered this place, but what if he&amp;#39;s just upset that the lair exists. After all, we saw earlier that there are photos of him in the lair. If he saw those photos as well that would piss him off like it would any normal person.\nFinally, look at this screen capture I took of the Halloween special promo:\nPinterestFacebookEzra&amp;#39;s standing with the Little Liars like they&amp;#39;re in line at a crowded Pinkberry. He is NOT &amp;quot;A.&amp;quot; At least, I&amp;#39;m not convinced that he is. This show has shown too often that nothing is how it appears. Now, I don&amp;#39;t think the writers are going to do the &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; fake out like they did with Toby, but I would say that at the very worst, Ez is merely just another member of Team &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; and not the big cheese himself.\nAlrighty, what did you think of last night&amp;#39;s crazy finale? Am I the only one who is suspicious that Ezra is actually &amp;quot;A?&amp;quot;\nFinally, thanks for reading my recaps and see you for PLL&amp;#39;s Halloween special on October 22 at 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT. In the meantime, spend your PLL-free nights catching up on my number one love Scandal, which returns for season three on October 3 at 10 P.M. ET. Once again, I&amp;#39;ll be recapping the show."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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