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PLL- Smooth move, boneheads! So the Liars totally screw up Hanna's plan because they think Noel kidnapped her instead of the other way around and report her missing. (In their defense, Hanna going rogue like that was pretty dumb.) So the cops go out in full force looking for her. Luckily, Hanna sees that she's missing on the news when she gives a blood sample she took from Noel to her doctor friend (is he someone we've seen on the show before who I've totally forgotten about?) to do a DNA test proving Noel is Mary's other child. Thankfully, girl shows some sense and calls Mona, and they cook up a plan where they say Hanna had gone looking for the girl who got pushed down the stairs. Also, since Mona knows about the thumb drive, she recovers it from Noel. She lets Hanna know she didn't have to do this, because the drive implicates him in the dollhouse. But, that's not enough for Hanna, since she thinks he tortured her.
So Hanna goes home and spins her story for the cops and the Liars, with Mona watching after Noel. Well, for a time, because then she has to switch to watching Jenna, and somehow Noel gets loose and escapes, taking the camera, which has footage of Hanna trying him up and trying to torture a confession out of him. But more on that later. In the mean time, Caleb and Hanna get back together. Spence has a date with Marco and seems to finally say goodbye to Toby. Ali finds out she's preggers with Archer's child and Em comforts her (hilariously, Em is all, is it Archer's? And Ali is like, "Bitch, do you think I'm some kinda slut, who else would I have slept with?!"). This of course drives a wedge between her and Paige, as Paige thinks Ali is trying to steal her away now that she's back in town. So Paige bikes off, telling Em to call her once she's out from under Ali's sway. And Aria was expecting Ezra to come home, and worries when he doesn't show up, only to see him on TV getting reunited with Nicole. HA!!
Anyways, yeah, eventually Hanna fesses up to the others when she hears the DNA test results show Noel is not the secret second child. They go to see Noel, only to find he escaped with the camera, and immediately get a text to meet for a trade. Meanwhile, at the hotel, Caleb and Mona are watching Jenna. Only its obvious its not Jenna but Sydney. So Sydney reveals herself, taunting them about how Jenna totally knew they were watching and got away.
Where is she? At the meet at a creepy abandoned house that used to be a school for the blind! The Liars turn over the drive, but are soon locked in. Which, Hannily are separated from the rest of the girls because Em forgot her phone upstairs and needed to recover it. And its like, how the eff do you forget your phone in a place like this?! Its a creepy place where they're meeting with possible murderers, why on earth did she put her phone down and forget it?!
But yeah, Noel goes to "axe" Hanna and Em a question, while blind Jenna shuts off the power and goes after the Liars with a gun. In the fracas, Noel embeds the axe in the floor, and Hannily fight him off, wherein he falls onto the axe and decapitates himself! HA!!! Meanwhile Jenna ends up hitting Spencer when blind firing at them. But Mary saves her and knocks out Jenna. She cradles Spencer in her arms, and in front of the Liars reveals she is Spencer's real mom! aav('WHAAATTT!!?!?') I mean, I suspected the second child would be one of the Liars, and Spence seemed like the surest choice, especially when they showed her randomly viewing a family album after first learning of the existence of Mary's second kid. Like, obviously it wouldn't be Emily. Hanna's definitely Ashley's daughter, and Aria didn't seem adopted. But I could totally believe the Hastings had some weird crap going on with their family, like Spencer not being their real daughter.
Anyways, in the chaos, someone absconds with Jenna and drives off with her in a van. And not in an accomplice way, in a captured sort of way. Jenna thinks its the real AD. So I guess neither she nor Noel were AD, and since Mary was with the girls, she wasn't AD either. So who is AD?! Also, Toby and his fiancee randomly crash into a tree and are possibly dead.
Dead of Summer- Heh, kinda predictable, but nail-biting nonetheless. I mean, when Jessie was randomly looking through camera footage, and there was piano playing at the end and was all, "I guess the camera was accidentally on", it was totally obvious they were going to use that to stop Amy. Particularly when she managed to touch the other thingie with Holyoke's piano playing.
But yeah, the others find out Amy is a baddie really quick when the car breaks down on their way out of camp. Turns out, Holyoke put some of his essence into Jessie. So now neither Amy nor Jessie can leave, at least until one kills the other. Meanwhile, Blair and Drew drop the kids off and think everything is over, but the one kid tells them they have to go back. They call the cops first, but all that does is get a bunch of random cops killed.
Amy stalks Sykes, Alex, and Jessie. Garrett is badly wounded and sends the other two away while he holds Amy off. Of course, we hear him shooting at her from off-screen, but don't actually see her kill him. She does kill Alex, who also makes a last stand holding off Amy and her undead minions so Jessie can get away.
Eventually, Amy thinks she has Jessie cornered, but Sykes, Drew, and Blair show up in the nick of time to help. As expected, they try the wax recording drum, but that was already destroyed when Amy touched it, so of course Sykes realizes the video camera has the piano playing (conveniently, he had a flashback about the one time he had a dream where his father told him "nothing happens by accident"). So that stuns Amy long enough for Jessie to axe her a question.
So, the day is won, but yeah, the fact that we didn't see what happened to Sykes earlier, and he was somehow still alive, if you guessed he was a ghost there at the end, you were correct! He sadly tells Jessie he's dead, only around to help in the end because some of that Holyoke magic in her kept him alive when they kissed. But now that that's done, he has to go.
In the end, Jessie goes to college, and Blair and Drew are together and in Seattle.
PLL- Smooth move, boneheads! So the Liars totally screw up Hanna's plan because they think Noel kidnapped her instead of the other way around and report her missing. (In their defense, Hanna going rogue like that was pretty dumb.) So the cops go out in full force looking for her. Luckily, Hanna sees that she's missing on the news when she gives a blood sample she took from Noel to her doctor friend (is he someone we've seen on the show before who I've totally forgotten about?) to do a DNA test proving Noel is Mary's other child. Thankfully, girl shows some sense and calls Mona, and they cook up a plan where they say Hanna had gone looking for the girl who got pushed down the stairs. Also, since Mona knows about the thumb drive, she recovers it from Noel. She lets Hanna know she didn't have to do this, because the drive implicates him in the dollhouse. But, that's not enough for Hanna, since she thinks he tortured her.
So Hanna goes home and spins her story for the cops and the Liars, with Mona watching after Noel. Well, for a time, because then she has to switch to watching Jenna, and somehow Noel gets loose and escapes, taking the camera, which has footage of Hanna trying him up and trying to torture a confession out of him. But more on that later. In the mean time, Caleb and Hanna get back together. Spence has a date with Marco and seems to finally say goodbye to Toby. Ali finds out she's preggers with Archer's child and Em comforts her (hilariously, Em is all, is it Archer's? And Ali is like, "Bitch, do you think I'm some kinda slut, who else would I have slept with?!"). This of course drives a wedge between her and Paige, as Paige thinks Ali is trying to steal her away now that she's back in town. So Paige bikes off, telling Em to call her once she's out from under Ali's sway. And Aria was expecting Ezra to come home, and worries when he doesn't show up, only to see him on TV getting reunited with Nicole. HA!!
Anyways, yeah, eventually Hanna fesses up to the others when she hears the DNA test results show Noel is not the secret second child. They go to see Noel, only to find he escaped with the camera, and immediately get a text to meet for a trade. Meanwhile, at the hotel, Caleb and Mona are watching Jenna. Only its obvious its not Jenna but Sydney. So Sydney reveals herself, taunting them about how Jenna totally knew they were watching and got away.
Where is she? At the meet at a creepy abandoned house that used to be a school for the blind! The Liars turn over the drive, but are soon locked in. Which, Hannily are separated from the rest of the girls because Em forgot her phone upstairs and needed to recover it. And its like, how the eff do you forget your phone in a place like this?! Its a creepy place where they're meeting with possible murderers, why on earth did she put her phone down and forget it?!
But yeah, Noel goes to "axe" Hanna and Em a question, while blind Jenna shuts off the power and goes after the Liars with a gun. In the fracas, Noel embeds the axe in the floor, and Hannily fight him off, wherein he falls onto the axe and decapitates himself! HA!!! Meanwhile Jenna ends up hitting Spencer when blind firing at them. But Mary saves her and knocks out Jenna. She cradles Spencer in her arms, and in front of the Liars reveals she is Spencer's real mom! aav('WHAAATTT!!?!?') I mean, I suspected the second child would be one of the Liars, and Spence seemed like the surest choice, especially when they showed her randomly viewing a family album after first learning of the existence of Mary's second kid. Like, obviously it wouldn't be Emily. Hanna's definitely Ashley's daughter, and Aria didn't seem adopted. But I could totally believe the Hastings had some weird crap going on with their family, like Spencer not being their real daughter.
Anyways, in the chaos, someone absconds with Jenna and drives off with her in a van. And not in an accomplice way, in a captured sort of way. Jenna thinks its the real AD. So I guess neither she nor Noel were AD, and since Mary was with the girls, she wasn't AD either. So who is AD?! Also, Toby and his fiancee randomly crash into a tree and are possibly dead.
Dead of Summer- Heh, kinda predictable, but nail-biting nonetheless. I mean, when Jessie was randomly looking through camera footage, and there was piano playing at the end and was all, "I guess the camera was accidentally on", it was totally obvious they were going to use that to stop Amy. Particularly when she managed to touch the other thingie with Holyoke's piano playing.
But yeah, the others find out Amy is a baddie really quick when the car breaks down on their way out of camp. Turns out, Holyoke put some of his essence into Jessie. So now neither Amy nor Jessie can leave, at least until one kills the other. Meanwhile, Blair and Drew drop the kids off and think everything is over, but the one kid tells them they have to go back. They call the cops first, but all that does is get a bunch of random cops killed.
Amy stalks Sykes, Alex, and Jessie. Garrett is badly wounded and sends the other two away while he holds Amy off. Of course, we hear him shooting at her from off-screen, but don't actually see her kill him. She does kill Alex, who also makes a last stand holding off Amy and her undead minions so Jessie can get away.
Eventually, Amy thinks she has Jessie cornered, but Sykes, Drew, and Blair show up in the nick of time to help. As expected, they try the wax recording drum, but that was already destroyed when Amy touched it, so of course Sykes realizes the video camera has the piano playing (conveniently, he had a flashback about the one time he had a dream where his father told him "nothing happens by accident"). So that stuns Amy long enough for Jessie to axe her a question.
So, the day is won, but yeah, the fact that we didn't see what happened to Sykes earlier, and he was somehow still alive, if you guessed he was a ghost there at the end, you were correct! He sadly tells Jessie he's dead, only around to help in the end because some of that Holyoke magic in her kept him alive when they kissed. But now that that's done, he has to go.
In the end, Jessie goes to college, and Blair and Drew are together and in Seattle.