Pretty Little Liars Re-Cap: Mid-Season Finale - 'The Lady Killer'

SPOILER ALERT!

With a name like “The BetrAyal,” the Summer finale of Pretty Little Liars promised to be full of twists, turns, and of course lies. The episode jumped right into action, opening sometime in the near future at a hectic crime scene with a hysterical Hanna being consoled by two of the three other Liars; Emily, meanwhile, is off talking to the police, clearly in shock. Could it be? Is our favorite Rosewood lesbian, in fact, the betrayer? Say it ain’t so, Marlene (King, PLL executive producer)!

SPOILER ALERT!

With a name like “The BetrAyal,” the Summer finale of Pretty Little Liars promised to be full of twists, turns, and of course lies. The episode jumped right into action, opening sometime in the near future at a hectic crime scene with a hysterical Hanna being consoled by two of the three other Liars; Emily, meanwhile, is off talking to the police, clearly in shock. Could it be? Is our favorite Rosewood lesbian, in fact, the betrayer? Say it ain’t so, Marlene (King, PLL executive producer)!

Cut to the present, where the Liars meet to tell Emily that Paige is at the top of their new A list. They reveal to her that they found an earring in Paige’s bag - presumably the earring Aria laid to rest with Alison. Emily, playing Devil’s A-dvcoate (ok, ok, we’ll stop with the A jokes), defends her girlfriend saying, “We found a lot of other things exactly where A put them.”

Since she tends to dress like a mid-century equestrian to begin with, Spencer decides to take the reigns and confront Paige herself. She picks a mildly inopportune time in the school hallway because Paige seems to be brandishing some sort of blunt object. No matter, Spencer still gets in the last word by telling Paige, “I know who you are.” The scene is set. Is this the end of Pailey?

Meanwhile, back at the mental ward, Mona has managed to sneak out wearing a nurse’s uniform. Rosewood has a lot of things, but a decent nighttime shift security guard to look over the criminally insane doesn’t appear to be one of them. We see Mona later in her ultra creepy A-cave, telling another hooded figure (presumably A #2), “change of plans.”

Things heat up for Spencer as Toby turns up in Rosewood for and the parted couple gets a pretty damned steamy love scene for ABC Family. Okay Troian!

Needing a break from the girls, Emily goes to spend the night with Nate and his parents at the Lighthouse Rock Inn, which is kind of sort of always a bad idea to spend the night with a guy who became angered when you rejected him even if he is your murdered girlfriend’s cousin, but then, Emily has not always been renowned for her decision making prowess.

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