'Pretty Little Liars' Season 3 Finale Recap - Red Coat Reveal and Jenna/Shana What?

This could probably go without saying but there are major SPOILERS!!!!! ahead for anyone who missed the finale. 

If there’s anything the writers of Pretty Little Liars do well, it’s season finales, and with a mystery A-team leader and Spencer’s new hobby of child abduction, Tuesday night’s episode was gearing up to be no different.

This could probably go without saying but there are major SPOILERS!!!!! ahead for anyone who missed the finale. 

If there’s anything the writers of Pretty Little Liars do well, it’s season finales, and with a mystery A-team leader and Spencer’s new hobby of child abduction, Tuesday night’s episode was gearing up to be no different.

Spencer has been released from Radley, and the rest of the girls are waiting for her downstairs in the Hastings house, eating tea and crumpets, while the Hastings parents are (of course) nowhere to be seen.  They agree not to bum Spencer out by talking about Toby, but Spencer overhears them and quotes herself from the show’s pilot saying, “hope breeds eternal misery.”  But that’s not important.  What’s really important is that Spencer got her wardrobe back. 

She tells the girls how she let herself completely break down after finding out about Toby’s death (umm... ya think?) and that she refuses to play the victim any longer.  In Hastings fashion, her parents have decided to throw her a return from Radley party, where they’ve told people she was being treated for exhaustion. 

Not exactly the best cover.  Anyone who has ever read a People magazine knows what it means when someone is “being treated for exhaustion.”

Over at A-headquarters, an A team member in the standard digs is downloading contacts from a super fancy looking computer.  Mona comes in with coffee and tells this unknown A, “We like your plan.  You’ll get your reward on Friday,” adding, “Those bitches are finally going to get what they deserve.”

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Back at Rosewood High, the girls are, of course, learning - aka talking in the hallway.  Ezra has posted signs around the school for a babysitter for Malcolm, and the girls wonder if Mona was the one who kidnapped him.  While Malcolm is the only one who knows who took him to the carnival, Aria is a little less than thrilled with the idea of bringing her boyfriend’s son into the A mix.  After she leaves, though, Hanna takes the flyer and decides to apply for the job.

 Suddenly, up walks Shana, who is taking a break from her busy schedule of working at the costume shop, trying to win back Paige, and befriending Olympic athletes.  A member of a rival school’s swim team, Shana is at Rosewood because her coach arranged a practice there, but she seems to be more interested in hitting on Spencer. 

After Shana leaves, poor Hanna is jealous and says, “I hate her... She flirts with everyone but me!” 

Aria sees Ezra in the hall and not so subtly pretends to read a book while they walk and talk.  He says he was interviewing for the substitute teacher’s position, but he doesn’t think he got it.  Not sounding too sympathetic, Aria tells him she’s sorry to hear that.  Later, though, while Aria’s dad is proving once again that he possesses zero paternal authority, he reveals to her that Ezra was offered the job and was taking a day to think it over.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Jenna, but it’s good to see it’s business as usual, as Jenna is on the phone with someone worrying about police evidence.  A hooded A-teamer is outside her house, and sends her one of A’s ever so pleasant texts.   She hurries to the window, but the hooded figure is gone.

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