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The best part of the episode was the cold opening and it didn’t even mention Harrisburg. It had Perd Hapley from “Parks and Rec” and he interviewed Sara Shepard (the author of the PLL series) playing Sara Shepard a legal expert. They discussed Ali’s case and it was awesome, I loved it. Well let’s get to the recap.

We start off with the surprise witness, Leslie. Remember Leslie? Mona’s friend that no one knew about. Well she has a card from Mona implicating that Ali threatened to kill her and stated that all of Ali’s friends, especially Hanna, and Mona’s boyfriend Mike, practically stalked and attacked her. This did not look good for the Liars so they went looking for anything that could help them.

They believe that someone may have seen Ali at the playground thereby giving her an alibi. With a trip to the playground and a brief encounter in school, Spencer and Emily amazingly find the person that was at the playground with Ali. Her name is Kendra and she even agrees (after some help from Aria’s mom) to cooperate even though it would be self-incriminating since she was coming down from the drug speed at the time. Ali’s lawyer decides not to use her cause of the whole on drugs thing. So this was all just pointless.

While all this is going on Aria is freaking out about Mike testifying. Even though he is Ali’s best hope, Aria believes that A will come after Mike and the rest of them if he does and A sent them a tongue to that effect. She decides to send him with Ezra to Ezra’s cabin in the Poconos. When they get there Caleb is waiting to bring Mike back and Mike wants to go back but before they do he drives off. When they go after him they are shot at with arrows (remember that because we will talk about it later) and Mike is blinded, beat up and tied to a tether pole. When they report it to Tanner she doesn’t care and says they should have reported where it happened.

On the boyfriend front, Caleb is the best, visiting Hanna and trying to help her by getting Mike. Aria is still kind of in-between Ezra and Andrew, she’s not quite over Ezra and not totally into Andrew, plus they keep making Andrew shady, trying to trick us into thinking that he is A.   We finally get to see Toby when he bumps into Spencer; they have a talk where she admits what happened in London and by the end of the episode Toby is going to tell Tanner that if she has a problem with him dating Spencer then she will have to fire him. However before he can tell Tanner that there is all this new evidence and she is too busy to talk to him.

At the trial, Ali’s lawyer shows that Ali broke her arm when she was two and it never healed right so her arm is super weak making it impossible for her to kill Mona. It looks like she will get off until the prosecution shows that Ali won an archery contest in camp. She is found guilty and the other Liars are arrested as well for some reason (probably the new evidence that Tanner got). Ali also admits to her lawyer that she rigged the archery contest with her roommate. I told you we would get back to the arrows. It is no coincidence that Mike, Ezra and Caleb had arrows shot at them the same episode we find out about Ali winning an archery contest in camp. Could it be that A is a fellow camper that would have won the contest if Ali didn’t cheat and is bent on revenge?

I was and wasn’t surprised that they found Ali guilty. I wasn’t because this is PLL and A controls everything so there was no way she would get off. It was just there was no physical evidence; there was no body, no evidence that Ali was at the scene of the crime, it was Hanna’s blood found on Mona’s clothes. Everything else is circumstantial and they might have been able to get a manslaughter charge but first degree without any physical evidence is imposable, unless you are A.

·        They kept calling Mike “just a kid” since he is 16 but the liars are only 17/18 (even though they are played by actors in their late 20s and early 30s) so how much of a kid could Mike be?

·        I still don’t get why Ali and Hanna injured themselves

·        It looked like Ali figured out Mona’s notecard from last week but her lawyer took it away before we could find out what it said

·        I know I have been saying that this would be the final but there is one more episode

·        Was it juice or sauce?

·        One more episode this time for real

·        I’m glad Perd still has work

Well that is all I have to say about that