Wow! The wait is finally over and we now know that ChArles is Cece and find out her whole story. I think this was even better than the leaked ending on reddit where Wren is ChArles.
So the episode starts with the ending and flashes back to Ali locked in Radley and her dad and brother looking dead on the floor outside her room. The Liars are still at Prom waiting for the cops. they are lead out by a red cape that ends up being Mona. they go to the Cabrini group or whatever it is called and see utility workers loading duffel bags into the back of a van, we never find out what that was about. They sneak in and after a couple failed tries Sara gives them the date of September 7th and they are able to get into ChArles control center, it kind of looks like something out a "2001: A Space Odyssey". Sara does not go in the the Liars are locked in watching a live feed of Ali on a hologram screen.
Cece explains to Ali, her dad and n=brother who are drugged but can still hear everything, and the Liars watching on the hologram her whole story. As a child he loved baby Ali because it was having a living doll to play with. They then showed the flashback where ChArles puts baby Ali in the tub and Mr. D saves her. He was already upset with his son wanting to wear girls clothes so that was the straw the broke the camel's back and ChArles was sent to Radley. Mrs. D would visit and bring him dresses and stuff. He was friends with Bethany till one night Toby's mom came up and Bethany flipped out pushed her off the roof and blamed ChArles for it. Everyone believed Bethany that it was ChArles and Mrs. D covered it up to protect her son, the the official record said it was a suicide.
They then had a funeral for ChArles and he became a she called ChArlot. She was doing well and was even allowed to attend University of Pennsylvania. She already knew everything they were teaching so she went to Rosewood and meet Jason there and said her name was Cece. They started dating, and spent that summer at the cape as Jason's girlfriend and got close with Ali that summer.
Cece knew that Bethany was going to kill Mrs. D so she had to stop her. But she ended up knocking out Ali instead. Mrs D thinking Ali is dead buried her as we already knew and paid Wildon to claim that both he and Cece were out of town that night and bring her back to Radley for good. Mona at this point admits to the Liars that she killed Bethany thinking that it was Ali.
Once Mona was in Radley Cece would visit her while she, Mona, was drugged up and find out all about the Liars and found out that Ali was actually alive. Cece new the only way to lore Ali out in the open was to put the Liars lives in danger, this was when the cabin got burned down; her plan did not work, however we do find out that it was Sara who was redcoat that night, she was also the black widow at Wilden's funeral. Emily is super upset and rightfully so.
The Liars have had enough and breakout of the control room, Mona stays, and they head over to Radley and disable the bomb Cece and Sara had to blow up Radley. Emily also gets to punch Sara square in the jaw. They follow Cece to the roof and even after all the horrible things she had put them through they talk her down, now that they understand her reasons behind doing it.
They then all go to separate colleges and there is a flash forward Five years, Ali looks like she is teaching at Rosewood when the other liars run in and state that he is back! The end.
side notes
- I think the mothers are still locked in the basement from last week
- it's great that they lept forward 5 years now the 30 year old actors will be playing 23 year olds instead of 18
- was Ali writing her name on the board as Mrs Rossum?
- it was nice that they cleared Rhys of any wrong doing
- we still don't know who killed Mrs D
- do you think that Hanna's mom is married to rev ted yet?
well that is all I have to say about that
