ANNOUNCER: Previously on Pretty Little Liars:
I can't ever picture Alison wearing this.
A picture of Vivian Darkbloom.
- They offered me the job. - What did you say?
- My dad, is he your father too? - Who told you?
- It's none of your business where he is. - It's my business. I just didn't know.
- Ezra's taking that job in New Orleans. - What job?
ARIA: The job that Dad set him up with.
I want to understand what this is.
- What's wrong? - It's Spencer.
Before you got together, she was seeing someone else.
He's back now.
If you're not gonna give answers, I'm gonna have to go looking.
Give me your phone. Hanna!
DUNCAN: Vivian?
Well, he recognized the coat.
That's what he saw at first, and he thought I was Alison.
Vivian.
When we noticed you didn't come back, he was gone.
- He was cute from the back. - So was his front.
Under different circumstances.
He's been in Florida for, like, a year.
What did you tell him exactly?
Uh, I told him that I was a friend of Vivian's...
...and that I hadn't seen her since she gave me the coat.
- Can I see that number again? - Yeah.
SPENCER: Thanks.
- "Duncan Albert." - He said he met her in Brookhaven?
In a bookstore. Couple places down from that creepy doll hospital.
Whoever Duncan is, he's connected to Alison and what she wanted in Brookhaven.
How do we know that he wasn't just some guy she flirted with?
I don't think Alison wasted Vivian on flirting.
When she put that wig on, she wanted something.
She was looking for A.
Duncan was part of that trail.
- I'll call him. - Aria, you don't have to.
- Any one of us could've wearing that coat. - But it was me.
HANNA: She had the operation.
ARIA: Spence.
I'm not being unreasonable, I'm your mother.
No, you are cutting me off from the world.
I'm not the one who ruined your phone, you are.
And since you were okay about doing that, you don't need a replacement.
I can't go around without a phone. That's like going around without a brain or shoes.
A phone is a privilege, not a right.
Suppose there's an emergency.
I'm sure Emily would let you use her phone in an emergency.
Sure.
I mean, well, yeah.
Okay, no. Emily and I only have one class together.
- I need my own phone. - Today is about what I need.
I need to know about what's going on in my daughter's life.
When you decide to talk about that, we can discuss a new phone.
I'll see you both at dinner.
It's really old, like, six months, but it works pretty good for an antique.
The number bills to my account, so your mom never has to know.
Oh, Mona, you are a lifesaver.
What's the point in doing something if it doesn't make you look good?
I'm already number one on the speed dial. Ciao.
If we could harness Mona's sense of entitlement...
...we could light the Eastern seaboard.
I don't care. I got a new phone and didn't have to go through Caleb.
- He's safe in Montecito. - Did you get through to Duncan yet?
He's coming after school. I'm gonna meet him in the courtyard.
That sounds safe.
- Yeah. - Later.
Bye.
[PHONE BEEPS]
Hello.
You're back.
I mean, obviously, you're back. There you are.
Yeah, we're back.
Are you okay?
Fine.
Uh, Jenna's eye...
She got the surgery.
Yeah, she did.
Just the one eye?
They do it in one eye at a time.
How did it go?
Well, we don't know yet.
I was a little surprised to see you guys together.
Why?
I don't know.
Yes, I do, actually.
You went through so much to get away from her, and now you're guiding her.
Not for much longer.
Besides, she's my sister.
Stepsister.
She's been through a lot.
Worse than any of us.
That's coming to an end.
You better get used to that idea.
Toby...
...I've been thinking a lot about us.
It's a little late for that, isn't it?
Toby? I'm ready to go.
Spencer, is that you?
Yeah.
I thought so.
So were you looking for Vivian in Brookhaven?
Can I ask you a question first?
Sure.
Is Aria your real name?
What?
Yes, of course, it is. Why would you ask that?
Because Vivian's real name wasn't Vivian.
And if you're her friend, you'll know her real name.
Alison.
We have a winner.
So where is she?
Duncan...
...Alison's dead.
I'm sorry.
She disappeared Labor Day weekend year before last.
Disappeared? What happened?
- Look, I-- Maybe-- - What happened to her?
She was killed and they didn't find her body for a year.
DUNCAN: Do they know who did it?
No.
- The cops must have some ideas. - Yeah, we don't really trust the cops.
Who's we?
Me and some of Alison's friends.
You're the one who kept the journals, the writer.
She talked about you.
There are four of you, right?
- She talked about us? - Yes.
She talked about you guys a lot.
Did she ever talk about anyone else?
Someone that she might've been afraid of?
Look, maybe we shouldn't be talking about this here.
Did you only meet her in that bookstore?
No, we spent a lot of time together that summer.
- In Brookhaven? - Near Brookhaven.
Well, I could meet you there.
I'll call you.
The weekend you said she disappeared...
...I saw her that weekend.
SPENCER: Duncan saw Ali that weekend?
Are we sure we believe him?
He was all torn up when I told him she was dead.
He couldn't have been faking that.
- Em, you okay? - Sure.
[ENGINE REVS]
Why is Garret in such a hurry?
[PHONES RINGING]
"Where there's smoke, there's payback. A."
- Wait, what's going on? - I don't know.
What are they talking to the fire department about?
- They're talking about that night. SPENCER: The Jenna thing.
Are you serious?
What could Toby be telling them?
I did such a good job of screwing him up.
He might say anything Jenna wants him to say.
That we were the ones who blinded Jenna?
Alison and us.
Remember that old movie about the blind lady...
...that got her sight back?
- I don't remember. - She filled her room with beautiful things...
...so she could see them when she opened her eyes.
I'm gonna do that. Before they take the bandages off...
...I'm gonna fill my room with the things that I love.
You'll be there too.
That woman in the movie was a mean old bitch.
I thought you said you don't remember.
I hope you didn't take that cast off by yourself.
Was out of town. I saw another doctor.
Well, don't favor it. Did they give you exercises?
Yes.
Good.
I'm Jenna, Toby's sister.
I'm Dr. Kingston. I helped your brother when he had his accident.
I remember.
- Does Spencer know you're back? - Yes.
- Nice meeting you, Jenna. - Thank you for looking after my brother.
Glad to be of service.
So that's Spencer's personal physician?
That's him.
I bet even a lie would sound good in that accent.
Hey.
- Hey. - Are you okay?
[SPENCER SCOFFS]
I don't know.
You thinking about Toby?
Is that my fault?
Did I make that happen?
You broke off with him to keep him safe.
Yeah, I wanted him safe, and he ended up back with Jenna.
It's like out of the frying pan and into the volcano.
I made you help.
What are friends for?
Have you heard from your dad?
He e-mailed me on a layover in Germany.
Are you okay?
You never get used to it, if that's what you mean.
My mom's gonna be back here next week.
Have Maya's parent's heard from her?
No, they haven't.
I have.
- What? - Yeah, she's all right.
- Where is she? - She hasn't told me yet.
- Are you gonna tell her parents? - She asked me not to.
But I keep thinking how my parents would feel if I was missing.
You know, I don't know.
[BELL RINGS]
Better go.
JASON: Spencer. Emily.
Hey, I'm so sorry that I haven't called you back.
- My reserves have been really depleted. - This isn't about...
Um, I've got some of Alison's things.
I'm not really sure what to do with them.
What kind of things?
They're in a bag that was left when we moved out.
Maya said her family found them.
She said that they packed up some of Ali's things by accident.
- Maya dropped them off at the house. - Maya did?
- Did you talk to her? - The bag was on the porch.
And then I saw in the paper Maya was missing. Is that true?
- Yeah. - So the bag has Ali's stuff in it?
Yeah. Some of the things from her room.
I just thought you guys might wanna have a look.
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Yeah?
Can I interrupt?
Yes. Come in.
I could offer you chocolate milk or an apple.
Thank you, but, no.
I was thinking about the conversation we had in your apartment.
- Yes. - I've never had a conversation like that.
Neither have I.
So I wanted to make sure I didn't leave you with the wrong impression.
Just because I wanna talk about this does not make me an ally.
I know, compared to my husband's attitude, it may look that way.
But I'm not.
The only person I care about here is my daughter.
So you want me gone too. Out of sight, out of mind.
That's what Byron is thinking.
That's why he engineered that job offer for you.
But I don't really have an opinion on that.
Yes, you do.
Yes, I do.
Ella...
...it does actually matter what you think of me.
Has Aria ever mentioned someone bullying her?
Bullying's not the right word.
Do you know of anyone who would use this situation to hurt her?
Not her, not intentionally.
What about you? Is there someone who would wanna hurt you intentionally?
There might've been, but not anymore.
Frankly, I'd love to take that cane and whack her like a piñata.
- Mona. - Just kidding. Sort of.
She poached Noel Kahn right from under me.
And she did that blind.
What's Jenna gonna be like if she gets to see again?
I can't even think about it.
Well, Spencer is lucky to be finished with Toby and the house of creeps.
Okay, she is still hurting here.
Look, Spencer's really smart.
She said some things to me when Noel was slicing up my heart that really helped.
I mean, I get that they're broken up, but he shouldn't hate her.
I just wish there was a way to get Toby away from Jenna for five minutes.
- Are we scheming? - I think so.
Goody.
Thanks so much for meeting me here. My schedule's been just really stacked.
Are you sure you wouldn't want something a little easier to handle?
Oh, no, it's not for me.
I told you, it's for my cousin.
Yeah, he's going through this really big rockabilly phase.
So I told him I'd keep an eye out for appropriate transportation.
Oh. Look, a cassette player.
How déclassé.
Your cousin's gonna have to find another truck.
- Just give me five minutes. - He's all yours.
- We have to talk. - We've got nothing to talk about.
I get how you're mad at Spencer.
But you're so mad, you don't see what you're doing.
Toby, you cannot let Jenna back into your life again.
You need to shut up about my sister.
- If you're doing this to hurt Spencer-- - You have no idea what I'm doing...
...or why I'm doing it.
Okay, fine. I don't know anything.
But what about you?
Did you forget everything Jenna did to you?
No. Did you forget what you did to her?
JASON: Maya said this was in the attic, like it was hidden.
- Have you looked inside? - Just enough to know it's Alison's.
[KNOCKS]
SPENCER: Hey. ARIA: Hey.
Okay, so Duncan just called back and he wants to talk.
Is that Alison's bag?
- Yeah, that's it. Come take a look. - I can't. I told Duncan I'd go meet him.
- Where? - Uh, a place called Hallow Acres.
- He said he used to go there with Alison. - Just give us a call as soon as you can.
I will. I promise.
Hey, Em. Bye.
EMILY: Bye.
[BEETHOVEN'S "FUR ELISE" PLAYING ON MUSIC BOX]
She had that when she was a kid.
If there's, uh, anything you guys find in here you wanna keep, take it.
- Bring the bag back when you're done. - Okay.
- If I'm not there, just drop it on the porch. - Thank you, Jason.
Did he ask to come here?
No. I invited him.
Don't ever do that again.
- We don't need to complicate things. - I'm trying to un-complicate them.
Well, don't. Leave it alone. There's nothing for you to fix.
So, what, we're just supposed to go back to the way it was before we all knew?
Further, if possible.
ARIA: Hi. DUNCAN: You're late.
Yeah, it kind of took me a while to find you.
You and Ali came here?
On the days I took her flying, yeah.
Flying.
- In a plane? - Usually.
- You have, like, a license or something? - Not like a license, an actual license.
Pilot since I was 16.
So you ready?
I'm sorry. Ready for what?
To talk about Alison.
[SPENCER SIGHS]
I thought we'd find something.
Me too. I don't know why, but I did.
It's just stuff.
Disconnected stuff.
[ENGINE ROARS]
How often did you take her flying?
On and off that summer.
As often as I could.
Can I ask you something else?
Was I in love with her?
I could've been, if somebody hadn't gotten in the way.
- Another boy? - That's what I figured.
At least I had her all to myself up here.
It made her feel safe.
Safe?
Yeah, nothing could get to her.
She had control.
- Do you wanna try it? - Do I wanna what?
- Take the yoke. - No, thanks.
You wanna understand your friend?
What she was looking for?
Take control.
All right, you got it?
I got it.
How does it feel?
I don't know.
She'd sit in that seat...
...I could just see her face change.
No masks...
...nothing to hide from or be afraid of.
They couldn't get to her.
Who's they?
Maybe a stranger.
Maybe some boy she knew.
Maybe a friend.
[ARIA GASPS]
- Keep it level. - I don't wanna do this anymore.
Just a little bit longer.
I've done some reading since we talked.
The papers said a man named Ian Thomas confessed to killing Alison...
...before he committed suicide.
Left a note and everything.
The note-- The note was fake.
We don't think that he did it. We think that he--
[GASPS]
We think that he was trying to protect somebody.
Look, Alison called me from Hilton Head, Sunday that Labor Day weekend.
She wanted me to fly her from South Carolina...
...to a field outside Philadelphia.
You flew her from Hilton Head?
Picked her up that morning.
She was different that day.
She figured something out.
Wait, if Ali was with you, she was in town six, seven hours...
...before we thought she got there.
I got a message you wanted to talk to me?
Yes, I do.
I got another call from Professor Schaffer...
...about the associate dean position in New Orleans.
He wants my decision.
Oh, it's a choice assignment.
It is, and I'm gonna call him in a few minutes...
...but I wanted to tell you first.
- Why me? - Well, because you were so instrumental...
...in my being considered.
Well, I wouldn't say instrumental. I mean, I might've mentioned your name.
That was very generous of you.
That's why I don't want there to be any misunderstanding...
...when I tell you that I'm not taking the job.
Well, I think you're making a mistake.
Possibly, but it's not the mistake you think I'm making.
You need to reconsider this. Seriously reconsider it.
I know it is a spectacular job...
...that will put my career years ahead of schedule.
But if I took it, I'd never be completely sure why I took it.
And I don't want you to have that kind of power over me.
Where do you get the nerve to talk to me this way?
After what you've done to my family?
I'm sorry about that.
Well, I don't accept your apology.
You need to go.
For the sake of everyone involved, you should simply leave.
It's like this, Byron.
You think I'm the kind of man who would take this way out.
And I know I'm not.
Well, we could've resolved this and moved on.
But, apparently, ego's gonna get in the way.
Whose ego are we talking about?
Aria, it's me.
Call me when you can.
I love you.
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
EMILY: I'm fine, don't worry.
I won't take chances, because I'm not as brave as you think I am.
You are the brave one.
No, I'm not.
EMILY: You know what else I love about you?
You know how to be still.
In the middle of everything, at a swim meet with all the craziness and pressure...
...I look at you and you're still.
I wish I could do that.
But I'm impatient.
I shouldn't have come back.
I should've just left and we'd always have had that last night instead of this mess.
I guess goodbyes are the only perfect things we get.
Don't tell my folks.
I'll talk to them when I'm ready.
Maya.
[SIGHS]
Is he coming back for that?
No. I'm taking it over.
Don't go in the house. Just give it to him and come back.
Mom, we can't go on like this. You have to deal with what's happened.
- This is how I choose to deal with it. - By ignoring it?
Or maybe it'll just go away? That's not going to happen.
Look, we each know little chunks of the truth and we have to share...
...otherwise this is all gonna come apart. Come apart? It's gonna blow apart.
Do you think that that boy has this family's interests in mind? Do you?
That boy is my brother.
He's the one who wants to blow things up.
That's what they've always wanted.
Your father and I, we've been the ones who have kept things together.
Do not listen to Jason.
Did Dad tell you that I thought he was being blackmailed?
What did you say?
Yeah, Jason found money.
Ali had it...
...and he thought it was because she knew that Dad was his father...
...and she was blackmailing him that summer.
- You talked to your father about this? - Yes.
- And what did he say? - He denied it.
And I believed him. And then I didn't believe him.
And then I looked in the checkbook, and he told me that he used the money...
...to pay for a detective.
A detective.
Yes, because he thought that Meliss--
Do you see? Do you see how this all just spins and feeds on itself?
Mom.
The detective wasn't your father's idea.
It was mine.
So he wasn't there when you dropped it off?
No, the house was dark, so I just left it on the back porch.
And then I came back here and I found you lurking in the hydrangeas.
Okay, I was not lurking.
I was just working up the nerve to tell you about Toby.
- Did I mess it up even more? - I don't see how that's humanly possible.
Okay, so there was nothing important in that bag?
I don't know what we thought we'd find. It was just a bunch of kid stuff.
Man, times are tough.
Michelle Obama wore this same blouse two years ago.
- Wait, where did you get this? - I was sitting on it.
That stuff in the bag was wrapped up in newspaper from July, 2009.
- So? - So we thought Maya's parents...
...wrapped that stuff but Ali did before she disappeared.
Spence, look.
Yeah, this one's highlighted too.
Go through the backyard and get that bag off Jason's porch.
- I'm gonna call Aria and Emily. - Did something just happen?
We were looking in the bag for clues...
...but we should've been looking at the whole bag as a clue.
You were trying to buy him off. How did you think he would react?
- You sound very close to defending him. - I'm not defending anyone.
I don't know what you thought you were going to accomplish by strong-arming him.
Strong-arming?
A dream job with housing? That's what you call strong-arming?
You should've known what he was gonna do.
- When I talked to him-- - Wait, you talked to Ezra?
Yes, I did.
It is possible to communicate with something other than threats.
So he was getting mixed signals from us.
This family invented mixed signals.
Well, he's talked to Schaffer by now and turned him down.
It's out of my hands.
What is out of your hands?
I know how you feel about the way I'm handling this situation.
Yeah, it's complicated.
Well, maybe we're making it complicated when the answer is really simple...
...and right in front of us.
It will not be so simple if she runs away or elopes.
I don't want Aria with him any more than you do.
But if you back him into a corner, nobody will end up happy.
[OBJECTS BREAKING]
[GASPS]
Jenna!
Hanna! Hanna!
Got her.
- Are you okay? - I'm fine, just get her down.
I got her.
- Toby? TOBY: I'm here.
- A hospital? - You're okay.
Was there a fire?
Do you remember where you were?
Um, I got a text.
I listened, it was from Jason.
He said he had to talk to me.
You were gone, so I took a cab.
I rang the doorbell, someone opened it, and...
That's all I can remember.
Did Jason's house catch on fire?
Yes.
I woke up in that place.
And I couldn't see.
And there was smoke in my throat.
How did I get out, Toby? Did Jason get me out?
No.
It was Hanna Marin who got you out.
Wait, so he flew her on a plane?
From Hilton Head to an airstrip outside Philadelphia.
What about the bus ride from her grandmother's?
We never saw her get off the bus. We saw her get out of the cab.
She could've been in Rosewood hours before.
- Doing what? ASHLEY: Hanna.
What happened? Are you all right?
No, I'm fine. I just need to wash my hair. I'm all smoky.
Get this in the fire?
Yeah. There was something that I needed on the porch...
...and there was glass.
Well, you're not gonna need stitches.
So I just clean this up, put a dressing on it...
...and send you home with some antibiotics.
Thank you.
How's Melissa?
Um, she's in Philadelphia.
Oh. I see that the carpenter is back.
- And his sister. - She's not what I was expecting.
What was she doing in that house by herself?
I don't know.
Spencer, I hate to break this to you...
...but you have a very complicated life.
[LAUGHS]
Is that your medical opinion?
Yes. Yes, it is, actually.
Well, the condition is hereditary...
...so there's really not much I can do about it.
Ah, well, don't be so certain of that...
...because modern medicine's made great advances in this field.
You have to agree, fate keeps shoving us into the same path.
Don't confuse fate with just...
...really bad luck.
As much as I hate to do this...
...I have to ask you a direct question.
Do you want to agree that certain things between us never happened?
No.
I wouldn't take back anything.
What was Jenna doing in my house?
Don't you know?
No. I was halfway to Scranton...
...when I got a call from the police saying there had been a fire.
How bad was it?
First floor is pretty much damaged in the back...
...but I won't really know much else till morning.
I'm so sorry.
I should probably go talk to Spencer's mom.
Hi, Mrs. St. Germain. It's Emily.
I wanted to talk to you about Maya.
I know you're worried, and I think she's okay.
No, but I heard from her.
I got an e-mail.
Spencer, Jenna wants to talk to you.
All of you.
Okay.
Are you all right?
I think so.
ARIA: Jason was miles away when the police called him.
He didn't send you that text.
Somebody did.
Meaning one of us.
You can't blame this on us.
[WHIMPERING]
I don't.
You should go.
Wait.
Hanna, are you there?
I'm here.
Toby said that you were the one that dragged me out.
Is that right?
Yeah, that was me.
Why?
You're welcome.
EMILY: They're all from that summer.
There's gotta be some kind of key.
We're the key.
I mean, Ali said we know more about what happened than we think we do.
Who tricked Jenna into that house?
Well, if it was anybody but Jenna, I think it'd be A.
Garrett can't be happy that Toby's back in that house.
She was supposed to die in there, wasn't she?
That's everything.
No, it's not.
- Anybody recognize this? - Is there anything on the back?
Yeah, number one.
ARIA: It's just half a postcard.
- How do we find out where it's from? - Yeah. Where's the other half?
Wait, this isn't from July, it's from the end of August. Look.
Its Labor Day events from Philadelphia, Brookhaven...
...and Rosewood.
When did Duncan say he left Ali at the airfield?
Before noon on Sunday.
Well, is this where she was when we thought she was on that bus?
Who did she plan on meeting?
[BEETHOVEN'S "FUR ELISE" PLAYING ON MUSIC BOX]