Aired: 06/10/2014
Your favorite liars are back with the summer premiere of season five! New York City has never been so sketchy and dark. Plus, A seems to be around every corner...
1. “Don’t die on me, Mr. Fitzgerald”
First of all, I really hope no surgeon actually asks patients not to die during surgery. That’s just silly. Anyway, Ezra is in the hospital after being shot by A. Aria doesn’t leave his side because I guess being shot means all is forgiven? The girls hope he knows who A is and once he wakes up, everything will be right in their messed up world. No one seems to ask who Aria is or approve her visit in any way, not even the police officers guarding his door. Clearly, this is a very well run, realistic hospital.
2. “Guess you never read Sun Tzu”
The girls put together an elaborate "The Art of War"–inspired plan to trap A. Alison runs from black hoodie into a darker and less populated area, which is always logical. The two end up on a creepy, deserted playground but have no fear—Spencer, Emily, and Hanna brought pepper spray. They have a good laugh that A (and probably the majority of the audience) has never read Sun Tzu. Turns out, it doesn’t matter because there is a whole mass of As with strange masks and voices on the playground, but they disperse after seeing a cop car. Thanks, NYPD! You guys really saved the day.
3. #MonasArmyDon’t you love how ABC Family tells you what hashtags to use when tweeting about each scene of the show? When Mona learns that Ali is alive, she makes a profound statement: “this changes everything.” No shit, Sherlock. She gathers together Lucas, Paige, Melissa, and a bunch of randos who hate Ali. Together, it is unclear what exactly they plan to do. More interestingly, Melissa has a secret, but her daddy made her promise not to tell.
4. “Is this the part where you two kiss?”CeCe escapes from the Rosewood PD and tracks down Ali in NYC. They hit up a diner with Noel Kahn, who is back and involved for no apparent reason, but he’s cute, so no one is complaining. Ali gives CeCe her Vivian Darkbloom passport, so she can escape to France. Here, we get confirmation that CeCe killed Wilden. She’s a murderer but not Red Coat. CeCe was in Ravenswood because Ezra was paying her for information (a job that puts her Wharton degree to good use). Ali asked her to pretend to be Red Coat as a distraction to A, so that Ali would have time to turn the saw off.
5. “It really is over”
The girls spend the night in the Fitzgerald family theater until Shana shows up with a black hoodie and a gun. Did she ever go back to Georgia? Apparently, all she really wants is “justice” for Jenna. Aria hits her over the head with a loaded gun (someone needs to get these girls into a real self-defense class), and she dies in the orchestra pit. Even though it makes no sense that Shana would be A, considering A started torturing Ali way before Shana and Jenna even met and even though the girls have just seen that there are multiple people working together to be A, they think it’s all over now. I guess us clueless viewers are supposed to think so too, given the preview for next week. Considering A’s history and the fact that this show has at least three full seasons left to go, I am far from convinced.
