Observations:Pretty Little Lairs

Season 3, Episode one “It Happened That Night”

3 mins- Season starts off by recapping what the major shocks that happened in season 2. Which was that Mona being “A”, Officer Garrett Reynolds was charged with the murder of Alison DiLaurentis, and Emily’s love interest Maya was murdered. After the recap the scene is place in Spencer’s house and Aria, Hannah, Emily and Spencer are sitting around the fireplace, drinking and talking what they did over the summer. As the girls talk they are all laughing and joking but Emily was drinking way more than the rest of the girls and seem to be more down than the others. Spencer makes a toast to them making it to Senior year and everyone cheer but Emily as she said “Not everyone made it” talking about Maya who was killed. The atmosphere changed instantly it became very sad and silent as the girls thought about Maya. Emily then says “To Maya” in a very sad low voice while taking slip from her cup. Hanna comforts Emily and the rest of them said “To Maya” also in low sad voices.

7 mins- Aria wakes up Hannah and finds Spencer’s back door being open. Spencer comes down stairs saying that she could not find Emily anywhere. Hannah quickly grabs her phone and starts calling Emily’s phone. The scene goes to Emily holding her phone in her hand as it ringing and having a shovel in the other hand. Emily looks like she is in a trace. The camera zooms out and we see Emily is standing at the end of an open gravel which happens to be Alison’s gravel and the casket is open with no body in it. The theme song of the show comes and afterwards we come back to being in the cemetery, the rest of the girls are with Emily trying to figure out how she got there in the first place. Spencer ask Emily for her phone and looks through it, she finds that Emily received a block call. Spencer ask Emily if she remembers who she talked to but Emily is still very drunk and only remembers being at Spencer’s house one minute and then the next she is at the grave getting the call from Hannah. Spencer still looking through Emily’s phone, finds that Emily had actually gotten a call at midnight from herself but Spencer was asleep during that time. Spencer quickly takes out her phone and realizes that someone had been in her house and used her phone to call Emily. Spencer quickly also realizes that it was a set up, Hannah and Aria grabs the shovel and buries it. Back at Spencer’s house, Spencer buries the clothes Emily was wearing and they talked about Officer Garrett Reynolds and who helped him kill Allison and Maya.

14 mins- After Hannah and Aria got rid of the shovel, they were sitting in Hannah’s car when they spotted Lucas coming out of a building and they duck down and watch him as he leaves off. In the next scene, all the girls left to go to Spencer’s cabin so that they can talk about what happened last night at the graveyard. At the cabin everyone agreed that what happened that night did not happen. The story they are going to tell was that they talked about how wonderful senior year is going to be, ate some marshmallows, and went to sleep at Spencer’s house. Aria at first wanted to go to the police but Hannah talked her out of it since they really had no evidence. Emily was shaken by last night also was talked into agreeing with the story. The scene cuts to Aria waking up from a nightmare at her boyfriend/English teacher, Ezra’s apartment. Ezra knowing about “A” comforts her and tells her that “A” can not hurt her anymore. Ezra then picks up the newspaper and asks Aria if she had heard about Allison body being taken out of the ground. Ezra starts talking about what connection Maya had to Alison that would have lead to

Garrett killing her. Ezra asks Aria what was coming up and Aria responded it was Labor day which also is Alison’s one-year anniversary of being gone. The scene cuts to Hannah shopping with her mom. Spencer’s mom (the defense attorney) comes into the store to talk to Hannah’s mom about the case against Garrett. Also about how the girls were finally having a normal life.

25 mins- Hannah goes visits Mona (“A”) in mental intuition. Hannah is trying to get through Mona but Mona is silent and is staring right through her. Hannah really just wanted figure out what happen to make Mona hate her and why she did what she did to her and the girls. Hannah did not get anything from her so she left. The scene cuts to all the girls at school, Spencer and Aria are talking about how Aria’s dad is still not okay with her dating Ezra. Then Aria goes into the bathroom and as her was in the stall she hears some noise. She calls out “is there someone here?”. She then spots someone wearing all black with their hood on (this is what A would wear). Aria begins to panic as she fears that it is “A” even though Mona is locked away. This person goes up the stall and Aria begins screaming. Soon after Hannah and Spencer come in the bathroom and finds Aria on the bathroom floor, scared out of her mind and crying. Hannah and Spencer comfort her and reassuring that Mona was locked up and can not hurt them anymore.

30 mins- Aria is helping her pack her things since her mom and dad are separating due to having a lot of problems in their relationship. Aria blames them separating on her relationship with Ezra. Aria’s mom reassures her that was not the case. The scene cuts to Emily in the coffee shop and Toby walks up to her. They begin to talk about how toby moved out and he said how much he is glad to be free. Emily asked about how Jenna (his sister) is doing, he reply that he does not really know. They then begin to talk about what happened to Allison grave site and he was just disgusted with whoever could do that and Emily is trying to put on a brave face and seem like she does not know about what happen. Emily then says she had something important to tell him. The scene is then cut to Spencer sitting in her car at night. She gets out of her car in front of a closed down resort called “Lost Woods Resort”. She begins to walk into the woods.

Season 3, Episode 2“Blood is the New Black”

3 mins- This episode starts off with Spencer, Aria, and Emily in class. Aria’s mom is teaching the class and as she is talking about everyone needs to take notes, Emily is going through her bag when she pulls out this necklace with teeth on it and it said “Dead Girls Can’t Smile”. Emily freaks out and runs out of class, Aria and Spencer run after her. Emily runs passes Hannah going towards the bathroom all the girls now follow her to bathroom, confused about what happened. Hannah, Spencer, and Aria walk into the bathroom to find Emily still upset and washing her hands. Aria asks Emily what was wrong so Emily pulls out the necklace and hands it to Aria. Aria freaks and passes it to Hannah who then passes it to Spencer. Aria ask if those were real teeth and if they were Alison’s teeth. Emily who is still freaked out and wanted the necklace gone. Aria starts to get mad and saying how someone stole Allison’s bones and now are they going to start getting pieces of her too. Spencer still looking at the teeth, says that the teeth are not even human. But Hannah said they was real human teeth.

7 mins- While the girls were talking the necklace, they heard girls coming into the bathroom, so they all rush into a stall. Aria starts talking about how they need to go to the police and stop

digging themselves a hole. Aria believes that “A” is trying to frame them for Alison’s body being gone. Spencer strongly disagrees being that they have already lied to the police before. Emily does not want to get the rest of the girls in trouble so she volunteers to take the blame for everything. The other girls disagree with her and then Emily says just get rid of the necklace. Hannah grabs for the necklace and Aria having it in her hand drops it into the toilet. Spencer starts to reach into the toilet for the necklace but then the school bell rang and she moved her hand which caused for the toilet to flush, causing them to lose the necklace. Spencer wants Hannah to go visit Mona at Radley to get more information out of her and Spencer was going to go to Garret to also get more information. While walking through the halls Emily was expressing to Aria and Emily about how she might fail the 11th grade and how she missed a lot of school. As they were talking Aria notices a blonde woman talking to the principal and she figures out who it is was, it is Meredith Sorenson (Aria’s Dad had affair with Meredith).

14 mins- Aria questioned Meredith about why she was at her school. And Meredith said she was applying for the open teaching job. As Spencer is talking to Garret, he hints at the fact that some has been lying to her about their medical records. Spencer all confused asks him if it was Alison, he didn’t respond and then she asks if it was Jenna’s and he doesn’t respond either. He motions for the prison guard to take him back. Spencer still asking if it was Jenna’s records he was talking about. Hannah is now at Radley talking to Mona, telling about the stuff that has been happening at school, trying to get Mona to talk to her. Mona does not respond and just stares at Hannah. Hannah gets very upset and starts telling Mona how she owes her since Hannah did not tell the police about Mona trying to run her over. Emily meets Ezra for help for her make up English exam. Emily was very uncomfortable with Ezra being that he is dating Aria.

25 mins- Spencer ask Toby whether of not he knew where Jenna went after music camp. Toby didn’t really know because his parents were trying to give her space after her eye surgery (she was blind because of Alison) didn’t work. The girls were at school walking to Aria’s locker and when she opened it, she found an envelope with an earring in it. It then goes into a flashback with Aria and Alison breaking into Aria’s fathers’ office to see if they can find any evidence that he was still seeing Meredith. Alison finds an earring in the couch that matches the earring that was in Aria’s locker in the present time. Aria then looks in the couch and finds the other matching earring. Aria gets mad at the fact her father is still seeing Meredith and Alison tells her the best way to get Meredith out of her life to show her father the type of person she is. So they began to destroy he office and make it seem like Meredith did it. Now it flashes back to the present time. Hannah ask if Aria been keeping it and she responds no because she put the earrings in Alison’s casket. So the girls now know someone stole them out of Alison’s grave. Spencer’s mom finds out she went to the prison to see Garrett. Her mom tells her to never go back because it was not Spencer’s job to question him about what happened.

30 mins- Aria is sitting in her room looking at the earning, when she gets a text from “A” saying “Daddy needs to know. Or I let the other one go. To the police. ‘Night-Night. –A.” Aria then hears movement outside of her window and she looks around but didn’t see anyone. The next day Aria tells her dad that it wasn’t Meredith that trash his office, it was her. Her dad gets upset because he nearly called the police on her and said some harsh words to her. Her demanded that she gives Meredith an apology. Toby shows Spencer Jenna’s eye drops that was used for when

she got her surgery and Toby thinks that Jenna can actually see because she keeps renewing her prescription for the eye drops.

Season 3, Episode 3“Kingdom of the blind”

3 mins- The girls find out that Jenna can actually see and that she has been faking it. As they were walking the hall, they hear the principal yelling at Lucas about his grades. Lucas walks in front of them and gives them a dirty look and walks away. Hannah follows him and asks him what happened. He said that he wasn’t being a positive student anymore and that was negatively impacted his grades. He then pulls out a lighter and burns the paper and throws it in the trash can. Hannah freaks out and tries to put out the fire but Caleb comes to her rescue and puts it out. He is very confused on what happened.

7 mins- Hannah explains to Caleb what happened in the class with Lucas. Caleb is trying to convinces Hannah that Lucas is just going through a phase of being a bad boy. Hannah wants Caleb to go talk to Lucas and Caleb said he doesn’t want Hannah to go to Radley to see Mona again. Aria tries to get closer to Jenna to expose her about being able to see. The girls talk about how Jenna might be apart of the “A” team and they began to talk about whoever took Alison’s casket has all the stuff they put in there. Emily talks about how it might be a trap though. Suddenly Emily get a text from Aria’s mom about her English make up test. Emily got a 94% on her test and she knows it now right because she left the back of the test blank. Emily thinks someone went in and changed her grade.

14 mins- Caleb goes and talks to Lucas and what is bothering him. Caleb tells Lucas that he knows about “A” and Lucas hits that its not over and he shouldn’t be close when it happens. Emily goes to talk to Aria’s Mom about her grade and ask her if it was correct. She recurs Emily that her grade is correct. Emily expresses to her that she couldn’t have gotten a 94 on the test because she did not complete the test and how she thinks someone did something the test before she got it and that she did not do it. Aria’s mom tells Emily that her grade is correct and her test was completed. Spencer and Melissa (her sister) was at home and Spencer asks her about Washington. Their mom walks in and has to talk to both of them. She tells them that she is going to resent Garrett in his case and she was doing it for free. Spencer is very upset at this because she does not understand why her mom would defend him after he killed Maya. Spencer is also upset that Melissa is not saying anything about it and she said that it had nothing to do with her. Emily tells Aria that she thinks her mom finished her test for her and Aria does not think it’s a bad thing being that it isn’t “A”. Spencer asks Melissa how does she feel about their mom working on Garrett case and Melissa does not feel anything about it.

25 mins- Aria is playing the keyboard in Jenna’s house as Jenna is playing the flute. Jenna begins to ask about how Emily was and talked about Emily sounds strong but she thinks she can only handle so much Aria talks about how someone took Alison’s casket. The girls are back at Spencer’s house and they are talking about Spencer’s mom is defending Garrett. Hannah talks about how maybe Garrett was the one who got Melissa pregnant and that’s why Spencer mom is doing what she doing for him. Spencer does not want to believe that her sister got pregnant by Garrett. Hannah goes visit Mona again at Radley. Mona this time is talking and happier. Mona

said they changed her meds. As Hannah is leaving she sees Lucas go into Radley visiting someone.

30 mins- As Hannah walks out of Radley she sees Caleb waiting outside for her. He is very mad that she came back after they had a deal that she wouldn’t go back. Caleb starts calling Mona a crazy person and Hannah starts defending her saying that he doesn’t understand her. She needs help and Hannah wants answer to what happen with Mona. Hannah then notices Lucas leaving Radley. Hannah questions Lucas about visiting Mona and he said that she doesn’t even know if Mona is really crazy or not. Hannah doesn’t understand why Mona would fake being crazy and Lucas explain how it was better and safer than being in prison. Hannah ad Aria are in Hannah’s car watching to see what Jenna is doing. Spencer posing as her sister calls the hospital that Melissa said that she was at, to get an abortion. But the lady on the phone said they had no record of Melissa being there.