#pll squad

To summarize, in the Season 4 finale, Melissa ostensibly confesses to Peter, in a whisper, that she’s the one who pushed a body she thought was Ali’s into a grave. Season 5 opens with just the two of them knowing this information. There’s a scene near the beginning of the episode where Melissa almost confesses this to Veronica, which causes Peter, who has been sipping a drink in the background, to look alarmed for the first time all scene. Before Melissa can say anything, Detective Holbrook arrives, and Melissa loses her chance. 

If you want to follow along, this next scene happens in Season 5, Episode 1, at around the 15-minute mark:

(In true Hastings family fashion, Peter startles Melissa by waiting up for her in absolute darkness, drink in hand) Melissa: I can’t keep this a secret anymore. I want to tell Holbrook the truth. When Spencer finds out, she’ll have a reason to come home. (Peter finishes his drink and rises from the table, stepping toward Melissa in such a menacing way that Melissa looks frightened and steps backward. He reaches behind her, once again causing her to cower away, and grabs the rest of his liquor bottle) Peter: Your mother… can never know what you told me. (Peter exits. End scene)

Notice how Peter says nothing about Holbrook/the police finding out, despite Melissa directly mentioning it a moment ago. It’s Veronica that can never find out.

WHY? This is suddenly seeming so strange and much more “loaded” to me, especially if you watch the scene and really see his creepy, near-threatening, intensity. At the time, I think I/we just wrote it off as, “He doesn’t want Veronica to be hurt by the truth”, and maybe that really is all it is. But the more we learn about Peter, the less I believe he’s ever had Veronica’s best interest in mind (hi, Jason and Spencer!), and it seemed to ring more of wanting to control the information rather than anyone being hurt by it.

Does this mean that…

1. Peter thought/knew more about Bethany Young (or even who we think is Bethany Young… I know they said dental records were used to confirm her, but the Rosewood Police has seen bigger fuck-ups and corruption) than he lead on?

2. We just assumed that what Melissa told Peter was that she buried Bethany, but really, it was something more or different?

I don’t know if either of these is true, or if Miracle Gro Hastings is just being his usual, foreboding self. But now that we have reason to believe that the Hastings/Drake/DiLaurentis clan has been more entangled in all of this than we realized, I’d really be interested to know just how much Peter knows and is hiding, and if anyone else found or finds this scene as strange as we do!

Thoughts? Theories? Musings? Let us know! We’re only a few hours away from the next episode, and we will be liveblogging/posting, so please blacklist the #pll spoilers tag if you’re not watching until after 8 PM, EST.