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Aria is ready to go to the airport, so she hugs the girls and Hanna says she’ll walk her to her car. But Hanna has a motive for walking with her. She saw her leave the hotel room the night that Charlotte was killed and she wants to know where she went. Now, as it has been mentioned seasons before, Aria is the biggest liar of them all. So, true to form, she blatantly lies to Hanna and says she just went to her car or something. But Hanna doesn’t really want to let it go because if something did happen, she feels they need to know. But she’s not getting that info from Aria.

Spencer comes home to see Caleb and her mom looking at something online. It seems that some people are trying to link the campaign to suspicions about Spencer. Which, I mean, of course. It’s so interesting seeing how comfortable Caleb is with the rest of this family. And Spencer tells him that she’s happy he’s there. Same here, Spencer.

Ali is at the police station, waiting in a room to talk to Lorenzo. She’s sitting alone looking through the window when she sees Sara Harvey. And Sara sees Alison. They look at each other. I guess Sara is supposed to look threatening or like intimidating – the actress has two expressions so it’s really hard to tell. Sara moves on and Lorenzo comes in.

Lorenzo tells her that Sara is going to be off the suspect list because she couldn’t have killed Charlotte due to the burn injuries on her hands. So that’s the Sara “thing” – and here I thought we wouldn’t know for another fifteen episodes. He asks her if she thinks any of her friends could have something to do with it; Ali says no. We know that won’t stick.

Hanna’s fiancé comes to surprise her since she’ll have to stay until the police are okay with her leaving. His name is Jordan, he’s handsome, he’s British, and he seems pretty nice. He has news about where their wedding venue and says his mom’s lawyer will be coming to accompany her to the police station when she’s called in. It just feels like a lot of filler.

Emily is getting some health treatment and is cautioned about traveling back and forth while getting treatments because it’s easier to get it all done in the same place. Then when she’s leaving, she can’t get her card to work in the ATM. Some girl who recognizes her uses her card and just gives her the cash. Emily wants to pay her back, but she says not to worry about it. Later on she sees the girl at The Brew and she asks her not to tell anyone about seeing her outside of the medical center. The girl mentions what I was thinking – “Who would she tell?” She then tells Emily about going through cancer and trying to keep it hidden, but how it was better saying that and getting the support. It was a very sweet story that Emily decides to ignore the message of.

Before getting to the airport, Aria decides to pay a visit to her emotionally unstable ex-boyfriend so she can make things more complicated for him. She’s all like, “That night when Charlotte died? Yeah, we never saw each other, or spoke, or anything.” It’s not sketchy at all. Ezra’s like, “alright Aria” and then she just walks away. Like, he already has to deal with a lot; he doesn’t need her stupidity on top of that.

So Aria gets back to Boston and goes to her nice unrealistic job and she kisses her co-worker Liam. Liam who she is dating in secret because that’s her kink. Then Liam asks how Ezra is doing and Aria tells him that Ezra is thinking of giving back the advance.

After a work meeting, Aria and Liam go to tell the boss what the deal is with Ezra and the boss basically thinks Aria is the problem. It’s Aria – not the fact that his girlfriend was kidnapped and murdered. So the boss tells Liam to take over. Since Aria was psychologically tortured for years, she thinks it’s some conspiracy where the boss knows they’re dating and is trying to punish them. She asks Liam to let her try again before he takes over.

Meanwhile Spencer is freaking out about the cops finding some paper she wrote about a murder that was committed in the same way that Charlotte was killed. Which Caleb tells her she is being really paranoid about; which she is, but can we blame her.

Ali wants all available people to come to dinner at her house. So everyone sans Aria goes to her house. It’s obviously an awkward and uncomfortable time because no one actually wants to be there. Plus Hanna brought Jordan while Spencer brought Caleb.

So Jordan meets Caleb and then Caleb goes off to look for wine glasses, leaving Jordan to talk to Spencer. Even though Jordan doesn’t outright say it, even he can tell there’s something going on with Caleb and Spencer. She tells him about how they saw each other randomly in Madrid and just got to talking and hanging out and such.

Elsewhere, Hanna and Caleb run into each other, looking for wine-related materials. Caleb tells her that Jordan seems nice and congratulates her on the engagement. She thanks him and tells him that when he left for Europe she was just focusing on the job, not looking for another relationship. He says it's okay and that she seems happy. She says she is. So I guess that’s them giving us the story on what happened; he went to backpack around Europe and she met someone else and they drifted apart. How anti-climactic. Let’s get to the awkward dinner table.

Everyone basically just got seated when Ali gets a call from Lorenzo; he tells her that the time of Charlotte’s death was about 4 a.m. Ali shares this with the others and then is like, “Okay, let’s say grace.” So they hold hands and Ali gives this passive-aggressive prayer that’s a thinly-veiled accusation of the girls murdering Charlotte and that she hopes the responsible party is caught.

So Spencer goes to talk to Hanna like, “Did you hear that shit? Does she think we’re the ones who did it?” And Hanna’s like, “Eh, that was probably more about Aria.” She shares that Aria left the hotel the night of Charlotte’s murder. So Spencer is like, “Um, your mom is the manager of said hotel, so can you look at the footage?” And Hanna says, “It’s not high school anymore Spencer, I don’t do that stuff.”

After everyone leaves, Ali calls Lorenzo. We all know where this is going.

Emily goes to The Brew with her mom and she gets a calendar reminder on her phone about an appointment at Hollis. Her mom sees the reminder and asks what that’s about. Word of caution – when you’re trying to hide something from people, maybe don’t put your phone in clear view; this is very basic. So Emily lies and says that she’s thinking about grad school, prompting excitement from her mom. Her mom thinks it’s a great idea and tells her that if she’s worried about the money she shouldn’t be because a good deal of what her father left should help. Emily uncomfortably turns away and sees Aria walking upstairs to Ezra’s apartment.

Ezra opens his door, super confused to see Aria. She tells him that she flew back because she wants to talk about the book in person; they aren’t taking back the advance. He tells her that they’re gonna be disappointed because the follow up sucks. But he knows Aria isn’t going to let up so he lets her take the flash drive that has some book info. She asks him where he went after the hotel; he tells her, “Home Aria. I went home.”

At her home, Spencer is taking to Caleb, who’s setting up the couch so he can sleep and such. They’re reminiscing about their time in Madrid and Caleb says the time that they spent together was his best night in Europe; Spencer says it was her’s too. Then Caleb tells her that Veronica asked him to stick around to help with the campaign and Spencer tells her that she thinks that’s a good idea. The moment is interrupted by a text from Hanna.

It appears Hanna’s resolve to not sneak around and look at things was short lived because she’s going through the security footage with Spencer and Emily. They see Aria leave with Ezra and come back alone, after the time of the murder. Emily tells them that Aria is back in town. They decide to talk to her because we haven’t had our requisite confrontation this episode.

The girls show up, immediately confronting Aria. Flashback! Aria couldn’t sleep and decided to tell Ezra, who then went to meet with her at the hotel to hang out. [I feel like this is a good time to mention that Aria’s current boyfriend does not know that she dated Ezra; he knows that Ezra was her teacher, but she conveniently left out the rest.] So anyway, Aria can’t sleep because she keeps thinking about how the judge let Charlotte go even though she was honest. They end up leaving and Aria is upset that everything is closed and eventually decides that she should probably head back. Suddenly! Aria sees Ali’s car, but the person who gets out appears to be Charlotte. Neither of them are particularly happy to see her and Ezra gets super angry thinking about how they can live in a world where people like her can just walk free while innocent people like Nicole get hurt. Aria’s like, “Dude, calm down,” and he’s like, “Yeah, you should head back.”

In the present, Aria tells them that she thinks Ezra was lying about going home. Spencer doesn’t think it’s a leap that he did it and she even thinks that she may have told him how to do it. Let’s unpack something for a minute – Spencer doesn’t think it’s a leap; however, Spencer is notorious for jumping to extreme conclusions about people and having the others bandwagon after her.

Okay, so, story time: Ezra was on his book tour, trying to figure out what to write next and was thinking of a murder mystery. She had just finished her paper about the murder. They think he copied that murder to protect Aria; so Aria says the hotel video footage should go away.

Let’s tie up the loose ends of our storylines this episode! Spencer shows her mom the paper she wrote and her mom is unconcerned about it. Aria sees that the information on Ezra’s flash drive contains news information about Nicole dying, including pictures of her alive and dead (which is really sad to think about). Ali tells Lorenzo that he wants to change her answer – she doesn’t trust that her friends had nothing to do with the murder. Emily goes to her father's grave and talks about how she did badly in school and lost her scholarship after his death and how she never did tell her mom about any of it. She cries and says she's fixing things. She hears a noise - Sara was there.