Last week’s episode of Pretty Little Liars, Don’t Look Now, with its focus on Charles DiLaurentis and Radley ended with the girls finding more evidence that the boy was buried and dead and could not be the one who put them in the doll house. This week, She’s No Angel, brings back a couple of girls who have been missing, Mona and Lesli Stone.
At the start of the episode Spencer is obviously having a dream. She is walking down a dark, derelict hallway and in front of her she sees a girl in a white nightdress. The younger girl runs off when she notices Spenser looking. She follows the girl and they both go into a large tiled room with two bathtubs and the girl in white does a creepy interpretive dance around the two objects before disappearing. Finding a pair of sandals with “C DiLaurentis” Spencer looks to see a shadowy figure watching her.
After her nightmare, Spencer calls Aria to help her remember details from the doll house. During the call she keeps munching on the pot cookie that Sabrina baked her. Mona turns up at Hannah’s kitchen wearing sunglasses and clutching a cup of coffee and she is worried that the police will not “look out for” her but arrest her. Mona is also worried that Alison will want to hurt her. Hannah reveals that Alison only leaves the house for church.
Mona asks Hannah to take her to the precinct. Alison hears two of the police outside her house talking badly about her, or as she tells her father, “dissing” her. Sara tells Emily that she has to go home because her mother wants her back. Emily suggests that her friend get legally emancipated. Clark stops by and invites Aria out on a photo shoot and after initially saying no, she changes her mind.
Mona and Hannah stop by for coffee before going to the police and Lesli Stone shows up making a scene. She is angry at Mona for getting her involved in the whole business with Alison. When Hannah tries to calm things down, Lesli insults her as well. Spencer and Hannah meet later and the two girls talk about Lesli and how much Spenser misses Toby. Hannah mentions that they need Mona to access Radley. When Spenser takes out her pot cookie, Hannah reaches for it only to get a smack on the hand. She then accuses her friend of being buzzed.
At the route 47 junkyard photoshoot, Clark and Aria are taking pictures and she mentions she is embracing her creepy. While setting up a shot she sees a shadowy figure moving in another part of the yard. When she goes to check there is nothing there but there are sounds of someone or something moving around. Prior to this, Clark asks Aria out to dinner and she turns him down. He apologizes and Aria says he does not need to.
Lorenzo is talking to Ali about the church tasking he suggested her for and her dad comes in stopping the conversation and tells Lorenzo to get out. Emily takes Sara to see Caleb for help on petitioning for legal emancipation. Later Aria discovers that Clark got a picture of the shadowy figure who she believes is A. Aria calls Em to tell her and gets talked into borrowing the negatives to see if they can learn who A is.
Hannah and Lesli get together to talk about Mona and Radley. Spencer decides to get rid of the pot cookie and shortly after she sees Mona putting a card in Alison’s mailbox. The two talk about the doll house and asks if there could have been another younger girl in the house as well. She talks about the tiled room and Mona says she is pretty sure that everyone got out that was there and that the tiled room might just be in Spencer’s head.
Caleb tells Sara that to help her petition along, she now has a job at his web design place. Spencer and Hannah go to Radley to search for evidence that Charles DiLaurentis is really dead. Spencer discovers that the tiled room in her dream was in Radley and not the doll house. Em and Sara are at the tattoo parlor and Sara gets a tattoo of a bird flying out of a cage on her back. Em gets talked into getting her own tattoo.
While going through the room with the two bathtubs, the girls think they see a body submerged in one. Hannah shrieks loud enough to wake the dead and Spenser fishes out the “body” which turns out to be a “resuss-a-annie” CPR doll. After the discovery of the doll, Spencer finds a file that mentions Charles DiLaurentis’ organ transferal, indicating that he did indeed die at Radley. The girls are startled by loud noises in another part of the closed facility.
Aria takes a closer look at the figure in Clark’s picture and it is obvious that A is female. Spenser and Hannah discover the noise was being made by Mona who went to Radley to grab Lesli’s file. She reveals that Lesli does not want anyone to know she was at Radley. Later, Em, Hannah, Aria and Spenser discuss A being a girl and Em tells them about Sara’s freak out earlier. They talk about Mona’s taking Lesli’s file which she said was a gesture to repair their friendship.
Mona tells Lesli that the girls know about Radley and Stone gets very angry telling Mona that she always screws things up. The show ends with gloved hands making an Aria wig on a tennis ball. Is there a connection between A and Lesli, or is she just upset about the file?
Pretty Little Liars is proving to be addictive. The mystery of just who A is has taken a turn and the possibility that he is a she opens things up. The idea also makes a lot of sense, all the main protagonists in the show are female so why can’t A be a girl as well. One thing about the show thus far is that all roads seem to lead to Radley. Is there any one in that town who was not an inmate of the mental facility?
She’s No Angel was an excellent episode and it is interesting to see that Alison’s father is beginning to be a bit nasty. Spencer looks to be getting her head on straight and it looks like Aria may be the one who is crucial to figuring this all out. Pretty Little Liars airs Tuesdays on ABC.
