Pretty Little Liars Recap - "Game On, Charles " (S06E01)

This episode was insane.

It begins by showing an unknown blonde girl drawing with chalk on the wall of what looks like a dungeon in the doll house wearing the infamous yellow tank top. She hears the Liars making their escape and we find them outside. A/Charles leaves them outside for days without food or water and even in the pouring rain. The girls are doing everything they can to stay positive and support one another, but it's clear they are afraid.

The girls are finally invited back inside. In the hallway they are all knocked out. Aria and the other girls awake on tables in what looks like a morgue. They are all naked and covered only by a sheet. They fear that Charles is making them appear dead to send a message to their families so they stop looking for them. Mona comes in dressed as a candy striper and acting like Ali again. She gives each of the girls something to take for their headaches. She shares that she is scared Charles will throw her in the hole for trying to escape. A message plays asking them to return to their rooms and Mona refuses. A bell dings 3 times and she folds saying they have to go "or else." They stand outside of their rooms and enter one by one- each one screaming when they enter. They don't come out for 3 weeks and when they do they are visibly shaken. Aria even has the pink stripes in her hair like she had when Ali went missing. They wonder where Mona is.  We find out she is in the hole and terrified.

Ali holds a press conference and we find out that all charges against her for Mona's murder have been dropped and Andrew is the prime suspect but he has vanished. Ali begs for Andrew to come forward and for her friends to be freed.When she returns to the house, we find out she is working with the police in hopes of drawing Andrew out of hiding.She gets a call from an unknown number and it's playing a song. They track the call and find out the caller is in the house so the police go to find them. They return and Ali is gone, and there is a broken wine bottle. We find out that Caleb and Ezra called, and she is working with them and Toby to find the girls. Toby distracts the police by leading them too the Campbell Apple Farm.

Ali is contacted by A so the guys let her go into the woods after Caleb gives her a pair of boots with a tracker in them. Ali is lead to a car, she gets in it and the GPS tells her where to go. The guys follow and aren't far behind. She is told to pull over on the side of the road and to check the trunk. She finds a card telling her to change clothes or the girls will die. When Caleb and Ezra arrive, they find the car and Ali's clothes along with her boots pointing them in the right direction. Ali wanders through the woods in the infamous yellow top.

The girls are finally out of their rooms and are clearly very shaken but they band together. They are taken to Ali's room and they realize that Ali A is probably bringing the real Alison. They are putting away things in Ali's room and see news articles in the box and wonder if they are even real. Hanna finds out her mom was hospitalized because she was so worried about Hanna. Aria is putting clothes away and at the back of the closet she sees a message from Mona carved into the wall saying A is going to kill her. Aria gets Spencer to help her and shows her the message. They start plotting to get out.

The night when the generator switches off the girls all run to Charles' secret room and Spencer shows them the video. The girls look around and end up setting the room on fire. Charles is watching and sees Ali in the woods and the fire in the room. He panics. They pull the curtains down and see A/Charles standing behind a plexi-glass wall watching (he's of course in a mask still). They run and find Mona in the hole and work together to get her out.

The boys find Ali in the woods and get ready to leave until Ali hears something. She turns around and they see smoke coming from the ground which leads them to the door. They call the police and break into the dollhouse as the girls are running out. Everyone embraces and it is a tearjerker. Haleb, Ezria, Spoby, and Emison are so sweet. The police explore the dollhouse and find the girl we see at the beginning of the episode and find out she is Sarah Harvey, the girl who went missing around the same time Ali did and Emily met with her friends. She had been there this entire time.

Pretty Little Liars Recap - "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (S05E26)

Holy crap.


We start off with the girls (minus Ali)  in the transport van being taken to a different prison because the police want to keep the group separated. The girls promise one another that they'll be there for each other and then the van crashes. There are shots and the back doors open and there is A, standing right in front of them- creepy black mask and all. A shoots a gas into the van and when the girls wake up they are locked in creepy replicas of their rooms. It's SERIOUSLY creepy. Aria opens her door and finds a cement wall. Spencer breaks her window and also finds a cement wall.

A recording plays over the speakers, saying welcome and asking them to exit their rooms and follow the lighted pathway. The doors open and the girls see each other. They reunite in the hall and follow the path. The door opens and a blonde girl is playing the piano and wearing the infamous yellow top Ali was wearing when she was "killed". The woman looks at them and she's wearing one of the creepy Ali masks. She stops playing and takes off the mask to reveal- MONA! Yes that's right, Mona is still alive. The girls temporary joy quickly vanishes when Mona begins acting like Ali. She tells them that she is Alison and invites them to have tea. The girls realize the room they are in is a replica of the DiLaurentis' living room.

They are literally in a life size dollhouse. It's freaking creepy. They're A's real life dolls.

Needless to say, the girls are even more creeped out as Mona continues with her Ali skit. She offers Hanna a tea cookie and promises her that it won't make her gain back all of the wait. The girls say that they're glad she is alive, and Mona agrees saying thank goodness for Ms. Grunwald. Then there is a loud chime and Mona/Ali says that it's game time. She leads them to an equally creepy game room where Mystery Date is waiting on the table. When they sit at the table, a doorbell sound rings and Mona/Ali gets up and goes to a plastic mailbox. She hands black envelopes to each girl and they are invitations to a black opera prom. They are playing the game to see who is their date. Mona opens the doors on the board game to reveal Ezra, Caleb, and Toby. Their pictures were taken at the Christmas ball. Hanna flips out and starts yelling at the surveillance camera saying that they aren't going to play and challenging A, reminding them that there are 5 of them and only 1 of it. Then loud sirens blare and a recording telling the girls to return to their rooms plays. Mona/Ali says it will stop when they're all in their rooms so they run, covering their ears until their doors are slammed shut and the sirens stop.

Mona/Ali opens Hanna's door with a little light and tells her to hurry up because they only have 3 minutes. They 5 girls meet in the hall and Mona tells them what has been going on. She's been trapped there and forced to be Ali. She says that she finally gave up and pretends to be Ali so that she won't be punished by A. The girls are relieved to know that she knows she's Mona and not Ali. Mona tells them that every night at the same time, the generators shut down for 3 minutes to reboot and that is all the time they have. She shares that she has tried every direction and she knows which one leads out, but she hasn't been able to make it in time. She also points to a door down one of the halls and says she hasn't been able to get in that room.A will punish her by not feeding her and blaring the siren for days, so it's imperative that they make it back to their rooms in time. Mona asks Hanna how her mom is, and Hanna shares that she was with her a lot in the beginning but once the trial starts not as much. They hear the generator rebooting, so they run to their rooms and hop into their beds where A is creepily
watching them sleep from his lair.

Toby informs the Hastings that the girls are gone. He shares that Detective Tanner thinks they escaped, but he thinks they were taken. Toby, Caleb, and Ezra work on trying to find where the van was when it was attacked so they can prove to Tanner that the girls are in danger.

The Hastings agree that the girls had to of been kidnapped and they pay Alison a visit. Ali is confused as to why they are there, and Mr. Hastings tells her that she had better tell them everything she knows and where the girls are. Ali is shocked and confused. She doesn't know what they're talking about it, and she insists that's the truth. She is worried for them and finally tells the Hastings that she knows who took them- A. They're confused, as they thought Mona was A, but Ali shares that they have all been being tormented by someone else.

 While Spencer is laying in bed, she sees the blocks that were in a room and she realizes they spell 'Charles'. A bright yellow light shines through the windows in Mona/Ali's room so she gets up. She finds a present on her dresser and asks A if it's for her. 1 ding means 'yes' apparently. She opens it and finds a gas mask and a note which says that she is his favorite. She asks if she should wear it, as she pretends to be grateful. There is 1 ding. She puts it on and is confused.

Toby tells Tanner that the girls have been kidnapped and she is looking for them in all the wrong places. He accuses her of assuming they escaped and not doing her job. Her gives her papers that Caleb printed showing where the van was. Tanner puts out a call for Caleb's arrest saying Toby has just given her evidence of Caleb committing a federal crime.

The girls enter a room with different stations set up and are instructed to find their station. Aria is in charge of music- she notices that the songs on the list are all from about 7 years ago and Spencer mentions that was when Melissa and Jason went to prom. Spencer and Emily are supposed to work on decorations. Mona/Ali is in charge of voting for prom queen. Hanna is in charge of food, to which she responds with "bite me. Lol. Mona/Ali asks the other girls to help her fill out the ballots so they gather around the table, blocking out the camera and Mona writes on one, asking if they got a gas mask. No one else did and they know they have to do something.

The Hastings show up at the apartment and Toby answers the door. The tell him they know about A, and he lets them in where Caleb and Ezra are working on the computer. They agree that Caleb needs to leave and not get caught there because Toby would be harboring a fugitive. Caleb leaves and the Hastings ask about A. Ezra points to boxes and says everything they need to know about A is in those boxes and more. They get ready to open one, and Ezra cautions them that A not only kept all of the girls secrets but their families secrets as well. The Hastings agree that its time for them to not have secrets anymore. They call Melissa to talk to her about A, and Andrew is in the New Brew listening to the phone call on his laptop.

Emily and Spencer start a fight when Spencer thanks A for the new decorations she had asked for. They fight and Aria and Hanna try to break it up while Mona secretly starts wiring the camera to make it cause the lights to burst. The girls stop and continue working on their assignments.

Caleb is arrested and being questioned by Tanner with both Hastings as his lawyers. He argues with her and insists he doesn't know where the girls are but he knows they are in trouble.The Hastings turn it back on Tanner and ask how 4 teenage girls would have been able to orchestrate their escape.Tanner finally lets Caleb use the police computer and he finds the van. Tanner calls it in as a kidnapping and they go to the scene.

As the girls return to their rooms, they find prom dresses waiting for them. They return to the "prom" to find a bunch of mannequins in prom dresses and masks while "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield is playing. They make their way down the stairs and wait until Mona/Ali arrives wearing the prom queen's tiara and her Ali mask. Spencer calls out for Charles to show himself, since this is his prom he should be prom king and get his picture taken with Ali. A creepy man in a tux and full face masks steps out from behind the mannequins and Aria takes the camera. She takes a picture and the lights burst. The girls run as fast as they can.

The police find the van on the Campbell's farms (as in Andrew Campbell) and Mrs. Hastings says that they used to all bring the kids there to go apple picking. They check the van and they search for the hostages.

Spencer makes her way into the room Mona could never get in and it's a very very creepy room. It is filled with pictures and it's very homy. Spencer plays a video on a projector and it is Mrs. D. holding baby Alison and there are 2 little boys. Mrs. D tells them to kiss their sister. Spencer is shocked and then A/Charles appears next to her. She turns to him and the girls scream for her. She looks away and Charles is gone as the girls come in. Mona looks around and she shares that she never though A had a soul. They look around before running off.

Toby and Tanner enter the building and they find A's lair. They look around at all of the television screens which aren't on yet. They turn them on and see past videos of the girls in the dollhouse. Tanner is shocked and I think she feels guilty about not believing them.

The girls run outside to a fence which they think they can climb until the power starts and they realize it's an electric fence. They are trapped. As the camera pans out we see that the dollhouse is in a small clearing deep deep in the woods. This does not look good, but at least we have a name for A now!









Original air date 3/24/15