'Pretty Little Liars' recap: 'Whirly Girly'

On this week’s episode of Pretty Little Liars, Aria felt guilty, Jason looked guilty and Alison was guilty of lying.

The episode began with the girls getting off the bus. Alison didn’t want to because she was scared. However, Emily convinced her to. They all walked into the police station. Alison introduced herself to Detective Holbrook.

When they were in the interrogation room, Alison lied and said that she had been kidnapped. When he asked about the picture of the girls together, Alison said that she had escaped but was afraid to come out of hiding because he might get her. She lied to the police.

Spencer, Aria, Emily and Hanna (who don’t learn from their mistakes, apparently) went along with her lie. As each of the girls went home, their mothers demanded to hear more. Because the girls were unprepared to tell the lie, they each tried to get out of talking about it.

Meanwhile, Aria is feeling guilty but pretending that she isn’t. When Mike tries to talk to her about Alison and the fact that Ezra was shot, Aria shuts him out. She even fails to cover the lie so she just tells him that she’s tired.

Because Emily’s mom was in Texas, Emily was staying at Spencer’s. After Emily hung up talking to her mom, Spencer approached her. She said that they were covering for Alison again. Spencer thinks that Alison is already controlling them.

When the girls are talking, Alison throws her phone out the window to them. Someone, not signed with –A, sent Alison a text that said, “The truth will bury you in a New York minute.”

With Alison, she asks her dad if he knows where her mother is. He says that he hasn’t but tells her that they’re getting a divorce. He asks Alison if she wants to sleep downstairs but she tells him that she’s always wanted to sleep in her bed. He says that he just never wants her to leave his sight.

As Ali sleeps, she wakes up to hear that someone is in her room, watching her sleep.

Aria, who said she was unaffected by Shana’s murder, is dreaming about it. She’s having horrible flashbacks and hears violin music. She wakes up to a call from Hanna. Hanna tells Aria about the text that Alison received.

Alison’s dad asks Hanna’s mom for help finding Mrs. DiLaurentis. He asks her to look through her emails and see where she could be. Hanna’s mom says that Jason should help but Mr. DiLaurentis says that Jason is messed up and wasn’t even happy that Alison was alive.

At the DiLaurentis house, the shelter drops off a dog. Mrs. DiLaurentis adopted it before she went missing. While they try to send it away, the shelter basically tells them that they can’t take it back.

Spencer tells Emily that she believes that the New York minute text is from Jenna. She believes that it is Jenna’s way of welcoming Alison home from New York.

Aria, haunted by violin music, thinking about searching the internet for stories about Shana’s death. She doesn’t.

Side note, if Shana was A, who knocked her out before she got the money from Emily? Who told her to leave town via the Welcome to Rosewood sign? Who messed with her? And who nearly killed Jenna?

Emily, believing that Jason is helping Mrs. DiLaurentis, tells Alison that she needs to stay somewhere else. Alison says she can’t. She also tells them that she lied to the police to protect Aria.

At the Hastings home, Toby arrives. He says that he went to London to tell Melissa what was going on with Spencer but Melissa wasn’t there. He said that Wren answered the door and he said that Melissa had left. Mrs. Hastings said that Melissa had been hiding lots of secrets.

With Aria, Emily is trying to make her feel better. Aria is trying to make the shed look like Alison had been hiding there. She was clearly upset. Emily tells her to stop adding to Alison’s lie. She says that she understands what Aria is going through.

Emily relates to her because she also killed one of her classmates. Aria says that she can’t stop thinking about the fact that Shana will never graduate or have a life like Aria will. Emily says that, in that moment, it was either Shana or her. Aria saved them and that she shouldn’t feel guilty about it.

Hanna, reading Mrs. DiLaurentis’ emails, finds an incriminating one in her sent box. Mrs. DiLaurentis was sending someone an email that says, “I can’t protect you anymore.” However, Hanna doesn’t know who sent it.

Aria comes home to find Mike and Mona hanging out. As Mike leaves the room, Aria confronts Mona. She says that she knows that Mona knows. Mona stays catty and simply offers Aria a whistle to protect her from kidnappers.

I know Pretty Little Liars wouldn’t be complete without a “bad guy” but Mona is becoming one of the most annoying characters on TV. Alison is a bully, yes. However, Alison left town and helped Mona become popular in the process.

Mona is annoying and crazy in her quest to ruin Alison and the liars’ lives. Does anyone remember the fact that she used to be Hanna’s best friend? Mona’s time as a villain is over. She needs to get over it.

Emily thinks Jason is hiding Mrs. DiLaurentis in Philadelphia. As Hanna and Emily sit in Hanna’s car and talk about it, Jason sneaks up on them. He appears at the window. He basically tells them to leave them alone and drive away. Hanna and Emily follow him.

They end up at the shady end of town. A homeless man scares them away before they can figure out who he is visiting.

Alison sneaks out of the house to go visit her own grave. She says that she’s saying goodbye because, just because she’s dead, there is a girl who is in there. Mona shows up. Mona says she sent the text. She says that Alison should have stayed away because Mona doesn’t have to hide who she is. Again, Mona is outrageous and crazy.

Aria tells Spencer and Hanna that she wants to go to the police. She says that she can’t deal with the guilt and can’t keep Alison’s lies anymore. As the girls talk, they hear the dog barking.

The dog discovers Mrs. DiLaurentis’ body as everyone watches in horror.

PLL theory of the night: A random person (like a construction worker or utility man) will be falsely accused of killing Mrs. DiLaurentis to cover for the real murderer.