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‘Pretty Little Liars’ Recap S7 E15: “In the Eye Abides the Heart”

Last week’s episode was completely bonkers, so let’s find out what happens in Troian’s directorial debut.

Ali and Emily discuss the fate of Ali’s (Emily’s) unborn baby, and the both agree that anger is the dominant emotion consuming them. Emily throws out the idea of getting a blood test to make sure.

Aria is hiding behind a dumpster video chatting A.D., who has photo shopped herself into Aria’s face. A.D. continues to threaten to expose both Aria’s and Ezra’s secrets if she refuses to play her part to end the game.

The Liars gather in the coffee shop to discuss the clues they’ve each compiled lately, and Hanna consistently defends the prospect of Lucas being involved. A.D. tries to Facetime Aria during the Liar pow wow, but she red buttons him or her. Spencer brings her new detective boyfriend a treat, and he ironically proclaims that he’d be happy if anything was inside the box she brought him. Really Detective Fury? Because last time it was a severed finger. It’s looking like Fury’s suspicion of Spencer’s involvement is finally starting to spark, because he begins dissecting the conversations they’ve had about Mary Drake.

When Aria gets home, Ezra finishes up a phone call with Nicole’s father, who requests his presence back at their house. As soon as he leaves, A.D. dials in again to reprimand Aria for sending the previous call to voicemail. A.D. interrogates Aria about Spencer and Hanna’s whereabouts when they left down to hunt down Mary Drake. Because she seems to have completely lost the ability to lie to people like she’s been doing for seven entire seasons, Aria is pressured into revealing exactly what the two found out during that trip.

Back at the school, Paige expresses sympathy over Ali’s pregnancy reveal, but of course she has no idea that the baby actually belongs to Paige. Impeccable timing as always, Ali calls in as soon as Paige walks out to confirm that she had a blood test and the baby mama is indeed Emily. On top of that, she knows for certain that the father is literally anyone in the world other than Archer.

Displaying her OCD at its finest, Spencer discovers a bed pillow out of place as soon as she gets home and subsequently follows an elaborate trail of an empty wine glass and bottles that lead to a brief not from Mary Drake asking Spencer to meet up to talk.

Hanna and Emily ransack Lucas’s home to figure out if he has any involvement with A.D., but Hanna continuously insists that he has nothing to do with any of it. The two discover an comic book in the back of a box that was written by Lucas and Charles. The pair wrote a comic about a woman who fights battles on behalf of her little brother who is picked on by others. The revenge goes even so far as to include psychological torture.

Back at Detective Fury’s office, Ali is brought in for questioning regarding Archer’s death. The line of questioning begins to veer toward the Liars as he indicates belief that up to four people could have been involved in his death. Aria promptly tattles to A.D. about the discovery, asking A.D if Lucas is begin all of that creepy digital disguising. Later that night Hanna returns to Lucas’s box to discover that the comic book is missing.

Emily has a bit of wine therapy with Spencer, and Em grapples with the complications surrounding being able to ask Ali to keep the baby. As always, Em acts like Ali is the only victim in the scenario. Surprisingly, Emily musters the courage to approach Ali and asks her for the chance to raise the baby, but Ali looks shocked at the concept. Is this the avenue that leads to an Elison endgame? Mommy and Mama coparenting and living happily ever after?

In a frenzy, Mona approaches Hanna with an online real estate posting for the factory space Lucas had promised the two for Hanna’s fashion business. Hanna tells Mona she has something to show her and takes her to reveal A.D.’s freaky Jumanji board game. Because Mona seems to know absolutely everything since her run as A, she tells Hanna that she can feel where the battery is within the game, but that they won’t fun down until they finish the game. We can always count on Hanna to drop the best one liners, and she doesn’t disappoint, responding with, “Batteries? I thought this thing ran on bitchiness.” Mona seems starstruck rather than scared of the product of A.D.’s continuous diabolical ingenuity, which pisses Hanna right off. These two are like sisters who should have just left the nest long ago.

Per A.D.’s directions, Aria goes back to school to locker 214 and discovers and envelope and a signature black hoodie to don for her first official A.D. mission. Honestly, I don’t know why the threats about Ezra are enough to get Aria to play for the A-team, because he’s an absolutely worthless little shit.

When she gets home, he has packed a bag and announced he’s getting on a plane to go speak with Nicole’s doctors for the last time. Understandably, Aria loses it a bit and finally confronts Ezra on his penchant from asking how high when Nicole’s parents ask him to jump. If I were Aria, I’d be telling him I won’t be waiting for him when he gets back.

Emily’s on a roll with truth telling and breaks the news to Paige that she and Ali are potentially having a baby together. Instead of walking out like I would have, Paige stands up and casually announces she’s buying the next round, and probably the one after that. Although Paige takes the news in stride, she claims that she’d basically be a chump if she hung around and tried to make it work.

She tells Emily goodbye for what she insists is the third and last time, and it’s heartbreaking. Why oh why did they bring Paige break just to mess with my emotions yet again? Sure, I remember that time Paige tried to drown Em a little bit, but we all make mistakes, right?

Spencer uses a key left by Mary Drake to meet up with her estranged mother. Instead of her biological mother, she discovers Detective Fury, who shows up and begins interrogating her over the night Spencer paid for drinks with Archer’s credit card. What a dumb mistake Spence, maybe she does have a less hip, less intelligent twin after all. When Spence returns home she has yet another message in a bottle. What year is this? Mary Drake thinks Spencer brought the Dick on purpose and says goodbye. Whoops.

Meanwhile, while Ali is sleeping Paige shows up at the side of her bed like a creepy stalker. The two discuss Paige’s resignation with her attempt to come to Rosewood and win Emily back, and Paige point blank asks her if she loves Emily. Now functioning as a duel therapist, Paige walks Ali through a moment of pure honesty with herself. Ali doesn’t answer the question, but she says enough that makes it clear Ali has more pure feelings for Em than she’s ever been capable of having for anyone else. Resigned, Paige walks out.

While she marvels at the game board, Mona is asked by Hanna to help her finish the game and beat A.D. At first Mona refuses, insisting that manipulating people’s lives is an addition, but Hanna tells her to imagine how it would feel to actually win.

Ali calls Em over and tells her that she will have the baby for them and asks Em to help her. The two embrace and my Paige and Emily dreams are officially crushed for good. I might throw my television out the window if these two end up together raising a baby like a happy, modern day lesbian suburban family. No Subarus and lab puppies for these two, please.

At the airport, Ezra runs into Spencer having a drink with Wren at the airport, and she asks him to keep what we saw a secret and Ezra agrees. After Ezra’s flight gets delayed he returns home and Aria apologizes to him because she’s a coward, but he tells her that she was right and decided not to get on the plane at all. I just can’t with these two anymore. While Ezra and Aria and making up, or continuing to fight, or whatever they do, she misses another call from A.D. Furious, A.D. sends Aria a video of the file of unknown damaging information on her and gives a cackles that’s so comical it’s downright terrifying. That laugh is the show’s creators mocking us for hanging around for seven whole seasons to get to this point.

What did you think of this week’s episode? Is Lucas A.D., or are they just sending us on another witch hunt? Hell, is everyone A.D. at this point?

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