The Flash 6x19 Review: "Success Is Assured" (The Finale That Wasn’t) [Contributor: Deborah MacArthur]

“Success Is Assured”

Original Airdate: May 12, 2020

It’s really hard to judge this season’s finale as a finale, since it wasn’t actually meant to be a finale. The whole pandemic situation kind of left The Flash scrambling for some way to end its sixth season as productions everywhere shut down. As a result, “Success Is Assured” doesn’t come anywhere close to tying up loose ends, but I guess I can’t fault them too much.

I ONLY HAVE MORE QUESTIONS

Eva’s gotten a shiny new supervillain suit and is explaining her evil plans to Mirror Singh. The suit, by the way, is not just for fashion; she needs it to contain her mirror-ness. Is that an Eva-only situation or is Iris also going to need an ugly suit when she leaves the Mirrorverse? Anyway, Mirror Singh gives us a title drop within the first minute of the episode. Remarkable.

Later, the team has gathered to discuss the Eva situation at Barry’s CCPD office. Why there? Because Barry’s apparently been working on actual CSI stuff off-screen. I love it when the show remembers Barry has a day job. Everyone thinks Eva will target Black Hole but they have no leads on the organization, until Ralph yanks the great honkin’ diamond Sue gave him out of his pocket. He’s just been walking around with that thing, waiting for the best opportunity to bring it out in a conversation? Ralph, you don’t have to hold on to important stuff just because the dialogue doesn’t give you a good enough segue.

Allegra shines her light powers through the diamond and it projects a swirly spiral image spotted with arrows. Nash, thanks to his long history of being an Indiana Jones ripoff, identifies it as a “triangulation cartograph.” Barry gets Allegra to shine it on a map of Central City. Without lining anything up, Barry declares that it’s all pointing to “42nd and Darby.” Nice job, Barry, but if Allegra had shined that thing a little to the left it’d be pointing to the middle of a freaking river. Triangulation doesn’t work that way!

Good thing 42nd and Darby is the place Barry and Ralph actually need to be. I think this is the most annoyed I’ve been at the show in a long time. I just like puzzle games too much for “shine the light at a random location on the map!” to be an acceptable way to progress the plot. Ugh. Whatever. Barry and Ralph show up at a warehouse at the convenient location and all of Black Hole’s property and files are right there, ready to be burned by Mirror Singh. Yeah, Mirror Singh is there, explains why Eva hates Carver (we already know this: Carver let Eva stay in the Mirror then immediately turned her tech into weapons), then sets the whole place on fire. After Barry and Ralph escape the blaze, their new mission is to protect Carver from Eva. Barry looks really annoyed about it.

Barry meets with Carver to tell him that Eva’s escaped and is out to kill him but Carver, in the vein of overly confident villainous jerks the world over, doesn’t believe him. He goes on to brag about knowing Iris got abducted immediately after it happened and tells Barry that Iris is probably mirror-scrambled by now so there’s no point in trying to rescue her. Carver actually sounds sincere about having tried everything to get Eva out of the Mirrorverse, but I don’t know — basically everything else in the conversation is a lie or a snotty remark meant to push Barry off his trail, so we can probably assume that is, too. Either way, he rejects Barry’s offer of protection and walks away, looking slightly concerned.

In the aftermath of Black Hole’s blackmail warehouse getting blown up, Ralph meets with Sue Dearbon’s parents in his office to tell them the good news — only to have Sue herself arrive with the two of them, claiming she’s never met Ralph before and she’d spent her time missing at a mindfulness retreat in India. Ralph and Sue discuss everything that’s happened, but Sue drops the bombshell that Carver “had a change of heart” a week ago and freed her parents. Sue tells Ralph to let them live in peace, but appears pained by it. Man, they’re really letting microexpressions do the heavy lifting this episode, huh?

Some of the Black Hole assassins we’ve seen this season are prepping for a mission in a large modern house full of reflective surfaces, so guess who’s gonna kidnap them all one by one? Eva swipes Sunshine, Ultraviolet, and Dr. Light — the latter through a window, interestingly enough. That’ll teach you to clean your windows. Filthy, non-reflective windows save lives, people.

Allegra is of the opinion that Carver doesn’t deserve superhero protection he doesn’t want. Frankly, I agree with her. Barry’s all “he doesn’t deserve to die, blah blah blah” though, so I guess they’re gonna protect him anyway. Barry brings up the psychological effects of the Mirrorverse and Nash correctly names it as “neural dissonance,” something he’s recognized from dimension-hopping. For the third time in this episode, a character — in this case, Carver — arrives to interrupt a conversation by interjecting something pithy and relevant. Does this show do that all the time? How have I not noticed how often it happens? Anywho, Carver wants Barry’s protection after all, since his assassins got swiped. Barry is smug about it.

At CCPD, Carver whines, then Mirror Singh shows up to “personally escort” Carver into custody. Mirror Singh pulls Barry aside and makes him an offer: let him take Carver to Eva, and Eva will get Iris out of the Mirrorverse. Barry seems tempted, but before he can say anything, Nash jumps out and smoke-bombs the whole group to S.T.A.R. Labs. Teleportation by smoke is a thing now? How long has that been a thing? Oh, and also Nash is still seeing Wellses — the one that pops up after he teleports everyone tells him Barry would never have considered Carver’s deal, which throws the soundtrack into some seriously, as my closed captioning would say, [dramatic music].

Despite knowing he’s in serious trouble and Barry and company are the only barrier between him and Eva’s revenge, Carver continues to be insufferable. I can’t wait until he inevitably dies during the climax of this episode. The team tries to figure out a way to protect Carver from a villain who can travel through mirrors. Carver says he can hide in a panic room at his building and he has a special force field that atomizes anyone who tries to get in. He could literally just hide in an empty room with matte walls, guys.

Carver’s panic room that “Eva doesn’t know about” is, in the Mirrorverse, the hidden room Iris found a couple episodes ago — so Eva definitely knows about it. It’s also got very shiny screens, so yeah. Great way to hide from a villain who’s so adept at traveling through reflective surfaces she can get through windows if the cleaning crew’s been a little too aggressive with the Windex.

While trying to clear out Carver’s building before his overkill security field turns on, Ralph runs into Sue. She took her parents’ place in Black Hole (so they were… members of the secret organization blackmailing them? The show really skipped some steps explaining how this blackmail ring works) to get close to Carver, hoping to kill him. Ralph tries to explain to Sue that killing is bad and she shouldn’t do it, but never once mentions that a killer forcefield is about to go up, or that Carver’s already being targeted by his villainous ex-wife, so another person trying to kill him is just redundant. Sue sprays him with a knockout substance and continues on her merry way.

When the three swiped assassins show up to help their new leader kill her ex husband, a big fight breaks out and Carver’s forcefield goes down. Barry tries to get the field back up via an alternate power source in the sub-basement, but runs into Mirror Singh who shatters and turns into Eva. Did she... travel through him? She knocks Barry out, then we get a weird page-turn animated transition that cuts to a three-way split screen showing the Black Hole assassins fighting before it all goes back to normal. What the heck was that?

Ah! It’s still happening! More split screens appear when Sue shows up to help Ralph during the fight. I don’t recall the show ever getting so comic-booky creative with their graphics before, but I guess they wanted their impromptu finale to be unique in some way.

Surprising exactly no one, Eva gets to Carver through his shiny computer screen. Once she’s done talking villainously at him for a bit, she throws some mirror shards in his direction. Barry stops the shards, getting some huge hunks stuck in his torso area, and — in probably the most gruesome sequence this show’s done so far — Eva pushes a large piece through Barry’s shoulder and kills Carver with it.

After, Eva yanks the glass shards out of Barry and insists the two of them are actually on the same side. She calls off her meta allies and says Team Flash is free to go. Y’know, the “reluctant nemesis” is a pretty interesting path for this show to go down. I can only hope they do something good with it when we get back on track next season.

Eva delivers a lying liar speech where she tells everyone she’s going to find her husband’s killer and we learn that she’s actually framed Sue for the job. Um… why? And how?

Joe is able to leave witness protection to help the team get Iris and the others back, but over in the Mirrorverse Iris’s mind-melding has resulted in her going all reflective and disappearing right after locating the real Singh. We’re hit with a “To Be Continued” to end the season.

Other Things:

• The Caitlin/Frost storyline still seems like leftover scraps, even though it did get significantly more screen time and emotional weight this episode.
• Allegra and Nash’s feud is cooling, which is great because the fight between them is well past the point where Allegra’s anger makes sense. They were buddies for a few months. Nash withheld the truth about one aspect of why they were buddies. That isn’t “hold a grudge for all eternity” levels of deception and betrayal.

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New Girl 6x19 Review: "Socalyalcon VI" (Put Yourself First)

"Socalyalcon VI"

Original Airdate: March 14, 2017

I say this a lot around here, but I’m a recovering people-pleaser. In a lot of ways, I still want people to like me — I never want to be the person who causes trouble or starts a fight or says the wrong thing or messes up a project. I want everyone around me to like me. But as I’ve grown up, I’ve realized that sometimes you need to put yourself first. You need to take care of yourself, rather than work so hard trying to please others that you burn out or burn up. I’ve always related to Jessica Day because she’s like me in that way. She’s trying to learn how to become better. For most people, “being better” means thinking of themselves less and others more. But what if, just sometimes, “being better” means thinking of YOURSELF more and others less? “Socalyalcon VI” is a really solid start to the back few episodes of this season of New Girl. The writers have done a really excellent job this season of peppering Nick/Jess stories in without sacrificing the heart or humor of the show (or neglecting other stories in the process). Jess is still in love with Nick, and this episode reminds us that emotionally fulfilling Nick will only leave her heartbroken in the end. (It’s a really nice reversal of “Fluffer,” where Nick was emotionally fulfilling Jess and getting his emotions tangled up in that situation.)

Jess has to learn how to stop being everything for everyone all the time. Because if she doesn’t, she’s going to ultimately be the cause of her own demise in the end. Elsewhere in the episode, we get two really fun stories to prop up Jess’ main arc -- one with Schmidt and Cece (who help Jess realize that she’s the glue holding Nick and Reagan together) who attempt to make their new home safe, and one with Winston and Aly who clean out her storage unit and swap secrets.

“YOU DESERVE THE RIGHT TO DO WHAT’S BEST FOR YOU.”

Cece tells the line above to Jess when the woman realizes that she’s the one thing keeping Nick and Reagan together. (I love the montage of moments in which Jess — and the audience — realize exactly how many times she’s pushes Nick and Reagan together.) Jess is so accustomed to being the “good friend,” that she often doesn’t realize how to step away when being a friend is actually hurting her, emotionally. After vehemently denying it for a chunk of the episode, Jess comes to realize that she’s actually acting as Nick’s girlfriend rather than his good friend. She’s putting herself in a position to get hurt because she’s NOT his girlfriend. And even though it goes against everything in her nature to not be there for someone else, Jess recognizes that being there on an emotionally vulnerable level for Nick is not healthy. Reagan needs to be the one to step up and fill that role, which she is unable to do. And why, you ask? Because Jess has been stepping in and playing the role of Regan’s girlfriend too.

Reagan and Jess confide in one another and rely on one another too much when dealing with Nick. Reagan doesn’t know Nick as well as Jess does, so the former relies on our favorite people-pleasing enabler to help her out with her relationship woes. There’s no malice though with Nick and Reagan relying on Jess — they’re not purposefully exploiting her emotions or trying to hurt her. But Jess knows that she can’t do this anymore: she can’t constantly be there for Nick and do all of the girlfriend things while someone else reaps the benefits (see what a nice parallel to “Fluffer” this actually makes?). It will hurt too much — it already is.

One thing I can say about New Girl is that they’re fans of the slow burn. And while they occasionally misstep, they writers are not looking to make quick fixes to the relationships that have fallen apart. Nick and Jess will always care about one another — that much is evident. But the way the show has been building Nick’s feelings and now is building Jess’ is so important. We’re finally seeing both sides of their relationship. And we’re finally understanding why it hurts Jess so much to be around Nick. I love that the directors have been giving us little glimpses into her pining — watching Nick and Reagan dance at Schmidt and Cece’s wedding or seeing Reagan pick lint off Nick’s jacket. It’s going to make it so much more satisfying when the two get together because now, finally, I think Jess is ready to fight for Nick. 

But that doesn’t mean she puts her relationship first and her feelings second. The end of “Socalyalcon VI” sees Jess doing something impulsive — leave Nick and Regan at the book convention and hop a plane to Portland without telling anyone other than Cece what she’s doing. Jess is like me: a meticulous planner who takes very careful, small steps in her life and relationships. But every Jess needs a Cece — someone who will tell her and people like her that it’s okay to distance yourself from other people if it hurts too much. I’m really glad that Nick is aware of how Jess might be feeling, and that Jess is self-aware enough to know that being Nick and Regan’s emotional support systems isn’t healthy for her (or them, honestly).

So I’m glad that Jess decided to prioritize self-care over helping Nick. (Even though I must admit that hearing Nick’s voicemail to Jess was a bit heartbreaking.)

SECRETS AND HOME SECURITY

Our tiny little Winston/Aly story this episode involved Aly keeping her storage unit secret from Winston. When she finally unveils it and her secret—that she was a Japanese game show winner who owns a lot of random swag from those days — Winston isn’t horrified; he’s delighted. The two nearly miss work because they spend so much time playing with all of the spoils of Aly’s past. But it does bring up something in Winston: he doesn’t really have any secrets from Aly, while he’s still learning things about her past. It seems to bother him a little bit that Aly knows everything about him. That is, until he confesses something to her — he’s lied to all the women he's ever said he loved, because he didn’t know what real love was until he met her. Awwwwww.

Speaking of love, Schmidt and Cece are finally all moved into their new home and are also realizing that being homeowners is very different from being renters. The issue this week? The fact that their home has more points of entry than they realize. It’s played for laughs, as Jess and Nick (and then Jess by herself) manage to break into the home. I just love seeing Schmidt and Cece do domestic things together and configuring a home security system was one of those things.

“Socalyalcon VI” provides a really nice jumping point for the last part of the season. With only a few episodes left, will Jess actually tell Nick how she feels? We’ll have to wait and see!

And now, bonus points:

• “What kind of man owns multiple blazers?” *cutaway to Schmidt’s closet*
• “You hear that? That is the absence of Nick. The lack of Winston.”
• “ARE YOU THE CRIMINALS? FROM THE STATISTICS?” Why hasn’t Max Greenfield been given all of the awards?
• I don’t know why, but the idea of Aly being a Japanese game show winner is fantastic.
• “Why do they both need me so much all of the sudden?” “ALL OF THE SUDDEN?!” And then the show flashes to a montage of moments where Jess helped Nick and Reagan communicate with one another.

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Pretty Little Liars Rosewood Roundup ("Did You Miss Me?") [Contributor: Megan Mann]

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"Did You Miss Me?"

Original Airdate: March 8, 2016

After the intensity of last week’s accident with Aria that landed her in the hospital, it seems that this new Big Bad is stopping at nothing to show our Liars that they’re serious. What will they do this week? And who’s next on their list now that Emily and Aria have already felt their wrath?

When we left them last week, Emily and Mona were in the alley after Emily realized Mona was the girl that the witness had described seeing at the Two Crows that night. She tells Emily that she was the one who called Charlotte and asked her to meet up, but she never showed up after Mona waited for two hours. Emily believes that Mona was the one who killed her because of how everything went down in the bunker, but Mona didn’t want to kill her. Charlotte wasn’t the only one guilty of crimes, lies, and mistakes. All of the girls were too and Charlotte never gave them up. Would she do it when she got out? Mona had to be sure she wouldn’t go around ruining their lives again which is pretty valid. Wouldn’t you want to be sure that the life you worked so hard to regain was still protected? When Mona turns the question around and asks Emily what she would have done if she had made the call and come face to face with Charlotte, if she would have done something she couldn’t take back, something falls to the ground halting the conversation. Was someone listening or was it just a coincidence? Just kidding. There are no coincidences in Rosewood.

Emily takes the conversation back to Spencer and Aria. They seem to be reaching with the information as it’s easy to prove that Mona was there all night and had nothing to do with the murder. Aria suggests taking the information to Tanner to get her off the suspect list, but Mona could be of use. She could easily lead them to something else so long as she thinks they believe her. It seems a little unfair that they’re so quick to jump at Mona when she didn’t do anything the other girls wouldn’t have done had they had the thought to come face to face with Charlotte. If she had lived, who knew what any of them were capable of if they crossed paths with her on the street.

Hanna tells Jordan that she’s going to stay in Rosewood a little longer. He still doesn’t understand all of it or the tether that binds them there. Lucas tells her he was hoping to meet him when he came back (you know, to fix the disastrous loft-run-by-tablet thing), but Jordan believes small towns only exist to get away from. But Lucas doesn’t feel that way. He came back to look at some old factories that he could buy and turn a profit from. It’s a way to give the town a second chance and remember how without that small town, he wouldn’t be where he is now. He still seems pretty hung up on Hanna. Poor guy.

Ali and Elliot are staying at a bed and breakfast for a quick honeymoon. They exchange really adorable banter but as Ali turns to head down the stairs, her heel slips and she tumbles down the stairs; an accident or a premeditated move from Big Bad? She suffers a concussion and Elliot thinks she needs to stay in the hospital just to be safe. Ali turns and wonders if this is some sort of punishment for her finally being happy, like the universe is trying to penalize her for being the one to survive. Elliot doesn’t think that’s true. It was nothing more than an accident.

The Liars, however, don’t share his sentiment. They believe this is Big Bad threatening them with extreme measures as their time runs out. First Emily’s eggs, then Aria getting burned, and now Ali’s concussion. Only three days left and two more girls. Hanna offers to go see Ali to make sure she’s okay and that she stays away until election night. She doesn’t need to know about all of this. Aria wonders what they should do about Mona, but Hanna reminds them that Mona didn’t actually kill Charlotte. Emily and Aria don’t care. She still had motive and she’s not telling the entire truth. Spencer also gets in on that and says that Mona has changed so much that she probably doesn’t even recognize herself anymore. “Who around here hasn’t tried to reinvent themselves a couple times?” Hanna points out. All of them have done so in an effort to distance themselves from their past and they seemed to have forgotten proven by their silence.

After Ezra tells Aria that they’ll be meeting with her boss to discuss the book later that evening and that the part where the two characters say goodbye isn’t written right, Hanna visits Ali in the hospital. Ali doesn’t think that there’s anything amiss. As they look around the room, Hanna notes all of the flowers surrounding Ali. As Elliot and Ali talk, Hanna sees a card with a staircase on it. When she opens it, it has the Liars and three of them crossed out. How could that have slipped in amongst all of Elliot’s flowers? Are we to be made to believe that Elliot is somehow in on this? Did a nurse bring them in? Hanna slides the card into her bag as Emily calls Spencer to show her that Mona is sitting in the park with Creepy Sara’s helper. Oh, Mona. What are you doing?

Spencer meets Emily and they watch as Sara’s helper leaves the town hall with a tube. They follow him in an attempt to figure out what he’s doing, but stop when he enters a hardware store. Emily hatches a plan and as he walks out with two mysterious bags, they park as close to his bumper as possible to make it look like she tapped it. They pretend to get really worked up and when they ask him to investigate, Spencer takes the opportunity to look through the tube. It’s another set of blueprints for the Radley. The girls split so Spencer can go and get a copy to see what he, or more likely Creepy Sara, is up to.

Aria reads over the pages that Ezra is worried about. She reads the tweaks that he has made and discovers that what’s wrong with it was that it wasn’t authentic. It was sweet and lovely when really, what happened between he and Nicole that influenced the story was really something that turned angry and wasn’t very loving at all. He’s still holding onto how things went that night, the night before she was taken. He wonders how it should be told, but Aria believes that they should tell the version that makes the best story. Well, I don’t know about you, Aria, but the best story is the one where you two get over yourselves and get back together, so.

Emily continues to follow around old Helping Hands Man. He gets an ice cream and waits as a car strolls by. He tosses the tube into the front seat. As the car gets closer, Emily scoots down in her seat to get a good look at the driver. Well, look who it is. She can’t use her hands, but they seem to be gripping the steering wheel pretty hard there, Creepy Sara. What do you need a second set of blueprints for? What happened to the ones the girls found in your room before?

Hanna takes the card not to the girls, but straight to Caleb. She has a plan and knows that he’s the only one who can help her. She wants to call Big Bad’s bluff. If they want Charlotte’s killer, that’s what they’re going to give them. They relocate to Spencer’s barn and Caleb tells her that Hanna has something to tell her. Hanna tells her that she lied, that she left the hotel that night and followed Aria and Ezra. She went into the church after Charlotte and saw that she met her end. She stole the security drive because she’s on it, not Aria. Spencer nearly believes her and if Spencer will believe it, they’ll be able to trick anyone into it. Spencer is outraged, but Hanna and Caleb now know their plan could work.

Over at the hotel, Aria and Ezra meet with Jillian to discuss the book while Hanna, Caleb, and Spencer fill Emily in on the plan. She thinks it’s crazy (because it is) but if they want to get the upper hand, they need to do something unexpected to throw Big Bad off. Emily worries whether or not Big Bad will go to the cops, but Caleb doubts a person would go through all of this just to do that. No, this is about revenge. Emily asks a sulking Spencer what she thinks of the plan. Deep into her glass of wine, she’s just glad that someone came up with a plan. She’ll continue to try and figure out what Creepy Sara is doing and hopefully both plans will find the big red A they’re trying to catch.

Despite Emily’s protests, Spencer knows that if they don’t back them up, Hanna and Caleb are just going to go through with it on their own. When she asks if that’s true, Hanna laces her fingers with Caleb’s and agrees. He quickly untangles them and says that he would need to talk to Toby. Spencer says that he would need to know what they were planning and she wants to show him the blueprints. If they’re going to do this, they need the help of a cop. When Emily asks if they know what they’re doing, Spencer snaps back with all of the jealousy and venom she’s trying hard to keep a lid on. Whew, that’s not going to be good.

Aria has so far gotten off easy. She’s been able to avoid all of the craziness due to meeting with her boss. You know, the boss who knows that she’s dating Liam. Jillian wants her to deal directly with her now as there’s nothing more important to her than the book and seeing it through. She doesn’t want to derail it in any way and it’s clear Aria is thinking of a different way Liam being involved in the project with Ezra could be an issue. Jillian knows that the talk shows will love Ezra, will love both of them. “You and your ex-teacher are in for quite a ride.” Aria doesn’t even have time to think about all the time she’ll be spending with Ezra when her phone rings and Emily tells her that Ezra needs to know what’s happening.

She fills her in on the details as Spencer flashes back to the time in Madrid that she spent with Caleb. She asks him about a painting that the two of them saw that day and he shares something sentimental about his foster home days, if they could be considered sentimental. She thanks him for all of the adventure and impromptu nature of them all. It’s not like Spencer to not have a plan. “Where do you want to go after this? After Madrid?” she asks. He tells her maybe Morocco and invites her along. It’s a small exchange fraught with tension and heat that has nothing to do with the summer air outside the window. The moment breaks before anything else can happen and Spencer comes back to the present wondering what’s going to happen now.

Caleb and Hanna walk back into the loft, but he can’t stay. He has to get as much done before things get rolling. The fire blazes to life and Lucas apologizes for surprising them. Before he leaves, Lucas asks, “Do you lunch? We should lunch.” Honestly, it was the best exchange of the whole episode. Caleb leaves and Hanna asks Lucas what a couple of pictures are on the table. They’re the factories that he was looking at both before and after he flips it. Lucas asks Hanna what she would do if someone gave it to her and she says she would like to start her own brand and get out of the city and all of its distractions. “Deal. Research and development. It can mean whatever we say it means.” He’s finally found a way to give her something that nobody else can, a chance to start her own business. The offer will be there whenever Hanna wants it. Okay, can we talk about how sweet that is? Unrequited love though it may be, it is still one of the nicest gestures ever seen on this show.

Over at the hospital, Ali is jolted awake by a shadow. She reaches for the call button, but when she looks up, she sees her mother. Jessica tells her not to be afraid (even though I would be terrified to know cardigan sets exist in the afterlife) and that it doesn’t matter if it’s a dream or a hallucination, she’s just happy to be able to see Ali. “Everything’s going to be all right now. Elliot’s going to take care of you.” Mama D reassures Ali that she’s allowed to be happy and that Elliot will be able to protect her in ways that no one else has been able to. This was closure Ali needed, whether it was real or not.

In the darkened square of town, Mona waits to meet someone. When she hears a noise and turns, Creepy Sara comes out of a mysterious alleyway. Mona tells her that she saw her driver earlier and was curious as to how she was doing. “What do you want, Mona?” She wants Sara to leave the girls alone, but Sara won’t until she gets what’s coming to her. “Charlotte’s dead. You can’t get reparations from a corpse.” But Creepy Hands disagrees. Mona reminds her that while no one blamed her for what happened under Charlotte’s watch, the same will not be said for what she does now.

Not too far away, Ezra and Aria sit talking over tea. When Ezra asks why Aria hasn’t looked him in the eye since they left, she looks up at him and explains about the phone call with Emily, how Ali is in the hospital, and how both Ali and her accidents weren’t exactly accidents. He asks what she means. “It means that it’s happening again and we’re going to do something about it.” These ladies are not messing around this time.

They leave and meet the others at the loft. Caleb says that he’s already done the work and that he’s ready when they need it. They just don’t explain what it is exactly. “Are you sure you’re want to do this?” Aria asks. “I wouldn’t have thought of it if I wasn’t ready to do it.” Caleb declares that this isn’t a democracy as they’re going to go through with the plan no matter what. All they need to decide is whether or not they stand behind them. The room gets quiet. “Nobody here is going to let you do this by yourself,” Spencer finally says. Hanna says it’s time to get started and texts Big Bad that she’s the one who killed Charlotte.

My, my. What have we gotten ourselves into, ladies? How quickly is this going to backfire? I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous for next week’s finale.

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