Friday, August 22, 2014

Pretty Little Liars season 5 episode 11 recap Melissa comes clean



On last night’s episode of Pretty Little Liars Season 5 Caleb finally talked about his time in Ravenswood and Melissa spilled her secret to Spencer. With only one more episode left until the hiatus, Pretty Little Liars has stepped up their reveal game.

Last night’s episode began with the girls attempting to reveal the whole truth about Ali and New York to the police. They didn’t get very far, however, due to the fact that “A” sent them a warning in the form of footage of Ali visiting Hanna in the hospital. Hanna thinks that the message is actually from Ali and not “A” in an attempt to stop the girls. Afterward, Emily interestingly goes to see Ezra in hopes that he may have some information on Cyrus. He doesn’t know anything but this was a big moment for Ezra because he finally felt like the girls were beginning to trust him again. It’s also already a strong episode for Emily who takes a stand against Alison by ignoring her calls. Hanna heads to Caleb’s house only to find him passed out next to an almost empty liquor bottle. She’s about done with his behavior and the next day she enlists Spencer and Toby to help him out of his dark hole. At the Hastings house Spencer finds a note from Melissa in her bedroom. The note says that their dad is making her leave town but she will tell Spencer the truth soon. Doubt it.

All the girls, minus Spencer, are discussing Melissa’s note when Detective Tanner interrupts them in order to warn them about Cyrus still being loose. She also takes the opportunity to grill them a bit about Bethany Young’s death but it pretty much leads nowhere, making this an extremely pointless scene.

Spencer receives a package in the mail from Melissa that includes a video of her finally explaining the truth. The night that Bethany Young was killed Melissa saw Spencer and her fighting, and then saw the body lying on the ground next to Spencer holding a shovel. Melissa did what all good sisters do and literally buried the evidence in the ground. Melissa also knows that Bethany was never dead and she ended up burying her alive. So maybe Melissa isn’t the worst sister in the world after all.

It’s now time for Caleb’s intervention with Spencer and Toby in tow. They decide the best possible place to do this is in a public setting. Nice move, Hanna. It goes over just as you would expect it to and Caleb freaks out. Toby tries to have a private moment with him but Caleb eventually gets up and leaves.

Its movie night for Aria’s family, but when Ella flakes out Mona shows up in her place. Aria is not too happy about Mike and Mona’s reunion, so during the movie Aria whispers something in Mona’s ear which prompts her to get up to go cry in the bathroom. Aria eventually finds her and Mona reveals that she knows she doesn’t deserve Mike. She also tells Aria that she is just looking out for herself and protecting herself from Ali.

Ezra pulls through for Emily and finds photos of Alison and Cyrus together looking relatively chummy. Emily now knows that Ali lied about being scared of him and also found out that Cyrus goes by many different aliases and has been arrested a handful of times. That’s a great guy Ali has there.

Back at Aria’s house, Det. Tanner shows up to talk to Byron, which Aria naturally listens in on. Tanner reveals that she has a meeting with one of the girls the next day. She expects this girl to tell her the whole truth and someone will finally be arrested.

Caleb and Hanna are back at the cabin when Caleb finally breaks down and talks about his time in Ravenswood. He tells Hanna that he saw Miranda after she died and that he drinks to get to sleep because Miranda haunts his dreams. It’s a sad and vulnerable moment for Caleb and it’s nice to see some weight lifted off of his shoulders. So does this mean we get the old Caleb back now?

While that is going down Aria, Spencer and Emily gather together to figure out who the girl is that Tanner is meeting with. They all decide that it must be Ali and Emily plans on showing Ali the pictures she has in an attempt to stop her from talking. With this Spencer decides to show the girls the video from Melissa. Spencer also tells them that Bethany was wearing Ali’s shirt so Ali must have been trying to switch places with her all along. In the final scene we see someone looking inside Caleb’s house through a window and watching him sleep.

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