Speaking of Spencer:
- Everyone else agrees that they should show the video of Alison and Ian to the police. Spencer isn’t so sure – she thinks A might have planted the video on her laptop as a set up.
- …Except it was an email. It was an email attachment. That’s not planting a video, that’s just how email works.
- She brings her laptop with her to school and towards the end of the day realizes that it’s no longer in her back. It was swapped out for a yearbook.
- The only time she didn’t have the bag on her person was during PE – and it was in her locker then.
- The only people with the combination are her and the coaches.
- Guess who’s a coach at the school?
- Spencer asks him if he has the laptop and obviously he denies it – not sure what she expected there.
- Everyone is understandably pretty freaked out because if he is the killer and he does know they saw that video…that would suck. A lot!
- An elaborate plan is hatched to break into his office desk during the dance-a-thon to see if the laptop is there.
- Spencer never gets into the desk – but she is seen by Caleb. She tries to bribe him to stay quiet. He won’t take her money.
- This is gonna come back, yeah?
- They go through all that, and then she gets home and her laptop is on the coffee table.
- The video, of course, has been deleted. But it’s also been replaced by something else.
- A picture of Alison, taken without her knowledge on the night she disappeared. It’s overlaid with the text: “Watch your backs. I didn’t. -A”
- There’s also a shadow from a person who appears to be following her.
- Spencer claims she doesn’t know who the person is, but she does it with a kind of thousand-yard stare.
- The girls agree the picture only could have been taken from one place – Alison’s room. That makes them wonder if her brother, Jason, took it.
- Spencer takes the picture to Jason to find out. She gives him a copy without the creepy text.
- He says it’s probably photoshopped – they got a lot of creepy, terrible photoshops from strangers when Alison went missing – but he’ll take it to a private investigator just in case.
- He also apologizes for being a dick to Spencer during the whole memorial thing.
- The next time Spencer sees him, he has some answers – first, that the picture is real.
- He also thinks it is possible that he took it. He doesn’t remember.
- It turns out that the summer Alison disappeared, Jason was kinda high 24/7. He was just holed up in his room partying with friends.
- And who was he partying with, among others?
- Confession: It has not gotten less weird to type that name so many times in the context of “creepy man who dates teenagers and maybe murdered one” when I’m dating an Ian.
- Spencer seems to be largely in charge of A-related investigations, so, when Paige – creepy swim team girl? – gives everyone on the team beaded bracelets that look an awful lot like the bracelets they have and the fake Alison bracelet they were given by A, she decides to go find the person who made them.
- It’s an older woman who just makes beaded things out of her home.
- She searches her records, and says that the person who ordered the bracelets…was Spencer.
- Tbh, did we really think A wouldn’t give a fake name?
- Back to this mysterious picture.
- Spencer has a flashback to fighting with Alison the night she disappeared. Alison threatens to tell Melissa about Ian kissing Spencer if Spencer doesn’t do it first.
- This culminates in a huge fight where Alison threatens that since she made Spencer, she can ruin her,
- and Spencer saying that Alison wouldn’t be anything without people following her.
- Spencer says, “You’re dead to me already.” before Alison storms out. Spencer pauses, then follows.
- Yeah, the shadow in the picture has been Spencer this entire time.
- She was scared to tell them because part of her believed that her wishing Alison’s death made it come true.
So the girls are all in Spencer’s room, comforting her, when they see that someone is watching them. Someone is in Alison’s room, next door, watching them.
Jason.
Just…staring.
…This is fine.
The episodes often end with something from A – either seeing their gloved hands committing nefarious deeds or with a new text or picture. These two episodes, however, both end with A’s POV as they interact with other people.
The first, in episode 14, is them picking up their coat and signature gloves from the dance-a-thon coat check as Piper smiles and says she hopes they had a nice time. So, it’s someone who wasn’t out of place at the dance-a-thon – makes sense, A has managed to infiltrate basically everything.
In episode 15, A’s at the jewelry-maker’s house. I was nervous we were about to watch an old woman be murdered, but nope. She brings A tea, grins, and says,
“Don’t worry. I did exactly what you told me to do.”
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