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"There are murderers on the loose and houses being bombed but the most pressing problem of this week is an invitation to dinner. Accessory of the Week Fresh from an attempted strangulation by A, Alison is trying her hardest to cover up the marks on her neck with the dowdiest scarf of all time. Did she pull this thing off of Bethany Young&amp;#039;s corpse?   Maybe the scarf is fine, and it&amp;#039;s just the styling that&amp;#039;s throwing me off \u2014 those ever-present shoulder pads coupled with lace shoulder patches and a white jacket, all of it screaming, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to dress like my dead mother in her absence! I will wear the outfits of a woman much older than me and fail to employ any sense of age-appropriate whimsy!&amp;quot; The bright little scarf she almost died in last week is better than this drab number.  Give Pam a Break, Guys I love how this show took &amp;#039;80s pop princess Nia Peeples and turned her into an uptight conservative bore. I wouldn&amp;#039;t jump at the chance to have dinner with Pam Fields either, but the girls reacted to Emily&amp;#039;s invitation like a group of people who just had a stranger puke in their mouths. Give Pam a break! Someone just drove a car through her house, and she&amp;#039;s still trying to push her bigotry to the side and accept her gay daughter. Which she does, for the most part, even attempting to guess what Emily&amp;#039;s relationship was with Alison in a sort of creepy but non-invasive moment. And she made popovers, which Emily said with incredible gravitas. The dinner itself was tense in a way that fresh popovers could never save, mostly because Hanna was drunk. You would tie one on too, if your boyfriend came back to town looking like Rembrandt! She&amp;#039;s mostly upset that he was right about her needing to get away from Alison, but she&amp;#039;s too scared to lose her friends to do it. Caleb, however, is not afraid to confront Alison about her pushiness at all, and does so in a classroom right before their big test. I feel like he should stay out of it, but understand why he really cannot. Hanna and Alison are in a tough spot; when Alison confronts her about how dating Caleb is a mistake, it turns Hanna into Frankenstein&amp;#039;s monster, saying, &amp;quot;Caleb is the most unmistaken thing in my life.&amp;quot; Hanna love Caleb. Caleb most love in life. And then she grabs a bottle of vodka and gets turnt all the way up.  I think Pam, of all people, understands how hard it is to be in Alison&amp;#039;s life; she tells Emily that Ali&amp;#039;s kidnapping story is suspect and that Emily doesn&amp;#039;t have to save Ali all the time, which is pretty great advice. Emily kicked Hanna out of the dinner in the hopes that she would sober up and come to her senses, but all it did was drive her right to Sydney at The Brew, where she happily blabbed about all of their darkest secrets, like their trip to New York and her longstanding beef with Jenna. Earlier in the episode, when everyone was freaking out about Pam&amp;#039;s invitation, Hanna said, &amp;quot;Are we supposed to be suspicious of everyone now?&amp;quot; YES, Hanna, YES, you are, particularly new arrivals who are all about your business. She escaped spilling more when Caleb came in, purchased three brownies on the spot, and then sat down with her. Three brownies? Caleb, you might not be so bad after all. My family crest is three brownies stuffed inside four brownies, so this scene really endeared him to me. Welcome Rhonda, Your New Favorite Character  Aria&amp;#039;s volunteer stint at Radley is pretty uneventful; what is she even doing there? She put out some drawings and then cleaned up a lot, so maybe this cover isn&amp;#039;t exactly inconspicuous. Eddie Lamb picks up on it right away and even recognizes her, but plays it off coolly. I can&amp;#039;t figure out what Lamb is up to; he seemed to want to help Spencer so much last year and he left that picture on Ezra&amp;#039;s doorstep, but he&amp;#039;s really suspicious of Aria. When she put out the popular paintings, she slipped Bethany&amp;#039;s drawing into the mix, which sent her former roommate, Rhonda, into a rage. Apparently Bethany gave her sketchbook, including that demon drawing of Mrs. Dilaurentis, to Rhonda, so naturally Aria wants to take a peek at it. Rhonda is rad and was instantly my new favorite character for asking Aria, &amp;quot;Whatcha gonna do, little girl, when you got no hands?&amp;quot; after calling her a thief. The look on Aria&amp;#039;s face made the entire episode worthwhile.  Undeterred by Rhonda&amp;#039;s request to leave her the hell alone, Aria broke into her room by picking the lock with her white privilege when Rhonda went to the showers. Instead of escaping with Bethany&amp;#039;s sketchbook during the solid two minutes she had when she heard Rhonda coming back to the room, she threw herself under the bed.  Aria, NO! Stop putting yourself in confined spaces! I know that coffin on the train thing wasn&amp;#039;t your idea, but somehow you keep getting stuck inside impossible places. Are you just trying to show off how tiny you are? Cut it out! The Sketchbook Is Pretty Interesting, Though It shows lots of demons, a woman falling out of the sky, and lots of Mrs. Dilaurentis with horns coming out of her head. Was the falling woman Toby&amp;#039;s mom? If so, how did Bethany know about it, and what connection does she have to Mrs. Dilaurentis? Aside from being dead in the Dilaurentis&amp;#039;s backyard. Eddie called Ezra when he saw Aria leaving Radley super late; I don&amp;#039;t really love the paternalistic attitude they&amp;#039;re both taking with her, but I also don&amp;#039;t love that Aria is antagonizing mentally ill patients, so it&amp;#039;s a wash. Eddie never showed up for the meeting he set up with Ezra that night, so it&amp;#039;s possible something terrible happened to him. It&amp;#039;s also possible that Eddie is A, because that is how insane this show can be at times. Ezra spent most of the episode with Spencer, who was tasked with babysitting him while he moved his boxes full of research. I love her open contempt for him, but they bonded over their rich kid dysphoria by the end of the episode. He helped her set up security cameras to monitor the barn after Spencer found Melissa staying in there. Melissa coming home is always an event, but my very favorite thing happened when Spencer ran into her in the driveway. After giving a flimsy excuse for needing to clean the garage (Spencer&amp;#039;s drug monitor stayed there, and when he was fired suddenly he left food out), Melissa let Spencer grab the garbage bag she was carrying, which just so happened to have a huge dead rat in it. Melissa! You knew what was in there and didn&amp;#039;t even put up a fight, and this is why I salute you forever. Do you think she was the one who put the rat in Paige&amp;#039;s locker? I know she&amp;#039;s part of that We Hate Alison cabal but would she really come back from Philly to intimidate a teenager? It doesn&amp;#039;t seem like her style. Spencer&amp;#039;s security camera picks up a signal one night, and when she goes to check it out she sees Alison walking in front of the barn in a hoodie, having changed out of what she wore to dinner. What was Ali doing out there? Maybe she was just cutting through the yard? Or maybe she was the one who found the rat at Spencer&amp;#039;s house and put it in Paige&amp;#039;s locker? I just don&amp;#039;t want to get in the habit of seeing rats every week so the sooner we figure out who the Rat Whisperer is, the better.  Will Hanna Actually Ruin Everything? Or is A setting them up one by one again? They all have problems with trusting too much, but Hanna is the only one who will talk to abject strangers about her weird life. I sort of love her for that, but it&amp;#039;s definitely putting them in more danger as time goes on. In the end, they all got a text from A about Hanna&amp;#039;s big mouth \u2014 everyone but Hanna, that is. How is A going to play this? Especially since they&amp;#039;re busy stealing Pam&amp;#039;s mail and taking pictures of the wedding invitation Aria&amp;#039;s mom sent out? Is A going to the wedding to cause havoc? Of course they are, what am I saying?  See you next week!  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