Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017): Season 6, Episode 12 - Charlotte's Web - full transcript

ARIA: Previously on Pretty Little Liars...

- Dr. Rollins.
- I thought I'd let you know in person.

The judge set a date for the hearing?

DR. ROLLINS: The court can compel
your friends to come,

but they may not be sympathetic
to the cause.

So, this court thing...

It's just about how we feel
about Charlotte getting out.

It is about A getting out.

- Five A-free years.
- What are we going to do?

You got involved in government first.

And your mother
is going to be a state senator.



- Your bosses are very angry at me.
- They're not angry.

They gave me an advance on a second book.

They know what happened in South America.

College wasn't what I thought
it was going to be. I had a hard time.

When my dad died,
I just couldn't see a point to it.

My family has always had a missing part.

What's missing is my sister, Charlotte.
And now, I want to bring my sister home.

JUDGE: You're here to tell me
if you'd feel safe

should Charlotte DiLaurentis
leave the hospital.

No, I would not feel safe.

- So, that's that.
-"The judge says Charlotte can go home."

Hi, Ali.

ALISON: Did Charlotte come to your
hotel room last night?

- I don't know where she is.
- You don't know where Charlotte is?



We went to bed,
and this morning she was gone.

ARIA: What is she doing here?

EMILY: Making sure
that Charlotte's really dead.

LORENZO: Charlotte was dead
when she was thrown from the bell tower.

The death's been ruled a homicide.
You'll get a call.

ARIA: When did you tell Jordan?

HANNA: Tell him what?

About this town...

Charlotte... Everything we went through.

She means the things you can't google.

When I knew
I was falling in love with him.

Mmm. Liam and I aren't there yet,

but I know he's gonna have a lot of
questions when I get back.

Are you sure you should leave tonight?

The cops want to talk to us before we go.

Yeah, I've already missed
a few days of work.

We all have, Aria. We're staying.

Okay. Well, my boss asked me to come back.

You guys, this wasn't an easy job to get.
I can't lose it.

They're gonna ask us questions
about that night.

Yeah. We were all together.

None of us left the hotel.
What else is there to say?

I think the person the cops should
really be talking to is right over there.

Can she really not sign her own name?

You guys still haven't told anyone
about what happened. Have you?

Do we really believe she doesn't remember?

I think she's lying.

Just like she lied about
having Swedish syndrome

to get her sentence reduced.

Stockholm syndrome.
And it is a real thing.

She was never kidnapped, Spencer.

She was living out in the world.
She chose to help Charlotte torture us.

Yeah, well,
the judge didn't see it that way.

If Sara really was brainwashed,

she'd have a pretty strong motive
to kill Charlotte. Revenge.

(SIGHS) I hate to break up this party,
but I gotta get going.

-I'll walk you to your car.
- Okay. Bye.

-I'll call you soon.
- Okay.

- SPENCER: Love you.
- Love you, too.

Hey, Um.

I didn't want to say anything
in front of the others,

but I know that you left the hotel
the night Charlotte was killed.

Where did you go?

♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

I got up around 3:00 a.m. to hydrate
and I saw you leave.

Had to check my messages. And...

Then my phone died, so I had to
grab my charger from my car.

Then what?

I came back to the room.

You were gone longer than that.
I tried to wait up.

Hanna, you're remembering it wrong.
(CHUCKLES)

Which isn't a surprise
considering how wasted you got.

- Mmm, I wasn't that drunk.
- You threw up in a bathtub.

That was Emily. Not me.

Look, all I'm saying is,
if you did go somewhere,

-we should know.
- Well, I didn't.

So there's nothing to tell.

Okay.

I have a plane to catch.

Mom, Caleb just got here
and already you're putting him to work?

What's wrong?

The news of Charlotte's death
is spreading fast.

Some bloggers are trying to link you
and the girls to it.

-(SIGHS) Why am I not surprised?
- I am.

It's a disgusting thing to do.
My opponent is running a dirty campaign.

How do you know that she's behind this?

I'm trying to figure out
where it's coming from.

SPENCER: It doesn't matter.
It's already out there.

And it'd be a mistake for me
to go with you to your interview tomorrow.

- Why?
- Because I would just be a distraction.

Honey, the Rosewood Observer
has more class

than to pay attention
to a few tasteless tweets.

Mom, I am partially responsible
for Charlotte's getting out,

and on the night that she did,
she was killed.

So, whichever way they spin it,

her death and my association to it,
it will come up.

And it's best if I'm not with you
when it does.

I found a link to a blog
that originated in Rosewood.

It's been shared over 400 times.

- Maybe it is best if you skip this one.
- Yeah.

I'll call my team
and see if they can get a handle on this.

SPENCER: Okay.

I'm really afraid that she's gonna lose
this election because of me.

CALEB: Hey, don't say that.

I'll hack into the voting machines
and make sure that she wins.

- Caleb.
-l'm kidding.

(BOTH LAUGH)

Look, they have 400 retweets.

I will get 4,000 good ones
by tomorrow morning.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I'm really glad that you're here.

Me, too.

LORENZO: Alison.

Her burns severely limit her ability
to use her hands.

She couldn't have done this.

ALISON: You're taking Sara off
the suspect list?

I don't understand.

Charlotte's death was violent.

There was a struggle.

You sure you wanna hear this?

I need to know what happened to my sister.

Her neck was broken by blunt force trauma

before she was thrown from the bell tower.

I'm sorry, Alison.

We're looking at everyone,

but particularly the people
Charlotte targeted.

Do you think your friends
could've had anything to do

with Charlotte's death?

No. I don't.

Sure about that?

EMILY: That's great.

9:00 works.

I'll see you in the morning. Thanks.

PAM: How was the service?
EMILY: Um...

Ali said some nice things. And her doctor.

Did you go to the cemetery?

No, why?

Well, the DiLaurentis' plot
is close to ours. So...

No. We just left after the service.

Why don't you come with me
tomorrow morning?

We could water the flowers
and say hi to Dad.

Yeah, 'cause I don't need to see
where he's buried to say hi.

Okay.

But you haven't seen it.
Since the funeral.

You haven't even seen his headstone.

I'm sorry. I can't do it tomorrow.

I promised Ali
I'd be available to her all day.

And she really needs me. So...

I'm gonna take a shower.

Hi.

I'm sorry,
I think you have the wrong room.

I didn't order that.

JORDAN: I did.

(HANNA CHUCKLES)

Jordan.

- How did you--
- I got the key from your mom.

I wanted to surprise you.

I thought the magazine
was going to print tomorrow.

It is. But the cops want to talk to you
and that trumps work for me.

How are you?

I'm better now that you're here.

- Champagne? What are we celebrating?
- Mmm-hmm.

Us.

I spoke to my uncle, and he's agreed to
let us have the estate for the wedding.

In the Hamptons?

Wow, that's amazing, but...

I'm not rushing you,

but I had to come here
with some good news.

I'm sorry, it's just...

Between Charlotte's death
and the cops circling us,

I feel like I'm in a time warp.

I don't want you to worry about that.
Okay?

I spoke to my mom's lawyer

he has agreed to come down here,
go to the station with you.

That's really not necessary.

I know how the cops have treated you
in the past.

Now, we shouldn't take any chances.

Maybe we should just go back
to New York tonight.

Hanna, once the cops talk to you

and realize
you had nothing to do with this,

it'll all be over.

I just want this day to be over.

Well, just because you had a bad day

doesn't mean it has to end that way.

Fettuccine from Balthazar.

(LAUGHS)

Frisée salad from Dean & Deluca.

-(CHUCKLES)
- And...

A red velvet cupcake
from the Greenwich Bakery.

Mmm.

Aria. Hey. Come in.

I only have a minute.

I'm on my way to the airport. I just...

I just needed to stop by
and clear the air before I leave.

We didn't see each other
the night that Charlotte was killed.

You didn't call me.
I didn't leave the hotel.

We didn't walk or talk or go anywhere.

Understood?

Whatever you say, Aria.

NURSE: That hurt?

No. I've just never been
really good with needles.

Oh, you'll get used to them.

The injections, too.

So, are you in school or working?

Um, work.

- And school.
- Hmm.

I have a couple classes left
before I graduate.

Just hold that there, please.

So, you're going to, uh, Hollis?

Oh, no. Pepperdine.

I'm actually in San Diego now, though.

For work.

Oh, you live in California.
But you're doing your treatments here?

Is that bad?

Travel puts a lot of stress on the body.

It's really best if you complete
your treatments in one place.

- Will that be a problem?
- No. No problem.

I just... I really need this to work.

Oh... I'm sure everything will be fine.

We'll see you tomorrow, okay?

The flower was placed in her hand
to make it look like a suicide.

Fingernails were wiped clean.

So were her hands.

I'm so sorry, Ali.

Who would do something like this?

Sara Harvey.

The police can't see how she could
push someone off a building

when she can barely hold a fork.

Maybe she's lying about that.

Or maybe she had help.

Either way,
they took her off the suspect list.

Aria left town quickly.

She had to go back to work.

She was still angry with Charlotte.

She wasn't angry, she was scared.

And she said everything
that she needed to say up on that stand.

I saw her dad this morning.

He said that she left town
one day earlier than planned.

I was hoping that you guys
would come to dinner tonight.

Emily, Caleb, Jordan, too.

I could really use the company.

It's been really lonely in that house.

Sure.

What should we bring?

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Welcome back, Montgomery.

Good morning, Mr. Greene.

Staff meeting. Two minutes.

Be right there.

-(GROANS) God, I missed you.
- I missed you, too.

And this.

What, work?

Yeah, work.

Boston.

Normalcy.

Yeah. I still can't believe what happened.

Are you okay? Are you freaked out?

No, I'm okay.

- And I'm freaked out.
- Yeah.

But mainly, I'm just glad
to get back to regular life.

- Oh, we should get to that meeting.
- Yeah, we should.

Oh, how is Ezra Fitz? Did you talk to him?

Briefly.

He's thinking about
giving back that advance.

(GROANS) Jillian's not gonna like that.

No, she won't.

(MACHINE BEEPS)

(MACHINE BEEPS)

What?

(BEEPS)

ls it broken?

Um, yeah, I don't know. Maybe.

You're Emily, right?

This thing can be finicky sometimes.

Let me try.

I'm sorry,
I don't have any cash on me right now.

Not a problem. Really.

Thank you.

Are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you.

So what should we take to Alison's? Sushi?

The only tuna you're gonna find
in this town is out of a can.

I guess Thai food
is out of the question, too?

Unless you want to go back to New York.

If we leave now,
we can make an 8:00 reservation.

Are you worried about
spending the night with Alison

or introducing me to Caleb?

Both.

I'll be on my best behavior, okay?

I'll keep the conversation light.
And we'll leave right after we eat.

Deal?

Yeah, fine.

But if we're going there,
we're not just bringing food.

The police think that
the murders were premeditated.

That's why they're looking at us.

All right. Let them look.

They'll see that you put what happened
behind you and you've moved on.

You know that it hasn't been that easy.

Going to therapy
isn't a strike against you.

You had a lot to overcome.

Still am overcoming it.

It's not gonna make anybody think
that you're capable of murder.

No, this might.

What is this?

It's a paper I wrote
in my sophomore year at Georgetown.

Each of us had to do a case study
on a unique murder,

and I did mine on a woman who was killed
on her wedding night.

Did you know it's human instinct to
go headfirst when you leap to your death?

No.

Well, it is. Later on they discovered that
her neck was broken before she fell.

She was found holding her bridal bouquet.
And her fingernails were wiped clean.

- What class was this for?
-lt's for criminology.

Look, that's exactly the way
that Charlotte died.

What if somebody knows
that I wrote this paper,

they know my history here,
and they're trying to set me up.

Spence, breathe.

Being back here is making you paranoid.

Nobody's trying to hurt you.

Okay?

I'm telling you this is all
just one big coincidence.

I don't think
the police are gonna see it that way.

You told me you had a relationship
with this person.

Ezra Fitz
was my high school English teacher.

And he told you
he's gonna give the advance back?

Well, he said he's thinking about it.

You heard about what happened
to his girlfriend.

He's not in a good place right now.

No writer is ever in a good place, Aria.

I thought the teacher angle would help,
but perhaps that's the problem.

Maybe Fitz isn't taking you seriously
because you were his student.

Liam, I want you to take over.

"Take over"?

Uh, Jillian, it's not Aria's fault.

She went to testify at this hearing
and there was a murder-

Liam's right.

I just... I got really distracted.
But it won't happen again.

Jillian, I know this author.

I can get through to him
better than anyone else.

This isn't personal, Aria.

I just want somebody
to bring back the book we paid for.

Liam, you can stay.

- Hey. Hey, Sabrina.
- Hey.

- Hi.
- Do you have a sec?

Sure.

Um, Ezra says you manage the place now.

He put me in charge
when he and Nicole went to Colombia.

They thought it'd be a month-long thing.

Hell of a way to get promoted.

Yeah.

Well, I won't keep you, I just wanted to
stop by and ask you a favor.

Sure.

Um...

Could you not tell anyone that you saw me
outside of the medical center today?

I'm not quite sure who I would tell.

I know. It's just my mom comes
here sometimes, and my friends and...

Yeah.

I won't say anything.

Thanks.

Emily...

I had cancer.

Several years ago.

I didn't want people to know.

I didn't want them to think of me
as the sick girl with cancer.

But I learned the hard way
you need support

when you're going through
something like that.

I don't know what I would have done
without my family, my friends.

I don't want to make assumptions
about what you're going through--

No. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

But I'm fine.

And the last thing I need to do

is to give my mom something else
to worry about.

Okay.

Okay.

EMILY: Hi.

- Oh, wow. Did you guys bring enough food?
- There's more.

Hey, Hanna. Hi, Jordan.

SPENCER: Hey. Jordan, so good to see you.
JORDAN: Hey.

Uh, Jordan, this is Caleb.

Caleb, Jordan.

I finally get to meet the Caleb Rivers.

Yeah. It's nice to meet you.

Any chance you wanna help me
get the last load of food from the car?

Uh, yeah. How much did you guys bring?

(CHUCKLES) I know.
I come from a big family.

I always over-order.

They'll be fine.

HANNA: How are you doing?

ALISON: I'm holding up. I guess.

I'm glad everyone could make it.

Except for Aria.

Has anyone talked to her?

Uh, not since she left.

Yeah, I've called her a few times.
She hasn't returned my calls.

She's probably just busy with work.

What are you doing?

I was just gonna make some room.

I bought those for Charlotte,
to welcome her home.

Spence.

Okay.
Well, then the flowers can stay there.

I'll go get some serving spoons.

Wens)

That was weird.

(WHISPERS) Yeah, maybe she knows about us.

This is her way of pitting us
against each other.

Yeah, I dunno.
I think she just wants her pages.

We can figure this out.

- If Fitz isn't taking you seriously--
- That's not the issue.

Then what is?

Aria.

Whoa, what's going on?

Ezra Fitz is not the same person

that you met on his book tour
two years ago.

But I'm gonna talk to Jillian
and I'm gonna convince her

to give me another shot.

Yeah, you should.

Just duck if she picks up the phone. Okay?

(SIGHS)

- For how long?
- EMILY: A couple weeks, maybe a month.

My mom asked me
to stick around for a while.

The Salk Institute won't mind?

No.

What do you do there?

Um, we research cures, Alzheimer's,
diabetes, infectious diseases.

Damn.

Well, you'll save 'em, I'll dress 'em.

Oh, perfect.

I think it goes in this way.

(SIGHS)

God, there's four bottles of wine
and nobody can find a wine opener.

This is not happening.

Uh, that's actually... It's backwards.

I used to have one just like it.

You kinda have to angle the leaves down.

The one with the scratch on it?

Yeah, it's the first piece of furniture
we put into the new place.

Hanna wouldn't let go of it.

- Caleb.
- Yeah.

Um, I can't find any wine glasses.

You wanna go check the pantry for me?

Yeah.

Nice.

So, do you and Caleb see
much of each other in D.C.?

Uh, yeah. We do.

I mean, I don't really see
much of anybody except for my phone.

But of all the people that I don't see,
I don't see Caleb the most.

- The least.
-(LAUGHS)

It's nice you keep in contact.

I barely see any of my friends
from high school.

Oh, we didn't, uh, for a while.

And then we ran into each other in Madrid.

It was crazy. It was a total fluke.

I was just finishing my year abroad

and he was backpacking through Europe.

I was about to get on a train in Salamanca
and I heard my name

and I looked up and he was just
standing there on the opposite platform.

Wow, that sounds amazing.

Yeah, it was.

- Oh, hey.
- Hi.

Have you seen any wine glasses?

Ali de-boozifed the place

when she thought
Charlotte was coming home.

But I'll help you find the wine glasses
if you help me find an opener.

Deal.

Jordan seems nice.

He is.

Congrats on your engagement.
I meant to say that yesterday.

- Sorry.
- Thank you.

So, you kept the table?

Of course I did.

Look, when you left for Europe,

I wanted to focus on my career.

I wasn't looking for another relationship.

You seem happy.

I am.

I'm glad.

Ah, found them.

Looks like we got what we need.

ALISON: Thank you.

I appreciate you calling.

Ali, who was that?

Lorenzo. He said he'd call
with any updates.

What was it? The update?

Time of death.

Charlotte was killed around 4:00 a.m.

Are you okay?

Lorenzo says this is good news.

They're one step closer
to finding her killer.

Let's say grace.

(WHISPERS) Hanna. Hand.

Thank you, Heavenly Father,

for this healing food
and for these dear friends,

and thank you to all those
who are working tirelessly

to seek justice for Charlotte.

And thank you for helping the police
find Charlotte's killer

and anyone
who could be protecting him or her.

Thank you always
for your guidance and love.

Amen.

- ALL: Amen.
- Amen.

(SIGHS) Well, that was awkward.

Was that speech directed at us?

Not at us. But Aria maybe.

Why would Ali think that Aria had
anything to do with Charlotte's death?

Maybe she did.

Aria left the hotel
the night that she was killed.

- How do you know this?
- I saw her.

She left around 3:00 a.m.
and I don't know when she got back.

- Let's just ask her.
- I tried that.

She denied going anywhere but her car.

Okay, well, there are
surveillance cameras, right?

- In the lobby of the hotel?
- Yeah.

Your mom's the manager,

so maybe you could find a way to
get a look at the footage from that night.

No. I don't do stuff like that anymore.

Hanna, I know it's a lot to ask, okay?

But how else are we supposed
to be sure that Aria came back

before Charlotte died?

How's Alison doing?

Um, she's dealing in her own Ali way.

Well, I'm sure it helps having you around,

showing there's a light
at the end of the tunnel.

Hollis Medical Center?

- Wait. You have an appointment?
- EMILY: Um...

- Are you feeling okay?
- Oh, I'm fine.

It's just an interview.

For grad school.

Grad school? At Hollis?

Why didn't you tell me you were applying?

I'm just exploring my options.

I mean, honestly, the Institute
just wanted me to look into it.

Wow.

(CHUCKLES) Okay.

So what are you thinking?

I mean, you've always talked
about sports medicine.

You know who you should talk to?
Aunt Kathy, she's a nurse practitioner.

Right?

Here you go, ladies.
Let me know if you need anything else.

You know, honey.
If you're worried about paying for it,

you shouldn't be.

Dad left you all that money
for exactly this reason.

And you can just take out a loan
for the rest.

You know, all the work you're doing,
the person you've become...

Your dad would be really
proud of you, Emmy.

(DOOR OPENS)

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Hey.

- EZRA: I wasn't expecting anyone.
-(DOOR CLOSES)

I thought you went back to Boston.

I did.

I flew back to talk to you.

Oh. Well, you could've called.

My boss has this thing about
how it's harder to say no in person.

This is about the book?

Drink?

No, thank you.

They won't take back the advance.

Ah, so they are mad.

Not mad.

They just loved Ostinato.

Well, it made them money.

It made them feel things.

It's a really good book, Ezra.

And I am not just saying that
to flatter you. It is.

I promise you they are
not going to love the follow-up.

ARIA: That's it? That's the book?

As far as I got.

Can I look at it?

Hey, a first draft is a first draft.
I'm sure it's not that bad.

That night, after we saw each other,
after I went back to the hotel.

Where did you go?

What are you asking me?

You know what I'm asking you.

Where did you go?

Home, Aria.

I went home.

Spence, stop worrying about the paper.
You gotta let it go.

You sure you're okay
sleeping on the couch again?

Yeah, totally.

It's a lot more comfortable
than those hostel beds in Europe.

Can you believe that it's been three years
since we were in Madrid?

That's crazy.

I don't think I'm ever gonna forgive you
for dragging me to that awful bullfight.

Come on, it was not that awful.

It was awful when you started
screaming "savages" at the drunk crowd.

It was terrible from the beginning,
that's why I was screaming.

-It was awful.
- Okay. (LAUGHS)

- You made me cry.
- I didn't make you do anything.

You had to stop me
from crying in the street.

You were pretty livid.

(LAUGHS) It was not okay.

But, hey, I redeemed myself

when I snuck us into Retiro Park
with a couple of bottles of sangria.

Yeah, you did.

(LAUGHS)

Oh, my God, that was the
most beautiful sunrise.

Yeah.

That was my best night in Europe.

Mine, too.

Hands down.

Yeah.

Uh, hey, your mom asked me to stick around
and help with the campaign.

That's a great idea.

(PHONE BEEPS)

Let me know if you need anything.

Thank you.

EMILY: Where does Jordan think you are?

HANNA: Talking to my mom.

(BEEPS)

There she is.

-(BEEPS)
-lt's 3:12.

What the hell was Ezra doing there?

So much for just going to her car.

(DOOR OPENS)

Hey. The hallway's clear,
but there's a cleaning crew down the hall.

Okay, hurry.

-I'm going as fast as I can.
- What did I miss?

- Aria left the hotel with Ezra.
- What?

But she didn't come back with him.

It's 4:28.

What time did Ali say
that Charlotte was killed?

Close to 4:00.

Just because she came back
after the time of the murder,

it doesn't mean that
she had anything to do with it.

No, but it doesn't look good.

What do we do? Do we erase the video?

We're not in high school, Emily.
We're gonna talk to Aria.

She won't tell us anything.

SPENCER: Well, she doesn't
have a choice this time.

How did you know I was back?

I saw you, visiting Ezra.

We know you saw him
the night Charlotte died.

We know you left the hotel.
For more than five minutes.

Yeah, and by the time you came back,
Charlotte was already dead.

It's time to tell us
what really happened that night.

You didn't have to come by.

Well, you said you couldn't sleep.

(GROANS) I can't.

I just keep going over
what I said to the judge.

God, that look on Ali's face.

Look, what you said was honest and brave.

So if your friends are
giving you a hard time--

No. No, no, no. They're not.

At all. They actually wish
that they'd said the same thing.

You know, that's the crazy part.

I just thought if one of us had said "no,"
that that would just be the end of it.

(SCOFFS)

Yeah. Me too.

Hey, can we go somewhere?

Anywhere but here.

Of course.

ARIA: (GROANS)
Why is everything closed?

EZRA: It's suburban Pennsylvania,
at about 4:00 a.m.

ARIA: Yeah, I want pizza.

Doesn't anybody care that I want pizza?

You know, I know this little
bookstore cafe around the corner.

It's closed,
but I happen to know the owner.

No. No, I should go. It's late.

Yeah. Sure.

ARIA: Is that Alison?

Looks like her car.

I think that's Charlotte.

Do we call someone?
Do we call the police?

No, Aria, she's free now.

It's her town now as much as ours.

Yeah, well, she's free
and she's already lurking in the shadows.

Why the hell is she not home with AH?

EZRA". 'Cause that's the kind of world
we live in.

People like Nicole disappear
and Charlotte gets to walk free.

Ezra. Hey.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

You know, it's getting late.

You should probably
get back to your hotel.

Yeah.

Good night.

He told me he went home afterwards.

But I don't know. He was so angry.

Aria, what is it?

I know him.

I know that Ezra can't
look me in the eye when he lies.

And when he told me he went home,
he didn't look at me.

(EXHALES) Well, we have to tell someone.

- Lorenzo, Ali, anyone.
- No, we don't.

No, this is a giant leap.

We're talking about Ezra killing someone.

I mean, until we have actual proof,
we don't tell anyone anything.

It's not.

It's not a giant leap.

In fact, I think I told Ezra how to do it.

SPENCER: Ezra was on his book tour,
and we got together for lunch.

He was still trying to figure out
what he wanted to write next,

and he said that he was toying around
with the idea of a murder mystery.

I had just written my paper,
so I told him about the case.

In detail.

Maybe Ezra did do this to protect you.

Protect me?

By copying some bizarre murder
from the past?

Spencer, this was a public case.

You weren't the only two
who knew about it.

He saw how upset Aria was
in the courtroom.

And he's still angry about
what happened to Nicole.

I mean, who knows
what he's capable of now?

If he did kill Charlotte
and the police find out,

it's gonna look like
you were involved, too.

You left the hotel with Ezra.

And you came back a half hour
after Charlotte was killed.

Nobody can see that security footage.

Why did you show this to me?

I wanted you to know that I wrote it.

Somebody from my class could remember it

and read about Charlotte
and connect the dots.

What dots?

Do you know anything
about what happened to Charlotte?

- No.
- Then I'm not worried.

Mom, how can you not worry?

If this gets out,
it's going to ruin your campaign.

- If I haven't done that already--
- You haven't.

And it won't.

We'll get ahead of this.

How?

Caleb already started a narrative
about you being bullied on social media.

If this comes up,
it'll already be diffused.

You are not a liability, Spencer.

You're my daughter.

EMILY: I was in class when
Mom called the school.

Human anatomy.

Everything we went through in high school,

I thought we were done with disasters.

(SIGHS) The next semester,
nothing made sense anymore.

If you really are watching over me,

then I guess you know this already.

I flunked two classes

and they took my scholarship away.

After that, I couldn't go back there.

I flew home that summer and I was
ready to tell Mom about everything,

but she was such a mess.

And I couldn't do it.

(SNIFFLES AND EXHALES)

(VOICE BREAKING) I know that I messed up.

Okay? But I'm going to fix it.

lam fixing it.

(LEAVES RUSTLING)

(GASPS)

♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(PHONE VIBRATING)

Everything okay?

Yeah. I'm fine.

Thank you for coming over.

Ali, what's this about?

Last night, you asked me

if I thought my friends had
anything to do with Charlotte's murder.

Do you want to change your answer?

Yes.

♪ (SOFT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

I'm sorry for your loss, sir.

English - SDH