Pretty Little Liars Episode 423 Recap: All The Broken Hearts

BREAKING: HANNA AND BUZZCUT GOT MARRIED

BREAKING: HANNA AND BUZZCUT ACCIDENTALLY GOT MARRIED

Hanna asks Buzzcut to stall Jessica if he sees her so that she can sneak into the house. Buzzcut seems to be too nice to be true. He schemes up a reason to stall Jessica by breaking her mailbox, then makes out with Hanna because of course.


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Boo!

Aria is in the back and is basically moments from a breakdown. Her mom sneaks backstage to have a bonding moment about broken hearts and getting over broken hearts and it’s kind of a touching moment. They even cry together.

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I can’t read Aria’s mother’s expression here. Embarrassment? Shock? Weirded outness?

And Zach proposed to Aria’s mom! Aria’s all for it. Sounds like U-Hauling to me!


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Baby, I know we’re both wearing white, but we both know this ain’t our first time at the rodeo. You don’t have to be so nervous.

Emily and Hanna are in Ali’s room looking for the shopping bag. This is begging to be a terrible moment.

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Awww I made something so similar in 8th grade only it was about Las Vegas and had a picture of me on a roller coaster at Circus Circus, which is now a place YOU DO NOT GO SIMBA.

Hanna finds a collage in the closet with clues? Emily hacks into the email address from the money.

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Twenty house points to the first person who tells me what Barile Volante might mean.

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P.S. This whole one initial thing is just so catchy, isn’t it? -E.

She sends a message to Ali.

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Baby, can you not topless Skype me when my friends are around to see?

Moments later, Ali calls Emily’s phone and sounds panicked. They ask who is in her grave. She tells them to “come here and hurry.”


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This reminded me too much of Lady in White for my own comfort’s sake.

Back in the woods and Spencer stepping on something, Spencer sees someone run away. She calls for Alison and wanders around a bit. Then, the metal clinking noise that might be Spencer being stabbed!

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nom nom nom wedding veil

But oh, it’s just her veil is caught in a bear trap! That was the noise, seriously? Wait, why was there a bear trap in the woods? Spencer, watch where you’re running!

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My period tracker said it would start on Tuesday and now look at my dress!

Spencer finds the Liars and tells them where she was. They help her take off her dress and find that there’s finger bones in her corset.

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Basically Spencer was getting felt up that entire time.

Who put this on her and didn’t notice there were finger bones instead of regular boning? Is that one of those questions we aren’t supposed to ask?

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Probably freak the fuck out, nbd.

There’s also a note: What are you going to do when the rest of me comes out of the grave? That is legit really traumatizing.


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Pro tip: Stalk your girlfriend. Just pop out of the bushes late at night.

They’re about to leave for Philly, and Emily is waiting outside for the Liars. Paige comes up to her and says Emily was right. Paige is still so angry at Ali and that’s why she did it. She begs for forgiveness.

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Emily does forgive her, but says she couldn’t trust her ever again. They are so over.

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Wait, so hiding in the bushes WASN’T a great idea?!

Dammit, Paige.


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Ali is living the dream in Sketchville, apparently.

The Liars get to Philly where Ali told them to meet her. It looks like an abandoned store? With lots of cobwebs?

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Everyone looks scared but Hanna who is just really like, “Oh, you have got to be fucking kidding me.”

A door opens and they turn around and say, “What are you doing here?” Who was it?!


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In the ending A scene, we find A looking through the guestbook of the Red Finch Inn. They find CeCe Drake’s name and then dial the number for the Rosewood police department. They take a piece of butterscotch candy. Hmmm.


Who was at Ali’s place? I think it might be Jason. We know it wouldn’t be Jessica, but it could be Jason. We don’t know WHY Jason is lying to them. Has he been helping Ali for however long they’ve both been gone? Is that even likely?

Jason seems to be on Team Jessica. Ali doesn’t seem like it. But if Ali is afraid of Mrs. DiLaurentis, why is she buying her clothing? And why is Mrs. DiLaurentis taking such a hard “She’s not alive” to the police.

Also, if there’s an evil twin situation going on with the arm fracture, Mrs. DiLaurentis didn’t even bat an eyelash.

Why is it that when the writers decide someone could be A, they suddenly make them overly creepy and evil and suddenly everything they do is so much more evil than it had been before? Like very obviously evil. Even the looks Jessica was giving to Spencer were so outrageous. What triggered the fact that she can’t even fake nice anymore?

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Y’all ready for the season finale next week? A unmasked?!

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10 Comments

  1. I totally agree that they really made Jessica’s evilness way over the top to the point where it’s ridiculous. At least with Ezra, you suddenly saw all of his previous behaviour in a new light, but this, it’s not even a matter of perspective or interpretation with Jessica! Yeesh!

    And speaking of terrible development – the fact that Spencer went from loathing Dean to suddenly fawning over him because he fucking read to her? Omigod. Veronica nailed it with: “You can read on your own.” It was nice to see some of the moms acting like real moms (I actually cheered when Ella was behind the door. She’s the best mom.)

    And the whole wedding thing was just…again, over the top and pointless. There was no *legitimate* development of the plot with the wedding dresses. It pretty much just made me drool over Emily’s dress (THAT CUT, MY GOD!!).

    Tangent #3: I’m kind of glad that Emily broke up with Paige – that bathroom scene was super intense, but at the same time I’m pissed off because they obviously set it up so that Paige would be terrible in the end. WHY CAN’T EMILY HAVE A GIRLFRIEND FOR FOREVER LIKE STUPID SPOBY.

    • I have a feeling that Paige will be back with Emily sooner or later. They have kind of established the permanent romantic partner for each girl, and I don’t see it changing, spin-offs excluded.

      I was never into the idea of a relationship that started with an attempted drowining, so I wish they would get Emily a new girlfriend! (Also kick Toby and Ezra to the curb. Hanna has the only decent taste in partners!)

  2. I love these recaps. The Aria caption killed me “I’ve changed a lot, Mom! I only wear shirts on ONE shoulder now!” Haha.

    I don’t get why they’ve suddenly made Mrs D so creepy, and how can she be A if she didn’t even know Spencer would be there/wearing that dress? IT DOSENT ADD UP.

    Also, Emily’s dress is amaze.

  3. So long Paige! Emily never being allowed a forever…or even for a while non invisible girlfriend reminds me of an article I read, way back when, in DIVA about the death of Tara on Buffy and how TV shows just wouldn’t show a happy, healthy lesbian relationship because of the possible terrifying ramifications…you know like people realising that can happen. We are fully over 10yrs later but it feels like in Liars they haven’t moved on. Then again if she had a functional relationship she would be a total anomaly given all the ridiculousness the other guys have with their various boyfriends.

    • ” TV shows just wouldn’t show a happy, healthy lesbian relationship because of the possible terrifying ramifications…”

      No lesbian relationship ever lasted on the history of television.
      2014 and still not happening. I trusted Pretty little liars with every inch of my queer heart. The minute i thought i was having prime cuts of steak for dinner, They shoved up crumbs on my face. After all The back story about alison knew closeted paige
      and blackmailed her and paige thought emily also knew like, How? Why F up the storyline so poorly.

  4. :( feeling like i had been cheated on, I trusted you Pretty little liars.. trusted you..
    Paige did exactly what a sensible girlfriend would do in that situation. What else can anybody do? What else but to seek help from the police. Normal citizens seeks for help. Paige slipping the note in the police car was not even as half sleazy as ezra’s shenanigans. Ezra is a pedophile. He had sex with a minor aria and almost certainly with a minor alison. He’s the real criminal but he can get a pass because of the screaming little girls from twitter who are always “ezra is so hot” “ezra is so sweet”
    Respect the lesbian lead and her leading lady. Was i asking for too much pretty little liars? Was i.

  5. Ahhhh I love your captions, they were slaying me! “Police of Rosewood: Crashin’ the hangouts of teen girls since 2010.”… too real, too real. Emily and Hanna in wedding dresses, on the floor next to a bed, gave me some serious gay “Just Married” vibes. I want this movie people!

    Also look at the guest book: “mandi line,” above Cece’s name, is the PLL costume designer.
    Up a few lines: Lazarus. Pretty sure that is the guy who Jesus raised from the dead, and you know how PLL loves their references! Most obviously could be a reference to Ali, or maybe something else is going on with Cece or Wilden. They did talk about Wilden an awful lot this ep.

  6. I know so many people were on board with Paige and Emily’s relationship, and I was too, but in an earlier episode (I think last season) both of the girls concluded that their relationship was doomed to end when Paige went off to college, so the end has been in sight for quite some time. Also, Emily has way to many straight-girl-crush feelings for Ali that need to be resolved before she can have true love feelings for an actual gay lady.
    As far as the Mrs D being A scenario goes, I think we can all agree that it’s ridiculous. The only reason the girls truly suspect it is because Ezra planted the idea. I’m now super confused about whether Ezra is A or just the worst human being on the planet.
    I’m hoping that Ali is revealed as being A so that the girls finally give up on trying to rescue her and instead decide to hunt her down and murder her for good. I just hope they double check she’s not just holding her breath before they put her in the ground.

  7. “Just take a moment to examine the fashion in this shot. What is going on here?”

    Seriously what the hell is happening with that thing around Spencer’s neck?
    I swear if this ends up being a fashion choice similar to the girl in “The Green Ribbon”… I’ll totally accept it.

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