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It’s been five years
since the liars received their first text message from the notorious ‘A’, and
the theories about who 'A' is have kept fans
guessing all that time.
It promised to be the
summer of answers, and Marlene King certainly gave us them. Perhaps just not
the ones that we wanted.
Episode 10, season 6
suitably titled ‘GAme over ChArles’, consisted of a trip into ‘A’s’ brain and a
whole load of flashbacks. We came face to face with A.
Here’s a brief roundup of
what you missed in the story of Charles DiLaurentis.
CAREFUL: This piece DOES
contain spoilers.
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Kenneth DiLaurentis and
Jessica DiLaurentis have three children – Jason (the eldest), Charles (middle)
and Alison (youngest).
Charles DiLaurentis loves
his little sister, and wants to look after her. So much so that the whole hot
water bath drowning incident, was an accident and taken the wrong way.
Charles ‘plays dress up’
in his mother’s clothes, much to his father’s disappointment. Kenneth decides
to pack Charles off to Radley Sanitarium before he ‘hurts anybody’.
Apparently, the two other
children are too young to remember Charles.
While in Radley, Charles
is visited by his mother who brings copies of clothes she buys for Alison.
Explaining those two dresses. His aunt also visits.
Charles befriends another
patient, Bethany Young. Bethany supports Charles’ transition to becoming
Charlotte. We’ll call Charlotte ‘C’ for the time being.
As children they plan to
leave Radley while sat on the roof. Mrs Cavagnaugh (Toby’s mother) sees them,
so Bethany pushes and kills her.
Bethany blames C, meaning
that C spends the next few years on higher doses of medication. Brewing a
hatred toward Bethany.
Bethany conveniently
looks like both C and Alison.
Mrs DiLaurentis tells a
teenage C that she has been granted leaving privileges to attend classes. Here
C bunks off, becomes known as Cece Drake, and instead meets her brother Jason.
Who she starts dating. Yep.
As a result, she
befriends her boyfriend’s younger sister. Who is also her younger sister?!?
Alison DiLaurentis. The two become close.
It is then time for Cece
to meet the parents, Jessica is understandably a little taken aback. I mean,
she reveals that she told her husband that Charles had died and been buried in
an aunt’s garden.
In reality, the whole
burial was a metaphor for burying Charles and allowing Charlotte to live.
CeCe spends summer in
Cape May with the family, who most don’t even know that she’s actually family.
Here we remember the summer of the pregnancy scare, the mystery guys…
Still keeping up?
Returning to Radley, CeCe
realises that Bethany had stolen all of her clothes and had escaped.
So, wearing that infamous
yellow shirt Bethany went to Rosewood. CeCe hit Alison on the head with the
rock the night she went missing and the story began.
Though CeCe thought it
was Bethany, not Alison.
Mrs DiLaurentis saw and
buried Alison, paying off Wilden (yeah, that weird cop) to cover it up.
THE PLOT THEN THICKENS.
As Mona then was out that
night targeting school bully Alison, and instead hit Bethany with a shovel. Not
Alison. Because she was probably buried alive by now.
With Alison missing, Mona
started the game. Sending texts and making threats to the girls, to make it
seem as though it was from Alison – who she thought was dead.
Even though in a previous
episode we saw Mona help Alison get away that night, so apparently we’re meant
to forget that.
Anyway, Mona’s motive was
to target the school bitches who picked on her.
Once Mona was revealed as
being ‘A’ and taken to Radley, CeCe visited her. As a drugged up Mona told her
secrets about the girls, CeCe decided to take the game.
Returning back to
Rosewood, acting as closely as possible to Alison as she could (at this point,
she genuinely believed Alison was dead) she met the four liars and worked in a
boutique. CeCe told the girls the truth – she knew Alison and once dated Jason.
It annoyed CeCe that the
girls seemed glad to be gone of Alison, and were unbreakable even without her.
CeCe began to notice a
girl in a red coat watching over the girls and coming to their rescue whenever
they were put in danger. Convinced that it was Alison, ‘A’s’ ploys were always
to lure her to see that she was still alive.
This leads us to the
fire. Recruiting Sara Harvey (don’t know where this ‘feral’ kid came from) to
act as red coat, mayhem spread. CeCe overheard the liars discussing how Alison
dragged them out of the fire, confirming that the original red coat was Alison.
From here, CeCe put the
liars through hell just to see Alison and ‘protect her’, which is a pretty long
winded way round.
Wilden figured out that
Alison was still alive, so CeCe killed him so that Alison could come back and
‘tell her story’.
Sara Harvey was also
black widow at his funeral.
CeCe went home and found
that Mrs DiLaurentis had died, no further explanation.
The doll’s house was
made, even though CeCe ‘loved all her dolls’ as the game supposedly became
addictive. Sara Harvey wasn’t kept here.
Rhys was hired as a decoy
as the liars got closer to figuring it all out.
‘A’ decided to end the
game, capturing Alison in Radley and revealing the story via a live feed to the
girls and Mona. While her brother and dad just lay semi-conscious on the
ground. Still don’t know their fate.
Then there was the
kickass punch from Emily.
Now, it’s a long wait
until season 6B airing in January.
We still have some questions about all of this.
1.
What will happen to Kenneth, Jason and CeCe?
2.
Who killed Mrs DiLaurentis and Maya?
3.
What did Shana have to do with the fire?
4.
Where did Sara Harvey come from?
5.
Where did CeCe get all her money from?
6.
What did the NAT club have to do with it?
7.
Who did Melissa bury if Spencer didn’t hit anybody, but
Mona did?
8.
Who was the body in the woods who everybody thought was
Toby?
9.
Where was the revelance with Jenna, Lucas, Garrett,
Melissa or Wren?
10. How
did A get to London to put blood in Spencer’s bag?
11. Why
was CeCe in the year book as prom queen, if she was never actually a student?
12. Why
did Ian commit suicide?
13. What
is all this talk of Jenna drowning?
14. Where
did this budget come from?
15. WHAT
WILL HAPPEN AFTER THE TIME JUMP?
