- It's the Halloween before Alison went missing and the friends hope to score an invite to Noel's Halloween party; Jenna challenges Ali for Queen Bee dominance; Aria learns a shocking revelation about Byron.
- We open with Alison narrating a scary story to a child that Hanna is babysitting. It is about two twins, who got into fight over a doll and one of them stabbed the other with a knife on Halloween. Hanna asks Alison to stop, but the kid wants her to continue. Alison says that the girl was sent to an asylum- "until yesterday!"- and had vowed to kill every kid who went trick-or-treating. Alison then stabs the butcher knife she is holding into the pumpkin they are carving on the table.
OCTOBER 28, 2008
The five girls are walking to school debating Halloween costumes. Hanna wants to go as Britney Spears, but Alison is bossy with regards to Hanna's decision. Emily says that she is going with Ben, and wants to go as a Native American. Meanwhile, Spencer gets an update on her phone that she has secured the debate team's votes for class president. Just then, Noel Kahn drives up and invites all the girls to his Halloween party. As he drives away, Alison mocks the others for being so excited to attend the party.
They continue walking and pass a run-down abandoned house. Emily claims that she saw someone in one of the upstairs windows. Spencer shrugs it off by saying that "kids go in there all the time". Aria comments that she always got a bad feeling from that place; however, Alison reminds her that it was just an old house. When they walk away, someone opens the door, and a van is seen marked 'Radley Sanitarium'.
Emily is walking home by herself. She spots Toby unloading a moving van. He is looking at a snow van and seems to be subdued. When Emily approaches him, he tells her that his father has remarried and that the new wife is moving in with her daughter. Emily asks him what the daughter is like, and Toby says "she gets what she wants".
Alison is at the costume shop, when Noel scares her by grabbing her from behind and covering her mouth while wearing a scary mask. She then spots the new girl in Rosewood buying a Lady Gaga costume. She tells the girl that Lady Gaga is her own costume choice for this year, and tries to boss her into buying a new one. Before walking away, Alison offers her name, to which the girl replies that she already knows it, and her own name is Jenna. After that Alison gets an anonymous text from a blocked number that says "I'M WATCHING YOU". She is then surprised once more by a person in a burlap outfit, whom she calls "freak" before walking away.
In Spencer's living room, Alison flirts with Melissa's boyfriend Ian, who is holding a video camera in his hand. He films Alison talking about her grandmother in Georgia. Alison then turns the camera on Ian and films him. She sets the camera down when Melissa and Spencer descend the stairs. Melissa praises Spencer's speech for class president, calling her agenda "top-notch". Spencer tells that her parents have already planned a victory party.
Aria visits her father's office at Hollis College. She is about to leave a note for him when she sees Meredith, one of his father's students lying on his couch and reading a book. Aria finds the situation odd. When Byron returns to his office, he expresses his surprise at seeing Meredith there, but tells Aria that students come in there all the time, making Aria believe that her father is "cool" in the eyes of his students.
In her bedroom that night, Hanna is watching a scary movie. The phone starts ringing, but when she picks it up, nobody responds. After that, the lights flicker momentarily, and the phone rings again. Hanna picks up, and this time, it's Alison asking if she was at the costume shop and had sent her a text. When Hanna says no, Alison hangs up without an explanation.
Just then, there is a knock on the door. It's policeman Darren Wilden driving a drunken Ashley home, who had had too many martinis at the Grille. It is revealed that Ashley is upset about Tom leaving, and is stressed about dealing with the situation he has left behind in Rosewood. As Ashley falls asleep on the couch, Hanna consoles her by criticizing Isabel's looks and her "big ass".
The next day in the school cafeteria, Spencer is sitting at a table and campaigning for her class presidency. Hanna walks over to Aria and Emily's table, and lets them know that Ben has been telling people that Emily and he had sex. Aria is about to charge over angrily, but Emily forces her to sit back down. Emily does not seem to be furious about this. The girls finally realize that what Ben has been saying is true. Then, Alison joins their table, and a nerdy Mona tries to do the same, but Alison vends her off. Alison seems impressed by the fact that Emily had sex, calling her "shy on the streets, sexy in the sheets".
Later, Aria and Alison go out for frozen yogurt. While they are walking, Mona sees them and calls out to join them. Alison propels Aria forward in an attempt to lose Mona, and calls her a "dork". They run until they turn a corner past some bushes, then stop in their tracks when they see Byron and Meredith making out in his car. Byron is smiling, until he spots his daughter.
Next, Alison is seen sitting on her bed, writing in a notebook. Jason enters the room without knocking, and asks for $20, since he is buying the beer for his friends tonight. After she gives it to him, he hands her a package that was on the porch. Alison does not open it until he leaves the room. Inside is a burlap doll with a red heart and a pin and a note that says "IT'S MY TURN TO TORTURE YOU". Alison opens the radiator grill to fetch the box of her hidden belongings. She twists the head of her own porcelain doll and puts the note inside the neck. She recaps it and stores in all back where it was. Meanwhile, someone is spying on the DiLaurentis house with binoculars.
Hanna enters her kitchen carrying her Britney costume. Her mother is sitting and reading the newspaper on the counter. She is looking through the job listing, but has not found anything better than maid openings. When she spots an opening for a bank branch manager in Rosewood, she pauses and considers. Just then, Darren comes by. Ashley asks Hanna to stay in the kitchen, and does not let Darren in. He makes implied advances, but Ashley turns him down. He warns her to be careful outside these days. After he has gone, Ashley calls Darren a "horny cop" in response to Hanna's questioning.
Spencer is in her living room, sewing, when Alison comes knocking. She informs Spencer that a friend on the election committee has let her know that Spencer may not win the election. The votes are still being counted, and it would be close. Spencer is crestfallen and afraid of her parent's reactions. Alison tells Spencer that all this time, Melissa has been purposely trying to outshine Spencer in her parent's eyes. Alison then offers to "make it happen" for Spencer, i.e. fix the election. Spencer readily agrees.
That night, Aria returns home as Byron sits looking at an old family album. He lets Aria know that he had tried to contact her all day. Ella and Mike are at dinner. Byron insists that what Aria saw was the ending of a relationship, because Meredith would be dropping his class. He then asks Aria to lie about it to her mother, because it's over now, and telling her would make it worse. Aria tells her father that she would never forgive him. When Byron tries to hug her, she turns away from him. Byron tells Aria that he would respect whatever decisions she ultimately makes. Aria starts crying, and Byron stands in the doorway, crying silent tears himself.
The next day, Emily walks with Alison. Alison suggests Emily going on the pill. However, Emily confesses the rumors weren't true. She has only made out with Ben. She asks Alison not to tell anyone about this.
Later in the school hallways, Alison asks Spencer to stop being nervous and lets her know it has been taken care of. When the other girls question her comment, Alison lies that she had helped Spencer with her speech. Alison changes the subject by asking Aria how her mother is, which makes Aria glare at her. Just then, Lucas Gottesman bumps into Alison and spills his drink on her. He tries to apologize, but Alison angrily calls him a "hermie". As she walks away, Lucas tells Mona that "one day she'll get what's coming to her", and Mona nods silently. Next, there is an announcement over the school loudspeaker that the election results are in, Spencer Hastings is the winner. Smiling hesitantly, Spencer accepts people's congratulation, and Alison winks at her.
That night, the girls are getting dressed in Spencer's bedroom. Hanna is donning her Britney costume, Emily is dressed as a Native American, Spencer is wearing a corset dress and Alison is dressed as Lady Gaga. Aria walks in and announces that she doesn't feel like going. Alison is not going to accept that so easily. Suddenly, Spencer spots someone outside the window. A figure can be seen in a burlap outfit with a doll mask, and the girls are worried and scared. The doorbell then rings for a pizza delivery, but Spencer does not want down alone, so Hanna and Emily accompany her. Alison then reminds Aria that she had worked hard to score all the girls an invitation to the party. She accuses Aria of being a "downer" ever since she caught her father cheating with "that tart". Alison finds out that Ella is unaware of her husband's infidelity. She blackmails Aria into attending the party by suggesting that she could easily tell Ella what Aria hadn't.
At the party, Noel, who is dressed as a gynecologist, greets the girls. He guesses everyone's outfits except Spencer's, who is dressed as Mary, Queen of Scots. When she begins to explain, Noel goes right over to Jenna, who is also dressed as Lady Gaga.
When a Lady Gaga song starts playing, Mona, dressed in a cat-suit, approaches Alison. Alison asks if she knows her to which Mona responds mysteriously "no, but you will". Alison then walks over to Jenna and offers to befriend her. However, Jenna turns her down and says that she likes to pick her own friends. After Jenna walks away, Mona declares her the best Gaga. The two introduce themselves.
Outside on the porch Alison calls Jenna a slut and hands Spencer the ballots of the rigged election. Spencer burns them in a nearby fireplace. Alison then tells Spencer that she would be surprised to know the people who aren't her friends, and suggestively glances over to Aria and Hanna.
Next, Hanna and Aria go in search of drinks. They follow the arrow on the sign at the edge of some woods that reads "KILLER DRINKS THIS WAY". As they move deeper into the bushes, they are scared by someone in a scary costume who creeps up on them.
Emily is slow-dancing with Ben on the floor. Jenna is seductively dancing nearby, and Emily ogles at her. Jenna smiles at Emily, causing Emily to smile uncertainly back. Alison has been noticing all of this. She asks Emily, "Were you wishing you could taste her cherry chapstick?" thereby alluding to her hidden sexual orientation. Emily looks frightened, and Alison lets her know that her secret is safe with her.
Sometime later, Emily is sitting outside alone. Hanna joins her, wondering where Alison is. Aria and Spencer join them, and they receive a text that reads "I'M IN TROUBLE, COME ALONE" from Alison. They hurriedly leave the party.
The girls have been directed to 313 Mockingbird Lane, which is the address of the abandoned house shown earlier. The same figure that was standing outside Spencer's window seems to be following them, but they don't notice him/her. They enter the house. The girls walk up the stairs to the upper floor. They are startled to see a lonely suit hanging in the middle of a room, and antique dolls in a corresponding dollhouse.
The girls find Alison in a locked room. She is terrified and recounts that someone grabbed her and brought her there threatening to kill her with a knife. Nobody has cell phone reception, so Alison goes out alone into the hallway. Then she screams, but the door is now bolted and the girls cant open it. Through the keyhole they see a big fight with her and the burlap outfit figure, who has a knife. Alison finally manages to run off after kicking her opponent. The other girls get out through an open window, and re-enter the house. They find Alison sitting in a rocking chair, holding a knife smeared with blood. She laughs and says it was all a hoax. Noel was in the burlap outfit, and the blood was ketchup. The girls are really angry and annoyed, and Spencer tells Alison that the joke was not funny. Alison is unperturbed and tells them that they "passed the test". She can count on them as her friends when she needs them.
Back at the party, the girls find that Noel's elder brother and his college friends have joined in. Ian and Melissa are there too, dressed as Bonnie and Clyde. Alison approaches Ian and tries to flirt with him, but is interrupted by Melissa who starts kissing him. Disgruntled, Alison walks back to her friends.
Noel then approaches Alison to apologize for not making it to the plot. He was stuck at the party. Alison is taken aback and wonders who the person actually was. Suddenly, another person in a burlap sack and doll mask brushes past Alison and mutters "bitch". As he walks away, he takes off his mask and is revealed to be Lucas. Then, Alison gets a text: "DYING TO KNOW WHO I AM? YOU'LL FIND OUT.-A" When Aria questions the text, Alison calls it "a secret".
Several other people at the party are shown to be wearing identical masks and burlap costumes. Someone a few paces away takes off his/her mask, but the face is not shown.
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