PLL 601 Game On, Charles Recap

Pretty Little Liars

6x01 Game On, Charles

Recap

Welcome back readers to another Season of Pretty Little Liars where we sit our asses in front of a TV Tuesdays with nothing to do! Well, okay, not everyone, but you get what I mean. The last we saw the Pretty Little Liars, they were with Mona in prom dresses running to find a way out of the evil, menacing Charles aka A aka someone we met before, we just don’t know who they are. A mystery chick in a yellow top with blonde hair is seen painting a picture with a Sun and some blue color rays while the PLL’s and Mona are running to find a way out of the dollhouse. 

Okay so this is where things get really “OMFG!” and “Wait, what?!” This new chick recorded down the days she’s been in the dollhouse and I counted over 500 days. That’s roughly over a year, and if we all know the timeline for Pretty Little Liars, we know 

OMG WHO IS THIS?! Go Away Sara!!! it’s a giant fuckfest. Alison went missing around the time of Labor Day 2008, right? A year lapsed after that which brought us to the Pilot in 2009 and the Liar’s Junior year of High School. The timeline gets complicated as shit after that as the Liar’s completes their Junior Year and continues on to Senior Year in Season 3. If I’m thinking correctly, and knowing who this bitch is and knowing when SHE disappeared, Charles have had his dollhouse since Season One. Which means he’s been plotting since Season One, but he didn’t have his -A signature til he “stole” the game from Mona in Season 2B finale. So technically, he was the first -A, not Mona, even though she created the -A Game… does that make sense? I don’t fucking know, let’s move on.

Also another question I am dying to ask Marlene, HOW THE FUCK DID THE GIRLS NOT FIND THE MYSTERY BLONDE BITCH?! Welcome to the Dollhouse was in the damn dollhouse throughout 90% of the fucking episode, and now this bitch just shows up out of nowhere?! On another note: Mona’s been in the dollhouse since November/Early December. She was in the dollhouse for 3-5 months and even SHE didn’t discover this new crazy wild haired pokebitch. Who are you, New Girl, who are you?!?! (BTW, I have a theory about this new girl and it’ll be posted at the end of this recAp)

So after we get finished watching Dirtyhair Pokemon, we’re shown recycled scenes from Welcome to the Dollhouse. The girls are gonna jump that fucking fence, but Spencer’s all like, “NO!!! STOP!!!!!!!” Then the World War II music starts up again, and I’m convinced that Charles was the Gas Mask -A. I said this in the Welcome to the Dollhouse recAp and I’m gonna say it again. He just HAS to be. So as we go on, the Liar’s and Mona are looking around the fence trying to see if they can escape, but they know they’re fucked. Right after Aria declares she’s never going back down into the dollhouse, Charles presses his magic button and SLAAAM the door shuts and locks. 

HOW THE FUCK DID CHARLES CLOSE THAT DOOR?! The fucking door doesn’t even look like it’s attached to electronic technical devices. So unless Charles is an invisible son of a fucking bitch, HOW DID THE DOOR CLOSE?!

Hanna: You know, you may be a dude, but you’re still a bitch!

LOL, Hanna you have the most amazing lines!!

SHE'S SO AMAZING!! 

After Charles shuts off the power to the outside fence and shit, Spencer immediately goes into detective mode. Hey, Spence! That’s Hanna’s job! Mona asks Spencer if she was something familiar about Charles, maybe she recognized him from all the times he wore the black hoodie from Season 3 or something and Emily hilariously told Mona, “She’s not Jenna!” LOL Emily… Oh God. The Liar’s starts the argue about where the fuck they are, cause they totally don’t know they’re like five miles from Campbell Farm and Hanna goes all smarty smarts and says the word “facetiously” which shocks the fuck out of Mona, who goes on to either compliment or insult Hanna’s smarts… I don’t know what it was exactly. 

Anyways, Spencer tells everyone that there was something about Charles that was familiar to her. Like maybe he’s a secret cousin or a pen pal from third grade or maybe he’s someone in the Liar’s everyday lives and he hates their guts for whatever they or Alison did to him. Hmmm… who oh who could it be? Shivering in desperation for food and warmth, the Liars freak out when a storm approaches. Days and nights are passing as the Liar’s are lying outside trapped. With no food and water, the Liars turns to their own bodies for nourishment. Cannibalism at its best, the Liars jumps each other and rips off each others limbs as they proceed to survive!! 

Nah not really, they’re just sitting outside in pain and torture because Charles won’t let them back inside. The Liars talks about survival skills and wonders how long they can last without food and water. Apparently people can go on for days without food before their organs starts to shut down and eat themselves up while it can take you at least three days without any water. First of all, I commend this Liar’s are surviving because I know I could never do such a thing without food and water. Second of all, I’m surprised they didn’t try to kick the door and scream at Charles at the top of their lungs. 

One sunny day, Charles decides to open the door and the Liar’s rushes to their feet. Mona announces that them being stuck outside 

I legit feel horrible for these girls. for days was their rightful punishment and Charles must have forgiven them for their sinful actions. As they’re walking down the 

FUCK YOU, CHARLES! hallways, the lights to the dollhouse shuts off and OMMFG CHARLES APPEARS BEHIND THEM WITH A GAS MASK ON!!! He shoots his smoke gun and the Liar’s are all screaming while Charles grabs Mona and kidnaps her! As the Liars are screaming for Mona, Charles places a mask over Mona’s face and then…

Da Creditz Rollz!!

After the whole confrontation with Charles fiasco, we’re lead to a new part of the dollhouse which looks like a morgue. The Liars are all on slabs with sheets over their bodies and we’re all left wondering what the fuck did Charles do the girls? After the girls wakes up, Emily immediately looks to see if Charles performed surgery on them, which thank God he did not! While they’re left wondering what’s going on, Mona comes rolling into the morgue in a candy outfit from the hospital with aspirin and orange juice. She’s back in character of Alison DiLaurentis and the Liar’s are still wondering what the fuck is going on. I know I sure was! 

After Spencer asks Mona how long they’ve been knocked out, she tells them they’ve only been out for a few hours and it’s all she knew and Emily actually asked them if she was sure that was all she knew. I think this is the first time in awhile someone(in this case, Emily)questioned Mona’s motives. Interesting. 

Voice: Please return to your room, and find your surprises! 

Mona and Charles has some face off sorta kinda not really and Mona actually speaks up AGAINST Charles! While he wants everyone to go their rooms, Mona becomes twisted and -A like and she’s like “NO!!!” After the voice tells them to go to their rooms for their surprises, Mona squares off against Charles again, but he responds with three chimes. After they go back to the hallway, Mona explains that if they don’t go to their rooms, Charles will kidnap them in the darkest of the nights and throw them into the hole. This episode just keeps getting twisted and twisted, what the fuckkkk! 

After the girls enters their rooms, they’re all gasping and screaming and begging someone(Charles? The Black Widow? Someone else?) not to do anything bad to them. So did all this torture go on at once? Was it all separate? I don’t even know. 

THREE WEEKS LATER

In Rosewood, herds of sheep gathers around the DiLaurentis house. Reporters are demanding Alison to confess to all her sinful acts and tell them where the Liar’s and Mona are! Also apparently just because Charles’ lair was at the Campbell Farm, that makes Andrew the number one suspect on who could be behind the evil kidnappings. Seriously? They’re pushing the Red Herring out even further? Okay, whatever! This episode was full of amazing awsomeness for me to even care how Andrew got to be the number one suspect! So Alison comes outside with a piece of paper and she gives her statement to the public. She’s speaking out against -A and honestly, it’s nice to see Alison in a whole new light. I know I’ve said I prefer bitchy, mean Alison, but this Alison is really nice to watch. Very refreshing. 

Alison: My friends have always been my rock. Without them, I am lost in the woods. Totally alone. Andrew, if you’re listening, please don’t hurt them. Please. 

Can I just say when Ezra looks like fucking Hell? And I’m not saying that to be mean, he legit looks like he hasn’t slept in fifty weeks, his eyes are black as fuck and he needs to fucking shave already! As for Caleb, he looks the same as ever. Fuckin’ sexy too, keep it up Caleb!

Inside the DiLaurentis home, Lieutenant Tanner reveals that Andrew has been obsessed with the girls since Alison went missing… Yeah, I’d still like to know how they settled on Andrew being -A, and his family owning Campbell Farm doesn’t count! While Tanner is explaining her plan, Alison and Toby shares a look with each other. I must say, it’s really fucking awesome we get to see so many characters sharing scenes with each other. I want more Alison/Toby scenes! And Alison/Caleb! 

Back at the demented dollhouse, Sa… I mean… the random chick in yellow rolls out a cart to all the Liar’s doors. Well not all of them, just Spencer. She’s delivering Spencer some food which only looks like Charles barfed up his leftover and flattened them on the tray. God only knows what’s in the fucking metal cup. Ick, makes me shudder! 

At the DiLaurentis home, everybody is on edge waiting for contact from -A, who they all think is Andrew, but it’s really not, and everyone is freaked out by a shadow in the hallway. Toby and Tanner takes out their guns and aims for the intruder only to see Jason DiLaurentis coming into the living room with food. Yay, Jason is still here!! After everyone calms down, OMFG ALISON GETS A BLOCKED CALL!!! OMG WHAT IS A UP TO?!?!?! 

After Ali picks up, there’s this weird fucking music on the other end. Tanner encourages Alison to keep talking so they can get the caller’s location and it’s revealed that OMMFG THE CALLER IS IN THE HOUSE!!! THE CALLER. IS IN. THE HOUSE!!! THIS IS SOME FUCKIN’ “WHEN A STRANGER CALLS” BULLSHIT! Everyone is freaking the fuck out, and Tanner and Kenneth is looking all around for the intruder. The scenes cuts to Tanner locking Alison in the closet because a fucking closet is going to keep her safe. Puh-Lease!! So anyways, after Barry informs Ken and Jason are somewhere, Toby searches Alison’s room and OMFG THERE IS A PERSON IN A BLACK HOODIE IN ALISON’S FUCKING BED ROOM!! CALL THE PRESSES!! CALL 911!! CALL THE CO… Oh wait, the cops are already there. Right. 

So when Toby spun the chair, it’s revealed that there’s a mannequin with a fucking pig mask on and there’s another incoming blocked call. When Tanner and Toby goes back to the closet since the guard cop fucking sucks at her job, it’s revealed that Alison got away from everyone because she has some sort of scheme up her sleeves. Also there’s a broken wine bottle on the floor, which I have no idea why, and may I add that the DiLaurentis family has a fucking wine closet. That’s what I need, a huge closet to store my alcohol! Back in the living room, Toby becomes a Detective and figures out the song was a message and Alison went to the Dollhouse to save the Liars. You know, Toby has a knack for solving musical mysteries… you gotta hand it to him.

Also note that Jason is lookin’ mighty sketchy here. He’s present, but he hasn’t said a single word since Tobes shoved a gun in his face. 

In Ezra’s car, he and Caleb is impatiently waiting for someone. It’s revealed that Ezra, Toby, Caleb and Alison set up a ruse for the Po-Po’s and now they’re in the clear to go to the Dollhouse. Cause they have a death wish. Or they’re kinky like that. I don’t fuckin’ know. Alison got a sweet pair of shoes out of the deal though AND it has a tracking device in them! Nice! 

Alison: Well, it’s like they always say. Give a girl a nice pair of shoes, and she can conquer the world, right?

Right you are, Ali!

We’re back at the creepy Dollhouse of Doom and all the Liar’s got a makeover. It’s not even a makeover, it’s more like a make-do-over. Aria is sporting her short hair with pink highlights on with a really nice leather jacket. Spencer is wearing the most ugliest, nerdiest clothes ever because ya know, she use to be a nerd back in the Before Ali Disappeared days. Emily is wearing her blue Rosewood mascot swimming team wear(What IS their mascot anyway? I’m too lazy to go look it up…) and it’s revealed nothing really happened to Hanna clothes wise. I honestly don’t understand because the point is to make the Liar’s look like their 2008 selves and Hanna still looks pretty 2010. Or is it 2011 in PLL Universe now? Or is it early 2012? I don’t remember, don’t judge me!! OH THEY’RE SHARKS! The Rosewood mascot’s a shark. I knew that. 

What the fuck did Charles put them through?! I have a pretty good idea going by the Promo and they weren’t raped by any means(Bryan Holdman apparently confirmed there was nothing like that happening), but what the hell happened?! Did Charles make them attach wires and buttons to themselves and was zapped with electricity? I don’t even want to know what Charles did to Aria for her to cut her hair AND put pink highlights in them. Seriously, it makes me shudder with fear. The Liars are lead to Alison’s fake bedroom and they begin to unpack Alison’s LEGIT belongings. Like as in Charles broke into her house and STOLE HER FUCKING THINGS! What a fucking CREEP! In the boxes, they find papers along with Alison’s things and it was revealed that the trial was overturned and Alison was free to go. Hanna goes on to ask if Charles forced the Liar’s to sign the welcome card he got for Alison and again we’re left wondering… WHAT THE FUCK DID CHARLES DO TO THESE POOR GIRLS?! NOBODY AND I MEAN NOBODY, NOT EVEN ARIA, DESERVES THIS SORT OF TREATMENT! Whatever the fuck happened, I wouldn’t even wish it upon my worst enemy! 

Hanna: If A plans to bring Ali here, does that mean he won’t need Mona anymore?

Aria: Then where is she?! 

In whatever hallways the Dollhouse has, Charles is walking along a really deep ass well and it’s revealed Mona is trapped inside the well. He walks along the edges and Mona is looking up begging Charles to free her and she promises to be a “better Alison”. Honestly, this is the most disturbing shit I’ve ever seen and we can all see Charles is done with the text message torture now. Now that doesn’t mean he’s not gonna send anymore texts, but honestly with everyone knowing A is back and around, I’m wondering what else he’s gonna do now… 

The Liar’s are going through Alison’s things and they’re shocked Alison turned out to be so sentimental. I think this is the first thing they’re realizing that Alison actually cared about all of them. Sure she was a bitch outside her skin, but deep inside, she really and 

FREE MONA, DAMMIT! truly loved her friends. Aria discovers something she doesn’t want Hanna to see and calls over Spencer to have a look at what she’s found(Sparia FTW) and Spencer starts freaking out a little. There’s a message in the closet from Mona saying that Charles is going to kill her… yeah it’s really fucking creepy.

At the PD, where the cops are surprisingly being useful, we learn that Radley has closed its gates forever. I guess they realized that Radley was the source of Alison’s disappearance or whatever and everyone was like “Yeah we gonna go now cause we don’t wanna lose our bodies like dat one girl did, Abigail DiLootenius… er… Alison DiLaurentis we mean. K?” Anyway, Tanner asks Toby something about if he knows anything that happened to the girls, he’d better tell her or else, but Barry interrupted and he thinks he found out that Andrew was actually at the press conference!!

Andrew??(see right of photo) Of course, Andrew wasn’t at the press conference and I think it was Charles. Or Jason. One of them was the dude in the ball cap.

We’re back with Alison in the woods, and I finally know where she is!! She’s at the special place with the rock where she and Emily use to meet up secretly. You know the place in Season 4 where Emily went to meet Alison, but Ali never showed up? 

Holy shit, I remembered something else from Season 4… Oh my God. 

Suddenly, Alison hears a song playing in the distance. The song that was playing in the Vault, Walking After Midnight. Ali finds a car placed there by Charles and she’s given directions via a GPS on where to go. Ooh creepy! In Ezra’s car, Caleb warns Ezra not to drive too close to Ali and Ezra says something about how he hopes they’re not making a big mistake. Well… hate to break it to you, Ezra, but you’re too far into it to go back now so on with it! 

Back at the Dollhouse, the Liar’s finds boxes of their things from Charles and Hanna is reading a paper about the girls’ families. It’s revealed that not knowing where the girls were, Ashley was admitted to the hospital because she became physically ill. So now Charles’ torture is flowing to the other family members and Aria becomes fucking badass and threatens to kill Charles for what their families are going through. Honestly, it was pretty fucking amazing and I love Aria for it. 

I just said I love Aria and earlier I said I felt bad for her... What the fuck is wrong with me?!?!

Gears rolls in Spencer’s head and she starts to announce that she’s gonna help Hanna unpack her precious goods, and then she reveals that she’s plotting an escape and they’re going to leave along with Mona. Fuck this dollhouse!! Spencer is NOT taking this torture any fucking further! You go, girl!! While Spencer is acting and playing along, she reveals to the others that Charles is a DiLaurentis and the entire game just went into a whole new level! 

Mona is seen in the Hole and she’s singing a lullaby. This is the most vulnerable scene I have seen from Mona ever. Seriously, I don’t remember the last time seeing her this scared of something and she is legit crying for all that’s happening. 

We have a short scene with Alison turning into a park and Charles’ car runs out of gas, which is kinda creepy and weird since Charles knew how much gas to put into the car for it to run out right when Ali got to the park. Even more creepy is that Charles rigged the Alert button and told Alison all she needed was in the trunk of the car. Ugh, made me shudder again. Charles if a fucking creepy ass pervert. 

In our next scene, Tanner found a journal assumingly belonging to Andrew. Basically, he fucking hates the Liar’s for God only knows what reason. I don’t fucking get it… Andrew is a fucking genius and he’s pissed at the girls for “playing games”? Give me a break if Andrew REALLY wrote this trash! 

At the park, Ezra and Caleb approaches Charles’ car and they find that Alison changed clothes as there’s a Welcome Home card with a personalized message and little messages from the Liar’s. This premiere just kept getting creepier and creepier and honestly, I fucking love it!! While Caleb and Ezra are looking around, Caleb proved to be on the same page as Alison and noticed she pointed her shoes in the direction in which she headed. Smart, smart! 

Back at the dollhouse, Hanna is looking at a photo of her and her mother and KA-BOOM the generator shuts down! It’s Operation Find Mona and Escape This Hell Hole once and for all! GO GIRLS GO, YOU CAN ALL DO IT!!! 

Back in the forest, Alison finds the trail Charles left for her and he legit setup camera’s in the fucking woods! Honestly, I didn’t even notice the camera on the tree from my TV since it wasn’t dark enough. 

Back in the dollhouse, Spencer reveals the clues to how she figured out that Charles was a DiLaurentis and he leads the girls to the Playroom since the Vault is of course on the other side of the Playroom. So as the girls looks for secret passageways, the generator kicks back on and THEY ARE BUSTED! Charles blasts the Sirens, but that doesn’t stop the girls from looking for the vault. Emily finds a vent and as the girls goes to crawl through, Charles for some reason shuts the sirens off… I don’t get it… 

So the Liar’s makes it to the Soul Room and Emily has this realization that OMG Charles DOES have a soul!! The epic music that tells us the Liar’s are revealing something or whenever the scenes turns ominous gets flipped on and Spencer shows the girls the video of Mrs. D with two boys and a infant baby girl at the Campbell Farm. The boys stands next to each other while Jessica is at their side and if things are correct, I think Jason(the real Jason… the one I think legit died in the elevator episode(more of that theory at a later date) is on the right and Charles is on the left… Maybe. 

After all that is said and done, Spencer declares War on Charles. She stops the film and destroys Charles’ most precious memory and Aria is all gun fuckin’ ho! 

Spencer: WE WANT MONA BACK!!! 

Aria: Let’s torch this place!

YEAH ARIA, YOU GO GIRL!! 

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with me?! Why am I liking Aria all of a sudden?! 

Spencer and Hanna torches one of Charles’ dolls and Hanna is hilariously waving it in Charles’ face! Even more, the girls has no idea Alison is approaching them all. Omg omg omg what’s gonna happen you guys?! Charles is met with a situation where he has to choose to either save his Soul Room or go after his sister. Who is Charles going to choose?! The Liar’s or his sister?!?! While Charles made up his mind, Alison is scared for her life and is looking around the woods for Charles or the Black Widow. A twig snaps and her head zips to where the noise came from. Is Alison going to come face to face with her assumingly older brother?!?! Ali starts to back up, the music intensifies…

And then…

And then… 

And then…

It’s just Caleb and Ezra. Lame!! 

While our three Detectives are catching up, the Soul Room continues to burn up in flames. As the girls are trying to find a way out, they go to grab some curtains to control the fire and OMFG THEY COME FACE TO FACE WITH A!!! AND HE HAS A SKI 

OMG CHARLES?? OR THE BLACK WIDOW??? MASK ON!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!! Back in the Soul Room, the Liars are face to face with Charles and the Liars decides to burn more shit up.

Aria: Say goodbye to you soul!!

OMG I LOVE ARIA!!! WHAT IS THIS MONSTROSITIES!?! 

And then it’s revealed ANOTHER BLACK HOODIE is still in the security room!! WHAT THE FUCK TWO A’S?! CHARLES AND THE BLACK WIDOW??? Hmmm… 

One of the A’s switches on the fire extinguishers(Assumingly Charles) and the Liar’s escapes the vault. Back in the woods, Alison hears the fire alarms blaring and she, Caleb and Ezra goes back to where they came and she see’s the smoke coming from the vent! While Ali and Caleb tries to open the vent, Ezra looks in and the distance and he see’s where the dollhouse entrance is! 

The Liar’s are on a hunt for Mona and they THANK GOD FOUND HER!!! Mona is absolutely TERRIFIED and the girls uses a rope to help her up. Honestly, this scene legit makes me tear up because it was such a strong scene and made Mona look so fucking vulnerable that we’re shown that there really is a side of Mona that shows that she’s just like the Liars. That she goes through some fucked up shit like the rest of them and Alison does and I truly hope we get to see a huge reconciliation with Mona and some really good scenes between her and Alison. 

The Liars climbs a ladder and on the other side of the door, Caleb and Alison successfully opens the door to the dollhouse. Aria and Ezra hugs, Emily and Alison hugs, Spencer is checking on Mona and making sure she’s alright and then the cops shows up and Toby and Spencer hugs. Toby reveals that it was Andrew behind everything right after Spencer is about to tell him about Charles DiLaurentis, but Spencer’s face looks fucking shocked at the new info on Andrew. 

The creepy ominous revelation music is back on and while Spoby’s hugging, a police officer announces that they found a sixth girl in the dollhouse. The female police officer approaches the weird girl from the beginning of the episode, and asks what the girls name is. 

Girl: Sara. Sara Harvey.

As Sara is being pushed away with an IV, everyone is shocked at this news. Sara Harvey is alive? Hmmm… Interesting. Emily and Alison approaches each other and after Emily thanks Alison for helping find the Liars, Emily drops a major bombshell on Alison.

Emily: Ali, who is Charles DiLaurentis?

END OF EPISODE

END OF RECAP

So do you guys really think that’s Sara Harvey?? 

What happened to the chick on the website?

Is this new Sara Harvey real, or is she gonna be like Jason and Mrs. D and Toby being recasted? 

On a more important note: In the promo, Hanna mentions that everything might be a dream. Is it a dream?? Did Charles drug them and now they’re experiencing major hallucinations?? 

Will Alison and Mona make up and be friends for once?!

Comment it out, Loves, and I’ll see you next week for Songs of Innocence!!

PS: Would you guys like to see more polls in my recaps? I want you guys to have something else to do other than read the recaps.

Are polls even possible on Blogger? I must find out!!

-Kat