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‘Pretty Little Liars’ Season 4, Episode 10: 'The Mirror Has Three Faces'

Kathy Zerbib |
August 13, 2013 | 9:08 p.m. PDT

Film Editor

HANNA! TURN AROUND! Red Coat is behind you (ABC Family).
HANNA! TURN AROUND! Red Coat is behind you (ABC Family).
Only a few episodes left and things are only continuing to heat up in Rosewood. This is the season of answers, but us fAnatics have even more questions to ask!

Last week on "Into The Deep," Emily's surprise birthday party ended in (of course) tragedy, when Jenna was found face-down and unconscious in a lake. She's alive, thank goodness. Mona confessed to killing Officer Creep and got Mama Marin off the hook. Mona's headed back to Radley. Now that all that's been explained, let's dive in to episode 10! (No offense, Jenna...)

The episode begins with an intriguing offer. Mrs. DiLaurentis offers the Fields family room and board. Emily is totally creeped out about the idea, but the girls think she should take the opportunity. Maybe she'll find something on Cece? Besides, does she realize how much motels cost? Those nights add up, Em.

Spencer notices Ezra off his game at school. He locks himself out of his classroom a couple times, forgets to pick up his briefcase off the ground, and generally looks frazzled. We don't blame him. We know he's got daddy issues to deal with right now.

Hanna meets up with Caleb about the mysterious P.O. box. He links it back to an actual address in Philadelphia. Caleb asks her to go check out the place, but Hanna is more interested in asking Caleb to sneak her into Radley. He disagrees quite vehemently and thinks it's time to go to the cops. Hanna, naturally, is against the idea.

Aria catches up with Jake, who tells her he has a big fight in Philly. And guess what? Yup, you guessed it! She'll be going to support her boo, as well as check out the mystery address Caleb uncovered.

Meanwhile, Doctor Wren is asking Mona her "emotional response" to happy pictures at Radley as part of her psych evaluation. Mona tells Wren she killed Wilden and would do it again, though Wren doesn't believe she did it. She calls him out on his "loyalties" and that she knows he's been keeping secrets from her. Wren tells her he knows she stopped taking her meds, as if that was supposed to be a burn or something. What's Wren really up to, though?

We finally see Toby again. He has the mysterious envelope in his hands, the one with the music sheet that "A" prepared for him at the end of last week's episode. There's a note attached, saying to ditch Eddie Lamb and revisit Doctor Palmer. "Leave the lamb alone and go for the lion," to be exact. Toby realizes the song was one that his mother liked. Looks like he and Spencer will be going back to see the doctor for a follow-up...

Emily and Spencer are over at the DiLaurentis' home. Emily is freaked out, and she has a reason to be. The room seems exactly as it was when Ali was alive, right down to the closet with Ali's old clothes in it. Mrs. Di is still hurting for her lost daughter and we feel her pain. On top of it all, Em's mom will be in Pittsburgh until the next night. She'll have to be all alone there. Things turn from creepy to super awkward when Emily finds out Mrs. Di's husband Ken is getting a divorce from her. This family never catches a break.

Hanna tracks Wren down and asks him to get her into Radley. He refuses. He recalls that a nurse said Mona had a visitor last night, a blonde, who was turned away. Since the hospital is facing budget-cuts, he hints that the visitor probably got in, anyway. When he leaves Hanna, Wren gets on the phone and tells a mystery person that there's a situation and he'll handle his end. What? Later, Hanna catches Caleb going into Veronica's office. He was about to fess up to Veronica about "A," in the hopes that she could protect Hanna better than he can. Hanna gets mad, but forgives him. They kiss, and we notice Wren in a nearby car watching them. Creepy...

Shocker of all shockers, we find out some big news. Ezra Fitz isn't the father of Maggie's son Malcolm. He got a paternity test and confirmed the sad news. When he confronts Maggie, she tells him she went to a party and cheated on him all those years ago and always knew he might not have been the father. Ezra is pissed he fell in love with Malcolm and was decieved like this. He tries to call Aria, but she's busy with her new boo Jake. Hard times. 

Wren goes to the Hastings' home and speaks to Veronica. Bold move, considering his history with the Hastings. He warns her that Mona has an ulterior motive for confessing. Why is he helping the Hastings out like this? Because they were almost his family, too, he says. Veronica gets into Radley to speak with Mona "off the record," of course. Mona is her usual sarcastic self. Veronica threatens her with eternal jail time if she messes with her family or the case.

Aria goes to the address and finds a girl who was Cece's old roommate. She hasn't been back in a while, so the roommate has no idea where she is. She tells Aria that Cece called Ali's crew "she-devils" for helping getting Cece kicked out of school three years ago. Apparently, Cece thought all the Liars were in on it. Talk about motive? Aria is shocked. Cece seemed cool when she was around, didn't she?

Hanna is in the DiLaurentis' home, looking for Emily or Mrs. Di. Red Coat walks right into the house, too, with a mask on. She literally stands right behind Hanna in Ali's room, and Hanna doesn't even notice. Damn, Red Coat is good.

Toby and Spencer arrive to speak to Doctor Palmer. They bring the "Any Time" song sheet. He tells them he doesn't play. All seems like a lost effort, until Spencer busts out the song on a piano. It only seems right that she'd know how to play the piano. Spencer role-plays with the doctor and asks about the blonde girl. Was it Cece Drake? No answer. Instead, he drops Mrs. Di's name. What?! That would make sense, though, considering she's a blonde.

Spencer is meeting with Emily and Hanna to discuss what Doctor Palmer said. Emily wants no part of it, since Mrs. Di is going through a divorce and all. She leaves, but Spencer and Hanna ask Mrs. Di anyway. She tells the girls that she does know Doctor Palmer, on account of Cece showing up to Radley dressed like Alison and begging to stay there, and the doctor calling Ali's mom to come get her. Since that day, Mrs. Di forbade her daughter from hanging out with Cece. She says that the two would exchange personalities regularly and had an obsessive relationship. Woah.

Bad news for Hanna. Veronica has to drop out of Ashley's case, because someone made an anonymous complaint to the court that Veronica is obstructing justice by bullying Mona into confessing to Wilden's murder. Ashley no longer has a lawyer, a good lawyer at that. My guess? Wren.

The furnace guy comes to the DiLaurentis' home to fix the heat. He tells Mrs. Di and Emily that they have a bigger problem... Someone was living in the basement. The two go down and explore. Mrs. Di thinks whoever it was must have moved out before Jason moved back in. But Emily notices holes in the cieling, right where the kitchen is upstairs. We know it was Red Coat/"A"'s doing, but no one else does. So Red Coat is chilling in Mrs. Di's house the whole time? The plot thickens...

Wren is on the phone with the cops, condemning his "almost mother-in-law" for bullying Mona into confessing. Meanwhile, he's coloring in one of the happy pictures he showed Mona before. The girl in the drawing is wearing a Red Coat. Well, well, well.

The last scene is of "A," going through the wreckage of the Fields' home. "A" drops shoes next to some broken frames. Uh, oh...

That's all for this week, tune in next week for more drAma!

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