Recapping Season 4, Episode 5 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria must ruin her relationships with her family to protect her mother from A, Hanna is losing her mind about her mom and none of the liars will take her seriously, Emily accidentally flirts with Spencer’s College pimp to get into other schools, and Spencer chases down a lead that came from a bird to a creepy panic room in a sorority house.

Recapping Season 4, Episode 4 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria sings to Jake the ballad of Ezria 4Ever, Hanna and the new Lieutenant Tanner size each other up while discussing the Wilden case, Emily can’t swim anymore or she’ll die, according to her terrible doctor, and Spencer finally confronts Melissa about the Halloween train, the masks, and all her other shady activities.

Recapping Season 4, Episode 3 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is shocked to discover that Karate Jake isn’t into old movies like she is, Hanna has a run-in with Detective Holbrook and discovers that her mother has been lying about her New York trip, Emily makes a semi-Faustian bargain to trade her face for information with the mysterious Hector Lime, and Spencer helps Toby with his boring side-plot about his dead mom.

Recapping Season 4, Episode 2 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria dedicates her life to becoming a martial arts killing machine after A takes another swipe at her, Hanna learns how it feels to be lied to when her mom starts acting sketchy, Emily’s new friend Prescription Painkillers betrays her during a swim meet, and Spencer gets saddled with Toby’s awful storyline about his dead mom.

Recapping Season 4, Episode 1 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria wavers on her decision to dump Ezra, Hanna tries her best to be BFFs with Mona again, Emily reluctantly agrees to follow Paige to sunny California for college, and Spencer is remarkably cool with Toby re: the whole faking his death and sending her to a nuthouse thing.

Recapping Season 3, Episode 24 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria dumps Ezra a second and then a third time, Hanna takes a babysitting job for the money, Emily makes a disturbing discover about Shana and Melissa, and Spencer is A. No really, she’s joined the A team to find out who Red Coat is.

Recapping Season 3, Episode 23 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria gets roped into babysitting again and finally tries to cut the cord with Ezra, Hanna’s on the lookout for an angry Wilden and not accepting Spencer’s new situation, Emily is eager to prove Toby’s alive, but a new body complicates the issue, and Spencer is retracing some of Mona’s steps at Radley, making a Faustian deal in the process.

Recapping Season 3, Episode 22 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria asks her dad to get Ezra his job back, Hanna ships her mom out of town for a while to get her away from Wilden, Emily steps in to fill the leadership vacuum, and Spencer makes some discoveries at Radley and gets another offer from Mona to join the team.

Recapping Season 3, Episode 21 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria takes a babysitting job, Hanna disposes of some evidence, Emily can’t believe Spencer’s revelation until she hears it from the source, and Spencer finally ends up where her crazy self was destined to go to eventually.

Recapping Season 3, Episode 20 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria doesn’t quite feel the same when Ezra comes back, Hanna accidentally tips her mom off to the Wilden drama, Emily uses Paige’s connection to steal some intel from the costume shop, and Spencer finds a brief ray of sunshine before Melissa snuffs it out. Then she gets attacked by her robot shower.