
Ezra expresses his shock and dislike of the idea, as he won't be able to see Malcolm very often if they moved away, but Maggie persistently says that the job is important for her future.Īt the county jail, Ashley tries to understand why Mona would confess to killing Wilden. Aria gives Jake a goodbye hug while Ezra looks on, displeased, only pulled from the stare when Maggie announces she plans to move there. He steals looks at Aria while Maggie tells him that she got into grad school at the University of Washington in Seattle.

She says he is coming back in the afternoon and they made plans to have a family night.Įzra and Maggie are there, too, having a conversation. Emily agrees to go, if it means she could spend her college years with Paige.Īt the Brew, Jake asks if Aria's dad will be back tonight, to make sure she won't be home alone again. Emily, hesitant, reminds Paige that she can't swim, but Paige says that it's not forever. She says Emily can take a year off of college to train instead of going to a state school she doesn't want to go to. Emily doesn't see swimming in her future, but Paige convinces Emily to consider all of her options. Paige claims she has made an appointment for Emily this afternoon to see him in Philly. She presents Emily with an early birthday present, a business card for a well-established swimming trainer called Dominic Russo. She changes the subject and invites Emily to come with her to her aunt's lake house for a fun night just between the two of them. Paige believes she could have done it, with her track record of hitting Hanna with a car. Paige and Emily discuss Mona's confession. Jake convinces her to stop by the Brew for a caffeine fix together first. He asks if she wants to go out for breakfast, but she says she is meeting Spencer. He stayed overnight at Aria's house because she didn't feel comfortable staying there alone. Hastings leaves, Spencer asks Hanna if she has anything to do with it and Hanna nervously looks away.Īria talks to Spencer on the phone from her porch. She says that she doesn't think Mona actually killed Wilden because some of what she said contradicted the evidence found. She says she is only confessing now because her friend's mom doesn't deserve to be convicted for a murder she didn't commit.Īt Spencer's house, Veronica tells Hanna and Spencer that they better not have anything to do with Mona's confession, otherwise there will be consequences for Ashley's case. The detective asks, "So you tried to blackmail him?" Mona replies yes, but says that once he realized that she knew he killed Garrett, he became enraged and wouldn't let go, leaving her no choice but to kill him. Mona tells the detective that Wilden was obsessed with trying to pin Alison's murder on the Liars. The detective asks why she didn't go to the police, and Mona says that she was worried that she was going to get in trouble for sneaking out of Radley, something she has done "many times."

He asks her what Mona overheard Wilden say at the Halloween party, and Mona says that he was worried that Garrett was going to tell the truth about what happened the night Alison died.

The detective tries to trip her up by saying she fired the gun 3 times, but she repeats she only shot him twice. She had no choice he was going to kill her. She says she killed Detective Wilden in self-defense after he grabbed her. The episode opens with Mona being questioned by a detective.
