If At First You Don’t Succeed, Lie, Lie Again - Recap

Jason, the deceased Alison's brother, was back in Rosewood. What was his purpose for returning? What mischief might he have up his sleeve? Hannah wanted to know and so did the rest of the girls. Someone had taken a picture of Alison through her own bedroom window, that was clear enough in the video that A had sent Spence via her laptop, but why? They had to get to the bottom of all this.


Hannah found her mother weeping in the kitchen of their house and asked her what was wrong. Her mother explained that she had just received a phone call from Mrs. Potter, her lender, who had asked to make an appointment with Hannah's mother and had made it for early in the week, not quite what Hannah's mother had expected. Now, Hannah's mother was afraid that she would not be able to give back the bank the fifty thousand dollars that she had purloined. Hannah tried to comfort her mother, but there wasn't much she could do.


A worried Spencer went to the track where Jason was exercising and asked him why he was back in town. He told her he had some business to attend to and when she showed him the photo of Alison taken in the dark from her own bedroom window, he said that he had not taken the photo, had not seen it until just now and that he and his family, just after his sister's death, had begun receiving strange things in the mail. He mentioned that he had a private investigator looking into things and that he would show him the photo Spence had just given him. He also apologized for acting like such a boor last year and asked her forgiveness which she gave. They parted better acquaintances, if not friends once more.


At the high school swimming pool, Emily was practicing the breast stroke with renewed vigor and when she climbed out of the pool, the swim coach greeted her happily, asking her if she was back on the team to which she replied that she was, not that she was not distracted any more, meaning her relationship with Maya. A rival swimmer named Page accosted Emily in the dressing room, demanding to know if she was back on the team and when she was told yes, Page erupted in anger, telling Emily to watch herself, that she know what Emily was up to, etc. She made a rather homphobic reference to Emily's past relationship and when it got to the ears of the coach, she asked the two girls to tell her about it. Page said that it was nothing and asked to be excused. Page did not want the coach to find out that she had held Emily's head under for a minute after the girl had finished her laps and was trying to climb out of the pool. Bewildered, the coach dismissed the two girls. Emily thought to herself that she had not heard the last of it from Page.


Spence gave Aria two tickets to the museum in Philadelphia. Aria gave them to lover Ezra Fitz and that afternoon, dressed in a flashy red dress, she stood waiting on the steps to Fitz' apartment. When he did not answer the buzzer, she phoned him and when he answered, he told her to turn round and see him sitting in a hired limousine. She gasped in joy and got in. The limo took the pair to Philadelphia and dropped them off at the museum where they were to meet a featured artist, but the artist did not show, but they had a good time anyway.


During a break in classes, Hannah received a note from A in her locker which asked her if she really wanted to make some money, she would have to expose Aria's dirt little secret to her mother. Hannah hesitated then decided that would be the only way to help her mother repay the purloined money. She wrote a note to Aria's mother, a teacher at the high school, enclosed it in a large envelope and slipped it on the teacher's desk. It so happened that Hannah had a class in the woman's room and during it, sat there worrying how she could get it back. She knew Aria's mother was going to Philadelphia that night for something and if she read the note, would most likely run into Aria and Ezra. Aria's mother did read the note but when her car wouldn't start, she couldn't make the trip and didn't run into the lovers.


Hannah, after school, turned up at the bank her mother was employed with, asking her how the apointment had gone, but mother told her it hadn't happened yet. She sent Hannah home.


The next day at school, Hannah talked to Aria, asking her how her date had gone. A happy Aria told her that it was the very best night of her life and wanted to go out with Ezra again soon, time and circumstances permitting. She also found out that Aria's mother had never made it to Philadelphia. Soon after, Hannah ran into Caleb, the new student in town who was a whiz at programming cell phones. He told her, with a smirk on his face, that he had done something to Mrs. Montgomery's phone. When she wanted to know what, he said that he would never tell and left her puzzled.


Spence had found two identical bracelets, one a copy of the one Alison had been wearing the night she disappeared. She tracked down the maker, a beading lady, and asked her who had ordered and bought the jewelry. The old woman found the purchase order and said that someone named Spencer had ordered them At the conclusion of the show, the old beading woman was shown talking to an unseen person, assuring them that she had done just as they had told her to do, not to worry. The old woman told this person that they had lovely eyes, that the eyes were the windows to the soul and that everything would be alright.


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