Later that day, Spencer helps Emily pack up her things in Ali’s old room. Emily gets a text from Paige about the dance that night, but she doesn’t respond. She sees a bottle of blue nail polish, and Emily has a flashback of Ali painting her toenails with that same color.
In the flashback, Ali tells Emily that she needs to break up with Ben because he's a flathead and deep down, Emily knows he is not what she wants. Emily protests, but Ali insists staying with Ben sets a bad precedent for the rest of her life. She offers to break up with Ben for her, adding that she has done it for a lot of people. Ali describes one time when a friend of hers couldn’t break up with a “really scary dude,” so she did it for her. Unfortunately, the guy had a gun and pulled it on her. When Emily, astonished, asks if a boy has a gun in their school, Ali says that the guy doesn't go to their school “anymore.”
After the flashback, Emily tells Spencer that she thinks Ali helped Cece break up with Wilden, who pulled a gun on Ali when she tried to do it. Emily says that she assumed that Wilden had been seeing Ali, but now thinks that Cece was seeing Jason and Wilden, and that when Cece returned to Rosewood, Wilden may have tried to hook up with Cece again, which led to Cece killing him.
After uncovering recent evidence that suggests "A" is hiding out closer than realized, the Liars step up their investigation into their most recent suspect. Hanna continues to crumble due to her newfound infamy as the daughter of a murder suspect. To complicate matters, Hanna is being stalked by fellow student Travis, until she learns he is hiding a secret that may change her life. Toby continues to be manipulated by "A" dangling insight into his mother's death. Meanwhile, Ezra tries to reach out to Aria for help in dealing with his recent troubles, right when she becomes more determined to move on with Jake at a Western-themed dance that turns into a two-step with "A." #PLL #PrettyLittleLiars
