‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’ Season 1 Episode 3 Recap: “Aftermath”

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Alison Helms
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Pretty Little Liars Season 1 Episode 3 Recap
Bailee Madison and Chandler Kinney in ‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’ season 1 episode 3 (Photograph by Karolina Wojtasik / HBO Max)

HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin episode three picks up minutes after Karen was pushed to her death by the masked stalker. Imogen (Bailee Madison) seems to be in a daze from what just happened and Tabby (Chandler Kinney) grabs her, telling her they have to go. As they rush off, a crying Kelly (Mallory Bechtel) runs to her now dead twin.

The girls regroup in the hallway at school and Faran (Zaria) asks Imogen what she saw. She explains she saw Karen – and the girls agree they saw her as well – and a bucket of paint along with the man in the creepy mask. They didn’t see him and Tabby asks, “Like in Carrie?”

Noa (Maia Reficco) confesses she’s seen him before. They bring up the text from A and realize Karen was murdered.

Next, we see each girl arrive home after the tragic events. Tabby and Imogen sit down with Tabby’s mom, Sidney (Sharon Leal), and she asks if they’re sure it was Karen – the girl who got them in trouble – that died. They confirm it was and Sidney wonders what she was doing up there. After a quick glance at Imogen, Tabby replies, “Everyone is saying she did it on purpose.”

Sidney has a flashback to her own tragic night in 1999.

Sheriff Tom Beasley (Eric Johnson) questions his daughter Kelly about what Karen was doing up in the rafters. She lies and says she doesn’t know. He knows that’s not true. “You don’t know? You two don’t change socks without consulting each other.” Kelly suggests maybe Karen killed herself and Tom wants to know why she would say that. Their conversation’s interrupted when Kelly’s mom, Martha (Jennifer Ferrin), begins to scream.

Sidney experiences another flashback to 1999 in which she’s at the pizza place with her friends. Sidney (Kristen Maxwell) brings up that Angela asked for help and they all ignored her. Davie (Ava DeMary) tries to reassure her that Angela was a messed-up girl and it wasn’t her fault. Elodie (Emily Bautista) recalls how everyone just left and no one checked to see if Angela was okay.

Corey (Kristian Mosley) point-blank says Angela was not okay and what were they supposed to do. Marjorie (Sarah-Anne Martinez) thinks they should have called an ambulance. And Sidney asks Davie, “Now what?”

Back to current events, Imogen and the girls are on a video chat trying to figure out what to do. Faran reminds them A told them to keep their mouths shut. They all agree that A is the guy in the mask, but Imogen now wonders if Karen wasn’t actually the one who framed them. Faran refuses to believe that and still thinks it was Karen because she’s a bully. She also seems to think Sheriff Beasley will find the paint in the rafters and know what she was doing up there when she fell.

Imogen is sure Karen fell. Maybe if they do what A says, it will all be okay.

Imogen spends the night in Tabby’s bed and confesses that when her mom died, she wrote A in her own blood on the bathroom wall. Tabby can’t believe it and Imogen points out that the A on her posters was in red. She’s wondering if A pushed her mom over the edge or if A killed her. “I need to find out what this Y2K party was. How these things are connected…A, my mom, Karen…if they are.”

A memorial assembly takes place on Monday at the high school. The man in the creepy mask is there under the bleachers, just about to grab Imogen’s ankle when she runs out. She’s in the bathroom when she runs into Kelly, apologizes for her loss, and tries to ask her about the Y2K flyer. Kelly yells that this isn’t about her and asks if she’s out of her mind before storming off.

Pretty Little Liars Season 1 Episode 3 Recap
Chandler Kinney, Malia Pyles, Zaria, Bailee Madison, and Maia Reficco in ‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’ season 1 episode 3 (Photograph by Karolina Wojtasik / HBO Max)

The girls meet up in the library and agree to stick to the plan not to say anything to anyone. Moments later they’re called into the principal’s office and questioned by Sheriff Beasley. He knows about the video and what happened at the theater. Imogen tries to tell him he should be talking to Tyler about making the video, but he isn’t interested in that; he wants the video. Tabby confesses they only did it because his daughter was a bully and brings up why she was up in the rafters in the first place.

Sheriff Beasley claims there wasn’t a bucket of paint up there or anywhere in the gym, pointing out Imogen is the only one who saw it. He continues talking about the video, blaming them for making Karen commit suicide. After he calls them murderers, Faran tells him that’s enough. They aren’t saying anything else without a lawyer present or their parents.

The principal confirms that’s their prerogative, but they’ll be going before a disciplinary board. Sheriff Beasley agrees they should lawyer up because he’s going to do everything in his power to open up a criminal investigation against them.

Faran comes home to discover her dad has called her mom. Faran isn’t happy to see her mom and snidely remarks how she’s usually too busy to care. Corey (Zakiya Young) brings up the razor blades in Karen’s ballet shoes and Faran insists she didn’t do it. Corey demands to know everything that happened.

Mouse’s mom, Elodie (Lea Salonga), takes away all of her electronic devices, and Noa’s mom, Marjorie (Elena Goode), lectures her about getting involved when she’s on probation. Sidney informs Tabby she can no longer work at the movie theater after what they just did. Plus, she can’t make any more movies or even watch movies in the middle of the night in her room.

On Tuesday, Imogen hands over Tyler’s phone to Sidney, and Sidney gives her the silent treatment.

The girls arrive at school and discover they’re the subjects of a “Bullied to Death” article in the school’s newspaper. The article features a big picture of Karen along with photos of the five girls at the bottom. It demands their expulsion.

Meanwhile, Sidney, Marjorie, Elodie, and Corey gather at Davie’s house. After a few jokes to lighten the mood, Elodie says it feels wrong to meet in Davie’s house. Elodie thinks this can’t be a coincidence that it’s all their daughters, but Corey believes it could very well be a coincidence. Marjorie says they need to be worrying about their daughters and they all agree. Sidney reveals she has the original video and thinks Tyler should get in trouble too.

It’s decided Sidney and Corey will go to the sheriff and the principal with Tyler’s phone.

Imogen gets a copy of the school yearbook for the year her mom graduated – Class of 2000. She notices her mom and others are members of the “Y2K Survivors Club.” She starts looking at old newspapers from around the New Year’s Eve party and finds an article titled, “Body of Minor Found in Old Harbor Warehouses.” (That was the location of the rave.)

Faran gets kicked out of dance class. Without a smidge of sympathy, Madame Giry (Kate Jennings Grant) says the other dancers don’t feel comfortable with her around.

Corey and Sidney show Sheriff Beasley the video of Karen and Corey points out this all started because of Tyler. Beasley doesn’t care and brings up that their daughters edited it and then showed it to an entire movie theater. Corey counters, accusing him of interrogating their daughters without a parent present. Plus, he borderline harassed them. She points out the sheriff shouldn’t even be in charge.

“Your daughters killed my daughter,” Sheriff Beasley says angrily.

They threaten the possibility of lawsuits, and Beasley warns he’ll sue them for Karen’s death if they go through with it.

Shawn (Alex Aiono) is mad at Noa because he believes she lied to him about the video. Noa points out she never even told him about it, so she didn’t lie. He wonders what else she could be lying about.

Tabby tries to get the flash drive with the video on it from Chip (Carson Rowland), but he doesn’t have it. It’s been taken from the projection booth. (Earlier she told her mom that a copy didn’t exist.)

A pregnant Imogen goes to the abandoned warehouse by herself (because that’s a smart thing to do). She spots a memorial shrine for Angela Waters and finds a book that was left there – appropriately, The Scarlet Letter – and takes a photo of the checkout card from the library. (Angela repeatedly checked it out.) She hears a noise and hides in an old van. It’s the masked man! After looking around and almost catching her, he leaves.

Sheriff Beasley interrogates Noa while she’s doing community service. He wants her to tell the disciplinary committee that the video was Imogen and Tabby’s idea and that it was their intent to do harm to Karen. He points out she has more to lose, and Imogen and Tabby need to answer for Karen’s death.

Tabby heads to the theater to look for the flash drive, but Wes (Derek Klena) reveals he found it before the police came looking for it. Not to worry, it’s at his house. He invites her to come over to his house this evening and pick it up. Imogen texts her and Tabby leaves without accepting Wes’ invitation.

Faran’s parents argue over what to do with her. Her mom wants to move her to Pittsburgh and Faran doesn’t want to go. Faran insists the only reason her mom wants her to move is so that she can control her life.

Imogen shares with Tabby what she found out about Angela Waters. Angela killed herself at the party on the flyer, but the police didn’t find her body until days later. Imogen explains that when she went to the warehouse, someone else was there. She thinks it was A.

They’re startled when Imogen receives a text, but it’s just Kelly inviting her to Karen’s funeral. Tabby thinks they should go back to the warehouse to see if they can figure out who A is.

Wednesday: Mouse and Faran meet in the girls bathroom at Noa’s request. Mouse wonders where Imogen and Tabby are, and Noa admits she didn’t ask them to come. She suggests they should tell the disciplinary committee it was all Imogen and Tabby’s idea. “You mean, throw them under the bus?” asks Faran.

Noa attempts to justify her idea by saying Imogen is the one who had the phone. Mouse points out they all played a part in it, not to mention Imogen had cold feet and felt bad after it happened and Faran and Noa were gung-ho about it from the start. Mouse is concerned A’s watching them and testing them to see if they turn on each other. Faran thinks she’s paranoid.

Tabby and Imogen visit the warehouse and Tabby sets up a hidden camera to try to figure out who A is. Sidney shows up and they’re shocked to see each other. Tabby asks her mom what she’s doing there, and Sidney claims she’s paying her respect. When Imogen asks, “To Angela Water?” she says yes. Imogen takes the opportunity to ask who Angela was.

The trio sit down at the pizza joint and Sidney explains Angela was one of her classmates who died tragically. She describes the night Angela died and says Angela was an unlucky girl. They tried to befriend her but she was damaged in ways they couldn’t fix.

Tabby wonders why she didn’t call the police and Sidney claims she assumed someone else did. She goes to the warehouse every so often to pay her respects.

Now it’s Sidney’s turn to question Imogen and her daughter. Imogen reveals she was there because she’s trying to figure out what happened to her mom and Tabby was there to be a supportive friend. Imogen shows Sidney the flyer her mom received right before she died and asks if it’s possible her mom killed herself because she felt guilty about Angela. Sidney lies and says, “Imogen, no one was more kind to her than your mom. She was the best of us.”

Sidney offers to ask people about the flyer.

Later, Tabby shows up at Wes’ place to get the flash drive. He’s cooked pasta for dinner and set out wine, and that puts Tabby on alert. While he’s in the kitchen, Wes explains he’s making plans to have a mini film festival every night that week. He promises to give her the flash drive after they eat dinner and watch a movie. Tabby’s uncomfortable but nods in agreement.

As he’s rambling on from the kitchen, Tabby has a slight panic attack while looking at the wine, the dinner plate, and a vase of roses. She gets up to leave, spots the flash drive, grabs it, and takes off.

Wes turns around and discovers she’s gone.

Shawn shows up at Noa’s to talk. He explains he’s not mad at her; he’s just confused and scared. She opens up as to why she was arrested in the first place. It was all because of her mom. She lets him in on a secret but makes him promise never to say anything. The night she got arrested she was covering for her mom. They were her mom’s drugs!

Shawn becomes angry that Noa had to cover for her mom and wants to know what kind of mother does that to their own daughter. Noa defends her mom and Shawn apologizes for not believing her.

On Thursday, Imogen attends Karen’s funeral which is a bad idea even though Kelly invited her. Martha sees Imogen and freaks out, demanding to know why she’s there. Kelly admits she invited her. Martha blames Imogen for her daughter’s death. “I pray you burn in hell for what you did to my sweet Karen. May your child be taken away from you the way you took mine from me!” hisses Martha.

Imogen meets with her friends to tell them what happened at the funeral. (She doesn’t have a clue that some of these “friends” want to blame everything on her and Tabby.) Imogen reveals she plans on taking the blame for everything at the disciplinary hearing. Faran looks pleased as she glances at Noa. Tabby doesn’t go along with that, reminding them she’s the one who edited the video and screened it.

Mouse points out they all could have said no while looking at Noa and Faran. Noa seems to have a change of heart and agrees they’re all in this together. Noa then asks for the flash drive, claiming she’s going to flush it down the toilet.

That evening after returning home from the funeral, Martha drops a glass and it breaks. As she starts to cry, Kelly says she’ll take care of it. A drunk Tom comes in asking what broke this time. Kelly tries to assure him it was an accident.

Tom goes off about how those girls are going to pay for what they did to his daughter for the rest of their lives. Kelly asks what he means by that and he says that tomorrow they’ll be expelled and after that, they’ll go to jail.

“They took away your sister’s life and I will take away theirs. And by the time I am through with them, they will wish they were dead. All five of those little lying bitches.”

Kelly squeezes the broken glass in her hand and blood drips on the carpet.

Friday, the day of the dreaded disciplinary hearing, arrives and Corey warns the girls and their parents that no matter what happens they need to keep their mouths shut. The principal comes in and informs them the meeting has been postponed to a later date. When asked why he explains Kelly came to see him this morning and admitted Karen was up in the rafters with intent to harm Imogen. Given this new information, expulsion is no longer on the table but either two weeks suspension or four weeks detention still is. He’ll let them know what the decision is.

Moms and daughters hit up the pizza place and as the moms discuss how lucky the girls are, they look at their daughters sitting at the table they themselves used to occupy when they were in high school. Elodie admits it’s like looking through a time machine.

Sidney changes the subject and fills them in on what Imogen told her. She reveals Davie received the flyer for the rave right before her death. She also informs them Imogen and Tabby know about Angela Waters… well, what everyone else thinks happened to her. Elodie wonders who sent Davie that flyer and Corey tries to convince them all – and herself – that it’s been months since Davie died and they haven’t gotten anything so it must be a fluke.

As they celebrate their win and talk about Kelly’s change of heart, Imogen can’t help but think about her mom. She thinks her mom receiving that flyer and Tabby’s mom visiting the memorial to Angela can’t be a coincidence. As she wonders out loud, “What aren’t they telling us,” the girls watch their mothers.

Mouse gets some of her devices back from her mom and her mom, cryptically, says, “I just don’t want anything bad to happen to you. I can’t go through that again.”

Faran’s mom says her goodbyes before taking off for Pittsburgh. Faran thanks her for letting her stay and gives her a hug. And there’s more good news – Corey convinced Madame Bun Head to let her back in Swan Lake by threatening to sue.

Imogen meets with Kelly and Kelly apologizes for what her mom said at the funeral. Imogen thanks her for telling the truth about why Karen was up there. Kelly breaks down and says it was her idea and blames herself for Karen dying. Imogen does her best to comfort her and says it’s not her fault.

Season one episode three – “Chapter 3: Aftermath” – wraps up with the girls going to Karen’s grave and saying something one by one. The wind kicks up as they finish and they turn around to see the masked man they believe to be A watching them from a van.




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