HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin season one episode seven opens with Elodie (Lea Salonga) receiving her first communication from A. It’s a flyer for the Millwood Carnival in 1999 and on the back, it reads: “Meet me in the hall of mirrors.”
A flashback shows Elodie (Emily Bautista) and Angela (Gabriella Pizzolo) running through the hall of mirrors. They begin to kiss and Davie (Ava DeMary) catches them. Elodie backs away and asks Angela what she’s doing, adding, “Did you see that, Davie? How she attacked me?”
Davie warns Angela, “Well, don’t think you can come on to me next.”
Present-day Elodie burns the flyer.
Imogen (Bailee Madison) and Tabby (Chandler Kinney) learn from Faran that her mom’s been discharged from the hospital. Imogen wonders if they’re going to need to tell their friends the truth about their own assaults when they discuss the trip to Rosewood. She’s worried about the stigma not just on her but on her baby.
Tabby admits she thought about going to the police but didn’t. “Maybe I’d go now if it wasn’t for Sheriff Beasley being basically the Slender Man,” she says. Imogen remembers there being a female officer who showed up the night her mom died. She was nice and might listen to Tabby now.
Monday, November 9: Corey (Zakiya Young) returns home in a wheelchair with a broken leg and Faran asks if she needs anything before she goes to school. Corey doesn’t and says Zeke’s at the garage getting her brakes checked. She admits they won’t find anything because they’re not the reason she crashed.
Corey blames the crash on the “diva stunt” Faran pulled. Faran lays into her mom, telling her she’s scarred for life and has been in pain for years. Corey stands by what she did.
Over lunch at school, the girls admit their mothers must have visited Rose and all signed in under the name A. Waters. They think it’s a confirmation of their guilt. Faran (Zaria) and Noa (Maia Reficco) wonder why A’s targeting them and why A’s not going after the rapist. And Imogen’s confused about why he killed Karen.
They’re clearly missing something and Noa pounds the table and says a little too loud, “Yeah! Like who the f**k A is!” Noa brings up Sheriff Beasley since he went to school with their moms and knew Angela. Imogen doesn’t think he’d kill his own daughter; he loved Karen. Noa agrees but says he has demons and reveals she caught him engaged in oral sex with a boy during community service.
Imogen believes they should definitely keep him as a suspect. Also, what about Tabby’s boss, Wes? Tabby seems surprised by that, and Mouse (Malia Pyles) suggests Angela’s dad should be considered, too. They don’t know anything about him, and he could still be around.
Madame Giry (Kate Jennings Grant) informs Faran she’ll be dancing Giselle for her next semester. Faran’s ecstatic but the joy’s short-lived when Madame Giry also tells her Kelly withdrew from dance class.
Faran asks Kelly (Mallory Bechtel) why she quit and learns Kelly thinks she sent the masked man after her. Kelly assumes it was Henry. Faran asks what happened and if that’s why she quit Swan Lake, but Kelly isn’t buying the innocent act.
“You made your point pretty clear, I think. You know – with the knife,” says Kelly. Faran looks stunned and asks if someone tried to stab her. Kelly thinks maybe she should have her father arrest her. Kelly’s parting words are, “Talk to me again and maybe I still will.”
The girls have a meeting in the ladies room and Faran worries she accidentally set A’s sights on Kelly. Or, maybe it’s because Kelly is a bully just like her sister was.
Noa and Faran decide to go to the carnival; they aren’t letting A ruin their lives.
The students are forced to partner up in health class and take care of a simulated baby. Chip (Carson Rowland) offers to team up with Imogen and she accepts. She thinks they should trade off and offers to take the first night.
Mr. Smithee gives Tabby’s film class their next assignment. They will write, direct, and edit a short film based on some aspect of their lives, something meaningful and important to them. Tabby has a short flashback of the night she was raped.
Ash (Jordan Gonzalez) invites Mouse to the carnival and she admits her moms never let her go. She confesses that when she was a little girl, a man at the carnival offered her cotton candy and then tried to take her. Her moms saw what was happening and screamed her name. The man ran off and was never caught.
Ash asks who he was, and Mouse says he was a stranger. Since then, every year during the carnival they go out of town.
Noa’s track practice doesn’t go well. She comes in last and is frustrated. Her coach asks if she’s getting enough rest and how her diet is. She admits it’s not great because her mom just got a job at Pinball Pizza. Her coach has a trainer she wants her to meet.
Faran and Henry (Ben Cook) are practicing and as Faran’s lifted in the air her back begins to hurt, forcing them to stop. As Henry rubs her back, he asks when the pain started. She admits she’s had it on and off for eight years. Most of the time it’s manageable but every now and then it gets unbearable, and she gets cortisone shots at the clinic.
At the theater, Wes (Derek Klena) seems to think he has a good idea for their next double feature – The Last House on the Left and Virgin Spring. Tabby isn’t happy because both movies depict graphic rape scenes. As Wes tries to convince her that these movies have morals, Tabby grows increasingly angry. She grips a pen tightly and then stabs Wes through the hand with it. Oh, wait…that wasn’t real. She doesn’t really stab him.
After Tabby snaps out of her daydream, Wes reminds her that if she’s going to attend film school, she must have critical distance. Tabby insists they have no idea what they are actually saying about sexual violence. She wonders if they have any idea what it’s like to watch those scenes as a woman. Tabby asks Chip if their Psycho project taught him nothing about trauma and the female body.
Mouse receives a text from Steve saying, “Hi Again, I got us tickets to the carnival so we can ride the carousel together. It’s your favorite.” Mouse decides to take matters into her own hands, googles him, and finds out where he works.
Imogen’s simulated baby won’t stop crying and Sidney (Sharon Leal) offers to take her. She just needed to be burped and Sidney takes the opportunity to ask Imogen if she plans to keep her baby. Imogen admits she doesn’t know, and Sidney points out that she’s 16 and has so much ahead of her. Imogen confirms the school nurse mentioned adoption as a possibility. Sidney has the name of an agency and asks if she can make her an appointment. Imogen agrees.
Tuesday, November 10: Imogen needs to use the restroom and asks the lady at the school’s front desk to watch her fake baby. When she returns, the baby’s gone.
The bell rings and students are pouring out of their classes with their fake babies as Imogen starts to panic. She finds Chip and tells him someone stole their baby who she’s named Clarice.
She’s still panicking and Chip talks her through it, calmly. After everyone leaves the hall, they hear their baby’s muffled cry and find her in a closet. Chip thinks it was just a prank but there’s a note attached to the baby that reads: “You’re a bad mother,” with the A in red in the word bad. Imogen changes her mind and thinks they should tag team the assignment. She then asks for a ride to an adoption agency after school.
Madame Giry tells Faran not to be angry at Henry after he told her Faran’s back hurts. Giry reveals when she was in her 20s, she broke her ankle during a performance. She has a doctor she wants Faran to see.
Henry’s sorry he pissed Faran off but he’s not sorry for blurting anything out. He’s happy she’s getting checked out, and Faran orders him to go to the doctor with her. It’s the least he can do.
Tabby revisits the woods where she was raped and has flashbacks to that night. As she turns around, the man in the mask is standing there with a knife. She screams and falls, but it wasn’t real. It was just in her head.
Tabby’s waiting for the female deputy at the station when Sheriff Beasley (Eric Johnson) spots her. He’s been meaning to call her in and orders her to come with him. He asks when the last time she saw Tyler was, revealing a witness told him the last time Tyler was seen was at the party she and Imogen hosted. Beasley also knows Tabby and Tyler fought.
Tabby explains Tyler was harassing one of her friends. Beasley claims she assaulted Tyler but Tabby insists she was protecting her friend. She hasn’t seen Tyler since that night but she’s sure he’s fine.
“Guys like Tyler are always fine in towns like Millwood and with guys like you looking out for them,” says Tabby.
Before she can leave, Beasley asks what she’s doing in “his” station. She lies and says she was there to pay for one of her mom’s parting tickets but realized she forgot it.
Imogen and Chip visit the adoption agency, and Imogen explains she had plans to keep her baby but circumstances have changed. The agent offers to talk her through a few scenarios and, assuming Chip’s the dad, asks if he supports the adoption. Before Imogen can correct her, Chip agrees to whatever Imogen decides is best for the baby.
After the visit’s over, Chip says he played along because he felt like she needed some support. They head to the pizza place for lunch with their fake baby, and Imogen’s having a fun time. Chip asks, “Hey, question. Do you think babies like carnivals?”
Faran informs her mom that Madame Giry sent her to see a doctor because she has chronic pain. Giry’s doctor said the surgery her mom forced her to have was a huge mistake. The doctor wants her to do physical therapy three times a week, wear a brace, and stop dancing for at least six months. Faran’s going to follow the doctor’s suggestions so she’ll get better the right way.
The trainer Noa’s coach sent her to suggests her problem is shortness of breath. He wants to give her an inhaler, but Noa’s reluctant to use it.
Mouse pays Steve a visit at his work while he’s in the middle of talking to customers. He hypocritically says she crossed a line because this is his place of work. Mouse correctly points out he showed up at her school, won’t stop calling, and won’t stop texting. She tried to be nice and understanding but now she’s pissed and tells him to stop f**king with her.
Steve confesses he knows all about her, including that she was almost snatched as a child. He shocks Mouse by revealing he’s in a support group with her mom. Mouse asks when they meet and he tells her every other Tuesday. She thinks that’s impossible because her mom has book club those days. Mouse suddenly realizes her mom isn’t in a book club.
Mouse returns home and begins cutting up the photos she took of people who’ve lost a child. Just then she receives a text from A: “The man who tried to take you WASN’T a stranger.”
Shawn (Alex Aiono) asks Noa how it went with the trainer and explains the trainer has helped other guys, including Greg and Tyler. (That’s not at all suspicious, right?) The trainer suggested an inhaler, but Noa admits she isn’t sure how she feels about it because it might be doping. She asks if he’s using an inhaler and Shawn insists he’s not. He’s 100% natural talent.
Elodie’s reading a book at home when Mouse asks if it’s for her book club. Mouse then asks if it’s an all-ages book club or for adults. She says adults. Mouse tells her Ash asked her to the carnival and she’s decided to say yes. Elodie’s upset, but Mouse has made up her mind. Her mom asks what if “he” is there. Mouse asks if the guy who tried to take her was a stranger, and her mom says yes – a total stranger.
Imogen fills Tabby in on her day with Chip and asks her if it’s okay that she says yes to going to the carnival with him. Tabby wonders if she’s crushing on Chip and Imogen claims she isn’t but admits he’s cute. Still, she’ll say no if it’s weird for Tabby. Tabby says Chip is just a friend and if she wants to go with him, she should.
Wednesday, November 11: Mouse has a one-on-one with her mom Shirley (Kim Berrios Lin) while Elodie’s out. Shirley explains Elodie canceled their annual trip to the mountains and admits she doesn’t know how long she can keep doing this with Elodie. She has tried to get her to move on.
Tabby decides to tell the school nurse about the rape but before she does, she sees a poster for a blood drive. The nurse says they need as many students as possible to donate.
It’s carnival time and Ash thinks it’s funny Mouse’s favorite ride is the carousel. When Mouse says she wants to have fun at the carnival with her boyfriend, Ash asks, “Boyfriend?” She gets embarrassed for assuming they’re dating, but there’s no need for that because Ash says he’d love to be her boyfriend.
Sidney and Tabby are at the carnival and discuss the topic of Tabby’s short film. Tabby confesses there’s a story she kind of wants to tell – a personal one. She’s thinking about telling her mom, but then has a flashback of that night after spotting members of the football. She tells her mom it’s too soon to share.
The Beasleys are also at the carnival and Martha (Jennifer Ferrin) seems to be in a good mood, suggesting they play cornhole like they used to. Tom brings up that they played that when there were four of them; it doesn’t make sense to play it now. Kelly interjects, “Right, because I’m not enough.”
Chip brings Imogen cotton candy and she apologies she can’t get on any rides. When he notices Imogen watching a couple kiss, he asks her, “Imogen, would you ever want to…” She says no. He says he gets it because he’s spent the past three years watching movies in his basement while crushing on his best friend even though he already knew it wasn’t going to happen. Chip believes he’s not boyfriend material and Imogen insists that’s not it.
Imogen tries to tell him her reality, but he cuts her off. Chip calls her a badass that any guy would be lucky… He doesn’t finish that sentence because Imogen kisses him. After the kiss, she tells him she likes him too.
Faran and Henry are on the Ferris wheel and he thinks she’s still upset with him for going to Giry. Faran admits she’s upset with the situation but not with him. She assures him she will dance again.
Football players from Rosewood show up at the carnival and start stuff with the Millwood High football players. Shawn tries to fight them and Noa breaks it up and gets mad at him for being involved in a fight.
Elodie receives a text: “If you’re not honest with Mouse your worst fears will come true.”
She abruptly gets up and says they shouldn’t have let her go. The man is still out there and it’s too dangerous. Shirley insists this paranoia must stop. She warns, “Do not walk out that door. If you do, I don’t know what’s going to be waiting for you when you get back.”
Ash and Mouse enter the hall of mirrors and she spots the masked man. Mouse tries to run away but she can’t figure out how. No matter where she turns, she keeps seeing him. Somehow, Ash doesn’t see him and asks what’s wrong. She finally locates an exit and runs into her mom. Elodie wants to come clean and tell her the truth.
Elodie confesses the man who tried to take her was her biological father. Mouse is confused because she always thought she came from a donor. Elodie admits after college she needed money and saw a posting at a women’s clinic of a couple looking for a surrogate.
Mouse wants to know how she was able to keep her if she was his surrogate. Elodie reveals they didn’t use an agency. Mouse guesses it was her dad at the carnival and pieces together he might not have been trying to abduct her. Maybe he just wanted to spend time with her. Elodie admits she doesn’t know. Mouse confesses she was the one who sent her the text, so it wasn’t from A. Elodie claims she doesn’t have any other secrets to tell.
Imogen tells Tabby that she and Chip kissed, and it was nice. Tabby thinks it might be time to tell the girls about what happened to her. Tabby’s going to ask for their help with something. She thinks that if the guy who attacked them goes to Millwood High, she knows how to catch him.
Thursday, November 11: Mouse tells the girls she saw A in the hall of mirrors. Her mom told her the truth about a dark family secret and her other mom kicked Elodie out. As Tabby’s about to tell them what happened to her and Imogen, they all receive a text. They’re shocked when they see a photo of Tyler, dead. The episode ends with Imogen saying, “A killed him?”
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