Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Summer School is off to a creepy start. We’ve learned about Angela and A’s mother – dubbed Bloody Rose Waters – and that two teens were murdered inside Rose’s cabin. Plus, there have been a spate of other recent deaths among people the BFFs know. And that was just the first two episodes.
Episode three, “Sweet Sixteen,” opens with Mouse (Malia Pyles) watching a video of a reenactment of Rose and Archie Waters on Spooky Spaghetti. When the video ends, Mouse discovers someone’s posted their phone numbers under their pictures on the site.
Thursday
Mouse and the other girls compare notes and confirm they all received calls the night before from unknown numbers. Mouse reveals that someone has posted their phone numbers online. Which, of course, leads to the BFFs confessing they each gave out their numbers, which they weren’t supposed to do.
Mouse changes the subject and reminds the group that her birthday is coming up and that it’s her Sweet 16. The girls downplay it, suggesting it’s not a good idea to go all out this year.
Mouse visits Dr. Sullivan (Annabeth Gish) and brings up that she’s concerned about her grandmother’s memory problems. She’s also hurt that her friends don’t want to have a birthday party for her, confessing she’s scared they don’t really like her. Dr. Sullivan assures her that’s not the case.
Cue the girls talking about Mouse’s surprise birthday party.
Pastor Malachi lets the church patrons know Sandy will be joining her parents in Cape Cod for the summer, so she won’t be in the play. (Odd, considering we witnessed her being murdered in episode two.) Kelly (Mallory Bechtel) volunteers to take over Sandy’s role in the play.
Mrs. Beasley tasks Kelly and her friends with passing out flyers about the church around town.
Tabby’s (Chandler Kinney) mom comes home to find Christian (Noah Alexander Gerry) on her couch and wants to know who the hell he is. Tabby explains they work together.
Imogen (Bailee Madison) has new eye candy to look at when her co-worker Johnny (Antonio Cipriano) arrives at work shirtless and riding a bike.
Noa (Maia Reficco) asks Jen (Ava Capri) if she gave her number to anyone. Jen assures her she has not. The manager at the pizza place says the cash register is short $20 and wants Noa and Jen to empty their pockets. Jen becomes combative and Noa counts the money herself and claims he counted it wrong.
The girls walk outside, and Jen thanks Noa for helping her out with their manager. Noa is pissed because she slipped in her own tip money to cover it. Jen doesn’t seem to care.
Kelly stops by the ice cream shop to leave flyers for Redemption House but seems hesitant when she discovers Imogen works there. Imogen’s genuinely happy to see Kelly and invites her to Mouse’s secret birthday party at the roller rink.
Christian asks Tabby about her favorite vampire movie and when she confesses that she’s never seen his favorite, he invites her over to watch it at his place. She takes him up on the invitation and very hesitantly follows him into his basement, He’s got an impressive, albeit creepy, collection of horror movie stuff, most of which he made. Tabby feels horrified when she sees an A mask in one of his cabinets. Christian tries to explain, but she is out of there before he can say anything.
The guys are still giving Faran (Zaria) a hard time at the pool because she made captain. In response, she makes them do planks. Later, Henry (Ben Cook) tells Faran what he is going to be doing in the Redemption House play. Without being asked for his opinion, Henry suggests Faran should lighten up when it comes to the boys at her work.
Imogen figures out Johnny’s a player when she sees him flirting with multiple girls. When she tries to give one of the girls a heads up, the girl reacts by cussing at her and then Johnny. It turns out Johnny has no shame in his game or his ego and tells Imogen not to be such a stuck-up prude.
That night, Tabby and Imogen discuss their day over pints of ice cream. Imogen thinks Tabby did the right thing with Christian. And she spills the tea about her good-looking co-worker, Johnny.
Friday
The girls are going over Mouse’s surprise party plans but have to stop when Mouse shows up. She has good news to share, for once. Spooky Spaghetti took down their photos and numbers. Mouse thinks they can do something for her birthday now but she’s met with a bunch of excuses why they can’t.
Imogen apologizes to Johnny and is surprised when he also apologizes for being insensitive. Johnny swears that anything he would do with any of those girls would be consensual. Plus, he confesses he googled her.
Apologies are going around because now it’s Christian and Tabby’s turns to apologize to each other. Christian claims he made those masks before he met her. Tabby wonders if he posted her number online, and he swears he didn’t. Tabby seems to believe him and goes into more detail about what happened to her. She also invites him to Mouse’s party.
Faran takes Henry’s advice, and with Greg and a few other lifeguards, she plays a prank on one of the guys who fell asleep on the job.
And speaking of being tired, Imogen is exhausted at work. Johnny suggests she take a nap in the back office, and she takes him up on it.
Imogen wakes up and tells Johnny she keeps having creepy dreams about Bloody Rose Waters and her mom. She even confesses that he was in her dream too. Imogen claims she saw Rose outside by the dumpster and wants to go outside to check if she is actually there – which she was. However, it turns out that she’s just having a nightmare and none of this happened.
Imogen awkwardly invites Johnny to Mouse’s birthday party.
Mouse complains to Ash (Jordan Gonzalez) about her moms being gone and her friends being checked out. Ash feels really sorry for his girlfriend and spills the beans. He’s not supposed to say anything, but he can’t stop himself from telling her the girls are throwing her a surprise party.
Noa tries to give Jen the silent treatment, but after some gross customers don’t tip Jen, Noa gets involved and gets the money for her.
Faran rescues a girl in the pool after the guy who was supposed to be in the lifeguard chair wasn’t where he was supposed to be. She fires him on the spot.
Faran tells Henry about what happened at the pool and then admits that she was cleared to dance weeks ago. Henry’s stunned and needs time to wrap his head around it.
Mouse’s grandmother, Lola, appears to be in on the surprise and admits that she has been assigned the job of driving Mouse to the party. Meanwhile, all of Mouse’s friends are at the roller rink decked out in vintage wear and ready to party. Even Kelly and Greg show up. So do Johnny and Jen.
However, Lola doesn’t take Mouse to her party but instead drops her off at an abandoned restaurant that looks similar to a Chuck E. Cheese. It’s eerily quiet when Mouse walks in and spots a cake, a rose, and a card that says Happy Birthday, Mouse. Inside it reads: “This is your birthday test. A final girl must escape any death trap. You hide, I seek.”
Mouse is locked inside and as she runs to escape, she sees Bloody Rose Waters.
The girls are having the time of their lives, and Greg cracks a joke that maybe Jen and Noa were lesbian lovers in juvie.
Ash arrives at Mouse’s place to pick her up and Lola’s confused. She informs him she dropped her off already after getting a call from one of Mouse’s friends.
And now things are rapidly escalating as episode three ends. Mouse isn’t just running from Bloody Rose Waters; she’s trying to escape the building which is now engulfed in flames.
After Ash tells the girls what’s going on, they leave the party to look for Mouse. They make it to the burning restaurant just as Mouse emerges from the smoke and flames. They wonder what happened and Mouse says, “Bloody Rose. It started again.”
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