"He wants to see you" Holbrook says to Melissa.

"Why?" Melissa asked.

"I guess you'll know if you go in there" he countered.

Melissa gave passing glances to her parents and the girls before nodding almost imperceptibly. She walked into the visitors room. Wren sat there in chains and an orange jumpsuit. He was hanging his head even after Melissa sat down.

"What do you have to say to me?" She asked coldly.

"I didn't do it" he said quietly "I didn't kill her"

"Is that all?" Melissa said angrily.

"She called me and told me she was in trouble, she asked me to meet her at a motel and bring her things, she said if I did she'd "give me what I'd always wanted" I did it, I brought her the stuff. I thought I was really clever, I demanded payment before I'd give her the stuff. We...did it, I fell asleep and when I woke up the stuff was gone and so was she." He said exhaling as if a huge weight had been lifted.

"What did you bring her? Why didn't you tell the cops when she went missing?" Melissa inquired.

"Lots of stuff, 3 units of blood, syringes, drugs, I didn't say anything because I figured she had just run away and I would have lost my license, I swear to you if you never believe anything else I ever say believe me when I say I did not kill her!"

"What did she need all that stuff for?" Melissa asked continuing her inquisition

"She said she was pretty sure she was pregnant and her boyfriend told her if she got pregnant he'd kill her" Wren said.

"He's lying!" Emily yelled.

"Toby didn't kill Spencer, he loved her" Aria added.

"He thought she killed herself!" Hanna blurted out.

"How do you know that?" Holbrook asked coming over, once again interested in the conversation.

"He told us" Aria said "when we went to tell him about the funeral"

Holbrook nodded before stalking off.

The girls sat in the Hastings living room later that night thinking of all that had transpired in the last few days. Caleb offered to go get food, Ezra offered coffee and tea but they didn't want anything. After awhile the Hastings came in.

"They aren't going to charge Wren with Spencer's murder" Mr. Hastings announced.

"He'll lose his license and be charged with statutory rape and drug trafficking and endangering the welfare of a child, but not murder" Mrs. Hastings added.

"The cops think that Toby killed her" Melissa sobbed. "He rented a room two doors down from the room Wren had that night. They think she left Wren's room and walked to Toby's and he killed her because she was pregnant or because she slept with Wren"

"So are they going to arrest him?!" Emily asked excitedly. She didn't think he did it and didn't want him arrested but if they brought him in she'd be able to see her friend again.

"He's dead" Melissa said sobbing. "He drove off of a bridge down in North Carolina four years ago. Apparently he was high as a kite and going 80 miles an hour."

This was devastating enough on its own but now with them thinking Spencer was alive it was even more tragic. Emily, Hanna, Caleb, Aria, and Ezra drove down to North Carolina. They wanted to say goodbye and see where it had happened. It was just after 9AM when they reached the bridge. It was a crisp morning and they hunkered in their coats as they stood once again in the spot that had taken a friend.

Everyone was looking down at the creek below except Emily.

"Spencer?" Emily whispered quietly. They turned to see a brunette placing flowers at the wooden cross that marked Toby's death. They rushed down the bridge towards the woman. Aria reached her grabbing onto her. The woman looked startled and Aria quickly let go of her realizing it wasn't Spencer.

"I'm sorry" Aria stuttered "I thought you were my friend Spencer"

"I'll take that as a compliment, your friend was very beautiful" she said solemnly. "I'm Anna"

"Did you know our friend Toby?" Emily asked. "We only just found out what happened, we came down here for closure"

Anna nodded.

"Why don't you all come down to the house" she invited. They felt a bit awkward but this whole thing was stranger than strange so it sort of fit. They followed her to a farm house where she had a basket full of biscuits waiting.

"These were for when my husband finishes up morning chores but I'll make more" she said. After a couple minutes a man walked in, he was every bit of 6 foot 5 inches tall, he was tan with a plaid button up, tight jeans and a beige work jacket.

"Howdy" he said smiling to them as he grabbed a biscuit from the table and kissed Anna on the cheek.

"This is my husband Todd" she said introducing him as he shook everyone's hand. "I found them out on the bridge" she said before trailing off.

"We only just found out about Toby" Ezra chirped up "we came to pay our respects"

"Can you tell us how he ended up down here?" Caleb inquired.

"I worked with him at that job in bucks county" Todd started "he was a hard worker but he was grieving over Spencer. He fell in with the wrong crowd, started using drugs, got that little tramp knocked up. I was offered a job down here so we moved. I begged him to come down here and get his act together. He called me one night and Anna and I drove up to get him. He said he was ready to get clean. There's a center about 30 miles away. We were going to take him there. The morning we were supposed to take him in we woke up and him and the truck were gone and we found them both at the bottom of the river."

"He came down here to get clean?" Emily asked hurt he didn't think to ask them for help.

"It's what Spencer wanted" Anna said. Todd shot a look at her.

"You mean it's what she would've wanted, if she was still alive?" Aria asked

"I guess that's what I meant" she said as she went into the kitchen.

"I think I need to ask you all to leave, my wife's not well" Todd said sternly.

"Well that was weird" Hanna said.

"Weird?!" Aria yelled. "She's lying, she talked about Spencer like she knew her, add to the fact that we now think she's alive? There's something fishy going on here."

"I have an idea but you guys aren't going to like it." Hanna said.

They all stood there waiting.

"We use Aria as bait" she said as if it was the only choice. She went on.

"I don't think it's a coincidence that we keep seeing Spencer. I think she's seeking us out one by one. Aria's the only one that hasn't been confronted. If we go back pretending we are putting up posters we can catch and drag her butt back to Rosewood."

The plan seemed harmless enough so they all agreed. It was a cold drizzly day. Aria wandered aimlessly around town her friends were conveniently placed so they could get to her within minutes. She'd never been so nervous.

"You shouldn't have come here" a voice from behind said. She turned and saw a pale thin blonde girl, she was wearing ratty clothes and a grey cape. "You and your friends can't keep coming back here, if you do it won't be safe for her"

"Why won't it be safe?!" Aria yelled as the wind picked up.

"Go now, don't come back" she said turning and leaving. They wondered aloud on the way home what the mystery girl had meant. They walked into the Hastings living room to give them an update. They had all just settled in when Jason burst through the back door.

"Good now that everyone's here!" he said as he slammed a stack of papers down in front of Melissa. She looked them over.

"What is it?" Aria asked.

"It's admission paperwork to Radley Sanitarium." She said sadly. "That's why she ran away!" She yelled at her parents "you were going to have her committed!"

"Where'd you get that?" The asked Jason.

"It was on the porch when I came home." He said.

The girls went back to the town he next day. They'd assure Spencer they wouldn't let her get committed and she'd come home. Caleb and Ezra had a computer set up at a coffee shop. Aria was wearing an ear piece and the girls stayed in their spots waiting for Spencer to show up. All off a sudden a sleek black town car pulled up.

"That's the car I saw spencer get into!" Hanna yelled into arias earpiece.

The blonde came out of the car. She was dressed better today but she had cuts and bruises that looked fresh.

"We won't hurt Spencer" Aria assured her.

"You already have" she said.

"Can you take me to her?" Aria asked "I just want to talk to her"

The voices of all her friends drowned in her ears.

"I'm sure it can be arranged the blonde said with a smirk. She held out a pill to Aria. "Down the rabbit hole"

"Aria, no!" She heard Ezra's voice but it was too late.

"I need to know what happened to my friend" she breathed ripping the earpiece out of her ear and taking the pill as she climbed into the car. Things quickly went black.

Meanwhile the others chased after the car but it was no use. All of a sudden all their phones started going off. They all opened up the same text.

If you want her back in one piece, say nothing

They had no idea what they were supposed to do now.

Aria started to come to. She had a splitting headache, the place where she was smelled and she quickly realized she was bound by duct tape around her wrists and ankles and of course in her mouth. A blonde man that looked like a deranged serial killer in need of a shower took notice holding up his gun and knife.

"I'll take the tape off your mouth if you promise not to scream, because if you scream I'll have to hurt you." He leaned down starting to take the tape off.

"She won't scream" a familiar voice said. "You won't scream will you Montgomery!"

He was in her vision now and as the tape came off she breathed out his name

"Noel?"