On the last night’s episode of Pretty Little Liars season 5, episode 7, “The Silence of E. Lamb,” Hannah’s drinking problem gets everyone in trouble. Check out our full recap for the episode here.
“The Silence of E. Lamb” kicks off with a dinner party, or more accurately an invitation to one. When bringing Emily to school, Mrs. Fields decides that her daughter should invite all of her friends over for a home cooked meal. So Emily heads to the bathroom to give out the invites. Aria and Spencer say they can’t attend because of their prior commitments to Radley and Ezra respectively. Oh how to the tables have changed for Aria and Spencer. This means that only Alison, Emily and third-wheeler Hannah can go.
As some of the girls head out of the bathroom Sidney emerges from one of the stalls and immediately heads over to Alison. She makes a comment about Ali’s scarf which Ali has been using to hide the marks on her neck. She also reveals that someone has put a dead rat in Paige’s locker and thoughts immediately go to Mona.
An annoyed Hannah heads out into the courtyard and runs into Caleb who reveals that he is taking exit exams. Though we have a feeling the exams won’t go over well considering his new love of binge drinking during the day. Hannah also takes this opportunity to vent to him about the dreadful dinner she has to look forward to. Hannah’s frustration leads Caleb to have a bit of tiff with Ali.
After school it’s Aria’s first day at Radley and from the get-go she runs into Eddie. He cryptically insists that he has met her before even though Aria insists that they never have. Does Aria have a twin out there?
Aria is then introduced to Rhonda, the girl who was roommate with Bethany Young when she was alive. The conversation quickly heads south, though, when Rhonda sees that Aria has the picture in her hands. Rhonda calls her a thief and says that the painting had been a gift from Bethany to Rhonda and Rhonda believes that thieves get their hands cut off.
At the Hastings household, Spencer runs into Melissa cleaning out the barn. Apparently leftover food from her sober companion has drawn out the mice. So does this explain the rat poison that Spencer found a few episodes ago or is planting the food part of an elaborate scheme?
Spencer heads over to Ezra’s apartment to help him move but ends up asking him for one of his cameras in order to spy on Melissa. They also share a moment of weakness when Spencer thanks him coming to New York. We guess at the end of the day even if he was spying on them he did take a bullet for them.
Back at Radley, Aria is snooping through Rhonda’s room while she goes to take a shower. She doesn’t have time to see anything before Rhonda comes back and she has to hide under her bed.
The dinner party is finally here and Hannah is already in a bad mood after hearing that Caleb confronted Ali. It doesn’t make matters much better when Ali decides it’s a good idea to suggest that Hannah not see Caleb anymore. When Ali heads to the dining room Hannah sneaks some liquor to calm her nerves. Maybe Ali is right about Caleb, his drinking habits seem to be rubbing off on an already fragile Hannah.
Dinner commences and Hannah has moved onto drinking vodka on the rocks. Do 16-years actually drink vodka on the rocks? While Ali is going off about her kidnapping Hannah is outwardly mocking her in front of everyone. By the time dinner is over everything is sufficiently awkward.
Hannah heads to the brew to get coffee and runs into Sidney. They get to talking and Hannah goes off about Jenna, Shanna and New York (!!!) because she is still drunk from dinner. Sidney takes this information in and leaves just as Caleb shows up. Caleb and Hannah talk, Caleb says he didn’t take his exams, sparks fly, and all of a sudden kissing on the mouth is happening. Poor Travis, we’re enjoying how this is all unfolding.
At Radley Aria is able to escape Rhonda’s room with her sketch book in tow. Before she gets out of there, though, she is stopped by Eddie who stops her for a quick chat and an opportunity to pickpocket her for her cell phone.
She heads to Spencer’s to flip through the sketch book and find more disturbing drawings of Toby’s mom committing suicide and another of Jessica. After the brief art viewing Aria heads home and finds Ezra at her house. Eddie called him from her phone and asked to meet. When he went to see him, however, Eddie was nowhere to be found.
At the end of the episode, Spencer is watching her new camera footage she set up outside the barn and she spots Melissa and Ali walking together in the dark. Emily, Aria, and Hannah all come over to see it for themselves and when they get there they all get a text from “A.” Well, everyone except Hannah. The text says “Alison is keeping secrets and so are you, I know because of Hannah’s big fat mouth.” And scene.