My name is Andrew Sims. I’ve never seen an episode of Pretty Little Liars in my life.

Until tonight.

The excitement surrounding “Who is ‘A’?” on Pretty Little Liars is infectious.

When I checked social media this morning, all I saw were status updates from people who warned their fellow friends to not dare spoiler the big “A” reveal.

A friend on Twitter said:

A friend on Facebook said:

And a friend on iMessage said:

Everyone has been looking forward to the summer finale. And I wanted to be a part of it.

Hypable is currently without a Pretty Little Liars writer, so I thought, “Hey, how about I — a total PLL newb — ‘recap’ the episode?”

And so, here we go.

First order of business: Who is A? It’s CeCe.

How we got to this revelation: The episode began with the group of ladies, who I believe are the “Liars,” trying to talk Charles from jumping off a building. We quickly learn it was a flash forward. The show takes us back to earlier in the evening where the girls are at what I think is a Maleficent-themed party. Alison is missing!

The one girl who’s dressed like a modern version of Snow White leads them to Mona, who’s been trying to track Charles.

The girls break into A’s supposed control room. He’s on to them — he’s got eyes on the room. A’s lair gives them a live feed of Alison and the dead Jason and Mr. D. (A few minutes later we learn Jason and Mr. D are just unable to move, not dead.)

Alison is with Charles. And who is Charles/A? Her sister CECE!

CeCe is aware that the girls are watching via the camera — The girls seem to think CeCe is upset about separating them from her sister Alison. But there’s far, far more to it than that.

In a flashback, we learn that CeCe used to be a boy. As a child, CeCe — named Charles back then — tried to drown Alison. Charles received a dress from his mom at the age of 12. In the same year, he had a rooftop chat with Bethany. When the latter’s mom caught her on the rooftop, Bethany pushed her mom off the ledge and blamed it on Charles.

There’s a lot of info dumping in this part of the episode that this PLL newb couldn’t follow.

Turns out CeCe is Charlotte too. She was Charlotte during her school days, including her time at Radley and part of UPenn. She even dated her brother Jason, but they didn’t have sex. That doesn’t make it any less gross though.

We also learned in this part of the episode that CeCe tried to kill Bethany but she hit/”killed” Alison, and Mona tried to kill Alison, but she actually killed Bethany. Oy vey.

As for the other red coat? That’s Sara.

CeCe told her sister that she kept the “A” act up because it was like a “game,” something she felt great succeeding at. Alison tried to demand better answers as she reminded her sister of all the horrible things she’s done, but CeCe reminded her and the Liars (or “dolls”) that she can do whatever she wants.

We go back to the scene where “A” — who we now know is Charlotte/CeCe/Charles — is ready to jump off the building. She decides to not do it.

We jump ahead five years, and Alison is a teacher. The Liars arrive in her classroom and tell her that someone, a guy, is after her. BUT WHO IS IT?

When PLL returns in the winter, the show will be moving ahead five years.

I may be confused by all of this, but luckily, so are some people who’ve been watching for a while:

Cece, played by Vanessa Ray, first came into the Pretty Little Liars fold in season 3.

What did you think of the ‘PLL’ A reveal?

Hit the comments to discuss with fellow fans. We’re sure you have lots of feelings about it!

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