Pretty Little Liars: Is Eliza a Ghost?

Six seasons of abandoned warehouses, slasher film-worthy lakes, and ominous roadside motels whose employees don't ask questions about heavy shipments of doll parts might lead one to think Pretty Little Liarshad explored all that the Pennsylvania landscape had to offer. Not true. There was still one area of the Commonwealth not yet implicated in the crimes of the Liars' ambitious tormentors. And somehow, we found an abandoned bunker and decommissioned missile silo before coming upon the Pennsylvania Dutch.

Amish country seems downright perfect as a place to center your young woman torture cabal, with its easily-accessible pockets of no cell service, surrounded by people who keep to themselves and don't trust the police. If you were studying to be A but really wanted to stand out from the hunker-down-in-a-toy-factory rank-and-file, there might not be a better place to work. Bonus points for finding a village that looks more like a busted boom town than a vibrant community of judgy looky-loos.

There was something off about this little rural furniture outlet from the moment Hanna (Ashley Benson) and Aria (Lucy Hale) walked down the wayward pine path toward the village. And it all starts with the possible lost Ravenswoodcast member Eliza.

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Is Eliza a Ghost?

We'll never know since we are without Ashley Marin: Drunk Medium (Laura Leighton), or Caleb Rivers (Tyler Blackburn), a man who might try to imprint on any vulnerable ghost given his history with supernatural females. But Pretty Little Liars is often about what you don't see and what they don't say. Eliza -- the bonnet-wearing girl who looks like she might've strayed from a little house on a prairie -- haunted some mysterious woods, never actually interacted with anyone but the Liars, and conveniently disappeared into the ether when John Amish made his way into the furniture showroom to tell those Rosewood jezebels to head on out. It makes you wonder if there's still a little bit Ravenswood DNA in this show.

I'm just saying, it's not the craziest thing this show would've done. A little spirit who looks like 1640s Alison showing off a secret cache of dolls isn't any weirder than a psychic making her way to the DiLaurentis backyard to pull a living girl out of a shallow grave. (Lest we forget that that's still part of the show's mythology.)

And couldn't you just see Eliza telling the Liars that she loves her Alison doll the most because "she's just like me"? Are we looking at the first casualty of a family tree, where DiLaurentis men beget beguiling and manipulative women who die young by the hands of obsessive suitors? OK, probably not.

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Ghost or not, Eliza found a way to convey the most information about CeCe Drake (Vanessa Ray) and Elliott Rollins (Huw Collins), mostly that they were there and that they made with the kissy-kissy. I feel like there are more romantic places to vacation than under the watchful eyes of a strict religious sect, but who am I to say what is romantic to someone that thought needlessly torturing girls was a jolly good time?

The implications, though, are important. Elliott has mentioned that he loved Charlotte more than anyone, but now we are disabused of the vagaries that that is a familial love. Though I suppose their romance wouldn't necessarily mean they aren't also family. Jason and CeCe did date, proving there really aren't any more boundaries left for this show as long as it's on basic cable.

Elliott and Charlotte were not only smooching partners, but frequent enough visitors to the area that she entrusted Eliza with her beloved doll replicas (she must've had so many, given her proclivity to burning, stabbing, and decapitating them). We already know that Elliott isn't who he says he is, given the moving violation in 1958 that Toby found (unless Elliott is a vampire -- OH MAN, IS HE A VAMPIRE?!). So, depending on how long ago Charlotte starting visiting and how old Eliza is (unless she's timeless), it could implicate Elliott into Charlotte's employ during her A years.

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Or it could have been during her recovery, and her surrendering the dolls to Eliza might have been a final act in letting go of her A-ness (heh, a-ness). That wouldn't really account for Elliott's capacity for and escalation of violence, but all possibilities, right? One would assume that whoever Uber A is, Elliott was probably an underling, given his particular willingness to stab a woman he married in the neck and pump her with enough speed to get a trucker from Bismarck to Tulsa. I figure most of that is pretty flat and sleepy. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Why Is There a Cattle Prod?

This season seems dedicated to unraveling Hanna. Three episodes in, she's been kidnapped, tortured, called out for kissing Spencer's boyfriend, and now, probably reeling from doing to Rollins what Mona almost did to her. It's no surprise that Pretty Little Liars would want to find any opportunity to remind us of when Hanna was trapped in a shed and tormented in her underpants (which is conveniently part of her PTSD-fueled character development). But it is a surprise to see the specific implement of her pain hanging from a nearby fence.

It's a surprise because this is supposed to be Amish country, and cattle prods, with their electricity and efficiency, seem to be the exact devil's work these simple furniture folk wouldn't have the time of day for (especially since they're carpenters and not cattle ranchers). Unlike their heretic Mennonite cousins, the Amish don't have a place for that kind of thing within the purview of their labors. Lousy, clean-shaven, technology-cheating Mennonites.

So, this feels like a plant. No A has been above seeding the world around the Liars with subtle reminders of the tormentor's complete dominion in order to scare these victims into submission. At the very least, this seems like a way for Uber A to make sure the Liars know who's the boss. (Sorry, I just spoiled it for you. Tony Danza is A. So is Judith Light. They teamed up. And argued about it the whole time. It was adorable.)

There's also room to consider that this might have been where Hanna was kept. The pre-fab look of the metal shed leads me to believe that it wasn't exactly one of the barns raised by our bearded friends, but that doesn't mean she wasn't held in the area. Pretty Little Liars isn't afraid to elide distance and time, so who knows how long it took for Mary Drake to drive Hanna home from her kidnapping?

Hanna didn't seem to pick up any other memories from the area, just of the cattle prod, so the idea that she's returned to her most recent disturbing victimization might be a stretch. At the very least, it seems that Uber A, A.D., or A-moji (my favorite) is still stalking them physically as well as telephonically. And, from the looks of what happened this week with Rollins (or whatever his real name is), it doesn't appear the Liars are going to run out of material with which to take them to task. Blasting through a dude with your car and then getting rid of the body in the creepiest area you can find is, like, classic blackmail material. Is Kevin Williamson A?

Did you notice anything else super creepy about Amish country?