Season 5[]
EscApe From New York[]
Afraid of being seen in the public eye, Alison watches Ezra being loaded into an ambulance from a balcony above. With height giving her an advantage, Alison notices 'A' lying flat on the top of the ambulance as it drives away. Alison leads ‘A’ out of the hospital and on the streets of New York, eventually running into a playground and hiding behind some equipment. It isn’t long before the four girls are surrounded by multiple people claiming they are A. As the police drive past and break the flash mob up, Alison tells the other girls A was one step ahead of them. Eventually, she meets up with CeCe and Noel. She gives CeCe her passport and her plane ticket. In the dressing room of the Fitzgerald Theatre, Alison tells Emily that Ezra was paying CeCe for information and that’s why CeCe was in Ravenswood. Alison goes on to say CeCe was never really Red Coat, Alison had just asked her to wear it, hoping that she’d distract A long enough so Alison could turn off the saw. As the girls run out onto the stage, the lights in the Theater go out and Shana walks onto the stage with a gun. Shana tells them they she thought she had them all locked in the lodge, but Alison was late to the party. Alison doesn’t understand why she would turn on her. Shana tells Alison and the girls that what she is doing is justice, and when Spencer asks for who, Alison realizes who, “for Jenna. You fell in love with her”. Alison tells her that Jenna doesn’t love her, “she’s playing you. That’s what she does”. After Aria knocks Shana of the stage, killing her, Hanna embraces an upset Alison.
Whirly Girlie[]
Arriving back in Rosewood, Alison hesitates as she gets off the bus, but Emily manages to convince her to take the final few steps. Entering the Police Department, Alison and the other girls are greeted by Gabriel Holbrook and she tells him that she didn’t disappear, she was kidnapped and held hostage for two years. She goes on t say that she escaped her captor in Ravenswood and the girls hid her in the woods, in a shed that they all used to hang out in. Before Holbrook can press any further questions, Mr. DiLaurentis arrives, reuniting Alison with her father. At home, she gets a text message, "the truth will bury you in a New York minute." Kenneth tells her she can sleep downstairs if she prefers, but Alison tells him she’s been dreaming of sleeping in her own bed again. As he’s leaving her room, Kenneth tells Alison that he and her mother are getting a divorce, something she already knows, “I know. Emily told me”. Later, Alison sneaks at the Mausoleum saying goodbye to the girl who was buried in her grave, when Mona comes up behind her. Alison tells Mona that she can't be the person in hiding anymore and offer her hand in friendship. Mona then tells Alison that she was the one who sent the text message and threatens to make her life horrible. As Jessica's body is lifted from the shallow grave and zipped into a body bag, a hooded Alison silently weeps by herself.
Surfing the Aftershocks[]
Alison is lying numbly on her bed in the days following the discovery of Jessica’s body. She ignores everything and everyone around her until the day of the funeral. At funeral home, Alison relates a story to Hanna on how Jessica would drag her along to all her relatives' funerals. She tells Aria about Mona's threat and fears the outcome if she returns to Rosewood High. She reads Ezra's manuscript and she asks Ezra if he left and he confirms it. She also thanks him for helping her and girls in New York. Having left Ezra’s apartment, Alison is walking down the street. Peter Hastings notices her walking alone and calls out to her and offers her a ride home.
Thrown From The Ride[]
Kenneth drops by Ali’s bedroom and tells her the police need her to go in for a medical exam, and they can’t keep putting it off. Alison calls Hanna, who is the only one of her friends to answer, and tells her that she’s going in for a medical exam tomorrow and she doesn’t want to go alone, “can you please come with me?” Hanna agrees to go with her and asks what time she should pick Alison up. Alison is having her medical exam, where the doctor tells her she has quite powerful lungs, before asking her to tilt her head so he can take a lot at the place where she was injured. The doctor tells Alison he’d like her to come in for an x-ray as the scar tissue on her head may have trapped particles from whatever caused the wound. The doctor notices a scar on her thigh. She claims it happened when she escaped though the doctor does not quite believe her. She gives the girls a tape recorder of statements the girls had to memorize for when the police start asking more questions. When her and Spencer talk, Alison tells her that somebody messed with Jessica’s pills. Jessica has low blood pressure and the pills in her system were the wrong ones and they stopped her heart.
Miss Me x 100[]
Alison is giving herself a little pep talk as she’s getting ready for her first day back at Rosewood High, "you've been through a lot worse. You can do this". At school, she walks in with the girls with her head held against any odds. After school, she is at Emily's house where she confesses to Emily that not all of her kisses to her were just practice leaving Emily confused. At the church, Mona confronts her with the New York incident and tells her to leave again. Alison is not deterred claiming if Mona had proof, she would've done something by now. So goes on to tell her she's afraid because it long until her army is won over. “I made you Loser Mona once, and you know I can do it again”. Angry and upset, Mona slaps Alison. Recovering from Mona's hit, Alison slaps her back, cutting her face and demands Mona to leave her alone before she turns and walks from the Church. She tells the Liars what happened leaving out much of the argument. The next day, Mona shows people a fabricated video of Alison hitting her intentionally. She pleads with the other girls that Mona has found a lot of ways to make them believe things were real when they're not. Emily tells Alison that maybe Mona deserved the slap, but Alison went out of her way to lie to them, again. After discovering who died in her place, she and the girls get a new message from "A" after Toby's house explodes.
Run, Ali, Run[]
The Liars' cell phones are beeping and ringing with an incoming text message, and Alison says that it is from A, and when Ezra asks what it says, Aria reads it out loud, "Did you miss me, bitches. -A". A second explosion inside the Cavanaugh house occurs leaving Alison and the others ducking for cover. In Emily's bedroom, Alison wonders if the text message they received means they were wrong about Shana, and Aria comments that 'A' is alive and knows that she killed Shana. In the school cafeteria, Alison, Hanna and Emily meet up with Spencer and Aria, and seeing Emily looking uneasy, Aria asks if she's okay, only for Alison to say that Emily practically jumped out of her skin when somebody dropped their lunch tray. Getting a text message, Alison is shocked, and shows the girls the snapchat video she received of Jessica being buried in the Hastings backyard, along with a message - "I buried your mom the same way I watched her bury you. -A", before the content automatically deletes after a few short seconds. Alison begins to consider running away again. Later, she is attacked in her home by "A" but manages to be rescued by Emily. In Emily's bedroom, she gets a text from "A" informing her that she's not safe where ever she goes.
The Silence of E. Lamb[]
She invited to a dinner with Emily and her mom and forces herself to go. When she talks to Caleb, he is not easily won over by he because of her past, comparing her to a tornado. She tells Hanna that boys like Caleb can be trouble even when they don't mean to be. At the dining table, Pam mentions a deal on the replacement windows, and explains to Alison that is the second set of windows they have brought this year, so they received a bad luck discount. Alison says that she could use one of those, and Emily says they all could. When Hanna says she thinks people make their own luck, Alison tells her that maybe she’s right, “maybe we do set ourselves up for bad things”. She said that she's ashamed of what happened to her, but Pam tell her not to be. She has some very special friends, and Alison states her she knows, before reaching out for Emily’s hand. When Hanna tells Alison that she’s the special one, and there’s nobody else like her, Alison just looks at her, not saying a word. Standing up from the table, Alison looks from Emily to Hanna, before grabbing Emily’s plate and walking from the dining room. Later, Alison is seen on Spencer’s security camera footage in the Hastings’ backyard, but it is unclear as to where she was going, or what she was doing.
Scream For Me[]
At Rosewood High, Alison is being interviewed by Linda Tanner where she asks Alison to clarify that she hadn’t spoken to Shana since before her abduction, and Alison tells her that she hadn’t spoken to anyone and did she ever try to contact her. She denies trying to contact her. Meanwhile, she asks to stay with Hanna while her dad is away to which the latter agrees. She claims that some was watching her last night. Later, someone tries to break into Hanna's house and the police are called. Ashley stand up for her when it seems that Tanner is treating her like a criminal. As she is packing, she confesses to Emily and Spencer that the perpetrator as Noel Kahn in order to get Hanna's mom to stop questioning her about what happened to her. When Spencer asks why she would do that, Alison poses, “well it worked, didn’t it?”
March of Crimes[]
Alison is putting some clothes away in Hanna’s wardrobe when Emily asks her why Noel would help her break into the Marin house, before Spencer asks how he would have explained himself if he was caught. Turning around, Alison tells Spencer’s she “a little loud”, to which Spencer comments that Alison is a little crazy. When she tries to talk to Hanna about last night, Hanna claims she doesn't need Alison's help and that her stupid stunts affect a lot of people. When talking to Jenna, she asks how did turn Shana against her. Jenna tells her that Alison did it herself. Later, Ashley takes Alison to the police station where the cops claim to have her kidnapper and need Alison to identify him. Walking into an observation room, Alison watches as Lieutenant Tanner questions the man they have in custody. As Alison and Ashley listen to the man confess to kidnapping Alison.
A Dark Ali[]
In an office at the Rosewood Police Department, Alison is looking at Cyrus Petrillo’s mug shot when Kenneth walks in. As Kenneth asks Alison if that’s the man who hurt her, Alison says that she doesn’t know. Kenneth asks Alison if that’s him, if that’s the man who hurt her, and turning to face her father, Alison tells him she doesn’t know. However, the girls realize that the man is hired by Alison to be a pawn so they could follow him to "A." She knows Cyrus as she was a former lover of hers while she was on the run. He gave her the scar on her thigh. She finds him stealing her bag and she attacks him, but he pulls out a knife and stabs her. When Tanner takes her and Kenneth to a basement where she breaks down when she recalls her attack. After Cyrus leaves the station, Alison meets up with him as Vivian Darkbloom. Reaching into her jacket pocket, she give him a plane ticket telling him that this is his one chance to start over. Cyrus turns back to her and questions the way she’s used her chance. Alison watches as he gets into his car and drives away.
Taking This One to the Grave[]
In an interrogation room at the Rosewood Police Department, Alison is getting hooked up to a polygraph test. The man conducting the test tells her that he’s going to ask her a series of questions that they know are true, then he’ll ask her questions that they don’t know. The interviewer asks Alison who else was in the barn that night, and Alison says, “Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, and Emily Fields”. When asked if they were all still asleep when Alison left the barn, Alison answers, “yes”. The then conductor asks where Alison last saw Spencer Hastings. When Spencer's loyalty to her is brought up, the interviewer asks what would Spencer be willing to do to prove loyalty, hinting at Bethany Young's murder. Emily and her talk and she eventually discovers the girls belief that she is "A." Betrayed she leaves Emily's house and gets into a Volkswagen Beetle with Cindy and Mindy and drives off. Later, she watches the cops at Mona's house when they announce Mona was murdered. With a coy smile, Alison turns and leaves the scene.
How the 'A' Stole Christmas[]
At the Masquerade Ice Ball, she uses Cindy and Mindy to throw the Liars off while she meets with CeCe. During this time, she is visited by the ghosts of her mother and Mona where they show her how she came to the person she was. Mona, as a ghost, eventually shows up and shows her a past where she, as child, first learns how to lie. Little Alison finds two yellow dresses and Jessica helps rehearse a lie to tell her father out of fear that he would leave them. Mona comments that that’s when the monster was born. When Mona returns, the ghost tells her that ignoring her won't make her go away but make her mad. She then shows Alison a funeral where she herself is the one in the casket and no one is there to mourn her. Jessica. as The Black Widow tell her that they would be coming for her soon. As spirits start to fly around the Church, Alison asks if she’s going to hell. Jessica turns back with a tear running down her face, and backing away, Alison runs towards the Church doors, unable to get out, “No! Please! Let me out! Mona!” Alison is now in her room where Mona tells her it's Christmas and promises that she doesn’t want to miss it. As Mona disappears, Alison looks around her bedroom. That night, Alison watches The Liars, Paige, Ezra, and Toby enjoy Christmas dinner. Disillusioned, Alison turns and starts to walk away.
Through a Glass, Darkly[]
Outside of the Rosewood Church, Alison walks up to Leona Vanderwaal, who is watching Mona’s coffin in the back of a hearse. Alison tells Leona that she came to pay her respects, but Leona slaps her and screams at her asking her where Mona's body is, before Hanna walks up to Leona and guides her away. Holding her cheek, Alison looks around the stunned crowd. Everyone including Jason begins to suspect that she killed Mona. When Jason questions her on her whereabouts Thanksgiving Day, Alison claims that she's being framed. While walking down the street, she exchanges words with Carla Grunwald who tells Alison that she's in her prayers before leaving. Alison hurries into the DiLaurentis living room with a bag on her back. As police lights and sirens start to flash. Attempting to run, Alison is shoved backwards by the Liars. She claims "A" set her up so that she couldn't protect them, claiming that they will be next. Lt. Tanner shows and has her arrested. Her final words to the girls are “don’t say I didn’t warn you”. In a women’s correctional center, Alison lies awake, tossing and turning.
Fresh Meat[]
Alison, having been transferred to Chester County Women’s Correctional Facility, is led to a holding bench and chained in place. Looking up when Toby stops by her, Alison tells him that they, as in the girls, need to see her. They can’t keep ignoring me”. Toby is unsympathetic and as he leaves, Alison questions if he’s forgotten what it feels like to “be in a cage for something you didn’t do”. Alison asks if he remembers how that felt, and Toby tells her he does, but he also remembers whose words put him in that cage. In her cell, Alison is visited by Hanna. Alison mentions that she could have thrown all the girls under the bus, “but I didn’t. I kept her mouth shut”. Just as Hanna leaves, she reveals that she was meeting Cyrus that day only discover that "A" set her up when Mona went missing and she had no alibi. Later, Alison gets up when she is delivered a new jumpsuit. Taking the jumpsuit, Alison waits until the inmate moves on, before pulling out a note from the top pocket, “Your friends will see you soon”.
Bloody Hell[]
Being led into a visitation room, Alison stares in at Emily, Spencer and Aria through a glass window. Alison listens as Emily says that Mike was scared to say anything as he still thought Mona was alive and didn’t want to put her in danger. She is told of Mona's plan to catch and that it backfired. A guard enters the room, telling them all that their visiting time is over. When Aria walks back over to her, Alison tells Aria that she’s going to have to tell her lawyers about Mike, and Aria pleads with her not to do that. When Alison comments that Mike’s testimony may be the only thing to save her, Aria asks if she can hold off, and wait to see if she can find Cyrus as he may be able to lead her to ‘A’. Alison is led in to the visitation room, and on seeing Veronica, Alison asks what she is doing here. Veronica says that she wants to know why her daughter and her friends are visiting Alison all of a sudden. Alison says that that’s why she wants to take the stand, “I want to tell my side of the story”, but her lawyers won’t let her. Veronica comments she could say the wrong thing and wind up incriminating herself. As Alison says that she can’t just sit here quietly while someone gets up there and makes her look like a murderer, Veronica reminds her that she’s told so many lies, people know that now. Alison asks her to be her coach for the trial. Pushing a clothes bin into the laundry room, Alison notices the words ‘told everything’ under where she’d previously written ‘Mona’ in the dust on the table. In her cell, Alison finds a soda can, and taking off the lid, she finds a small blonde doll and a note, “You’re already over a barrel, wanna be in one, too? –A”. When Hanna comes to visit her, Alison expresses regret over how she treated the girls. When when they stopped listening to her, she found new people who would. Alison adds that being in jail, “no one listens to me”. She never realized how bad that felt to be on the other side of that, Alison fights back tears, “so I’m sorry”.
To Plea or Not to Plea[]
Sitting in the visitation room, Alison listens as Rebecca, her lawyer, explains that Veronica Hastings reviewed Alison’s case and she agrees that it’s not a good idea for Alison to take the stand. Alison questions how not telling the truth is a good idea, and when Rebecca tells her that she doesn’t have anyone to back up her story, Alison says that Cyrus Petrillo asked her to meet him at the time of the murder, “he set me up”. Rebecca points out that Alison also told the police that Cyrus kidnapped her, and if she admits that lie, no jury will believe anything else she says. Alison comments that there’s someone else who could testify to her being set up. She also learns that Hanna is suspected as being her accomplice. Walking through Chester Country Women’s Correctional, Alison finds her cell ransacked. Pulling her overturn mattress down from the wall, Alison finds a message scribed on the wall, “TAKE THE PLEA”. In the laundry room, Alison is ironing a jumpsuit and is attacked by an unknown person. At the phones, Alison calls Rebecca. Alison wonders that if she agrees to what Rebecca mentioned earlier, could she promise that the D.A will move her somewhere safer than this. When Veronica visits her, she encourages her to continue her fight for if she takes the plea, Hanna is behind bars for something she didn't do. When Rebecca present her the plea deal, Alison decides to not take it. Later, she sees Hanna walk in a jumpsuit being led to her cell.
The Melody Lingers On[]
In a visitation room, Alison watches Rebecca point out where they and the prosecution will be sitting when the trial begins. As Rebecca tells Alison to not be afraid to look at the jury, they don’t want them to think Alison has anything to hide, Kenneth says he doesn’t like the idea of twelve strangers off the street deciding what happens to his daughter, to which Rebecca tells him that it’s the American way. She calls Emily to see if she will be at the trial which the latter says yes. In the courtroom, the prosecutor, Douglas Sirk, goes through his opening statement, asking the jury to remember high school and how people like Alison make that experience a fight for survival. Sirk says her tale of escape is a lie and that Mona Vanderwaal knew the truth which led to her death. In the laundry room, Alison pushes a trolley of jumpsuits over to the dryers and receives now dries ones from inside. Hanna walks in, the two girls lock eyes. She tells her of how Mona was sending her mock tributes that stopped when Mona was killed. Later, Alison sits across from Jason in a visitation room. Jason comments that they’re quite the pair, Alison mentions that lying is a one way street, “it’s kind of like those signs in parking lots, ‘backing up causes severe tire damage’”. Jason wonders what Alison’s lawyer thinks, and Alison tells him that Rebecca remains confident. When Jason asks if there’s anything he can do, Alison tells him that he had the right idea a long time ago, “get out”. Alison tells Jason to just leave and do it now, and after a short pause, Jason mentions that he believes her. Jason adds that he’s believed her since that night at the house when she tried to get away, he saw it in her face, she didn’t kill anyone. Alison then admits that while she didn’t kill anyone, she did let a lot of things happen that she shouldn’t of.
I'm a Good Girl, I Am[]
After court, Emily, Spencer, and Aria have a conference call with Alison and Hanna. Hanna is on one phone while Alison is on another. The girls fill Alison in about Leslie. Aria thinks that Leslie may be another one of A’s traps, but Hanna believes that Leslie cared about Mona. The girls tell Alison about the cryptic note they found in Mona’s room. The girls are worried as they are running out of time and have no clue on how to proceed as Alison has no alibi. Alison states that according to her lawyer, going after a possible witness is a waste of time. She tells the girls that while she was waiting for Cyrus on the playground, she heard someone there and saw their jacket. She thought it was ‘A’ and panicked and ran away. Hanna and Alison’s calls get cut off as their time is up. Meanwhile, Alison and Hanna are in the laundry room. She and Alison try to talk about Kendra but the guards won’t give them a second alone. So, Hanna slams her hand in the dryer and Alison burns herself with an iron so that they can go to the infirmary together. Rebecca visits Alison in the infirmary. Alison tells her that what happened to her was an accident. Hanna comes out of the infirmary. Alison passes Hanna a note and Rebecca sees this. She lectures them they are on trial for murder, not in homeroom detention. In court, the prosecution unravels any defense the defense has making it impossible to not convict Alison. After deliberation, the jury returns and pronounces Alison guilty of murder in the first degree. Alison is handcuffed and taken into custody.
Welcome to the Dollhouse[]
Chained, Alison is led into the visitation room where Peter and Veronica Hastings wait for her. When she learns that the Liars have been kidnapped, she finally reveals to them that it was "A." She explains to them that Mona started the game again at Radley but someone else took control of the game from Mona and mostly likely killed her mother and Mona. Peter asks why didn't they go to the police and says that "A" erases or leaves no proof for anyone to use against them. She swear that she's telling the truth this time. Alison listens as Peter questions why she’s being honest now, before telling him that she’s going to spend the rest of her life in jail, “I don’t have anything else to lose. But you do”.