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The DArkest Knight is the tenth episode of Season 7 of Pretty Little Liars. This episode is the summer finale and aired on August 30, 2016. It also is the last episode airing this year, until the series returned in April 2017 to air the midseason premiere, Playtime.[1]

Synopsis[]

The Liars face off with their enemies in a chaotic fight that ends fatally. One of the PLLs learns a secret about her past that changes everything while another Liar discovers something about her future that could alter her course forever.

Plot[]

Spencer, Alison, Aria, Emily, Mona and Caleb discuss what to do about Hanna going missing, they believe Noel may have kidnapped Hanna. Caleb tries to call her phone one last time before they do anything, however she does not pick up. Spencer picks up the phone and alerts the police that she thinks Hanna has been abducted. Meanwhile Hanna is in an undiscoled location, but she is the one who has abducted Noel to get the truth out of him, she has him tied up with tape on his mouth. She cuts his leg while he's unconscious to get a blood smaple from him. At Spencer's house, the police are in her house, forensics are going through the house while Spencer and Detective Furey talk, he assures her he will find Hanna and she accidentally kisses him on the cheek, she apologises. He tells her not to do it again in the company of others. The girls turn up the TV and see the news alert about Hanna missing. Hanna hands over money and a blood sample to a doctor in a lab center and walks out.

At The Radley, Mona is listening into Jenna's phone, she informs Caleb that Jenna has left three voicemails for Noel and doesn't know where he is. Caleb questions if Noel double-crossed Jenna, or if Hanna got to him first. Aria and Ezra have a video call, she checks in with him and he asks her to be home when gets there. Hanna listens to the radio while at her location, she picks up the phone and calls Mona for help. Mona comes down and helps her, she finds the USB drive on Noel. She has to inform Hanna that there is fooatge on the USB that proves that Noel was working with Charlotte and actively helping her during their time in the dollhouse, however Hanna refuses to settle for putting him in jail for just the dollhouse, she wants revenge for being tortured while being held captive too. Mona trains Hanna on what to say to her friends and the police. The police and her friends believe it, Caleb turns up and sees Hanna. In the undisclosed location, Noel finally wakes up and is mad he's tied up.

Mona threatens Jenna into leaving Rosewood by saying that Noel will end up in police custody and she should leave unless she wants the girls to rope her into it. Back at Lucas's apartment, Caleb takes Hanna back and tells her he doesn't believe that she's okay and won't leave her alone because last time he did, A.D. took her. She requests that she herself wants to be left alone. Caleb still refuses and rants about things she does that annoy him while sneaking in that she also refuses to admit that they're meant to spend the rest of their lives together, they kiss. Back at Alison's house, Emily rants but Alison breaks it by telling her that she took a pregnancy test and it came out positive. Alison tells Emily that she pictured having her Mom there for her when she got pregnant the first time. Emily lets her know that she is there for whatever she decides to do. At Spencer's house, Marco knocks on her door to have dinner with her, she accpets, and questions if he got a specific order for Spencer from Toby, he implies he did.

In Lucas's apartment, Hanna and Caleb make out, which leads to sex. Alison and Emily kiss while in Ezra's apartment, Aria frantically tries to find out where Ezra is but can't because she's not his family or his wife, however she turns up the TV to find out that Nicole was found alive as she sees Ezra and Nicole hug on TV. Spencer and Toby talk before he leaves Rosewood, Spencer requests they have a goodbye kiss, she walks up and kisses him before quickly leaving. Outside Alison's house, Paige requests to see Emily to hand her a package, but won't get let in. Emily comes outside as she overhears and accepts the package. Paige asks Emily if she slept over at Alison, which she confirms. SHe informs her that Alison is having a rough time, Paige tells her that all the girls are having a rough time. They then get into an argument after Emily denies to go for breakfast with her. Paige believes that Alison is controlling her and Emily is still Alison's puppet, Emily tries to explain that Alison is going through something, being her pregnancy, but Paige refuses to hear it and just believes that Alison saw them getting close and wanted to interrupt it. Emily tries to explain again but Paige tells Emily to call when she decides to cut the strings from Alison.

Hanna recieves the DNA test results back from the lab, she informs the girls that Noel is not Mary's second child but she does have Noel tied up to a chair in a room and she needs to still deal with him. The girls realise that just because he's not Mary's child does not mean he is not A.D. The girls plan to disctract the police while they go to Noel's location. When they get there Noel has escaped and took the camera. The girls panic that now Noel can prove that Hanna kidnapped him and tied him up. The girls get sent a text from a blocked ID, it's an address and time to meet, offering the camera fooatge back for the USB stick that was taken. Mona and Caleb are in The Radley when they are delivered two drinks, Sydney walks up to them and says that they are complimentary drinks from Jenna Marshall, leaving them confused. Yvonne and Toby talk before they leave, as Yvonne goes inside, Toby begins to text Spencer something but deletes it before sending.

The girls arrive at the location from the text, they look around and figure out that it used to be a blind school, Alison says she visited Jenna at a blind school in Philadelphia but it wasn't this place. They realise that Jenna may have attended when she first lost her sight, Jenna speaks over a speaker telling them she didn't lose her sight, they took it from her. Jenna and the girls make a deal to leave the USB on the table and then go upstairs to get the camera. As they go upstairs, they look back and the USB has disappeared. They go upstairs and find the footage. They look around the place as they make their way out. Emily realises that she left her phone upstairs, Hanna and Emily make their way back up but they soon realise that Noel and Jenna never planned on them leaving, they planned on killing them all once they got the USB back. Noel tries to find Hanna and Emily, while downstairs, Jenna has gun and tries to find the rest of the girls. The girls realise the true danger in the situation as they try to be as quiet as possible around her as well as find Hanna and Emily. Hanna and Emily manage to escape Noel. The girls come back to the same spot they left and realise they can't get upstairs without going upstairs.

Jenna finds them by voice and turns out the lights so that they see what she sees. Hanan and Emily fight back against Noel, Hanna pushes him back and his axe falls, she pushes him again and he ends up falling on his own axe, decapitating him. His head falls down the stairs and the girls rush to Hanna and Emily. They clump together and Jenna points her gun at them, unaware if she's actually pointing her gun at them. Spencer physically instructs them to go first and find the way out. She is the last one to leave and two guns go off as the girls head downstairs. They realise Spencer is not with them and go back up to find her, they find her bleeding out on the floor while Mary Drake cowers over her, as they panic, Mary tells Spencer to stay with her and reveals that she is her birth mother. The others look up at Mary, shocked. Outside, an ambulance makes its way to the girls location and we see that Yvonne and Toby got into a car crash on the road, they are both unconscious and bleeding. Jenna is dragged into the back of a car by someone unknown and questions who they are, they take off their mask and she feels the shape of it and states "You're A.D.", A black clothed person is seen driving the car.

Spoilers/Notes[]

  • This episode marks Sydney's first appearance since "How the 'A' Stole Christmas".
  • Along with calling this season "The deadliest season on PLL", on June 30th, Marlene King tweeted that "710 kills it. Literally". Thus, suggesting that somebody will die in this episode. It was confirmed on the official press release that the final death of 7A will take take place in this episode.[2]
  • On July 15th, Marlene King tweeted a Spoby line: "would it be okay if I kissed you?"[3]
  • In a facebook live broadcast on August 29, 2016, it was officially announced that Season 7 is the last of the series.[4] [5]
  • The table read for this episode occurred on June 22nd, 2016.[6]
  • Filming for this episode began on June 23rd, 2016[7] and wrapped on July 1st, 2016.

Title and Background[]

  • The title was revealed by I. Marlene King on Twitter, answering a question of a fan.[8]
  • The title is a pun on the nickname of DC Comics vigilante Batman, The Dark Knight, with the A appropriately capitalized.

Main Cast[]

Supporting Cast[]

Trivia[]

  • Nicole Gordon was found alive in Colombia and reunited with Ezra.
  • Hanna and Caleb got back together.
  • Noel Kahn died by getting accidentally decapitated by an axe.
  • Spencer was revealed to be Mary's second child and was subsequently shot; with her fate being left unknown.
  • Jenna Marshall got abducted by AD.
  • Alison DiLaurentis is revealed to be pregnant with the baby possibly being Archer Dunhill's child.
  • Toby and Yvonne are discovered unconscious and bloody in a car crash.

Featured Music[]

  • "Waving Wild" by ARUM RAE- (Jenna makes a worried phone call to Noel about Hanna's kidnapping from The Radley lounge, which Mona eavesdrops into from her computer when Caleb joins her in the surveillance). 
  • "Paradise" by Clementine & the Galaxy- (Jenna puts on her signature red lips stick in The Radley elevator when Mona joins her).
  • "In the Light" by The Lumineers-(Aria makes dinner for Ezra's arrive then calls him)
  • "In Too Deep" by The Sweeplings-(Hanna and Caleb make love; Emily and Alison watch a movie when Emily notices Alison crying, she comforts her when Alison kisses her; Aria tries to get information Ezra's flight when she sees Nicole's rescue on the news).

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