[Harris] Cadence was entirely out of line today.
She was just trying to impress Gat.
Maybe you've been too distracted
to notice them getting all cozy this summer, Pen.
[pensive music]
[seagulls calling]
My mom made me go to Clairmont this morning
dressed all respectably.
Mom says she needs to get back on his good side.
[Penny] Bess saw you two on the beach.
[Cadence] Wow, OK.
Well, she's one to talk about discretion.
[Penny] Your daughter saw you with Salty Dan.
Cady fucking told.
You think you're gonna go off to art school
when we are tens of millions of dollars in debt?
[shouting]
[Mirren sobbing] No!
[Carrie] If you want to help, you can prove to Harris
that you can be an asset to the family.
He's the one keeping the roof over our heads right now.
I came back here because I needed to know
why you didn't care about me.
You know how I feel.
I don't! I don't remember.
I love you.
I love you too.
[dramatic music]
[gasping]
♪ ♪
[waves lapping]
[pensive music]
[Cadence] Tell me a story.
[Gat] You're the writer.
[Cadence] I want to hear what you come up with.
[chuckles] OK.
♪ ♪
Once upon a time, there was an island kingdom,
a mythical land...
[birds chirping]
...where it was always summer.
Mm, that's the one.
One day, a boy arrived from a realm of noise and color
and buildings that scraped the sky.
[waves lapping]
In his world, he was a knight.
But on the island, he learned for the first time
that he was a mouse.
[Tipper] We brought Ed's nephew, Gat.
[Ed] The poor kid stowed away behind the captain's chair
the whole time.
- [speaking indistinctly] - [door creaking]
[Gat] And he felt very small indeed,
until he met a princess.
Are you real?
I think so.
[Cadence] You're it!
[laughter]
[soft music]
♪ ♪
[Gat] And along with the princess
came more royalty.
And soon, the mouse called them friends.
♪ ♪
[all] Liars forever!
[Gat] The mouse thought the princess was perfect.
He wanted to follow her everywhere.
[bell jingling]
But she was royalty.
The mouse didn't belong in her palace.
The annual Sinclair family lemon hunt
will commence momentarily.
- [Harris] OK. - [Tipper] Come on!
Oh, you were gonna tell him about the dress code.
I know. I'm sorry.
I completely forgot.
[Tipper] All right, all right.
There are 200 lemons and one lime
hidden across the island.
The hunt begins at the bell.
And do you want to hear about the prizes?
[children] Yeah!
OK.
For the lemons, a gift certificate
to the Edgartown Bookstore.
And for the lime, it's a top-secret surprise.
[whispering] It's fudge.
It's always fudge.
Now, there are none that will endanger you to retrieve.
All right?
None on rooftops, none in brambles.
And no child may go swimming alone,
or your prize will be forfeited.
But the losers are fed to the sharks.
[laughter]
Yeah, no failures allowed on Beechwood.
[laughter]
[♪ Jordan Frye: "Feel It All"]
♪ The wild wind upon my skin ♪
[Gat] The mouse grew to love the princess fiercely.
♪ Running through the field together ♪
[splashing]
♪ The future at our fingertips ♪
[Gat] But the princess's family wouldn't stand for it.
"He's only a mouse," the king said in disdain.
Watch yourself, young man.
♪ ♪
Or you could get hurt.
[Gat] The entire kingdom whispered,
"An animal masquerading as a human...
it's unnatural."
But luckily, Orientals care far more about money
than they do legalities.
[Gat] That's the thing about mythical island palaces.
Even the most important rulers
tend to be afraid of tiny mice.
♪ Underneath... ♪
[Gat] But the mouse could stand anything
if he was with the princess...
♪ Anything is possible ♪
[Cadence giggling]
[Gat] ...and so he stayed...
♪ ♪
♪ We can make it beautiful ♪
♪ This hope ♪
[Cadence] Ah!
[Gat] ...and stayed...
♪ Is frozen ♪
♪ Oh, but the world outside ♪
[Gat] ...and stayed.
♪ Is wide open ♪
♪ I feel my cold heart caving in ♪
♪ I see the daylight breaking through ♪
♪ We'll make it out of the dark ♪
♪ We can follow the stars ♪
He tried to drown out the whispers.
♪ Feel it all with you ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Feel it all with you ♪♪
[Cadence] So Harris found out about us,
and he scared you away,
and that's why you didn't call all year.
No.
No, I was ready to explain it to him,
to tell him I loved you.
But... [sighs]
...he never mentioned it.
For a while, I thought I got it wrong.
[Penny] Cadence Sinclair Eastman!
Oh, shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit.
Oh, God. OK, wait.
Uh, shit, my mom...
she can't see this place like this.
She'd freak out.
- I gotta go. - [Penny] Cadence!
Cady, listen.
[Cadence] I'm coming!
Bye!
[Gat] He stayed so long, the mouse began to forget
he had been a knight once somewhere else.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
You can't keep hanging around Cuddledown.
With Bess and the girls staying with Harris,
it ought to be condemned.
It has, like, one creaky floorboard.
Your granddad wants you at breakfast.
You need to connect with the family,
put on a smile.
I'm not hungry.
I don't care.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
My friend Alice just called.
She was on a charter to Nantucket yesterday
and saw you literally jump off a cliff.
You will have breakfast with your family,
and then you are going to go to your room and think,
because you are grounded.
Oh, so now this whole place
is like a prison or something?
Yeah, correct, with five beaches,
unlimited crab cakes, and an on-call tennis pro.
And I am the warden who won't let her child
indulge a death wish.
What a tyrant.
I should call Dr. Moriarty,
have him put you on some kind of hold.
You are not OK.
Cadence, leaping to your death?
What did Grandad do when he found out about me and Gat?
I made that jump because I was trying to trigger memories.
Oh, my God.
[Cadence] Who knows what I'll have to try next
if you don't just tell me?
Cadence.
[Cadence] I mean, could someone have hit me?
Was I the victim of a crime?
Crime? On Beechwood?
Come on, Cady.
[Cadence] Did Harris freak out?
Did he find me and Gat together
and then push me head-first into the sea, half-dressed?
I mean, what happened the night of my accident, Mom?
Just tell me!
I have told you!
[tense music]
I have told you everything that I know
over and over again, every day in the hospital,
every time you asked!
♪ ♪
And every time, you had an episode,
you got so sick, and then you slept,
and then you woke up, and you asked again!
I am your mother, Cady.
You can't...
you cannot ask me to cause you pain.
You are doing this to yourself, Cady.
It is your own broken brain
that is the enemy you are raging against, not me.
You're lying. [laughs painfully]
I don't believe you.
Just go to your room.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
Making an escape?
[Cadence] You wanna drive?
Still no.
Always no.
All right.
Whoa.
Where are you headed?
I need to get online.
At least Google can't gaslight me.
New Clairmont has Wi-Fi.
New Clairmont has my mother.
You can't look at screens without having a whole episode.
OK.
Then I'll have an episode, Gat,
a level 11 meltdown in front of all of Edgartown.
I will puke and foam at the mouth
and give them even more to gossip about.
Are you coming?
[light pop music]
♪ Let's all go to a different ♪
[Cadence] Gat!
♪ World ♪
♪ You look so good ♪
♪ Come on, let's go ♪
♪ Let's go ♪
♪ Let's all go... ♪
This is my favorite day of the summer.
[chuckles] Yeah, I know,
because of your straight-up scary competitive streak.
You love it.
All right, all right, hold on.
I got you something.
♪ ♪
"Cady, I thought nothing was better than chocolate.
- Silly me." - [chuckles]
[Cadence] "Love, Gat."
[Mirren] Hey, Gat.
Harris wants to talk to you.
He's in his study.
What?
Why?
The silent treatment? Still?
Yeah, if I'm silent,
it's so that you don't go blabbing my business
to the whole fucking universe, Cady.
It's fine.
I'll go talk to Harris.
[knocking on door]
Yeah.
Hello, young man.
Close the door.
What do you think?
I'm not really a gun guy.
[Harris] No, me neither.
I had Senator Carlisle barred from poker night
when he took that NRA money.
Yeah, but this...
this isn't just a gun.
This is history.
Philip Schuyler gave this to Hamilton.
Recently came up at auction.
Listen, Mr. Sinclair, I'm sorry if...
Sit.
[tense music]
So, young man,
what are your intentions?
My what?
In life.
Your value on this planet.
♪ ♪
Mm, I'd like to be a journalist.
- A foreign correspondent... - [Harris] Oh.
...actually.
Is that right?
It's important work.
Grueling.
At times, dangerous.
Not for the faint of heart.
I know that, sir,
but I want to tell the untold stories,
stories that don't make it across oceans.
I want to give people a voice.
Ambitious.
- [knocking on door] - [Carrie] Dad?
[door opens]
Oh, we have a visitor.
Oh, indeed.
Come in.
Hello. It's me.
I'm the visitor.
- [chuckles] - Uh...
Nice sweater, kiddo.
Mom.
Well, don't I get a hug?
- Hi. - [Maya chuckling] Honey.
Hello.
[upbeat music]
[drink pouring]
♪ ♪
God, I really hoped this tradition would die with Mom.
The silent treatment?
Still?
You threatened to expose me.
Oh, Bess.
I mean, technically, you... [clears throat]
...exposed yourself.
Come on, it was friendly fire.
Yeah, friendly now,
because with my husband's implosion
and Carrie nearly letting the two male heirs drown,
you're Dad's favorite again.
Eh. That was short-lived.
Last night, he informed me that I have failed to protect
his precious first grandchild.
Protect her from what?
[indistinct chatter]
[Maya] I'm not complaining. [chuckles]
They dropped me off at the service dock,
so I haven't seen any...
[laughing] Holy fucking shit.
♪ Turn around and enjoy ♪
♪ Enjoy the view ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 'Cause you got the whole ♪
♪ Wide world in front of you... ♪
♪ ♪
It's not always like this, Mom.
It's the...
the...the lemon hunt.
Not a normal Tuesday.
And how often are Tuesdays normal?
[laughs]
Hi. I'm...
[Maya] Cadence!
Oh.
Gosh.
You're a beauty in pictures,
but man, you're a stunner in person.
I'm Maya, his beloved mother,
since he's forgotten his manners.
[laughs] Sorry about crashing the party.
Oh, the more, the merrier.
Come on.
Show me all the different yellow food items
while we gossip about my son.
[laughter]
♪ The whole wide world ♪
♪ In front of you ♪♪
[Gat] So what's the plan?
Google "Sinclair secrets" and hope for the best?
You said you don't know what happened to me
alone in the water that night.
And I don't.
Then nothing that I find out
will change the way I feel about you, Gat.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
Do what you need to do.
I'm here.
Here goes nothing.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[music distorts]
♪ ♪
[whimpers]
[shattering]
[Gat] Hey, hey. Cady, you OK?
- [gasps] - Hey.
[Cadence panting]
I got you. I got you.
I got you.
[sighs]
[people murmuring]
Uh...
people are staring.
[sighs]
Maybe we should save this for later?
We can come back before closing.
And until then?
[upbeat rock music]
♪ You say I've got ♪
[Gat] Thank you.
♪ A reckless streak... ♪
[sighs] Ice cream is always the cure.
Thank you.
♪ ♪
This is kind of like our first real date, no?
Yeah.
And kind of like our millionth.
[chuckling] Yeah.
What if my mom wasn't totally wrong about me losing my mind?
I mean, maybe there's always been
something a little off about my brain.
[laughs]
You just need more time to heal.
That's it.
But I'll be here with you,
as long as it takes.
Mm, the knight mouse will be missed by his family
if he never leaves the princess's side.
My mom is highly adaptable, so we're good.
She visited last summer.
Do you remember any of that?
Kind of.
Mm, the lemon hunt.
Mm, yeah.
I suddenly saw Beechwood and the whole Sinclair thing
through her eyes.
It was a lot.
♪ ♪
[Harris] All right.
Gather round, everyone.
[person] All right. Excited?
[Harris] The time has come.
All right now.
As usual, there are 200 lemons hidden and one lime.
None on rooftops or in brambles.
Mm, those are the old rules.
This time, all's fair.
No rules.
It's like an Easter egg hunt.
Thank you.
- Sounds incredibly... - [Harris] Now...
...wholesome.
[Harris] ...for the prizes.
The one who finds the most lemons
will win the Boston house.
[coughing]
Are you OK?
Sorry, just choked on my edible orchid.
And should you find the lime,
I will name you the sole recipient
of Beechwood upon my death.
- Dad. - No.
[Bess whispering] What? Is he joking?
[Harris] We'll begin on my signal...
[bell jingling]
...and you'll know it when you hear it.
And for now...
[Bess whispering] Is he serious?
...enjoy the food.
You'll need your strength.
[Penny] Dad.
[sighs]
- Come on. - [dog barking]
[Maya] So like an Easter egg hunt.
[Cadence] That's not usually what happens.
[indistinct chatter]
[dog barking]
Cadence. Cadence.
Come here. Excuse me.
- Cadence. - Mom.
It's OK. Come here, come here.
Listen to me. Listen to me.
We are at a disadvantage
because there are only two of us.
Let go of my arm.
Look, we don't need an entire island.
We have Windermere.
Oh, babe, did you know
your grandfather has two brothers?
No.
Because Harris inherited the island,
and he exiled his brothers.
I mean, do you think that when Johnny is 60
and he has his own grandkids filling up the place,
he's going to want to invite you and yours?
Will Mirren?
Mom, that's, like, a million years away.
Yeah, well, time flies.
Come on, you think I haven't noticed
you've been avoiding your cousins?
What, is there tension in Liar Land?
Childhood friendship only lasts so long.
Then you remember that you're a family.
Some part of you must want to see their faces
when you beat them.
Mom, what is Maya doing here?
I don't know.
She always turned down our invitations.
Then today, she texts from the marina
she's here, so I sent a boat.
It's very awkward.
Well, yeah.
You did dump her dead husband's brother.
Listen.
The lemons...
A win for you or me or Will,
it could actually set us free.
It could.
[sighs]
Just try.
OK.
And island for a lime?
[Mirren giggles]
That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
And I hear a lot of shit.
I know.
Psychological warfare.
And I don't wanna play.
Yeah, yeah.
On one hand, I get that.
On the other hand,
you could go to sleep tonight owning all this.
[scoffs] No, not me.
I don't think I've ever won ever.
I'm always out-strategized.
And plus, when I fail today,
it'll just give my mom another reason to hate me.
[sighs]
You know, what your mother did was fucked up.
But in my experience,
everyone's fucked up in one way or another.
And hurt people hurt people.
And if someone doesn't break that cycle of hurt,
then it just goes on forever.
At least, it did in my family.
So, you know, you could...
you could reason with your mother.
Just saying you could.
Or you can say fuck it.
I'll call out of work later.
You come over to the seasonal worker bunks,
use me as a sex object.
Mm.
[chuckling]
Yeah, abandoning the lemon hunt
would definitely be the ultimate act of rebellion.
Before this summer, I never actually wanted to rebel.
I wanted to be the perfect Sinclair,
like my mom,
like Cady.
I try so hard, but...
they seem to only notice when I mess up.
[soft music]
I could kill anyone who made you feel like that, Mirren.
♪ ♪
Yeah, you probably could.
You're really muscly.
[chuckling] OK.
All right, all right.
Look, so here it is.
You talk to your mother,
you run away with the water taxi driver,
or there is a third option.
I fling myself into the sea.
Show your mom she's wrong about you.
You find all the motherfucking citrus on this island.
Can we still do that other thing tomorrow?
Yes.
[gunshots]
[upbeat rock music]
[chuckles]
Yep, that's his new bell.
[sighs] God.
Right. Right.
Well, yeah. Tomorrow's great.
Good. Yeah, great.
Go on.
I'll find these fucking lemons.
- Do it. - I swear to God.
[♪ Feral: "Fuck the Bourgeoisie"]
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ I am always screaming in your room ♪
♪ We know it echoes in the house ♪
♪ But we do not give a shit because ♪
I see one!
♪ Your parents are pretty chill about it ♪
♪ But when I'm eating dinner ♪
♪ With your parents ♪
♪ And they are going on and on ♪
♪ About the Dom Pérignon ♪
♪ Well, I don't know if I can do this because ♪
♪ Fuck the bourgeoisie ♪
Ah! Ah!
Ah.
♪ Marx is my new daddy ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Fuck the bourgeoisie ♪
♪ I mean, I did, I did ♪
♪ I did, I did ♪
♪ I did, I did... ♪
All right, Littles. Listen up.
♪ ♪
What will you even do with a dusty old house, hmm?
But if you give me your lemons,
I'll give you whatever you want.
William.
William, William, William.
That mega sprayer Nerf gun?
Mom says it perpetuates American violence worship.
But I'm not Mom.
I'm your desperate delinquent brother.
Pleasure doing business with you.
Good boy.
Lemons, basket.
Liberty, I know that Bess took away
your limited edition Hailey Bieber peptide lip tint.
I'll get you five.
Throw in a pound of fudge.
Money in the bank. Put it right there.
Thank you.
Lemons, basket.
Bonnie.
Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie.
Let's do this.
What do you need?
I want a sacrificial altar knife for my spells.
♪ I did, I did ♪
OK, deal. Great.
[Bonnie] Let's do this.
♪ I did ♪♪
[gasps] Should we?
Sinclairs are really competitive,
so I usually sit it out.
Have you ever won?
The first year, I found the lime.
Johnny cried, though.
So Harris decided to split the fudge
on account of suspected cheating.
- Oh, Gat. - Oh, whatever.
It's fine.
It's just candy.
Gat, can we acknowledge
how absolutely batshit these people are?
Trading mansions as if they're Monopoly properties?
Mom, they're not always like this.
And they're not all like this.
I swear.
This isn't normal.
When Ed first brought you here, I was in a bad place.
Still figuring out how to exist without your father.
I thought it would be good if you got away from me.
[soft music]
Look, I'll admit,
having you here, away from our sticky, tiny apartment
in the summer months, it helped.
And you looked so happy in those pictures.
But this?
This is like some Knives Out
meets Get Out shit.
♪ ♪
Look at you.
You're wearing pastels.
You're talking different.
You're not wearing the earring I hate.
You're code switching
because you don't belong with these people.
[Gat] Mom, I know that.
What, you think I don't know that?
I just don't care.
I'm sorry.
[falcon shrieking]
I want to be where Cady is.
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
[gasping]
[curious music]
♪ ♪
[gasps] No, no. Don't you dare!
Don't you...
[gasps] Oh, my God!
There's no hitting in the lemon hunt.
Well, technically, that was Mom's rule.
Dad apparently has chosen violence.
Still, have some decorum, Penny.
Oh, unclench, Bess.
Clearly, your fishmonger is doing a terrible job
of clearing out your cobwebs.
[grumbles]
[laughs]
Salty Dan?
You didn't.
Mirren saw.
- She didn't. - Mm.
I'm not the one who spent the early aughts
sucking dealer dick for coke.
Stop.
Yes, Bess, stop.
Carrie scored the classy way,
doctor hopping and raiding medicine cabinets
at dinner parties.
Would you just shut up, both of you?
I'm so sick of you belittling my sobriety.
The addiction was not my fault.
They teach you that at Silver Hill
or at the Newport Institute for Change?
Actually, I learned that from Ed
when I learned that I was capable of being happy.
But that's a foreign concept for the two of you.
I'm perfectly happy, thank you very much.
You can't stand yourself.
Neither can you.
I'm perfectly confident in who I am.
Yeah?
Because from here, it seems like you spend
half of your time trying to be our mom
and the other half trying to be a dead 11-year-old girl.
So who are you?
[exhales]
Oh, I'm sorry.
Do you want me to have a panic attack?
Is that gonna make you feel less alone in your unraveling?
Oh, this used to be fun.
[yelps]
[gasping]
[laughter]
Oh, my God.
Help...help me!
Hey!
Ha-ha.
Bess, stop it!
[Bess] Mine.
Decorum, Bess.
[Bess] Mine. Mine.
[Penny] Oh, my God.
Stop.
Put them in my...Bess.
[Bess] Yeah?
[crying]
[chuckles]
[Carrie sobbing]
Carrie?
What's happening?
What is she doing?
Carrie. Carrie.
Carrie, stop.
[Carrie sobbing]
- Move along! - Nothing to see here.
- [Bess] Just move along. - Go on.
[Bess] Come on.
[Carrie sobbing]
[♪ Tommy James: "Draggin' the Line"]
♪ ♪
♪ Making a living the old hard way ♪
♪ Taking and giving by day by day ♪
♪ I dig snow and rain ♪
♪ And the bright sunshine ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Draggin' the line ♪
♪ My dog Sam eats purple flowers ♪
♪ Ain't got much but what we got's ours ♪
♪ We dig snow and rain ♪
♪ And bright sunshine ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Draggin' the line ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Draggin' the line ♪
[grunts]
♪ I feel fine ♪
♪ I'm talking about peace of mind... ♪
[gasps]
[laughs]
Good eye!
Poor strategy.
- My fruit, fuck face! - Ah!
Ah! Get off me.
- Give it! - Get off me!
Don't even fuck...
Get off me, you rabid...
Give me that fucking fruit!
[overlapping speech]
Thanks for the assist.
- No! - That's mine!
I saw it first!
Follow-through is everything.
I worked for that!
[grunting]
I'm so sick of everything coming to you so easy
all the time!
All of us can't all be such try-hards.
- Oh! - [grunting]
- [Mirren] Stop! - [Johnny] Ha-ha-ha!
Johnny!
Give that to me.
Get off me!
Come on, give it! Give me the lemon!
No, don't!
This actually matters to me, OK?
[Mirren] Why?
So you can turn the Boston house into
- your fucking stoner cave? - Yeah? Oh, yeah?
You're worried that he's not going to pay for your rent
whenever you don't make it as a starving artist?
- Oh, no, fuck you! - [Johnny] So immature.
[indistinct arguing]
[Gat] What are you doing?
You sound like your moms.
[pensive music]
♪ ♪
Fuck.
Gat.
You just won Beechwood.
No, I didn't.
You did.
I can't win.
You all know I can't win.
Look...look at yourselves. Look at us.
We used to be best friends.
And now you're... now you're hurling
the worst insults you can, and why?
Why, because of an old man's power trip?
Where was it?
Harris had it the whole time.
He was never gonna surrender Beechwood.
He thinks he's a king.
He needs his kingdom.
And he doesn't... he doesn't care
if people are miserable in it.
He doesn't care as long as people
are miserable under his power.
And everybody seems pretty miserable.
You guys are playing right into it.
Right.
I'm really sorry about everything that I said.
I really didn't mean any of it.
No, no, no. You were right.
Because I was so wrapped up in myself, I...
I'm so sorry.
[sentimental music]
Come here.
I love you.
I accept both your apologies.
No, seriously, though, um,
I've been shit to all of you.
I'm sorry.
Deeply, deeply sorry.
I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
[laughter]
Forgive me, Gatwick.
[Gat chuckling]
- [Cadence] We all... - [laughter]
[gunshot]
Well, Liars, life's given us lemons.
Your dad is counting lemons in the living room...
one of the living rooms.
Your living room has living rooms.
It's called the Great Room.
I know.
I heard it as I said it.
Do you want some of this?
Ice cream is always the cure.
Is he eating?
If you count Takis Fuego
from the hotel vending machine, sure.
I didn't mean to hurt him.
Mm, and yet...
[sighs]
Sorry.
No.
Sorry.
My husband is no longer here to defend his kid brother,
so it falls to me.
I had to choose between
being the kind of parent that my kids needed me to be
and being the partner that Ed deserved.
And it wasn't a choice.
He's better off without me, without all of this.
[somber music]
Sometimes I wonder if I would have had kids
if I knew what it would be like.
Who would volunteer to love something so fiercely
that you just let it consume you whole?
And then I hate myself for thinking that way,
because who thinks like that about their own kids?
♪ ♪
When Jay died,
oh, I fell apart.
Some days, I would just stare at this little boy
who looked so much like him
and love him so hard, it hurt.
So hard I thought it was gonna kill me.
That's the thing.
Motherhood is filled with hurt.
It's like your heart outside your body while you bleed.
[sighs]
[Will] Mom, it's your turn for the count.
[clears throat]
I'm so tired.
[Harris] Seven.
Where are the Liars?
[Johnny] Right here.
Couldn't find any lemons.
Yeah, me neither.
No lemons.
[Penny gasps] Oh.
I found a few.
[gasps]
[Penny] Oh, my God.
[lemons thudding]
[gasping]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
You Liars.
I suppose it's my own fault that you are so clever.
♪ ♪
Sinclair genes.
Mm.
Well, then, clearly, rules have been violated,
so the prizes are void.
♪ ♪
But I do have something valuable to offer Gat.
You, um... you have such ambition.
But you can't change the world without opportunity.
Now, Tipper's scholarship program
was her pet project, a chance for high-achievers
to travel the world, pursue an immersive education
while making a positive impact on refugee communities.
She'd already chosen this year's recipients,
of course, but there's an opening.
Now, there are several candidates vying for it,
so this isn't a handout.
I don't do handouts.
But I do make recommendations.
Now, you have an interview the morning after next
back in New York, if you're interested.
♪ ♪
♪ Look at the stars ♪
♪ Look how they shine for you... ♪
Oh.
Hi.
Were you crying?
No, no, no.
I was just washing my face.
♪ ♪
You know, you should wear the, uh...
the jacket you wore to the funeral
for your interview.
You looked so...
I'm not doing the interview.
Don't want to owe Harris anything.
It's not his program.
It's Tipper's.
And she would want you to be a part of it.
You wouldn't owe him anything.
I would.
Look, he said there were other candidates, right?
So you'll earn it for yourself at that interview.
Hey.
You have to try again.
Come on.
Hasn't being around the Sinclairs taught you anything?
Where's your competitive spirit?
You're being incredibly selfless right now.
I don't like it.
[chuckles]
Yeah, well, I used to be pretty selfish.
And then this guy that I'm kind of into
showed me how important it was to consider
other people's needs before my wants.
Sounds like a dick.
Yeah, well, he's pretty cute, so.
♪ You know I love you so... ♪
If I get the internship, I won't be back here next summer.
Oh.
Yeah.
OK.
I, uh...
♪ Look how they shine for... ♪
[chuckles] What's this?
Don't open it until your birthday next week, OK?
[sighs]
OK.
♪ Look at the stars ♪
♪ Look how they shine for you ♪
♪ And all the things that you do ♪♪
I don't want to hear the lecture about
how it's my fault that we lost the Boston house.
[waves lapping]
Cancer?
Mind your business?
[sighs]
You know, I used to think that
I knew everything about my mom
and that everything she did was just so flawless
in this way that I could never duplicate.
Yeah, I tried, God knows, but why it came so easy to her
and not me...
I used to wonder if she ever just fucking cried.
[sighs] I wish I could ask her.
Did you ever just lock yourself in the bathroom and cry, Mom?
God, did it ever feel like this for you?
[solemn music]
♪ ♪
I never asked.
Now I can't.
♪ ♪
And I'm just...
so fucking empty.
♪ ♪
You made a choice today, Mirren.
That's fine.
It's a big old "fuck you" to the family.
I really hope your convictions
keep you and your sisters warm this winter,
'cause I don't have any moves left.
The lemons were fucking it.
[birds calling]
[indistinct chatter]
You know, I thought you might just reinstate
the "no boyfriends on Beechwood" rule.
But this was impressive.
Why make yourself a bad guy when you can just
show his mother that he doesn't belong here,
make her drag him away?
I didn't make anyone do anything.
No, you just dangled two semesters abroad,
followed by a summer teaching refugees English,
which takes care of next summer too.
It's very elegant, Dad.
[engine rumbling in distance]
Kids are gonna miss him.
Cadence will be just fine.
I won't let her make the same mistakes that you did.
Well, that's...
That's for the best.
Love you, Dad.
Mm.
[bell ringing]
[Gat] You know, it might not seem like it,
but I'm glad that you came.
Yeah.
Well, when Harris Sinclair invites you
on a private jet to the vineyard...
Harris sent for you?
[chuckles] He called.
[soft music]
He thought with Ed gone, I might wanna check in.
I figured you were homesick or lonely,
but apparently, the alien that's taken over my son's body
is quite happy here.
[chuckling]
So I don't know why he invited me.
I do.
♪ ♪
I was too happy here.
♪ ♪
[waves lapping]
Do you remember the book Harris told me to read?
Wuthering Heights?
Yeah.
It's about a poor brown-skinned boy,
gets taken in by a rich family.
He falls in love with the daughter
and becomes a gentleman.
But everyone somehow still sees him as an animal.
So eventually, he becomes one.
Heathcliff had evil in him,
and you don't.
You're my Gat.
What?
I've done fucked up things.
I'm doing something fucked up now.
Will you please not speak at me like
I'm some error in your judgment?
Hey.
I love you.
I do. I love you.
And I know...
I know we don't make any sense.
To who?
You might be right about Harris,
but I am the eldest grandchild.
So let's go back to Beechwood, and I'll fix this.
I'll make it better.
At Beechwood?
Where are the boat keys?
- Boat keys? - [sighs]
Cady, do you know where you are right now?
Oh...
[dramatic music]
Cady?
Hey, Cadence!
[muffled] Cadence. Cadence.
♪ ♪
What happened?
You aren't really making sense.
Did I get sick down by the water?
By the water? No, you...
you...you had an episode,
but at the bookstore.
The bookstore?
I didn't know how to help you.
So they had to call your mom to bring you home.
What about the ice cream and the sunset?
Our first date?
There wasn't a date.
We never went for ice cream.
You're...you're scaring me.
We've...we've been here talking since we got back.
[breathing heavily]
[tense music]
Is my mom right?
♪ ♪
Maybe you should go.
I'm not leaving you.
I barely know where I am right now.
Look, I don't care where you are, right?
I'll follow you there, and that's it.
♪ ♪
Why are you here?
What do you mean, why am I here?
I'm here for you.
No, the scholarship.
You should be gone by now.
You didn't get it?
♪ ♪
I never made it to the interview.
We were supposed to leave the next night,
but something happened.
[Ed] I called the cab to the airport.
Your mom on her way?
Yeah, as soon as she gets her eyeliner
even on both sides.
Oh, you might miss your interview.
Can I ask you something?
Yeah.
Now that it's over,
do you regret Carrie?
[scoffs]
Fuck. Um...
...I regret things.
I regret not marrying her years ago.
I regret that when she was ready to have a baby,
I said we should wait until we could afford
to send our kid to the same schools
as Will and Johnny went to...
...you know, without help from Harris.
I thought that I needed to raise another Sinclair.
I was too proud.
You think it's, uh...
you think it's too late for the Liars
to grow up different from the rest?
Mate, I know it feels like you've lived your entire life,
but you're only 16.
The four of you are gonna do great things,
and stupid things, and then greater things.
You aren't even an ounce of the person
you're gonna grow into,
any of you.
Gat, you have all the time in the world.
I've got to go.
Yeah.
Oh.
[laughs]
Your mom's gonna kill me.
[dramatic music]
♪ Won't you leave me? ♪
[siren wailing]
♪ ♪
[radio chatter]
[Gat] Sorry, excuse me.
♪ ♪
Hey, can I get a lift to Beechwood, please?
- Oh, sorry... - What? What?
Emergency boats only to Beechwood
till further notice.
What emergency?
Is someone hurt?
On the island, is someone hurt?
They don't call in the chopper if someone isn't.
[helicopter rotors thrumming]
♪ ♪
♪ I fell into the water ♪
[siren wailing]
♪ Water won't let me breathe ♪
♪ I got lost in the deep end ♪
♪ It's a bad ♪
♪ It's a bad dream ♪♪
[solemn music]
♪ I'm screaming underwater ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Only till you start breathing ♪
♪ ♪
♪ What you know ♪
♪ I can't ♪
♪ Give you ♪
♪ ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪