- Emily Fields: Hey. How are you feeling?
- Spencer Hastings: Nauseous, achy, tired. Other than that, fantastic.
- [first lines]
- Spencer Hastings: Did you actually read this book?
- Aria Montgomery: A few pages. Bits and pieces. Ezra knew who I was before we met.
- [shakes her head]
- Aria Montgomery: He knew who all of us were. And he knew Alison too.
- Emily Fields: So, he admitted to being in a relationship with her?
- Aria Montgomery: Yeah, a brief one.
- Hanna Marin: Then he must be Board Shorts.
- Aria Montgomery: Well, Ezra didn't try to kill Alison. His... his whole book is trying to piece together who did it
- Spencer Hastings: How's he gonna do that when the police can't even figure it out?
- Aria Montgomery: I don't know. He has a theory, though.
- Emily Fields: And? What is it?
- Aria Montgomery: He thinks that one of us did it.
- Spencer Hastings: [as Emily scoffs:] What? You're... you're kidding, right?
- Emily Fields: Well, now we know it's a work of fiction.
- Spencer Hastings: Which one of us is he trying to pin it on?
- Aria Montgomery: I didn't get that far.
- Spencer Hastings: You didn't think to ask?
- Aria Montgomery: Why? We know that that's not true.
- Emily Fields: Okay, just because he wrote the book doesn't mean he's not A. You know, he could be using it as a way to place the blame on one of us, and keep suspicion off of him.
- Hanna Marin: No, he doesn't need to do that. He knows that Ali is alive.
- Spencer Hastings: Yeah, but he didn't know that when he started writing the book.
- Aria Montgomery: Guys, listen. Ezra's not A! He's a writer who found a great opportunity to make a name for himself.
- [eyes wet with tears:]
- Aria Montgomery: And he used me! He used us!
- [they all consider this ruefully]
- Spencer Hastings: Wait, what are you saying? That all of that stuff in that room in Ravenswood, that was just... research for his book?
- Aria Montgomery: He's been working on it for years.
- [sighs]
- Hanna Marin: Well, we've seen the surveillance equipment, so we know he's been watching us.
- Aria Montgomery: He's probably just hoping that we'd lead him to Alison so he could finally get his big ending.
- Emily Fields: If he's been watching us, then he has to know about A. I mean, how could he sit back all this time and not do anything to help you?
- Aria Montgomery: [shrugs] It's simple.
- [tearfully shakes her head, sobbing hoarsely:]
- Aria Montgomery: He never really loved me.