Wilden Conundrum

Episode Six

Aria wakes up again and notices the shower's on. She has to urinate so she goes in to the bathroom and notices her father on the shower floor.

"Oh, my god," She utters, rushing to rescue her father. "Don't you scare me like this again!" She exclaims.

"Did you punch a man named Anthony Burman?" questions the young policeman, staring straight in to the eyes of his captor.

"Um," trails Mike. "No, your honor," he confirms; Veronica looks at him like he has failed.

Byron drinks coffee on the breakfast table. "Why did you do that?" demands Aria. "One moment you were sullen, the other you were..."

"Suicidal? Yeah, it seems like everyone you know's doing that, so why not me do it too?" asks Byron, tears streaming down his cheek.

"Shut up." Aria commands. Byron looks up at her with a shocked expression on his face. "Don't you talk like that. You are my father, and right now you are all I have - what, with Mike going to jail, and my mother..."

"It's alright; you can say it," permits Byron.

"Leaving us in the lurch." Aria completes her sentence; Byron looks up as if this is new news to him.

"Is it true that your partner..." He looks at his paper. "Kenneth Dilaurentis... Was with you at the time?"

Veronica looks up in shock, for she, herself, had not expected this revelation to be uncovered. "I think we need an intermission." She commands, raising her hand so as to signal defiance.

"No, thank you," utters the policeman.

"Yes, you will," Veronica picks up her head and looks threateningly deep in the policeman's eyes. She watches as the man exits the room.

Ali wakes up from her temporary slumber to see her mother hovering over her with another blonde haired lady. "What's... What's wrong?"

"Um, I... I..." Jessica trails off, handing the remaining parts of the conversation to her partner to complete.

"We think you may be undergoing some psychological damage," confessed the sullen voiced, blonde haired lady, with her forehead crinkling in intrigue.

"I don't think so," Ali refuses, getting up in her bed, only to notice that the room is growing floppier and floppier.

Jenna wakes up to notice that her car is being driven by her captor. "Um, what's happening?" She exclaims, tears in her eyes.

"Nothing. We're just taking a trip. Downstream," adds the man, whom Jenna identifies to not be her captor.

"You're doing what I say," repeated the blonde haired lady. "By the way, my name's Cecelia," she directed this addition towards Jessica.

"That's good," bellowed Jessica. She leaned back, frightened at her daughter's convulsing. She feels an object pinch her back.

Jenna looks in her backseat. She sees the dead body of her previous captor. Then she looks and sees the alive body of her current one.

Jessica takes the object out from behind her and looks at it and sees that it's a ticking object of some kind. "What the hell?" She utters, looking at Cece in fright.

She wanders over to her with glassiness in her eyes. "Get. Away. Now." She commands. Jessica's too frightened.

"What is this police officer talking about?" demands Veronica. "You knew that Kenneth was involved with this and told no one?"

Mike shakes his head and disbelief and places his hands on his temples. "I can't do this anymore," Mike confesses. "Let's just give up," he adds.

"No way," Veronica promises. "I don't care what the hell you did. I will protect you because you are my friend's son."

Cece watches. The bomb says 3.

The policeman walks back in the room. "So, are you ready?"

"Yes, sir," bellows Veronica. She looks promisingly at Mike.

She continues to watch as the bomb strikes 2. Jessica fumbles for the door. Ali just wakes up. And Cece is left helpless.

Someone arrives in front of Spencer's house and sprays graffiti.

The bomb strikes 1. The house goes BOOM.