How The A Stole Christmas: Episode Recap!!

Hello everyone! I'm finally doing my episode recap post on the Christmas episode (almost a week later, oops!) but I just want to express how much I loved the episode and how good it was, in my opinion. Anyway, my recap is going to be super quick (probably more like bullet points but some people like that better, right?). Oh, and if you hadn't noticed - I've given my blog a 'lil makeover and I'm kinda lovin' it, I'm not gonna lie. 

The following post contains spoilers so if you haven't watched the episode and do not want to know what happens, please do not continue reading.

Mona is back (well, in Ali's dreams anyway), and fueling some creepy flashbacks - the first was a flashback of Alison playing the piano as a young girl, and finding two yellow dresses hidden inside the piano itself. Mrs D finds her with these dresses and basically makes Alison lie about, saying to her father that there was only one - but who was the other dress for?

Jenna and Sydney are friends 'friends' with Alison, but only because they're scared of her. Oh, and they're pretty confident she killed Mona - no biggie. 

Cece Drake has returned to Rosewood, and she's all kitted out in a white cloak - how very festive. Oh, and she's offering a couple of warnings about Ali's former BFFs - the liars. 

The girls (along with the help of Lucas, who's dressed as Santa, and Paige) think they're following Alison and her friend out of the ball but when they finally corner the two girls, it's actually two twins who are dressed exactly like Ali, complete with blonde wigs and Alison masks - creepy!! 

Mona is taking Alison on a field trip of Rosewood, and that includes the church (where Ali lies in a coffin and her mother is there, who informs her 'They'll be coming for you soon', but yeah it's all in a day's work isn't it?).

Alison and Detective Holbrook? Well, Ali may have made out with him at the ball, and he may be a bad cop - and helping Alison? Only time will tell...

Spencer and Hanna go on a treasure hunt - in the DiLaurentis house. Hanna finds a box full of letters to Alison, which includes a letter from Bethany Young herself, and it turns out that Ali did actually know Bethany - and she invited her to spend Labour Day weekend with her in Rosewood! It was all looking good on the girls' little treasure hunt, until it was interrupted by (guess who?!) -A, with a huuuuuge knife!

The girls (and boys, along with Paige) decide to have a Christmas meal to celebrate, complete with Alison spying from outside, I mean theres not really much else to do - they are snowed in, after all. They then go outside to see a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, and think it's a Christmas miracle, but their happiness is destroyed when the lights on the barn turn on, and illuminate a message from A - 'Merry Christmas, Bitches!'

Paige is leaving Rosewood and heading off to California with her family, for good. 

Pretty Little Liars returns with it's Winter premiere on Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 8pm on ABC Family - it's not long now!