now on the Dunhill case. Tanner explains that Marco had been “too conflicted” in his approach to solving the murder, and so he took himself off the case. Before Spencer leaves, Tanner promises to get to the bottom of the mystery. proposal designed to address the potentially world-ending impacts of climate change. Across town, Spencer shows up at Aria’s apartment with an old photo of the Liars. Clearly feeling nostalgic, she tells Aria that she’s sorry for some of the things she said the previous night, and Aria apologizes too. Before they can fully patch things up, the police arrive to return boxes of evidence that they had taken from the apartment and the Brew. Tanner is with the other officers, and she tells Aria that she’s no longer a person of interest in the Dunhill case, as she was “spotted” in New Hampshire the night of his murder. Clearly this is A.D. stepping in to “help” Aria, and Spencer knows it too, because she storms out the door, glaring icily at Aria before she leaves. Just as Spencer is leaving, Ezra walks in. Seeing the cops, he turns to Aria to ask what’s going on. “Before I went into POPS . . . I kept to myself. I felt like I was trapped in a box when it came to the subject of my father,” she says. Since she joined the club, in 10th grade, Jessica recognized that she needs “to let go of my shame and really love who I am, with or without my dad being in my life.”