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"Game Over, Charles" is the tenth episode, and serves as the mid-season finale of the sixth season and the 130th episode overall of the ABC Family mystery drama series ''Pretty Little Liars''. It originally aired on August 11, 2015, on ABC Family. It was written and directed by showrunner I. Marlene King. ABC Family promoted the finale with the slogan "#FAceToFace" with the indication of the reveal of 'A' in the mid-season finale. In the episode, Alison, Aria, Emily, Hanna, Spencer and Mona finally uncover the true identity of "A", which turns out to be CeCe Drake, and they learn why she has been tormenting them. In addition, the episode included a five-year jump where the Liars return to Rosewood after being away for five years "Game Over, Charles" was watched by 3.09 million viewers and garnered a 1.4 rating, making it the most watched episode of the sixth season, and the most watched episode since the fourth season finale "A Is for Answers", up from the previous episode. The mid-season finale received a strongly negative reaction from television critics and fans. == Plot == At the prom, Aria (Lucy Hale), Emily (Shay Mitchell), Hanna (Ashley Benson), Spencer (Troian Bellisario) and Sara (Dre Davis) meet Mona (Janel Parrish), who reveals to have been following Alison (Sasha Pieterse), all night in order to protect her. Mona manages to locate Alison's phone at the Carissimi Group building, and the Liars all head there. At the Carissimi Group, Spencer manages to break into a restricted room with the help of Sara who remembers a specific date meaningful to Charles. While the girls enter the room, Sara suspiciously leaves them behind. They discover a hologram which monitors a live feed of the room Alison has been taken to. As the girls witness Alison finding Jason and Mr. DiLaurentis unconscious, they realize she's alone with A who is revealed to be CeCe Drake (Vanessa Ray). With everyone in the DiLaurentis family present, CeCe begins to tell them her story and motives for why she became 'A'. She reveals to have been born as a boy named Charles DiLaurentis, and when she was 8 years old, she gave Alison a bath, but accidentally dropped her in the water. Alison was saved by Kenneth, but as a consequence Charles was admitted to Radley. According to CeCe, as a child she asked her mother to buy her dresses but Kenneth despised her for being feminine, so he used the bathtub incident as an excuse to send her away. CeCe reveals that Jessica began to buy the same clothes for both her and Alison, and became very accepting of how her son was. It is revealed that Bethany Young pushed Toby's mother Marion Cavanaugh off the roof of Radley, presumably to keep Charles's femininity safe. However, Bethany blamed Charles for Marion's homicide, which everyone believed. Jessica paid off Darren Wilden (Bryce Johnson) to make sure Mrs. Cavanaugh's death was ruled a suicide. Charles was then diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder (IED), though this was actually the diagnose for Bethany. For the next 2 years Charles was medicated with tranquilizers, but was let out to attend his fake funeral. After the funeral at aunt Carol's, Jessica accepted Charles as her daughter and took her back to Radley, renamed Charlotte. Charlotte reveals that she dedicated herself to math, which made her attend classes at the University of Pennsylvania. She thought going to school would be fun but it was easy for her as she already knew what she was being taught. One day, she called in a bomb threat to cancel classes. She used the opportunity to go to Rosewood High for yearbook picture day where she met Jason, whom she began dating in order to get closer to her family. Jessica didn't know that CeCe Drake and Charlotte were the same person until the day the DiLaurentis were leaving for Cape May. Though initially angered at her children's incestuous relationship, Jessica allows Charlotte to go on vacation with the rest of her family. In Cape May, Charlotte became close with Alison and planned on telling her they were related. However, Bethany found out about Mrs. D's affair with her father and stole Charlotte’s clothes so she could snuck out of Radley and hurt Jessica at the DiLaurentis property. On Labor Day Weekend, Charlotte hit Alison in the head with a rock, believing her to be Bethany. Jessica then buried Alison out of panic and paid Wilden to take Charlotte back to Radley. Back at the Carissimi Group, Mona reveals that she hit Bethany that night and mistook her for Alison, since they both had blonde hair and were wearing the same clothes. Charlotte reveals to have stolen the 'A' game from Mona after manipulating her into telling her everything she had done as 'A'. Once Charlotte got out of Radley, she purposely met the Liars, under the CeCe Drake alias, and began hating the girls because of their relief that Alison was gone. Charlotte reveals she began seeing a blonde girl in a red coat she believed was Alison. She then sent Sara Harvey to act as a decoy Red Coat to distract the Liars the night of the lodge fire. After Shana set fire to the Lodge and the Liars were saved by Sara and Alison, Charlotte finally got confirmation that Alison was alive since she knew Alison would show up in case her friends were in danger. She killed Wilden to shut him up about Alison being alive, and sent Sara to his funeral dressed as the Black Widow to make sure he was dead. She traveled to France after the events in New York, but came back due to her addiction to power. Before Charlotte fled to New York, she snuck home to say goodbye to her mom, only to find her lifeless body laying in the DiLaurentis backyard. Sara, dressed as Red Coat, sets a bomb to detonate inside of Radley as part of Charlotte's final plan to kill Alison, Jason and Kenneth along with herself. The Liars manage to stop her as Spencer disables the bomb, and Emily punches Sara for betraying her. Charlotte runs towards the roof and gets on the ledge, about to jump. The Liars and Ali head there and beg her not to commit suicide. Charlotte jumps down from the ledge onto the roof and lowers her hood to declare the ending of her reign as A. It then cuts to Labor Day weekend, as we see the five Liars standing outside of Alison's house with their cars all packed ready to leave for college. The girls all hug each other goodbye, not realizing it would be so hard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Game Over, Charles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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