[Cadence] Something terrible happened last summer.
You didn't come to the hospital or call.
Why did you forbid everyone from talking to me
about my own fucking life?
You are doing this to yourself, Cady.
It is your own broken brain
that is the enemy you are raging against.
[birds chirping]
You're leaving?
Don't open it until your birthday next week, OK?
You know, I thought you might just reinstate
the no-boyfriends-on-Beechwood rule.
Cadence will be just fine.
[Cadence] You never liked them, did you?
Gat and Ed.
Are you saying I'm racist?
Watch yourself, or you could get hurt.
I believe in who we are, who we have been for centuries.
[Cadence] He's too far gone.
Look, he's been revising his will.
I think he plans to leave all of it
to one favored daughter or grandchild.
What if we made a mess so big,
only a Sinclair could clean it up?
What if all the petty, material things
that tore our family apart were just gone?
We could tear it down,
teach Harris and the moms the ultimate lesson.
I remember it now.
We burnt this place to the ground.
[electronic chirping]
[Cadence] If you want to live
where people aren't afraid of mice,
you must give up living in palaces.
[fire crackling]
Or maybe, just maybe,
you burn the fucking palace to the ground.
Could you imagine?
[laughs]
I could imagine the moms' faces.
Guys, I mean it.
Clairmont is just a pile of trophies.
Trophies won with a bullshit, unfair advantage.
Yeah, it's basically the seat of the patriarchy.
[Johnny] Yeah, with Harris at the head of the table.
Right, so if it was all gone, we'd have to start over.
Maybe they'd stop.
Maybe we'd be a family again.
It'd be like a purification.
I mean, things can't get any worse, right?
Gat,
this is usually where you chime in as the voice of reason.
It's the Sinclair house. I don't get a say.
- Oh. - Well, you guys know
I'm not even going to be welcome here anymore.
Well, that's exactly why we have to do something.
They're tearing each other apart and us along with them.
Look, they need to learn.
[Mirren] Mm-mm, they'll punish us and send us
to some boarding school in the Swiss Alps.
No.
We are so sorry
that we overflowed the dishwasher,
and we swiped the good whiskey.
Then we made s'mores,
and watched movies at Cuddledown.
We watched "Ferris Bueller" and "Sixth Sense" for Johnny,
and then we fell asleep.
And we smelled the smoke too late.
And they wouldn't believe us, but it wouldn't matter...
Because...
- People might talk, right? - Yes!
They would ask questions like,
how did the Sinclair girls screw up their kids so bad
that they burned their house down?
OK, it's a genius plan, but we don't know how to do arson.
[Cadence] OK, well, we'll divide and conquer.
I mean, there's plenty of fuel in the boathouse.
[♪ Girl in Red: "Doing It Again Baby"]
♪ I'm on a new level ♪
♪ Something's got me feeling like ♪
♪ I could be inflammable... ♪
[Cadence] We have to be thorough.
I'll do the downstairs.
[Mirren] I'll do the east wing.
- [Cadence] Fuck yeah, Mirren! - [laughter]
[Johnny] You just want to see your mom's old room burn,
you fucking pyro.
OK, I'll cover the attic.
We work from the top down.
Gas it up, light the match, and get the fuck out.
And me?
The boat is docked at Windemere, right?
Bring the boat around and you can be our getaway driver.
It'll be perfect.
I don't drive the boat. You know that.
Yeah, but Gat...
- What? - Look.
You'll be able to say you didn't see the fire start
and you got us all to safety, and it won't even be a lie.
And once the things inside are gone, their power will be gone,
and Harris will have to give you
a big hero's welcome back next summer.
Ed, too, even.
We can fix this.
I...
fuck it, I want to help.
[all cheer]
♪ Doing it again, doing it again ♪
[Gat] OK, it's a big house.
We need it to spread fast
before the fire department can get to us.
After I help with the arsenal, I'll get the boat over.
No gas near the main staircase, OK?
We need a safe way out.
And when the grandfather clock strikes 12:00,
we light the match and we run like hell.
No matter what.
No matter fucking what, we run.
Liars forever, right?
Liars forever.
[Johnny] Liars forever.
Liars forever.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
♪ Tonight ♪
[♪ Fun.: "We Are Young"]
♪ We are young ♪
♪ So let's set the world on fire ♪
♪ We can burn brighter ♪
♪ Than the sun ♪
[birds chirping]
Makes sense now.
I can't believe we did it.
The moms haven't been fighting, and Gat was invited back.
It worked.
I mean, it...
Mir, she remembers the fire, is all.
Yeah.
Come on. Absolutely.
[chatter, laughter]
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm missing something.
This still doesn't explain how I ended up in the water.
[tense music]
Come on, we should go get Gat.
Right.
It'll be better.
[groans]
[gasps]
Come on, Cady.
[Mirren] She's going to remember the rest soon.
She's starting to piece everything together.
I think I get it.
Did we swim off the boat after the fire to celebrate?
I hit my head, and you couldn't find me, right?
You were scared. We were drunk.
We'd just committed a felony, so you left.
- No, no, no. - [Cadence] I understand.
I do.
I needed you to be invited back, Gat.
And here you are, so it's worth it to me.
Cady, stop, we don't know how you got in the water.
OK, well...
And we told you the truth about that.
Well, you know something that I don't.
Just a little bit.
And it's not like we can just straight-up tell you.
Every time people do, you just...
Yeah, and then you forget anyways.
Cady, we really want to help you.
We do. It's just that that's not...
It's like every time that I get close to the truth,
this pain dragon crawls into my brain
and-and it shuts me down.
But when we're just Liars being Liars,
the dragon gets distracted.
I have an idea.
- All right, ready? - Mm-hmm.
Just a familiar, non-triggering,
peaceful activity.
Choose your words carefully.
I prefer dirty word Scrabble to trigger trauma Scrabble.
Don't wake the dragon.
Who's first?
[♪ "Lock & Key"]
♪ It all depends... ♪
[breathes deeply]
♪ You move the needle ♪
♪ With your white lies ♪
♪ Your white lies ♪
♪ You keep a secret ♪
♪ With your forced smile ♪
[Cadence] Cheers.
Molotov cocktails from a summer
of the Sinclair sisters' empties.
Poetic, kind of.
I'll see you in a better world.
I remember.
You and I in the kitchen, right?
See you in a better world.
OK, we got this.
- Hey. - Hey.
All right.
No, no, no, no. Uh...
Here's the gas.
I thought it'd be easier to carry upstairs
than the big red one.
[Johnny] Genius.
Midnight, yeah?
It's a date, bro.
[chuckles]
It's ironic, isn't it, huh?
"The Boston Sentinel,"
the paper that started the Sinclair publishing empire.
The thing that paid for this house
is what will burn it down.
[foreboding music]
And I know I spelled it right this time,
so redemption or whatever.
The plan was for you to start in the attic, right?
[Johnny] Yeah.
A lot of memories up there.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[Mirren] I was so excited
to torch my mother's childhood bedroom.
She was the worst of them all, chasing the money,
coming for her sisters with claws out.
Honestly, that's the only reason why
I agreed to the plan at all.
I bet it felt good.
It was just a guest bedroom.
It's not like Gran kept a shrine to her teen magazines
or expired nail polishes.
Well, maybe she never even had that kind of mess.
Maybe she was just always toxic positivity.
Perfection.
Anyways, Cady, I don't...
is this really even helping you at all right now?
- Yes, yes. - OK.
[Cadence] I think so.
I remember some of it.
The smell, I felt high off of it.
The gasoline.
The adrenaline.
[♪ Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Burning"]
♪ Into the sea, out of the fire ♪
♪ All that burning ♪
[Cadence] I felt like a revolutionary.
♪ Into the sea, out of the fire ♪
♪ All that burning ♪
[Cadence] I tried talking to my mom,
to Harris, but they didn't listen.
So they deserved this for not seeing Gat,
or Ed, or anyone but Sinclairs.
♪ Baby ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ As I go ♪
[Cadence] I had fallen in love with someone
Harris Sinclair deemed unworthy,
and I needed to cleanse his hate.
♪ Well, I'll release her ♪
♪ From the bindings of her teachers ♪
♪ What they're hiding there is broke... ♪
[Cadence] I believed in my soul that if we tore it down,
we'd be able to rebuild.
A fresh start for all of us.
♪ What you gonna do when you get to the water ♪
♪ What you gonna do when you get to the ♪
♪ Water ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
Midnight.
[clock ringing]
[flames whooshing]
[dramatic music]
[flames roaring]
♪ ♪
Smoke really stinks, doesn't it?
[groans]
And I never realized...
how loud fire can be.
[clock ticking]
[ticking slows, stops]
[dogs barking]
No!
The dogs.
[crashing]
No! No!
I'm coming! I'm coming!
My mom had given them their anxiety pills
so they'd be quiet during dinner.
- No! No! - [dogs barking]
No!
[somber music]
No, no, no.
♪ ♪
[dogs barking]
No. Not the dogs.
No, no, no.
[grunts, screams]
[banging, flames roaring]
No!
[groans]
[grunts]
No! No!
[groaning]
♪ ♪
[dogs barking]
[laughter]
Franklin, Eleanor, come on!
[emotional music]
♪ ♪
[water burbling]
[screams]
No!
♪ ♪
Once upon a time, a princess thought
she could rid her kingdom of its ugliness.
Drunk on spirits and folly,
she roared in on her dragon and unleashed hell and fire.
In her arrogance,
she forgot the most important lesson of all.
Revolution is bloody, and too often,
it's the innocent who fall.
[birds cawing]
[Harris] Franklin, Eleanor, quick!
There you go. Good for you.
Give me that. Oh, give me that.
Right, right. Go get it.
- Granddad. - Oh!
Oh, Cadence, the first.
Come, sit.
We didn't do the annual sandcastle contest this year,
did we?
Someone ought to have reminded me.
I just wanted to say...
I'm sorry.
You've collected yourself, then?
Your memories?
[sighs]
Well, I do miss them,
at strange moments...
inconvenient ones, always, it seems.
And don't be sorry.
You were heroic.
A fine example.
It's just that faulty wiring to blame, and that...
that gas main.
Hey.
What do you think
about me and the Liars coming to New Clairmont
to have dinner with you tonight?
All of us, I mean.
Gat, too.
I think it's important he knows he's welcome now.
Well...
Your 18th birthday's coming.
Yep.
Three days.
Mm.
Yeah, time.
Hard to keep track of in the summer, isn't it?
Yeah.
I've, um... I've been hanging on to these.
I'd rather not.
Oh, no, it's your birthday gift.
You just open it when you're ready.
[Cadence] Thanks.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
[wind blowing, waves lapping]
[birds cawing]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[clock ringing]
Here! Over here!
[helicopter whirring]
Stay with me.
[radio chatter]
Hey, Cady. What are you doing out here?
Hey, we saw you talking to Harris.
We thought we should check on you.
I think he knows something.
Or everything.
And he gave me these.
The family noose of love.
How did those even survive the fire?
Cady?
[flames whooshing]
We tried to warn you, OK? These aren't happy memories.
No.
Bet you're missing your amnesia right about now.
No. No!
I need to know.
Where were you when they found me on the beach?
And why didn't you call?
Why didn't any of you call?
Hey, Cady.
- [Mirren] You're OK. - [Johnny] Cady!
- Hey, you need to calm down. - Panic attack.
[hyperventilating]
[chatter, fire crackling]
No!
[panting]
[birds chirping]
I'm strong enough to know my own story.
Please.
OK.
Yes.
The plan was to meet at midnight.
I was there at 11:56. I was ready.
[Mirren] I was ready, too.
I was about to light up my mom's old bedroom,
and then I found something.
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
[emotional music]
♪ ♪
My mom tried.
I don't know why she couldn't just say sorry,
but at least she was trying.
I suddenly felt so guilty, but we had a plan.
[clock rings]
Light a match and get out.
♪ ♪
[breathing heavily]
[Johnny] I admit I got a little distracted.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[crashing]
[clock rings]
I almost didn't hear the clock, but I did.
I heard it in time.
Didn't even light up the mess that I made.
I just... I got the hell out of there.
But the smoke rose up the turret so fast.
[coughs]
[frantic music]
[Gat] The clock struck 12:00. The fire had started.
You were supposed to come out, light the match, and get out.
♪ ♪
Fuck.
[flames whooshing]
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
[breathing heavily]
[coughs]
[flames roaring]
[grunts]
[Mirren] There was so much fire.
Maybe I got turned around, I don't know.
Johnny!
[coughing]
[Gat] I couldn't wait.
Cady!
I had to chase you, Cadence.
[banging, clattering]
[coughing]
I searched everywhere.
I guess I searched too long.
Cadence!
[Johnny] It was the newspapers, maybe.
Too much kindling.
Johnny!
Johnny! Cady!
[Mirren] Too much accelerant.
Cadence! Mirren!
Where are you?
[Gat] We didn't even think about the gas line.
Cady!
[♪ Sugar Majo: "end/new beginning"]
♪ ♪
♪ For the first time ♪
♪ I was calling ♪
[Johnny] We all made mistakes,
and there were consequences.
No.
[Johnny] Turns out, we really didn't know how to do arson.
[flames roaring]
Johnny!
Mirren!
Gat!
♪ For the first time ♪
♪ I was calling ♪
♪ For the last time ♪
♪ We'd been here before ♪
♪ They found pictures in the snow ♪
♪ I could tell your eyes... ♪
[Harris] We've confirmed that Jonathan Sinclair Dennis,
Mirren Sinclair Sheffield, and Gatwick Patil
perished in the recent house fire near Martha's Vineyard.
The home of Harris Sinclair
and the late Mrs. Tipper Taft Sinclair burned to the ground
before the fire department arrived.
[Penny] Cadence!
I'm fine, Mom. Relax.
Why didn't you call?
That night fucked me up as well, all right?
That's why I can't fucking talk about it.
Ow!
Don't complain while I'm trying to make you pretty.
She's already pretty.
- [bangs] - Is this Johnny's phone?
Uh...
Mom, why do you have my phone?
Mom, just leave it alone. Mom, please just give it back.
[sobs]
[Cadence] Yeah, my parents took my phone.
The screens make my migraines worse.
Nothing that I find out will change
the way I feel about you, Gat.
Gat. [gasping]
Cady, tell me a ghost story.
I'm fresh out. Ask Mirren.
Hilarious.
[screams]
[sobbing]
♪ ♪
[birds cawing, waves lapping]
Cadence?
[Cadence sobbing]
Mommy. Mommy!
[sobbing]
♪ ♪
[birds cawing, waves lapping]
[Gat] Don't open it until your birthday next week, OK?
[soft music]
♪ ♪
Cady, I wore these beads close to my heart all summer.
I love you. From Gat.
♪ ♪
[knocking]
How are you holding up?
I feel like my heart
is bleeding through my shirt all the time.
Well, that is normal.
Sadness is always, uh, seeping.
And your migraines?
Um, I...
I think I was taking too many pills.
It's been hard not to take them.
I think I might need some help
not taking them anymore.
Thank you for telling me.
Um, I'm going to call the doctor
and your dad, and we are going to get you
all the help you need in Vermont.
Whatever happened to
"All ailments can be cured by salt air and outdoor exercise"?
Turns out that law doesn't apply
to losing the great loves of your life.
Trust me, I... I checked the rule book,
over and over.
You're not talking about Dad, are you?
No.
There was someone else, uh,
for a long time.
[sighs]
And I still blamed your father for leaving,
because I wouldn't have.
It is not what Sinclairs do.
I...
I hope that you don't hate me
for letting you blame him, too.
I think I was afraid that
if you had the option, that you wouldn't choose this...
um...
choose, uh, me.
You should know that you do have a choice.
I know being a Sinclair is not easy,
but I would imagine
not being a Sinclair is much, much harder.
But the choice is yours to make.
[sniffles, exhales]
♪ Lie with me ♪
♪ Say you love me too ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Even when I wake up ♪
♪ I can feel the last touch ♪
♪ I just want to feel it all again ♪
[♪ Leslie Powell: "Stay Inside This Dream"]
♪ Now they feel like memories to me ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Say it's real ♪
♪ 'Cause I don't want to leave ♪
♪ I don't want to wake up ♪
♪ I just want the last touch ♪
♪ And I want to feel it all again ♪
Hi.
Yo.
Where have you been?
Well, a tennis championship.
Actually, I won.
Yeah, and then I celebrated on the party boat.
And then, um,
that led to an orgy, which I also won.
[chuckles]
And yeah, that's where I've been.
[Cadence] Hey, I mean it.
Where were you before you showed up here just now?
Um, sleeping,
kind of.
It's like a... a soft nothing, in a way.
And then a pull, and then I'm here.
I thought I'd never see you again.
You thought we might be figments
of your fucked up, traumatized, weird imagination?
Why would you imagine a dickhead version of me
who wouldn't say goodbye?
Right, because you've never been a dickhead.
No.
[♪ Sleeping At Last: "Saturn"]
Look, um,
I'm sorry about this summer.
You just wanted your memories back,
just to feel better, and I fought so hard.
I didn't want you to remember because I thought that
when you did, I might go somewhere
that isn't such a soft nothing.
You can't believe in hell.
I mean, that's just, like, a made-up threat.
There's got to be some sort of punishment
for having everything that I had
and doing nothing good with it.
I'm sorry I lied. I just...
I don't want to burn again.
Johnny,
if hell is real,
I'm fucked, too. [laughs]
You are going to do a million good things
with your life, Cady.
You feel so bad about that night
that you're going to spend the rest of your life
doing amazing things, so amazing
that they'll have to build a new tier in heaven for you.
Any heaven waiting for me would have you in it.
♪ The infinite ♪
♪ How rare ♪
♪ And beautiful ♪
♪ It is to even exist ♪
♪ I couldn't help but ask ♪
♪ For you to see it all again ♪
♪ That the universe was made ♪
♪ Just to be seen by my eyes ♪
♪ I'd give anything to hear... ♪
[Carrie] He's slipping.
The legendary Harris Sinclair
wore two mismatching shoes to dinner tonight.
I hate it when things are funny and sad at the same time.
[Bonnie] I know, but like, you don't have to rub it in.
Like, that's offensive.
It's rude.
- 128. - How?
- 128? - I win.
OK, you didn't have to underline "last"
that many times.
But you lost.
You want to play?
Maybe later.
Hey, you guys OK?
It's too quiet here now.
Yeah.
I'm over Scrabble.
- I want to swim. - Same.
- [Bonnie] Race you! - [Will] No fair!
- [Bonnie] I'm winning. - [Liberty] Bye, Cady.
[Will] You've got a head start!
[Bonnie] I'm winning!
[Mirren] Wish I'd been a little kinder to them.
The Littles.
They always wanted me to teach them how to braid their hair.
[sighs] Make friendship bracelets.
[tiles clattering]
God, I never even talked to them unless I had to.
Mirren.
Let me be the one to regret.
You should be light as air.
You should be a fucking sunbeam.
[sobs] Turns out I suck at being a ghost.
I wanted to be excellent at it. [chuckles]
I wanted to be excellent at everything...
at my art, sex, grades,
and at being Bess Sinclair's daughter.
Maybe that's where it all went wrong between us, you know?
Maybe if we'd just let each other be messy sometimes,
we could have actually seen each other, you know?
[soft music]
♪ ♪
[voice breaking] Oh, Cady.
[sobs]
I don't think anyone ever really saw me.
[sobs]
And now no one ever will, and...
No. Look at me.
The Liars saw you, Mirren.
And I'll see you for the rest of my life.
I'm so tired, Cady.
♪ ♪
I'm so tired.
[sniffling]
[sighs]
Cady.
[Cadence] Mm-hmm?
He'll come.
[breathes shakily]
[breathes deeply]
[waves lapping, birds chirping]
Thank you for the gift, but I don't want these.
You should give them to someone who actually wants them.
[Harris] Nonsense.
Who else?
You're the first Sinclair granddaughter.
I don't want to be that.
The heir.
Oh, all right, then.
Who will you be?
Well, perhaps you could be, um,
an entitled child with a crush
who got mad at her family and committed arson,
animal cruelty, and involuntary manslaughter.
Now, you do love a story.
You get that from Tip, of course,
who had a fondness for fairy tale endings.
But I, too, know of heroes and villains,
plot twists and tropes.
But most importantly, I know how to sell a story...
certainly to your aunts, and your mother,
or the poor Littles who've lost Johnny and Mirren.
Yes, it was an errant spark.
It was an ignorant worker who improperly stored the fuel.
It was a cruel turn of the wind.
And you nearly died risking yourself
in an attempt to save the others,
like any good Sinclair would.
Now, me, I would tell that story.
When the reporter comes on Saturday,
you keep that in mind.
A reporter?
On Beechwood?
Oh, another Time magazine cover.
I'd like to put an end to the nattering about a family curse
in my last significant profile.
I've decided to retire from public life in my prime.
So it is time...
...that I pass the baton
to a worthy new face of the family.
You will wear those.
♪ ♪
[yawns] It's early.
It's one year ago today.
I know.
A year.
The Sound's Edge Gallery agreed to display Mirren's art.
[Carrie] Oh, God, she'd have loved that.
[Bess] They were very eager.
I just...
I hope when people look at it, they see her.
I want to make sure that
she's seen as more than just a tragedy.
[emotional music]
♪ ♪
[laughs]
That's a really nice thing that you did for her.
[sniffles] Well,
it's too late to do things for her, so...
Mm.
[Bess] I thought I needed exactly what Mom had.
I wanted the husband from the good family,
the beautiful home, three daughters.
And I would daydream about what I would name them
and how I would dress them and how I would raise them
to be just so perfect.
And then I...
I think I was so busy adjusting them that...
...I forgot to just love them.
Mirren knew that you loved her.
[sobs]
[Carrie] She did.
[sighs]
Sometimes I think losing them was our punishment.
Like that one tiny ember was sent from God,
or the universe, or Beechwood Island.
Punishment for what?
For what we did in Summer 16.
The summer... the summer I was 16.
Because then I think if it was our punishment,
Penny wouldn't have been spared, right?
Yeah.
♪ ♪
[birds chirping, waves lapping]
[person] What're we doing next? Oh, come on.
[person] Thank you.
[giggles] Come on!
[door opens, creaks]
[Young Cadence] Are you real?
[Young Gat] I think so.
I'm Cadence.
[Young Gat] I'm Gat.
♪ I've been lost in the crowd ♪
♪ Looking for a way out ♪
♪ Just trying to escape the noise ♪
Tag. You're it.
♪ You were sorta new ♪
[laughter]
♪ Back then, I trusted you ♪
♪ But now I'd make a different choice ♪
[♪ Cloves: "No Us"]
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ It looks like we forgot ♪
♪ Who the hell we are ♪
♪ If I had my chance again ♪
♪ I'd still leave you with the scar ♪
♪ I want to see it make you hurt ♪
♪ In the same way I know it does ♪
♪ If I had my chance again ♪
♪ There'd be no us... ♪
[laughs]
- I knew you'd chase me. - Always.
Are you real?
I don't know.
I really don't know.
[camera clicking]
[reporter] Lovely. American royalty, truly.
[Penny] It's nice of Brody to join us today, Bess.
Loss really showed us how strong our marriage truly is.
Uh-huh.
Do you mind standing in birth order?
It's a condition of Dad bailing him out financially.
A united, stable front in the wake of it all.
[Carrie] So you're trapped.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, my God, some things never change.
Oh, some things do, though.
[upbeat music]
Ed!
- Hey. - [Harris] Oh, there he is.
Uh-huh.
Ah, you made it.
Ed, come on.
We should... we should get you in the photo, too.
Uh, no.
I'm all right, Harris.
Prefer to avoid the scrutiny.
Mm.
Uh, are we expecting Cadence?
She'll, uh... she'll be around.
Thank you.
Should we go get her?
No.
It's her choice.
[Gat] I wanted to believe we were helping you,
keeping the secret.
I know now it was selfish.
I just wanted one more summer.
I didn't want to make you sicker,
but I couldn't stop wanting you.
Even when everything else about me felt like it was fading,
I still loved you as much as ever.
Well, there's something you don't know
that might make you love me less.
Right before midnight,
I looked out and saw you at the boat.
I should have waited, but...
I took too long.
I was downstairs.
I could have gotten out while the clock was still chiming...
[clock rings]
...but I was looking at the family photo.
The black pearls,
the ones the moms were so obsessed with our whole lives.
They obsessed over them...
who got to wear them at Christmas, at Easter.
Who was the best?
Who was the most loved?
And I wanted them.
I can't even explain why.
That's why you went inside, Gat.
That's why you died.
[tense music]
[muffled dogs barking]
No!
It was all my fault.
It's our fault.
No.
No, I'm the one who got impatient
and didn't follow the plan.
I was as involved as you, Cady.
Truth is, I'd burnt that place down to the ground
a million times in my mind already.
I don't blame you.
Harris wants me to keep up the big Sinclair lie,
like I'm a hero.
I don't want to be that kind of liar,
but what about the moms
and the Littles?
Your mom.
Ed.
I mean, they all think it was an accident.
How will they move on if they know we meant it?
Maybe it's OK to let them pretend then.
Look, you know the truth now,
so you get to decide the rest of your story.
That's it. That's what matters.
[sighs]
Besides, some fairy tales aren't so bad.
I've been telling myself one all summer.
You mean the one
where you and I become
king and queen of Beechwood Island?
No.
The one where you and I pack up and leave the mythical land
where it's always summer.
Out in the real world,
it gets cold.
The-the radiator in our shitty college apartment
makes so much noise all night.
You write for the lit magazine.
I get a tattoo you pretend to hate.
My mom comes to visit us and teaches us how to make poha.
We fight over who forgot to get rid of the,
uh, the dryer lint.
[laughs]
One semester we have to do long distance, and...
we write each other letters,
real ones, in the mail.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
When we're back in our shitty apartment,
I start to save up to buy you a ring even though you tell me...
- I don't need one. - You don't need one.
♪ ♪
Happily ever after.
In a better world.
[emotional music]
♪ ♪
Gat.
♪ ♪
[whistles, laughs]
[chuckles] Come on, one last time.
[laughs]
[sweeping music]
♪ ♪
Cannonball!
♪ ♪
[music stops]
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
[Harris] No, it was really... it was all about...
all about celebrating family.
- That's it. - [Bess] I think I look great.
Mm.
Oh, there she is, Cadence the first.
♪ ♪
Ed.
Hey.
I'm so glad you're here.
I'm glad you are, too.
[waves lapping]
♪ ♪
Cadence.
I would like to introduce you to this young lady.
She's going to ask you a few questions.
What kind of questions?
Oh, well, it's a piece about your grandfather
as the patriarch, but really about
your family's strength of character.
♪ ♪
I don't think I can help you with that.
Cadence.
♪ ♪
I'm just really not into fairy tales anymore.
♪ 'Cause it was burning ♪
♪ My whole world down ♪
♪ Smoke was rising up ♪
♪ High above the ground ♪
♪ I couldn't breathe in ♪
♪ I couldn't breathe out ♪
♪ Out ♪
[exhales]
[Cadence] My name is Cadence Eastman.
I once was sugar and effort,
reckless abandon, ambition, and strong coffee.
But I was also weakness and complicity.
[rousing music]
♪ ♪
I know the loss of great loves now.
And I know the work of rebuilding from ashes,
even in the shadow cast by what used to stand tall.
♪ ♪
I was once a Sinclair,
and I suppose I will always be a Liar.
Because Liars, you should know, are forever.
♪ Gonna breathe on my own ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ride into the burning silence ♪
- [Ed] Carrie. - [Carrie] Coming!
Oh.
[grunts] Sorry.
I'm just going to make sure everything's locked up.
- I'll meet you at the dock. - OK.
Come on, Will.
You got that? [chuckles]
[coughing]
Oh.
I thought you'd left.
I don't think I can.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[lively music]
♪ Early evening sun ♪
♪ Glistens in the ash upon the sand ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The secret came undone ♪
♪ Spent the summer slipping through my hands ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The story goes ♪
♪ When you know, you know ♪
♪ Time will tell ♪
♪ Yes, it will ♪
♪ Tell me everything ♪
♪ Time will tell ♪
♪ Cast a spell when the sparrows sing ♪
♪ Time will tell ♪
♪ Yes, it will ♪
♪ Tell me everything I know ♪
♪ Time will tell ♪
♪ But I won't know ♪
[sweeping music]
♪ ♪