Perfect Xero

Was it planted? It's getting nearly impossible to keep track of what's real evidence, what's planted evidence, and what's bad writing with this show. I actually kind of bought that part (though I'm not sure that they never actually kissed, just that they didn't go as far as sex) I think that some part of his subconscious under whatever brainwashing his parents did to make him forget Charles, recognized Charles, and Jason felt a strong connection/love for her as a result.

Poor Jason has actually dated 2 of his sisters.

Oh, I'd have been much happier with that than what we got.

Honestly, I believe that the point of Cece being transgender was supposed to be to 1. Make it a SHOCKING TWIST!. and 2. To make Cece/Charles/A sympathetic to the audience. See, poor Charles was just misunderstood and if Mr. D had just accepted Charles, none of it would have happened. It seems that they obviously missed the mark and failed to understand what doing the crazy transgender villain would mean to people. Here's the biggest plot hole off the top of my head. Alison was the one writing to Bethany, sent her clothes, and asked her to meet her that night, IIRC.

Honestly, after that mess, I was completely expecting the end tag to be a replay on the original Mona/Red Coat tag. Someone would walk in to her room and Cece would say that she did everything they wanted and that the girls completely believed that she was responsible for all the things that the other person had done. Maybe they'd even pull back to reveal their identity just so it would actually be an answer.

Robert's kind of stuck, it's like the fact that Stef blackmailed him, he can't have any real reaction to it because Callie will flip out. So he has to make nice and accept that a half apology and a piece of cake is the best he's going to get. I'm pretty sure that you're not even allowed to leave a foster kid unsupervised overnight, there has to be an adult who has been approved by the state present if at least one of the foster parents isn't, but this is the second time that Stef and Lena have shrugged their shoulders and just left the foster kid alone overnight. This is probably the thing that I find most annoying about this show. Rules don't apply to the Foster Adams family. We're just supposed to believe that they're such "good" people that every time they bend or break a rule, it's for the best. And that when they do screw up, it's supposed to be an understandable mistake, and not that they've done something truly wrong. It started with Jude is coming up short on his test scores, so Lena fudges the results. Then we get thing like, Stef saying that she didn't see Mike shoot an unarmed man, well ... okay, it was dark and the guy had just shot Stef moments before. But now, sometimes it's littler things, like Mariana can win a dance competition by using a light show, Brandon can play his own composition with a backing track. But then it's also things like, Stef blackmailing Robert and facing no repercussions for it, and they can all lie and cover up the relationship between Brandon and Callie. Brandon can take part in a false ID ring and I don't even recall any legal repercussions from that coming down on him.

Cece hit Ali, Mrs. D buried her. At some point the G came and pulled Ali out of the graves. Then Mona hit Bethany, mistaking her for Alison and Melissa (also thinking that it was Ali and that Spencer was the one who killed her) buried Bethany in the same hole that had been dug for Alison.

It's Cece, I'm shocked, SHOCKED! Well, not shocked.

I disagree on this point. Brandon is not any more equipped to deal with Callie's issues than Callie herself is. Even if he was a "normal" teen he wouldn't be, but I don't think that he's particularly emotionally healthy either, due to having an alcoholic father, and in the past year he's been raped by his father's live-in girlfriend and been violently assaulted. A lot of Brandon's less attractive character traits are pretty consistent with things that pop up in children of alcoholics. That includes a tendency to get wrapped up in unhealthy, drama filled relationships with people who repeat cycles of bad behavior, because that's what they know and grew up with. Bluntly put, Stef and Lena rather spectacularly dropped the ball in dealing with the whole situation because they were so focused in on making sure that they could adopt Callie. They've basically done nothing to try to provide Callie with the tools she needs to understand and deal with her issues. They seem to have done very little in terms of providing Brandon (or the twins) with therapy for having grown up as the children of addicts. I don't recall Callie (or Brandon) getting any therapy for being raped. The only person on the show who has actually expressed any understanding that Callie's behavior is a pattern, is Jude.

My guess is that Charles did hit Ali with the rock, but it was because he mistook her for Bethany, yellow tops and all that. Also think that Charles isn't actually responsible for the drowning/scalding baby Ali incident, it was one of the parents. They put Ali in the tub with the water running, got distracted by something and left her too long. Charles walked in and froze up because he was, like, 10, and the parent ended up putting the blame on him rather than take it themselves.

This is what happens when you save all the answers in your #SummerOfAnswers for one episode.

I can imagine Marleen thinking that Shower is a very popular love interest and that fans will be upset if she's revealed to have actually been acting as Charles all along.

Did you, by chance, type Marlene but mean Sara Shepard? Sara's certainly shown signs of trying to distance herself from the show's plot lines.

I don't think that Charles is anyone other than Charles. He's not really Big A or Uber A or whatever, he's either dead or a prisoner and A has taken his identity/story to screw with Alison and the Liars, or, at worst, he's a mental patient who is off his meds and being used manipulated by A/Red Coat in to attacking the girls.

One thing I find interesting about the Rita hitting What'sHerName story is that this is the first time I can recall that the show has presented a situation where we might not be expected to take the Foster kid's word at face value about something bad/abusive that happened off screen. It's interesting that it happens in the same episode where Callie is shown calling out her abusers* on the internet and naming their names. *Speaking of Callie naming her abusers, Callie lumping the judge in with Liam and the abusive foster father was way out of line, IMO. Her adoption was held up by the extreme circumstances of them finding her actual birth father, and now because of rules that she and Brandon knowingly violated. I know it's frustrating to feel like she doesn't have control of her own life, or whatever, but she should be very aware that these issues aren't coming from the judge. And naming his name while presenting a very limited story of what's happening is just irresponsible of her.

I almost choked at Stef saying that Brandon has always done the right thing. I guess that was the dynamic before the series started, but he's made a bunch of pretty awful decisions. Also thought that his "sorry to hear that buddy" to Jude was a nice enough but kind of a basic level reaction to finding out that Jude was having a bad day, but Stef acted like he'd shown the ultimate act of human compassion. I imagine that they're intentionally keeping Robert in the dark about the Brandon restraining order investigation, but it'd be nice to know. Why was it taking Stef so long to watch the security camera footage? She seemed to be just letting it play at normal speed instead of fast forwarding and stopping the video each time someone walked in to the store. Also, it really took Brandon to point out that if they didn't see the driver/car leaving, then the driver probably remained within the no camera area? I guess there's a reason why Stef and Mike haven't been promoted to detective ... ETA: The question of who hit who should be pretty easy. I don't think that you can punch someone hard enough to leave a mark like that without doing similar damage to your own hand.

How much more confident can Farkle possibly get? He's usually portrayed as completely over the top confident in himself and has a legion of admirers.

Cece actually broke up with Jason the day after Ali went missing.

I assume that the grandparents, and perhaps the priest, saw Mariana as god mother as a way to get her involved in the church/baptized, when there was otherwise no way it was going to happen.

The first 4B promo is out ... http://community.ew.com/2015/07/30/switched-at-birth-summer-premiere-first-look/ Apparently something is going to ruin Toby's life.

Plot twist: Jason was Beach Hottie.

I thought it was the same group ... Is that not the case?

So what are the odds that one of the C's in Cece stands for Carissimi? I get the Ali thing to a degree, she and Jason were both involved in some really shady stuff, and their own relationship was strained at best up until he told her that he believed that she didn't kill Mona. Now Jason and Ali actually seem pretty close (well, when he's on screen, they ignore that he exists for the 2 out of 3 episodes that Drew doesn't appear in), and the whole Charles reveal has probably made her realize just how screwed up their parents were. I think they're both holding out some hope that Charles is a sick person who needs proper psychiatric help, because Ali wants to believe that she (and Jason) actually deserves a second chance as well.

Once Callie is 18 she can live wherever she wishes and the road to adoption would be, similarly, much simpler. Which was why they had the ridiculous plan for her to secretly seek emancipation and be declared legally an adult during the whole dispute with Robert. As to dragging things out, this isn't like the custody dispute with Robert where the court had decided for her to keep living with Stef and Lena while she "got to know" Robert before the court made a decision so they could keep finding ways to delay the decision and she would continue staying with them. This time she's being removed from their home while the situation with Brandon is investigated and they need a decision (in their favor) in order for Callie to be able to live with them again before she turns 18. Stef had a line about the restraining order being "expunged", apparently she's been using her police connections and "professional courtesy" to get Brandon's records expunged and/or sealed . It's the only way that it makes even a little sense for it to have not come up before now. As to the foster brother pattern, the amateur psychologist in me wants to say that Callie getting involved with 2 foster brothers after Liam might be some sort of subconscious attempt to reclaim control over what Liam did to her.

Random theory: Charles is the product of an affair between Byron and Jessica. We already know that Mrs. D had an affair with Spencer's Dad that produced Jason, and we know that Byron has cheated on his wife. Aria's family having a history of violent mental illness is well established through Byron's side.