"Bedlam" is the second episode of the seventh season of the mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars, which aired on June 28, 2016, on the cable network Freeform.
Mary (Andrea Parker) drives an abused Hanna (Ashley Benson) home, while commenting on secrets and disturbing families.
Spencer (Troian Bellisario) and Emily (Shay Mitchell) reveal to Hanna everything about Mary, confirming that she was a patient at Radley Sanitarium, and is Jessica DiLaurentis' twin sister.
Caleb and Aria reveal that they suspected of Alison, and Hanna asks Spencer for something more powerful than coffee.
Meanwhile, Emily receives a disturbing call from Alison, who is begging for help as a nurse tries to remove the cellphone from her hands.
At the Montgomery family house, Aria and Liam (Roberto Aguire) discuss about the turbulent end of their relationship.
Neither is happy with what happened, and, plus, Liam reveals that he's the editor of the book that was co-written between Aria and Ezra, putting more wood on the fire.
A busy Hanna talks on the phone with somebody else, and, after ending the calling, she realizes that somebody put a drink on her napkin, which had an important number written on it.
Aria, Emily and Spencer go talk with Elliott in order to gain the opportunity to visit Alison, and he continues to deny it.
While Elliott is talking with someone on the phone, the girls receive a new message from “A.D.” and they realize that the stalker maybe is not so far as they think.
Hanna is then shown inside Jordan's office, and she invites him to have a drink on the same bar they were on the night they first met.
In New York City, Hanna and Jordan arrives at a closed Columbus bar — the local were they first met.
Back at the hospital, Emily sends a text to the girls, asking what is happening between Mary and Elliott, since she saw their shadows during a "fight."
The episode was written by the series' executive producer Joseph Dougherty and directed by Tawnia McKiernan.
[9] While writing for TV Equals, Mark Trammell gave a mixed review for “Bedlam”, commenting: “So, definitely more of a transitional episode, with the mission being more to shed light on certain things rather than move the plot forward in any significant way.
While episodes like this can often be meh, this one wasn’t, simply because the information that we did get was so juicy and the acting was rock solid across the board.