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Well folks, I think Season 6B is really starting to hit its stride.

was firing on all cylinders tonight: The jokes were sharp and refreshingly self-aware, the Liars teamed up and leaned on each other for support, and we got more glimpses into the ways the Liars’ lives were irrevocably changed because of ‘A’s’ high school torture.

We open with a nervous Aria heading home to hear what Byron has to say. She enters her dark house, only to find him sitting on the couch all creepy, saying “Did I scare you?” Um, you scared ALL of us, Byron! But anyway, the tension is diffused quickly: Ella comes in, and it turns out they’ve gotten back together, with Ella sporting a shiny diamond ring to prove it. As they explain how and why they hid their relationship for a bit, Aria realizes that they were together on the night of Charlotte’s murder… which means Byron couldn’t have done it. Good news — but I still don’t like him. Old habits die hard.

Spencer and Caleb — still adorable and making a good case for their relationship to happen — are trying to figure out this new ‘A,’ or ‘B,’ or whatever we’re supposed to call the new texter. Caleb thinks they should go to the cops about the new texts (LOL, that’s not gonna happen). “That trash can of black hoodies?” he says. “It felt like someone was saying the rules have changed.” They debate whether it’s Sara Harvey or not: “Do you really think that it’s her hiding behind all those evil emojis?” (I laughed out loud.) “I don’t know. She can’t really type that well with her burnt hands… maybe a picture is easier to send?” Logical and funny, just the way I like it.

Emily is staying with Hanna at Lucas’ penthouse for a while. Looks like everyone’s getting a little sick of being at home, which makes perfect sense because they’ve all been living on their own for five years — another sign that the show is trying to be a little more realistic (uh, emoji-obsessed baddie aside). They discuss Aria’s parents: Hanna says, “If Byron and Ella do get remarried…” and Emily quips, “Did I miss the memo where we agreed to call parents by their first names now?” LOVE IT. Although I can’t remember how they really addressed each other’s parents before, aside from the occasional “your mom.”

Back at Ashley’s, Hanna is trying to get her mom to admit to stealing the backup hard drive. It’s just too big of a coincidence that the day Hanna confesses her guilt, the drive mysteriously goes missing, but Ashley won’t budge. “Just be grateful your mistake has been erased,” she says. Still, when Ashley leaves, Aria and Hanna ransack the place. Remember when Ashley used to hide things in boxes of food? Yeah, she knows better now. Hanna’s trying especially hard to find it because ‘A’ — or as Caleb and Spencer dub it, Evil Emoji, which actually makes sense because that’s how they’re signing off their texts — asked for it. “Did I just let Sara Harvey trick me into trashing every room in my mother’s house?” Hanna asks. Not sure, but they realize that the fact that Evil Emoji thinks they have the drive is a card they can play to their advantage.

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Spencer has a mysterious lunch date with “Gil” in her calendar, but when she arrives at the restaurant, who arrives to meet her? Yvonne — Toby’s girlfriend and Veronica Hastings’ opponent’s daughter. Yvonne apologizes for being late, but explains that the campaign aide who updates her calendar didn’t put Spencer’s contact information in, so she couldn’t warn her that she was running behind schedule. Yvonne also seems to be under the impression that it was Spencer who scheduled the lunch — so Spencer rolls with it and pretends she just wanted to pick Yvonne’s brain. They have a nice lunch, talking about privacy and living in the public eye. Yvonne says she guesses trust must be hard for Spencer, given what she went through. “I wasn’t out in the world very long before I realized my entire sense of people was warped,” she says. “I had to pound myself into shape.” Am I the only one wishing we could have some flashbacks from events in the past five years? I’m so curious about things like Caleb and Hanna’s breakup, or Spencer reading her college paper to Ezra. Although I guess if we were meant to see those scenes, we wouldn’t have had a time jump in the first place.

Anyway, once lunch is over, Yvonne has to jet fast, and when she leaves Spencer finds a phone under the table. Instead of turning it in, she takes it back to Caleb, confessing: “I did something not entirely out of character… but out of practice.” What did I tell you?! The writing was phenomenal this week!! Hanna is also there at Caleb’s because they’re trying to figure out how to get a fake hard drive to Evil Emoji. But when Spencer shows up, she leaves quickly.

We haven’t seen Charlotte’s psychiatrist Dr. Elliott Rollins — and Ali’s future husband — in a few weeks (just so you all know, I met him when he came to EW’s office and he is a solid 11x more beautiful in person, so I approve), but he’s back to talk with Emily about Ali. Unfortunately, when he sees her fertility clinic paperwork, she gets angry and kicks him out.

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