At the end of this week’s Pretty Little Liars premiere, the Liars’ longtime foe Jenna was shown reading a book, written in Braille and presumably given to her by the person who kidnapped her at the end of “The DArkest Knight.” Jenna initially seems frightened by her situation, but after she begins reading, her face slowly breaks into a grin and she looks pleased. Whatever she read has convinced her that aligning with this person might get her what she wants too — the total of the destruction of the Liars. According to Jenna, at least one word on the page is “endgame,” but since there’s a whole binder full of pages there, “endgame” can’t possibly be the only word she read. So what else does it say?

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The main difficulty you encounter trying to read Jenna’s book is an obvious one: Even if you’re sighted, it’s hard to read Braille without touching it. Braille is printed on both sides of the page, which makes it hard to tell which dots are on which side when you’re looking at it rather than feeling it. I emailed Rose Angelocci, PhD, the rehab training specialist and Braille instructor at the Training, Resource, and Assistive-Technology Center at the University of New Orleans, to find out if she could assist in deciphering Uber A’s binder of horror. She and her colleague Kenneth Lacho, a rehabilitation instructor, worked together on translating the visible parts of Jenna's page, and this is what they came up with:

FRONT OF PAGE

First line at top: earth

Second line: water vapor drop dampens



BACK OF PAGE

End of first line: ___oulder colleague ___not Solomon & others

End of second line: science

None of these words, you’ll notice, are “endgame.” Angelocci also added that she thinks the book might be “some kind of science-related text,” like an article or excerpt from a textbook, and “could just be some random Braille used as a prop in the show.” Wouldn’t that be just like PLL, to leave you Googling “how to read Braille” for hours only to find out that the Braille on the page isn’t even relevant to A.D.’s plans for the Liars?

According to another source, Jenna has a somewhat interesting method of reading Braille. Marilyn Rea Beyer, the media and public relations director at Boston’s Perkins School for the Blind, described Jenna’s methods to a Braille reader at the school and had this to say: “In fact, the woman in the film clip cannot possibly be ‘reading’ the page, since a Braille reader uses one index finger, methodically tracing each line, left to right, just like traditional print readers. The woman in the video is simply feeling the page with both hands and all fingers.”

The only explanation I can come up with for any of this is that Uber A’s plans for the Liars go way beyond revenge. What if all these science words are actually a clue that A’s “endgame” involves the entire world? Is the endgame … nuclear war? I’ve taken this too far, haven’t I?

Update 4/20, 4:12 p.m.: Jackie Sheridan, vice president of production for the National Braille Press, offered some additional information about Jenna's Braille-reading skills, as well as the text she was given by Uber A. Sheridan says some Braille readers do read with both hands, starting with their left hand and moving to the right as they get to the other side of the page, but do usually use their index fingers to read the symbols. "It’s different for every Braille reader and all Braille readers read differently," she says, "but it is possible to read that way."

Sheridan's colleagues also came up with a similarly earth-themed transcription of Jenna's text and actually tracked down an article from which it appears to be taken. The words on Jenna's pages are very similar to those in a 2010 Science News article about water vapor in the atmosphere causing global warming to slow; the full text of that article is available here (and does include the name Solomon, which explains a lot about Angelocci and Lacho's translation). The article does not include the word "endgame" at all.



So basically, if you were hoping that Jenna's book was going to help solve the mystery of Uber A, you'll have to look elsewhere for clues. Unless, of course, Uber A is orchestrating a plan to stop climate change altogether and somehow needs the tears of the Liars to do it. You never know!

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Eliza Thompson senior entertainment editor I’m the senior entertainment editor at Cosmopolitan.com, which means my DVR is always 98 percent full.

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