SPENCER HASTINGS

Spencer Hastings (Troian Bellisario) lives with her family's expectations looming over her head. Spencer's newly-engaged and condescending sister, Melissa, moves into the guest house which Spencer had been fixing up for herself. Spencer finds herself increasingly attracted to her sister's fiancé, Wren, whom "A" warns Spencer not to kiss or "A" will tell. Spencer and Wren do kiss and are caught by Melissa, who insists that Wren move out. Spencer starts dating a worker at the country club to which her family belongs, and later hides from her friends the news that her mother has breast cancer. Her field hockey coach is her sister's ex-boyfriend, Ian, who both Ali and Spencer had a crush on. Spencer and Ali were always competing. For example, Ali was on the Varsity team in 7th grade and Spencer wasn't. In the beginning of the series, Spencer was against Emily hanging out with Toby but eventually grew to like him and has been spending more and more time with him. In "A Person of Interest", they spend time together in a motel room, as seen as Spencer's parents have a hard time understanding her connection with Ali's murder. Spencer and Toby play scrabble, sleep in the same bed and eventually kiss near the end of the episode. In the following episodes, Spencer, after suspicion continues to take a toll on her, is told to stay away from Toby for her own good. She then makes an arrangement to see him in private at the town's festival, only to be sent a fake text (presumably from "A") telling her to meet Toby in the clown house. When she enters, she is locked into a small space. She is found by Ian, her mother, and her sister and when leaving she sees Toby and almost leaves without speaking to him, but she then rushes to him, hugs him and kisses him in front of her shocked family. Later on, she anonymously tells Ian to meet them in the woods with money as they say that they know his secret. However, Spencer and Melissa get into a car accident and Melissa is stuck in the hospital. Spencer goes to the church to get Melissa's phone as she left it there and Ian is in the church waiting. She starts running upstairs and Ian tries to attack her but a mysterious figure appears and pushes Ian off the side and he falls and dies. The rest of the girls arrive having been to the forest, and see the dead body and they call the police. Later on when the police arrive they go in and the body is not there, leaving the rest of the town to think that the girls are liars. Spencer had a huge fight with Alison ending their friendship by telling Alison "you are dead to me" the night she went missing. Melissa now thinks that Spencer has been texting her as Ian after finding his cellphone in her purse. In season 2, Spencer and Toby are dating.Toby does some yard work for the Hastings and digs up Spencer's old field hockey stick which she gave to Ali before she died. Spencer's father sees this and suspiciously takes the stick, and later burns it. After doing some further investigating, she reads Alison's autposy results and finds that she was struck in the head with an object similar to a field hockey stick. Spencer later discovers that Wren came back to Rosewood for her. In order to keep Aria away from Jason, Spencer will inform Ezra that they found pictures of his girlfriend Aria in Jason's shed.