#aria montgomery

In 4x24, Alison told everyone her story on what happened the night she went “missing”. We see her running around town being a brat in her infamous yellow top, get hit with a rock in front of her mom, get buried alive by her mom, etc.

We are certain that two other girls were wearing the exact same outfit that night for unknown reasons. Cece Drake was confirmed as one of the females and Bethany Young was confirmed as the other when she was buried alive by Melissa. We know that Cece liked to impersonate Alison in the past. Key note: We never actually see Bethany’s face in the show and I think this is for a reason the producers aren’t saying. Sara Harvey is a girl who went missing the same night as Alison and was later seen in the dollhouse wearing that same infamous outfit, but we aren’t 100% how plays into that night quite yet. 

In the 1x01, you see the girls having alcohol. On the most important night in PLL history, the four liars are now intoxicated with an unknown amount of alcohol.

Secondly, Alison reveals that she gave the girls her mom’s sleeping medication so she could sneak out. She is seen stealing her mother’s prescription that is labeled, “sedative sleep aid” which could be anything from Ambien (Zolpidem) to Restoril (Temazepam), but it literally could be anything and doesn’t really matter because a sedative will have similar side effects.

A small lesson in pharmacology, I’m going to use Ambien as my example since it’s a very commonly prescribed sleeping medication and like I said, the side effects are similar throughout most sedatives.

Zolpidem may cause series side effects, including:

You may get up out of bed while not being fully awake and do an activity that you do not know you are doing. The next morning, you may not remember that you did anything during the night. That is in bold on the medication guide. Reported activities include: driving a car (“sleep driving”), sleep walking, making and eating food, talking on the phone, having sex. Symptoms include more outgoing or aggressive behavior than normal,confusion,agitation,hallucinations, suicidal thoughts or actions, memory loss, anxiety. You have a higher chance of doing these activities if you drink alcohol or take other medicines with zolpidem.

Now the reason I posted the above about all the medication information is because I think it plays an important part.

Let’s move on to Spencer. Spencer was also on medication. She was on an amphetamine (stimulant) of some sort, whether it be Adderall, Ritalin, etc.

We know that because it’s a stimulant and mixed with a sedative, the drug interaction cancel each other out, allowing her to be awake that night.

But because she also had the sedative and alcohol in her body, it can cause memory loss and other major side effects like listed above. So far, she is the only one confirmed that was fully awake that night out of the four girls. Not only is it confirmed by Alison, which isn’t really a reliable witness based on Alison’s track record for honesty, but we see it ourselves in 1x01, Melissa sees her with the shovel and arguing with Alison, and their is a photograph of Spencer chasing Alison. 

Spencer also has flashbacks/memories of chasing after Alison with a shovel and hitting her in the head.

Emily also has a similar flashback/memory. However, it deemed not real and only a hallucination created by trauma because Alison is not dead after all and Alison wasn’t hit with a shovel, but a rock.

Was it only a hallucination or real memories? We aren’t sure. Or perhaps it was a partial hallucination and she did hit someone, but it wasn’t Alison, just someone she mistook for Alison; after all, their were a total of 3… possibly 4 girls running around the same area with the exact same outfit and they all had similar appearances.

And it was confirmed that Bethany Young’s murder weapon was a shovel, but she died from suffocation. Alison also reassured that it wasn’t Spencer who hit her or Alison because Spencer was sound asleep in the barn, but is she telling the truth? Alison claiming that Spencer was sound asleep doesn’t make sense and add up with Melissa’s story or what we see in 1x01 when Aria wakes up and it’s dark outside, asking where is Ali and Spencer and Spencer walks into the barn all dazed and confused after wandering around outside saying she looked for Alison everywhere and she thinks she heard her scream. Spencer did not appear like she slept at all that night. Which means that either Spencer went back to sleep for a few short minutes and woke up again or never went back to sleep to begin with and Alison lied. After all, Alison is the only one alive who can testify on what happened that night and seems to breathe lies. The minute she had the opportunity to tell the truth to the police alongside the four liars, she spun a huge story about being kidnapped and forced the liars to play along.

In episode, 1x11 a lot is revealed.

First, this is where we are first shown a clue that Alison is alive and she tells us so plainly even though we do not even realize it.

“I was so scared that you were going to die… that’s why I came back. I didn’t care how dangerous it was, I had to see you.” -Alison

Hanna asks Alison about what happened to her after she left the barn and that they all want to know.

“You already do. The four of you combined. You remember more about that night than you think you do.” -Alison

Why would she imply that if they didn’t do anything that night except be intoxicated as well as drugged, causing them to simply sleep through the entire night like she claims in her Season 4 revelation? Apparently the four of them combined should have memories of that night on what happened. Perhaps, Alison didn’t know what would happen when she put those sleeping pills in their drinks. Maybe she didn’t know it would give them amnesia and maybe even worse, cause things like aggression or sleep walking? It was after all decision to she made at the last minute to sneak out of the house because her mom was forbidding her to leave all the sudden without reason. I just know their is more to the story involving the four girls and that night. Something that would allow this Uber A or Charles to hate the four girls so much and torment them all those years. Because if you calculate Alison’s timeline of that night along with Melissa’s story of her accidentally killing Bethany to protect Spencer, it doesn’t make sense and all add up. Someone is leaving something out. “A” doesn’t just torment you, kidnap you, and try to kill you multiple times because you’re simply high school friends with someone… that’s amateur and we all know it. Their is a real reason behind all of this.

Aria was the first to wake up that night and the least tortured out of the four liars. She also had a lot of clues to split personalities by using mirrors, keeping huge secrets, etc throughout the seasons. I think she is more involved in some way. I think if she is not on the A team, than all of those clues imply that Aria is guilty of something. 

In the books, Aria pushed an Alison look-alike off the roof of a building and killed her so I would not be surprised if Marlene decided to take that story and change it up a bit like she did with Mona being the first A.