#pll theory

Who is Bethany Young? I find it shady that we have never seen this girl’s face or any kind of flashback’s of her. The only time we heard her voice, it sounded exactly like the Sara Harvey we know now in Season 6.

Marlene and the producers have sworn that Alison will not have a twin in the show, which is stupid because the entire book series is about Alison and her sister Courtney. Uber A is Alison Dilaurentis. The only reason the four girls became friends in the first place was because Courtney stole Alison’s life and had to ditch her old popular friends and make new ones, which were the four liars and that’s why A tormented them.

The show has made tons of references of twins throughout the seasons, but since Alison won’t have a twin, that means someone else will.

I think it is going to be Bethany and Sara. I think the story about the twins in 2x13 is about them. My theory:

Sara Harvey = Real Alison Dilaurentis  & Bethany Young = Courtney Dilaurentis.

In the books, Alison was always jealous of Courtney because people liked her more than Alison. So she tricked her parents into believing that Courtney was crazy and a threat to Alison and they sent Courtney away to Radley and neglected her. The real Alison Dilaurentis was a bitch to everyone and hated by everyone. She sounds a lot like the old Sara Harvey before she went “missing”. The Bethany Young voice in the recording sounds kind and confused, reminds me a lot like Courtney and the “Alison” the girls knew. The Sara Harvey that shows up in Season 6 is very different than described by her friends to Hanna. Sure, she may have went through a lot, but their is still something very shady about her. Here is what I think happened…

I think that Bethany stole Sara’s life and tricked her into switching places, putting the real Sara Harvey in Radley where Bethany had been living all her life. I think the night Alison went missing, the real Sara found a way out of Radley, to seek out revenge on her sister and the real Bethany came out to Rosewood that night to face Sara. I think Charles knew the real Bethany and possibly grew up with her Radley and even had a close relationship/bond with her. Perhaps, Bethany told him all the stories about how Sara tormented her and tricked her parents into neglecting her and thinking she was crazy and when they switched places, he formed a fake friendship with Sara. I believe both Sara and Bethany were wearing the same outfit and the real Bethany was hit by the shovel by either one of the four girl’s that mistook her for Alison or maybe the real Sara and this greatly upset Charles because he cared for Bethany. Bethany is then pushed into the grave and buried alive by Melissa. This is when Charles takes Sara for his dollhouse, but when things don’t go as planned and the girls are rescued, Sara is released. However, I do not think she is the fragile girl she has been playing out to be. I think her being in that dollhouse for two years might has made her more crazy than she is leading on.

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.

So as I was saying before my hand cramped up, it’s 3 weeks later and conveniently we cut back to a media gathering that’s going to fill in those plot holes we have missed. The girls have been missing almost a month, the police know Mona is alive so Ali’s murder conviction has been overturned and Andrew ‘shady-mc-hottie-pants’ Campbell is the top suspect for the kidnapping but is on the run.

Ezra and Caleb are at the press conference looking pretty twitchy as Ali comes out to deliver a well-rehearsed plea to Andrew to not hurt the girls. She emphasises “My friends have always been my rock. Without them I am lost in the woods, totally alone.”

Sidenote: I wonder if any of the actual PLL crew are in this scene just doing their job. Like the sound guys who usually have to get out of shot but still crane their boom mics to pic up the sound are like “yup, just doing ma job guys nothing to see here.” Either that or there’s some awesome picture out there where you’ve got this weird box within a box type situation where we see a set of professional camera and sound crew filming and doing audio of a bunch of actors pretending to do those jobs in this scene. Just imagine the professional crew offering tips to their actor counterparts on their break like “you wanna hold the mic like this and angle it towards her like this. Yeah that’s way more realistic.” My production mind went on a bit of ramble there sorry, back to the ep.

Also it looks like Caleb has spotted the definitely somehow connected but annoyingly irrelevant twins Cindy and Mindy. This kind of ties back to my whole ‘Mona’s still shady af’ theory because the last we saw of these two they were being double agents for Mona. We were meant to believe Ali had won them over but then we saw them smiling as Ali went down for murder so that sorted that mystery out. Are they complicit in the bigger picture I wonder?

Back inside it’s revealed that Ali is playing bait so Tanner and the cop clang can lure Andrew to them. Agreeing to use a teenager as bait for a potential murderer/serial kidnapper… classy Rosewood PD antics. Tanner reassure’s Mr D that Ali will be protected by police 24/7 and that they know Andrew has been obsessed with the girls since Ali went missing. To end the scene, Toby and Ali exchange a ‘we’re up to something’ look (Toby’s got that bad boy I-was-A-once look about him in this shot).

Sidenote: We’ll find out about Andrew’s obsession with the girls later in the episode but at this point I’m kind of disheartened. I don’t think Andrew is Charles but if it turns out Andrew has been messing with the girls for years that feels like a storyline plucked out of thin air in Season 5. If it was going to be any of the background male characters surely it should have been Noel because he’s had the most involvement with the storylines, Ali and her enemies (he’s dated most of them). Or Lucas? Andrew’s character just has no real substance to him at this point.

So back in the dollhouse we see the mystery blonde prisoner who we are all thinking at this point has got to be either Sarah Harvey or a not-dead Bethany Young, am I right? Anyway she’s providing some creepy meals-on-wheels service for the liars. Spencer gets down and looks under the door (fairly certain there was room for her to look up and see it’s not Mona but anyway) they all start screaming “Mona help us!” “Mona is that you?” “Mona!” and blonde girl starts freaking out so she totters out of there with her trolley without feeding the other girls. Rude!

Cut back to Ali’s house where it’s evening now. They all freak out over the back door opening. The cops get their guns out and wait for the person to turn the corner. But it’s just Jason looking mighty fine. 

Do they think A is a fucking amateur? Yes he’s been torturing these girls for years, set up a fake murder that their dumbasses believed enough to send all 5 girls to prison for but he’s just going to let himself in through the back door and steal Ali away is he? 

Theory: I’m more of a CeCe is A kinda girl so I’m not sole on the whole Charles-is-Jason’s-twin theory just yet but I do appreciate it’d be genius if Charles has been pretending to be Jason this whole time. His own Dad thinks he’s a useless junkie but he’s actually this criminal mastermind with unlimited resources and has had everyone fooled for years. That’d show them! But for real I think the Jason twin theory is too obvious after 5x25… or are they betting on us discrediting this theory because it’s too obvious? God damn you PLL writers you’re in my head!

So just when everyones getting relaxed again Ali’s phone rings and it’s a blocked number. Let’s just take a second here. I think we can safely say that everyone under the age of 35 knows that this screen on an iPhone means you’re dialling out to someone. Is Ali banking on Tanner being so old that she doesn’t realise or are PLL seriously relying on their mainly teenage fan-base not knowing how a friggin iPhone works? Also update your iOS software Ali jesus - if you can have Emily and Hanna dance to Bang Bang by Jessie J and reference Disney’s Frozen we can safely assume the writers don’t give a fuck about keeping the mise-en-scene accurate for 2012. Update that skanky tech already!

In true A fashion we don’t hear a voice just a cryptic old song and Ali keeps him on the phone whilst Detective Barry Maple (in his flashy new “I got promoted” suit) traces the call to - wait for it - INSIDE THE HOUSE I REPEAT THE CALLER IS INSIDE THE HOUSE! A has some serious balls am I right?

So what do you do when you’ve got a potential psycho loose in the house? Hide the vulnerable target in a very accessible closet alone of course. I mean bravo Tanner, by these standards I think I could be a police officer. I loved the fact there was gift wrapping paper in there. I half expected to see Ali wrapped up as a present in the back of A’s car as he drove her off to the Dollhouse singing “Happy Birthday to Me.” Spoiler alert: that doesn’t happen!

Meanwhile upstairs Toby seems to have learnt everything he needs to know about holding his gun from the Police Academy films. He’s trying to act like a total bad ass in front of Tanner but when they find a a black hooded figure rocking in a chair in Ali’s room he looks like he’s legit going to shit himself. But it’s not A, it’s not even a person. It turns out it’s just a mannequin with a pig mask on - standard.

Sidenote: There’s lot’s of reoccurring themes and imagery in this show I might have to dedicate a whole other post to. On the subject of pigs though, Aria’s hand puppet Pigtunia makes a cameo later in this episode and remember that pig in Wilden’s car in the Season 3 finale? Hmm no coincidences in Rosewood Marlene tells us!

So Ali has made a run for it. This is the first of many times we see her running through the forest tonight. Tanner thinks Ali figured out Andrew wanted to meet her at the Campbell farm because the song playing over the phone earlier was ‘Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree’ (Toby says his mum use to play it to him). That’s right, the head of the police force is admitting a teenager outsmarted them. God I love this show, the adults are always so clueless!

Ezra and Caleb are waiting in a car nervously. You know they are nervous because they are both biting their finger nails. Genuinely, I’m not kidding. Ian Harding and Tyler Blackburn were like “how can we really convey our anxiety in this scene man? I want it to be really raw and authentic.” And they came up with synchronised nail-biting. 

Moving swiftly on, Ali gets in the car and we learn they’ve set the police up to go on a wild goose chase to the Campbell Farm thanks to a stellar act put on by Officer Toby might I say. So the dream team (comprised of an ex-couple and an ex-ghost hunter) have a plan: Ezra says “Are you sure Andrew would have got the message about the rock and being lost in the woods?” to which Ali replies “Believe me he’ll be at the kissing rock. He wouldn’t miss a chance to get his hands on me.” 

Theory: Ok so firstly Ali and the boys also seem convinced Andrew is A at this point but what’s more interesting is Ali seems sure he’ll meet her at the kissing rock. Was Andrew another one of Ali’s man-candy’s from back in the day? There must be some reason Ali thinks he’d get the message about meeting her there? Could he be the mysterious beach hottie? Did she see him at the kissing rock that night after Ian left? If so that means Aria has had 2 of Ali’s leftover boyfriends who are obsessed with her and end up stalking her and the liars… awkward!

The boys give Ali to a pair of boots (classy gents). These boots were made for walking… and specially fitted with a gps tracking device in the heel so they can follow where A takes her Caleb explains - #Codetastic.

PART 3 COMING UP…

Okay so this is the first sneak peak to Pretty Little Liars after the time jump (so when they’re five years older).

Marlene has said the following:

The liars’ wardrobe, hair and makeup reflects “where they are professionally in their lives,”

• “The girls lived a free life for 5 years. They have not been tortured or tormented by this anonymous cyber bully. They’re taking yoga now, they’re breathing. They have more time for extracurricular activities because they’re not being chased by an anonymous stalker.”
• “We made that decision so they would have a year to finish school and firmly root themselves into their desired careers”
• They’re "not different people,” but just “more grown-up versions of themselves.”
• “They still suffer from post-traumatic stress at times and we will hear as we go into the next season some stories about how what they’ve been through has still haunted them and affected the decisions that they make”

Things to take from this:

• Hanna’s wearing a ring - is she engaged/married to Caleb?
• Aria is still there, meaning nothing will be revealed about Aria being connected to A somehow in the summer finale (this is for all the Aria is A theorist, which includes me)! But don’t forget, the show is confirmed to make another season and a half, meaning they will have to have a strong ongoing storyline other than the girls simply working in their jobs. This means Aria (or anyone else for that matter) being connected to A somehow allows the writers to have enough material to make something out of that season and a half!
• Alison is not in the picture! Where could she be?
  

Okay so we’re all pretty familiar with this logo

 But look how the “CA” is designed in a way that they are joined together! 

So what if Charles and Aria are working together?

Perhaps Aria is Red Coat!

It would explain all the Aria is A and Charles is A theories

It would also give the producers enough material to create the other half of the series

Okay so I knew I recognised that design on Paige’s top (which she was wearing in the most recent pretty little liars episode)

I mean the design is so identical it can’t be uncanny

Thing is Aria as been seen carrying the kisses symbol very frequently

And she doesn’t just wear it on her clothes

But Aria isn’t the only one wear who carries the Kisses/Lips theme

And before you think the theme of lips and kisses doesn’t get any stronger, just remember how does A likes to end their messages every now and then…

It’s even in the introduction

Aria is the one usually carrying the kisses/lips theme so are the producers hinting that she’s A? Or are the messages from A tat end in kisses specifically sent from Aria? Many of us were thinking that the team could be separated by a Black and Red team, but what if its different? What if its more centered around the theme of kisses/lips! After all, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on the symbol…

Feel free to let me know what you guys think and check out my tumblr for any other theories Ive posted!

As I mentioned earlier before I am currently re-watching the new episode (and when i say i watching again after i originally watch it, i literally meant that)! Okay, so lets skip the introduction and get straight into it:

In the first 4 minutes of the episodes you see Mona on her bed reading a book! This book was titled “Le Grand Meaulnes”

It’s a french novel (which makes sense because, as we all know, Mona is great at french)! I did some research and this is what I uncovered:

• The main character disappears (Alison)
• The main character goes to a “nightly and magical costume party” where he met the girl of his dream

  

• The girl lives with her father and brother (Aria)
• The guy as one intention and that is to find the girl he as fallen in love with (When Ezra was A and wanted to hunt Alison)
• The narrator of the book became a school teacher (Ezra duh)
• The narrator comes across a handwritten diary (Alison wrote a diary)

  

So this was basically a sum up of the similarities between that novel and the show itself! As I’ve mentioned before, the producers don’t just add these little things for nothing and the similarities can’t just be uncanny! The novel puts a lot of attention on three characters: Ezra, Aria and Alison. Are the producers hinting something/foreshadowing future events! Could there be more to the link with Alison, Aria and Ezra? Feel free to let me know what you guys think! :)

Okay, so we all remember that recent episode where Mona and Aria have a conversation in the toilets, well this is one of the things Mona said…

Now that A is “finish[ed]” with Mona, A plans to next kill the girls in the next 2 and ½ seasons!

Btw I literally just finished watching 5x12 and I loved it so much that I’m watching it all over again right now. Yes, I know I’m obsessed. No, my obsession will never end.

So, as I am sure many of you are as well, I am spending my summer holidays watching back to back episodes of PLL. But I re-watching random episodes not just for the entertainment but to see if I can stumble upon any overlooked, frees clues. So instead of just rambling on I’m just going to get straight into it:

I was watching Season 5, Episode 2 and in the scene when Aria was laying down on her bed thinking about Shauna’s death, I noticed that Aria was reading a particular book. I immediately paused the show and took a mental note of the title (Paradise Lost).

I then typed it into google and.. well I’ve bullet pointed the rest so you can absorb this information faster:

• Paradise Lost centres around the story of Adam and Eve (Ezra and Aria) and how they committed sins (murder?) by eating from the forbidden tree. Adam mainly committed sins due to is love for Eve (this links quite well wit previous theories about how The Great Gatsby links with Ezra and Aria)
• Paradise Lost is also about the separation of Good and Bad (Heaven and Hell) and in that exact scene Aria was wearing this top which as You’re No Good written on top of it (suggesting that Aria is on the bad side, maybe?).

• The book also focuses on Eve (Aria) having many dreams and in that exact scene Aria was having dreams/thoughts about when she killed Shauna.

• After checking out google images I immediately found the similarities with the drawings about Paradise Lost and the drawings Bethany Young did of Mrs DiLaurentis! And as we all know the producers like to give away subtle hints here and there! After seeing how similar the drawings are I realised that this can’t be a mere coincidence.

(I found the picture above from here)

Feel free to expand upon this theory (credit would be really appreciated tho)! If I am not mistaken, I think I read somewhere (when I was searching about Paradise Lost) that there was a war or something, which links with other theories I’ve read before about there being two teams (pro Alison/against Alison)(Red/Black) and this links with the scene when Mona’s talking to a group of people about how they can bring Alison down (in other words, she’s building up an army) and even Melissa and Paige mentioned that something bad and big is planned to happened to Alison.

But hopefully this gets you guys thinking about more theories! If you did expand upon mine ten feel free to message me and let me know because I would love to check it out :)

Marlene and co have said we’ve sort of seen A.D before and my theory is that it alludes to us having seen A.D in flashbacks and stories.

The Alison we know now is nothing like the girl from those flashbacks but someone else is. A.D is just like flashback Alison. Collects and uses secrets to control and manipulate people. Also had a streak for wanting people to tell the truth like when she wanted Aria to tell her Mom about her dad and Meredith.

I’m stuck with it this long and I’m going to keep with it. Marlene has also said the show will come full circle and what better way than for flashback Alison to be A.D. I can only hope.

The liars get their places searched and phones confiscated by Tanner who is now in charge as Marco has excused himself.

Aria get a caught as black hoodie by the liars and is banished from the group

Spencer changes her outfits a lot and seduces Toby. Spencer twin vibes ? A little but it isn’t my favorite theory. This bugged me because he’s been a widower for less than a month. Just..no.

Emison finally went to the kissing rock as a couple.

Haleb got married

Mona has the game and I’m sure she will be the one to figure out who A.D is

Everyone except Mona gets laid in a montage style scene

The game is now CHOOSE or LOSE. One must plea for the others to go free.

Any one else think Alisons personality is missing ? She was the center of the mystery that started those whole show and now she’s part of the story with the Emison baby but that’s it. I think I compare her to flashback Ali who had a personality that stood out. Alison seems like a background character now. Just my opinion ! I know many may not agree.

A.D likes Aria.  Major Jason vibes only because of this! And they mentioned Ali went to see him in NY

I hate that I watch promos and read spoilers but I do. The promos give away all the big stuff. I already know what happens with Aria and cops for example.

There’s a lot of parallels for Mary and Spencer IF There’s a Spencer Twin. Seducing the twins man..Mary slept with Peter and it’s possible Spencer twin slept with Toby.

2 episodes left and we don’t have much new info. None at all on A.D.  newest fact is aria once filled out a report on Ezra. All original ships are coming together. I dislike how all of them are coming together, Emison is together because of this baby born out of a strange psycho ok with rape. Ali was unconscious and inseminated. That’s insanely rapey! I’m just floored that it’s not being called that. Don’t get me wrong, those two are adorable as fuck together. Wicked chemistry and some crazy history, there’s love but this baby isn’t some happy accident. I wish they had been flirting this whole season and finally gotten together or something. My rant on this is done now.

I’m disappointed we are not getting more mystery. The ships were never my favourite thing about the show I watch it for the mystery and I just hope the end is satisfying and that I’m going to rewatch these episodes and see things are clues one day that seem like nothing to me now. I hope to be floored. You know what they say though..hope breeds eternal misery.

I’m still for an Alison twin. It would come full circle. Alison as A. And the Alison we’ve seen with Emily is really the twin, possibly Bethany?   I think they will keep Emison so an Alison twin would make sense. Flashback Alison is A.D. The Alison that returned has always been Bethany the twin. We have seen A.D before but only in flashbacks.