Spoilers ahead for all episodes of ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars including the Season 3B premier “She’s Better Now” (3×14). You’ve been warned, happy reading.
The Liars – Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer
The past two times I’ve created one of these Pretty Little Liars suspect lists I’ve been wrong, so I am not going to even try to pretend I know what is going on anymore, but as of right now I still don’t think Aria, Hanna, Emily, or Spencer are working with “A”.
Although if I had to pick someone it would be Aria, because of her name and because the harassment started when her family returned from Iceland.
Who Is A? Currently… Mona and Toby
At the end of the second season finale, “unmAsked” (2×25), Mona became the first confirmed “A” on the show. However, it was also apparent that someone else was calling the shots and about half a season later in the episode “Lady Killer” (3×12), we learned that Toby is in fact on the “A” team too.
When Season 3B starts up Mona will be released from Radley Sanitarium and I guess we will start to learn about whether Toby is really against the Liars or is more nobly working inside the belly of the beast.
The Parents – Hastings, Montgomery, Marin, and Fields
In the second Halloween special, “This is a Dark Ride” (3×13), we learn from Garrett that Alison and Byron Montgomery had a confrontation on the night she died. So Aria’s Dad will be in the hot seat when new episodes return.
Spencer’s parents have also looked a bit suspicious. They did some lying of their own to supposedly protect Melissa when everything with Ian and her pregnancy were going down and of course we know that Jason DiLaurentis is actually Spencer and Melissa’s half brother [“The Naked Truth” (3×19)].
In terms of who is innocent, I think Aria’s mom Ella and Hanna’s mom Ashley are on the up-and-up. They’ve at least shown awareness and concern about this anonymous texter and Emily’s parents are barely ever in PA so they have a pretty good alibi.
N.A.T Club – Garrett, Melissa, Ian, Jenna, Jason
Either they were never really good friends or “A” has it out for them too, because two of the five members of the N.A.T Club are dead. While it’s probably true that they were messing with Alison, even on the day she died, I think it’s still pretty unclear as to any of their roles in her death.
The only things we do know for sure are that all of them were in her bedroom earlier in the afternoon, at some point in the evening Alison was with Ian, she also had a verbal and fake-violent confrontation with Jenna and Garrett, and that Jason doesn’t have any memory of that night. We also know that Melissa was the Black Swan in the second season finale “unmAsked” (2×25) but that hasn’t really gone anywhere if I recall correctly.
Jenna is an interesting wildcard though. She was blind when Alison was killed so I don’t think she did it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we learn that she is on the “A” team. After all, she loves Toby and hates all of the Liars.
Suspicious Activity – Ezra, Wren, Noel Kahn, and Lucas
Sketchy behavior and suspect timing has these four characters on this list. They always seem to be lurking or show up conveniently after something big has just gone down.
Personally I think Lucas was one of the two characters trying to push the box containing Aria off the moving train in “This is a Dark Ride” (3×13). I suppose we will just have to wait and see if he has any visible wounds on his hands to confirm that guess. We do know that Alison made his life miserable and was friendly with Mona though.
Others – Mike, Caleb, Cece, Holden, Paige
Aria’s brother Mike has barely been around this season so he is looking less and less guilty as time goes by. Cece has likewise been a mostly peripheral player.
Caleb and Holden weren’t even in Rosewood when everything with “A” started, so for now I am going to hold onto hope that Caleb is as nice as he seems.
Paige is another wildcard as she is a bit aggressive and on occasion violent. Plus, in the episode “Single Fright Female” (3×11), Pretty Little Liars revealed that she was also ‘tortured’ by Alison on a regular basis. But Mona and Toby were initially trying to set her up to take the fall for Maya’s murder and she came to Spencer’s rescue when a masked party go-er was attacking her on the train during “This is a Dark Ride” (3×13). That is why she is on the innocent until more guilty-looking list.
Alison’s Twin?
I wrote about this outlandish theory in my last PLL suspect list, but it still hasn’t been proven wrong so I figured it was worth mentioning again.
Not only does Alison tell a ‘scary’ story about twin girls, one of whom is locked away in a mental hospital in “The First Secret” (2×13), but there is also a picture hanging on the wall of Alison’s bedroom that shows two girls and Jason.
I know, the picture itself isn’t exactly convincing, but at the bottom of the photo is an inscription that apparently says something along the lines of ‘double the laughter and double the trouble with twins’ – so there’s that…
Dead – Ian, Maya, Nate and Garrett
And last but not least are the people we can for sure cross off of this list.
Ian and Garrett presumably died at the hands of “A”, or a member of the “A” team for that matter.
Maya was killed by her crazy stalker, not-really-cousin, Nate. And he was killed by Caleb and/or Emily in an epic lighthouse* showdown in the Season 3A finale “The Lady Killer” (3×12).
So who else do you think is on the “A” team? Sound off in the comments section below, I’d love to hear your theories.
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*I live in NJ and have actually visited all land-based lighthouses in the State and while there are no lighthouses in either Bayhead or Belmar, they are actually both real beach towns.
