11 Comprehensive 'Pretty Little Liars' Theories That Lead to A's True Identity

I’m a little skeptical about Ezra being A. While it would have been a fantastic twist for this season, I doubt that the writers would give away a major A candidate so easily. That being said, there’s no way that the writers will pull another Toby-esque twist. Fans think that Ezra might not BE A, but may be on the A payroll, much like CeCe Drake. Another twist is that Ezra isn’t board shorts at all, but a friend or relative of the guy Ali was hooking up with. Maybe Ezra doesn’t want Alison for himself, but is planning on finding her and delivering her to someone who does want to hurt her.

There’s no doubt that Mona was A at one point, but during Season 3’s fire, she admitted that she didn’t know who red coat was. Plus, Mona did make an effort to save Hanna’s mother from prison. Could she be working with Ezra to protect the liars from him or someone else who wants to hurt them?

While we aren’t sure if she’s joking with The Daily Edition or not, Tammin Sursok who plays Jenna on Pretty Little Liars hinted that we would find out that someone has a twin sister. While Alison is the main suspect here as she did have a twin in the book series we don’t think that the show will go the same route. Who else could have a secret twin? There are tons of options, but fans are suspecting that it could be Ezra (maybe his twin sister is someone we already know, like CeCe Drake), Aria, or even Spencer.

What if Spencer is — gasp! — wrong about Ezra? There’s another suspect on the Board Shorts list who is almost as suspicious. There are approximately a million clues to suggest why Holbrook is not to be trusted, even outside of the fact that he’s a cop in Rosewood and therefore not to be trusted by default. Remember in the Halloween episode, when Aria found suits in the closet of A’s lair? Holbrook looks mighty good in a suit. While we aren’t sure of the motivation, we do know that Holbrook was part of the team that helped put Hanna’s mom behind bars for a little while, and that seems a tad suspicious to us. His interest in James Patterson novels strikes us as a little bit odd as well… but not as much as his interest in the underage Hanna does.

In this week’s episode, Spencer suspected Alison of framing her former friends for something. Someone already framed the girls for Alison’s death by having them find the shovel. What if Ali is looking to frame them for something bigger — say, a murder of one of Alison’s enemies?

The dementia patient Dr. Palmer told Toby and Spencer to keep Toby’s mother away from “the blond girl,” which sounds like Alison to us. Plus, we recently learned that Mrs. DiLaurentis was on the Board of Directors at Radley, and that Spencer’s dad desperately wants to keep Radley from closing. We know that Toby’s mother “fell” off the roof while another patient was up there with her… but we don’t know who that is. Could it have been Alison, or at least someone close to her? Could it have been CeCe Drake after she got kicked out of UPenn and had a breakdown? Either way, all roads would lead back to Ali D.

There’s a whole lot of speculation about the new guidance counselor who seems to have inexplicably appeared at Rosewood High just as Ezra started acting sketchy. He’s already tight with Mona and Aria’s brother Mike (whom the show has decided now exists again) which is pretty strange in our book. Could he be A-Team material? Only time will tell.

Could Wren be the guy that Ali is afraid of? While we’re not convinced that his adorable accent and boyish charm screams killer, he definitely has some skeletons in his closet. Though we haven’t seen much of Wren since Mona’s quick stint in Radley, we definitely got the vibes that he was up to no good. He drew a picture of a girl in a red coat (creepy!) and even Mona doesn’t seem to trust him. Plus, his medical pad turned up in A’s lair recently, making us think that if Wren isn’t Board Shorts, he might actually be A.

In Spencer’s imaginative noir state, Ali confronts Spencer and asks if she should be the one that Ali is really afraid of. Later she quips that Spencer already tried to have Ali killed once. While we assumed that was a snide comment about her spying on Emily, what if Spencer really did try to hurt Ali before her disappearance and blocked it out of her memory? We know that Spencer has a history with mental issues and she’s currently on a whole bunch of drugs.

There’s a whole group of fans online who think that Aria is, in fact, A. Why? Well for one thing, Aria has been the least targeted by the A-Team (at least compared with liars like poor, almost-ran-over-in-the-middle-of-her-living-room Emily.) Some fans even suggest that Aria and Ezra have been playing a Bonnie-and-Clyde type game with one another this whole time! Would the show really make a liar the one that they currently fear the most?