Byron is A Theory

Okay … let’s talk about Byron Montgomery.

We know he is very capable of blackmail and keeping secrets.He also used his own daughter to keeps his lies and adultery a secret from his wife. Basically, he’s not a very stand-up guy as it is.

He drinks the same vodka as A.

As I’ve said for both Wren and Ezra … one member of the A team has to be old enough to drink alcohol, rent apartments, look at houses to buy, and purchase plane tickets … this A member could easily be Byron.

There’s the ever so popular handwriting “coincidence” … Byron’s handwriting is identical to Ian’s suicide note and Jason’s creepy letter.

He decided to move to Iceland for a year after Ali’s disappearance … why?

I mentioned this in the Ezra theory … but the famous book ‘Lolita’ is about a middle-aged English teacher falling for a younger girl. This “teacher” in Ali’s life could easily be connected to Byron. She could have been so attached to this book because she had been living it, and her older man might have been Byron.

There is a lot of support that Ali and Byron had an affair …

Byron has a history with affairs … most likely not just Meredith

The earring Ali found in the couch was not Meredith’s, my guess it that it was Ali’s.

Ali’s diary entry mentioning Byron gives numerous clues to their affair: “he’s cute but old” … “slept together” … “he owes me” …

The fact that Ali did not look surprised whatsoever that Byron was making out with some chick in the back of his car (although she did get very mad)

We know that Ali was into older guys and Byron was into younger girls who were not his wife

The fight they were having in the Halloween episode shows that they had a relationship that wasn’t what it should be

He could have killed her because she was going to expose his affair with Meredith, or she was going to end their relationship, or he wanted to end their relationship but couldn’t because she had something on him, or he just got sick of her games. I think those may be the only reasons he would have to kill Alison (unless there is more we don’t know about Byron). There are a lot of characters whose pasts are still very mysterious. We don’t know what many of the characters relationships with Alison truly were … Byron’s was basicallyrevealed to us in the Halloween episode.They were together, and they were fighting. The fight sounded like much more than a friend’s dad to a daughter’s friend fight (and I’ve never even seen or had a fight like that before anyway)

Put these clues together and you get an affair with a teenager, a private fight, a mysterious death, and then the man involved in the affair/fight flees the country. With those facts alone… Byron looks completely guilty of murdering Alison. Or at least thinking he did. And I personally think that whoever killed Alison is also apart (or at least somewhat involved with) the A-team. Simply connecting all the facts like that makes Byron an obvious choice as A-team member.

Being apart of the A team would help make sense why Byron hates Ezra so much. The A-team knows practically everything about everybody. And it’s quite obvious Ezra has a few secrets … if Byron is apart of the A-team, he probably knows those secrets, and it is because of what he knows that he wants Aria to stay away. What I don’t get though is what those secrets could possibly be that would cause so much hate. I’ve always thought Ezra’s big secret was that he is apart of the A-team. But as I’ve said many times before there are certain people who, I feel, CAN NOT be on the A-team together and for me, Byron and Ezra could not be on the team together. So Ezra must be hiding something else if Byron truly is on the A-team. Maybe Ezra knows Byron is on the A-team and Byron is trying to get him out town before he can tell Aria about it. (Okay now I’m just literally making guesses now, I have no proof to that)

I just can’t stand how hypocritical Byron is about Ezra and Aria’s relationship when he did the EXACT same thing, except he was married so it’s almost worse (I realize Aria is a minor so that’s still is pretty bad, but come on!) Their relationship is not a good enough reason to want to ruin Ezra’s life, because Byron could be fired for doing the same thing that Ezra did. That’s why I think there is more to Byron and Ezra’s relationship. They know something about each other or are connected in some way. I really feel like they might have a past (or at least know about each others past)

One thing about Byron that I’ve always wondered about is his relationship with Ashley Marin. In the episode 1x09, The Perfect Storm, he was hitting on Ashley. They made a date in the dark (and then cancelled it when the power came back on). But what was with that. Marlene has said over and over again that everything in the show has a purpose… so I want to know what was the purpose of that relationship? (I’d also like to know what the purpose of the short Ella-Ezra thing was… but that’s a question for another day)

Another thing that always gets me with Byron was the quick mention of a brother. When Mike was going through the depression stuff/breaking into houses and apartments, Byron implied that he had a brother who suffered from depression or some kind of mental illness. He said when he looked at Mike crawled up in a ball under blankets in a dark room … he saw how his brother used to be. What is with all these random siblings that show up or are just mentioned out of the blue. Once again, everything in this show has a purpose. Was the purpose of mentioning a brother with a mental illness possibly to foreshadow that a Montgomery stayed at Radley? Radley is a mental institution… possibly Byron’s brother got sent there. That could possibly connect a lot of people together. It’s just an idea, but if the twin theory is true or the theory about Jenna staying at Radley is true … then the fact that another (minor) character stayed at Radley could be a big deal. OR maybe Mystery-brother Montgomery stayed at the same place Wren’s dad stayed. And that could connect Byron with Wren! This brother that was mentioned for only about 10 seconds could be important in connecting different characters pasts.

One thing no one can deny is that Byron has lots of secrets and likes to keep them hidden (just like Ali) … he has a past that still creates a lot questions, and the answers to those questions could reveal a lot. Byron is an important character… but it’s hard to say just how important he is for the A-team.