Are you confused after 6x20? You’re not alone.

I think I have solved the entire show. Everything.

In this master theory post, I explain:

- who is Mary Drake?

- was CeCe lying in 6x10? To what extent?

- did CeCe know she is adopted or did she think that was her immediate real family?

- who killed Jessica?

- why was Jessica killed?

- who killed Charlotte?

- why was Charlotte killed?

- who is Bethany Young?

- what is Rollins up to?

- who is Uber A?

This took forever and a day to prepare. I came across so many plot holes when writing this that contradict me, but I worked a way around them ALL. I think this is a very consistent and possibly true theory.

WARNING: it is VERY, VERY long. But it’s ALL relevant; answer after answer after answer.

Not going to waste anymore of your time. Please, ENJOY!

First things first: I need to define the basics. This has already been revealed, nothing new, but this can get messy if there’s confusion here:

Jessica + Ken = Alison

Jessica + Peter = Jason

Mary Drake (+ unknown, irrelevant male) = Charles.

Jessica and Ken adopted Charles.

So, twins are involved now! The writers introduced a twin to redefine everything we thought we know. The first way they’ll do this is with the following plot twist:

Mary buried Alison, not Jessica.

Mary buried Alison because Mary wanted to protect her daughter Charlotte who had just attacked and basically killed Alison (luckily by Mrs. Grunwald, she didn’t die). Mary wanted to cover up her daughter’s attempted murder, so she ‘got rid of the evidence’ of her daughter’s crime. Mary paid off Wilden to keep quiet.

How do I know it was Mary and not Jessica who buried Ali?

It’s just so twisted. No mother would EVER bury their own child. There must be more to the story. Marlene has said that we have seen the twin one other time. I really think this is that one other time. (Well we’ve seen this scene re-enacted twice now, once in 4x24 and again in 6x10, but it counts as one time; one scenario, one event, one time.) Charlotte stood by the person burying Ali saying “I swear I didn’t know it was Ali, mom” (6x10). Keyword in bold! I fully believe Charlotte KNEW she was adopted, and I will give evidence of this later, please keep reading. The giveaway that Mary buried Ali is Charlotte’s use of ‘mum’! I find it hard to believe that Jessica would bury her own biological daughter just to protect her adopted child. Yes, adopted children are just as much of the family as biological children, don’t misquote me here or quiz my morals, but we need to stay realistic. With some people, we’ll have to agree to disagree with this dot point that it’s a tiny bit hard to believe that Jessica chose her adopted child Charlotte over her biological child Ali.

MARY BURIED ALISON.

Mary’s thoughts: “I haven’t been a very good mother thus far, here’s my chance to really help and protect my daughter when she needs me”.

We all remember Jessica who was standing inside her house and saw Charlotte hit Ali. This is when Mary intervened and stopped Jessica before she could run outside and do anything about it. Call it a mini kidnap or whatever floats your boat. Tied up, hand-cuffed, whatever; that’s not relevant. Jessica couldn’t do anything about the fact that she just watched her daughter get ‘killed’. Mary took over at this point.

“We’re not so certain your daughter is in that grave”, said Holbrook to Jessica in 4x23.

“Well I am”, replied Jessica, because from the window, Jessica saw Charlotte hit Ali and then knew Mary covered it up by burying her. This is NOT in reference to Jessica herself burying Alison, because that didn’t happen!

Jessica wanted to get her revenge for what Mary did to Ali:

Jessica killed and buried Mary in 4x24.

Marlene has confirmed CeCe buried Jessica Mary hence the black hoodie in the photo below, but it has not been revealed who actually killed her. Remember, the killer left the body lying outside the house (second picture below), to which CeCe found and was crushed to learn she was killed - she buried her, but didn’t kill her.

Again, CeCe cried when she discovered the body saying “mum, mommy, you can’t leave me!” There is proof she knew of the adoption, so she didn’t mistakenly call her mum Jessica. She knew MARY was the one who died.

After watching 6x20, that statement probably makes no sense because didn’t we just see Mary alive? Please keep reading, I’m going to explain everything!

Notice the timing - how Jessica got her revenge on Mary by killing Mary right after she found out at the police station in 4x24 that Ali is alive. So, Jessica killed Mary not only for revenge for burying her daughter Ali and putting her through hell, but also because if Ali came back home alive, investigations would commence as to what truly happened that night, and Mary has identical DNA to Jessica, so the cops may think Jessica did it! Jessica was in danger, and so was Ali; maybe Mary will strike again, thinking: “damn, that bitch survived, we need to end this before she comes back to Rosewood and confirms the police’s theory that she’s alive and before we get questioned”. It’s safest if Mary goes, thought Jessica.

Doesn’t this sort of sound like the books with Ali and Courtney, only this time, with the mothers instead? Great.

“No mother should have to watch their child die” said Jessica in 4x22 - this is actually in reference to what she witnessed Charlotte and Mary do; they ‘killed’ Alison - so Jessica killed Mary for revenge on what just happened to Ali.

Just quickly - notice how “who killed Mrs. D” still hasn’t been answered 2 seasons later! Notice how they needed to reveal the twin before answering the million dollar question. Clearly, the twin and this murder must be connected! And they are!

Why did Jessica choose for revenge on Mary when clearly Charlotte was involved too in what happened to Ali?

Because Jessica adopted Charles and grew to love Charles like another daughter. Jessica knew that what Charlotte did to Ali was a total accident as she thought Ali was Bethany; who was the real target for reasons I explain later. (Too many yellow tops!) However Mary was the one who proceeded to actually bury her… Jessica didn’t want to punish Charlotte. Only Mary.

Why did Jessica and Ken adopt Charles? As revealed in 6x20, Mary has random violent outbursts, lashing out and throwing objects. Jessica adopted Charles to be the mother she never would have had. Mary spent the majority of her life in Radley, hence she was hidden for six seasons. She was let out occasionally, such as that night to pay off Wilden, but mostly, she was kept in Radley. Mary was not stable to be able to raise a child, so she gave Charles to her sister Jessica.

Everything we saw in 6x10 was true!! ONLY EXCEPTION is to CeCe who did not share the FULL story of Mary burying Ali, and Mary being the one who she discovered dead. Not a complete lie, it just wasn’t the whole truth.

Due to Charles’ young age and her questioning her identity, Charles had ‘enough on his plate’ and didn’t need to have to also deal with the fact he was adopted. Maybe I’ve worded that wrong, I know this is a sensitive topic. Point is, he didn’t know he was adopted STRAIGHT AWAY. He met his mother Mary Drake of course, and instantly went into the DiLaurentis family but poor little Charles couldn’t tell the difference. Twins!!!

This explains why Ken was so quick to get rid of Charles and shove her in Radley: she wanted to be a girl to which Ken didn’t allow but also she wasn’t his child. Very harsh, I know, I don’t like that logic, but hey it’s probably what Ken was thinking. Hurting Ali in the bath tub is so irrelevant, that was his excuse to get rid of Charles who was a nuisance to the family but isn’t even their own child.

(But didn’t Charles notice a different, non-identical father when she joined the DiLaurentis family? Mary’s husband is so irrelevant. He was never around. Charles never met her biological father. Charles went into the DiLaurentis family and met Kenneth and thought HE is her father. Mary’s husband is no one. Irrelevant. Will never be mentioned.)

“I love you Charlie, and I always will”, said Jessica, being the great mother to Charles that Mary couldn’t be.

“I love you more mommy!” said Charles. Young Charles legitimately thought Jessica was his mother Mary. He did not know he had been adopted AT THIS POINT WHEN HE WAS YOUNG.

Until…

“Our parents were crackheads, they sold us for a fix”, said Charles to Bethany on the roof in 6x10.

Yep, Charles isn’t talking about being sold to Radley here! He’s talking about being sold out of the family! This shows that eventually, Charles learned that her mother Mary Drake ‘sold’ her to the DiLaurentis family. How did he learn that? That’s irrelevant. The writers can throw in a cool sub-plot here.

What else does this show us? The plural possessive pronoun our!

Bethany is adopted too! By who? ALSO MARY. Charles and Bethany are brother and sister. The below diagram represents the early Drake family. Again, the father figure is irrelevant.

How do I know Bethany is Mary’s daughter?

How the hell did it happen that the police mistakenly identified Bethany’s body, to be Alison? Alison never died, and somehow they thought it was her in the grave, when really it was Bethany. The ONLY explanation for how this happened is that Alison and Bethany have similar DNA. This links into Bethany being Mary’s daughter! Fun biological fact for you - obviously twins have identical DNA; so identical that police can’t tell them apart, however, when twins have children, their identical DNA is passed down. The police thought it was Alison in that grave because, well, the fact she had disappeared and then the DNA tests made it look like Ali. Very good closure here to a season 1 mystery.

MARLENE DID A GREAT JOB IN 6x10 OF MAKING US THINK THAT CHARLOTTE AND BETHANY ARE NOT RELATED, because of the tone that Charlotte spoke of Bethany.



This explains the sense of betrayal when Bethany blamed Marion’s death on Charles. Why did she blame a murder on her sister? Well, that’s exactly why she’s in Radley to begin with. Perhaps Bethany was jealous of Charles for getting a spot with the DiLaurentis’ (before Ken shoved her in Radley for being transphobic…) As CeCe put it, Bethany had intermittent explosive disorder. She had her reasons to be in there.



In general, I just find this scene cute. Two sisters who have been sold to Radley, bonding on the roof, as they’re the only family they have at that moment.

Charles/Charlotte and Bethany being sisters explains why they escaped together from Radley that night.

Jessica wanted Bethany to call her Aunt Jessie because, well, Jessica literally is an aunt to Bethany (and Charlotte)! Jessica felt bad about Mary not being there for Bethany (and Charlotte), so Jessica was signing her niece Bethany out of Radley to go ride horses.

MAJOR PLOT TWIST:

Whilst, yes, Jessica was open about being Bethany’s aunt, there were times where JESSICA LIED, and said she is her mother MARY. But she did this out of love. Jessica didn’t want Bethany to feel Mary, her mother, doesn’t love her. She was doing everyone a favour. Just a few visits, pretending to be Mary (who was either in the room down the hall with no visitation and out privileges, OR, was no longer in Radley - we don’t know when/if Mary was released from Radley).

Remember Bethany’s recordings from 5x12. “Everything she said was a lie… I wonder if I can trust anyone in that family!” Keyword: that family; implying not her own… it wasn’t Mary visiting… it was Jessica pretending to be Mary, AT TIMES. Again, there were times where Jessica was Jessica, like the times she demanded to be called “Aunt Jessie”.



And then in 5x18 - we thought she was talking about Ali, but she’s talking about Jessica: “she’s a bitch, an evil bitch”.

What am I trying to say? I’m sorry if this is messy.

Bethany worked out that Jessica was lying about her visits, pretending to be Mary. That is beyond cruel in my books! You can’t pretend to be someone’s mother, especially to someone in a mental institution who needs true love and support!!?



Hence Bethany drew these pictures of Jessica. Notice the “LIAR” which keys into her motive for these drawings.

Bethany didn’t necessarily escape Radley that night with the intention to go and KILL Jessica. That’s extreme. Hurt, is a better verb. Or maybe, euphemistically, discuss with her WHY she was pretending to be Mary. (Don’t forget, Bethany was diagnosed with IED. This sounds extreme to escape Radley for that reason, but she was known for irrational thoughts, but there is some motive here.)

Charlotte learnt what her sister is going to do to their aunty, to which Charlotte wanted to stop… CHARLOTTE LOVES JESSICA BECAUSE JESSICA WAS WITH CHARLOTTE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY ALONG HER TRANSITION. TO CHARLOTTE, JESSICA WAS THE MOTHER SHE NEVER HAD. Charlotte didn’t want her sister to go and hurt their aunty, despite Bethany feeling betrayed.

And then Charlotte hit Ali instead of Bethany, taking us right back to where this theory started; whereby Mary stepped in and buried Ali, who Charlotte had just hit.

VERY QUICK SUMMARY SO FAR:

- Mary buried Ali to protect her daughter Charlotte

- Jessica killed Mary for revenge

- Jessica pretended to be Mary in Radley, for Bethany.

- Bethany got pissed at Jessica’s lies, so she went to hurt her.

- Charlotte wants to protect Jessica who she loves, so she goes to stop Bethany but gets Ali instead.

I CAN MOVE ON TO THE CURRENT STORY LINE. THAT’S DONE.

I’m so sorry if I over complicated this. Message me for clarifications!

So, Mary is dead.



Well then WHO THE HELL did we see in 6x20?

That’s rhetorical because there’s only one answer:

THAT WAS JESSICA IN 6x20.

Confused? So was I. Let me explain.

In my personal opinion (you may disagree), but what I’m about to share is the biggest plot twist in PLL history and it fits in with all of my theory. I’m so excited to share this. Whether you want to use the superlative adjective ‘biggest’ or just ‘big’… this is massive, and in my humble opinion, mind blowing.

Jessica. Killed. Charlotte.

Yep. The one that we saw in 6x10 that raised Charlotte, loved Charlotte and assisted her with the transition, killed her. It’s shocking from that perspective of a massive betrayal, but also, don’t forget we all thought Jessica was dead!

The huge betrayal from the dead woman!

BUT WHY?

It all falls into place and makes sense. Jessica did SO much for Charlotte.



Jessica:

- took her into the family when Mary couldn’t look after her

- supported her transition fully, being there every step of the way

- lied to Kenneth about Charles’ death

- caused family issues to protect Charlotte so she can be her true self

- let Charlotte go free/unpunished for hitting Ali yet only goes for revenge with Mary for burying her

(can you see where I’m going with this…)

and then Jessica discovered that Charlotte is A.

AFTER EVERYTHING JESSICA DID FOR CHARLOTTE, SHE ABUSES AND DISRESPECTS IT ALL BY THREATENING JESSICA’S DAUGHTER; ALI, AND HER FRIENDS. PLAYING MIND GAMES. DOLL HOUSE. MURDERS. What. A. Bitch. Master manipulator! (thought Jessica)

Bye bye Charlotte.

So, Jessica killed Charlotte for Charlotte’s betrayal to Jessica.

What was Jessica doing in 6x20 with Rollins?

Well first we need to say what Rollins is up to:

- Rollins legitimately loved Charlotte.

- He wanted to marry her.

- Unlucky for him… someone killed her.

- He wants justice for Charlotte by finding the killer.

- He feels he is entitled to everything that was Charlotte’s, like the Carissimi group.

So what is Jessica doing with the guy trying to find the killer, when she IS the killer? Well it’s simple: Jessica is working with Rollins to get the blame onto someone else to not only end Rollins’ games, but to make sure Rollins never suspects HER as the killer! Essentially, JESSICA IS PRETENDING TO BE MARY. Homage to the books!

Yep, that was Jessica sending the messages throughout 6B demanding the girls deliver her the killer. Jessica was blackmailing Melissa to deliver the killer or else her confession tape of burying Bethany would be released.

Jessica knew the girls would never report back saying “Jessica killed Charlotte”, because Jessica is ‘dead’ or so they think.

Jessica wanted the liars AND/OR MELISSA to deliver an alternative killer to them, to report back to Rollins, so someone else can take the blame, to end these games.

And of course, by working with Rollins, she has learnt his true intentions thus can keep her daughter Ali safe. Infiltrating the enemy!

ANOTHER PLOT TWIST:

Getting Ali admitted into the psychiatric ward was done on purpose by Jessica, because Jessica knows Rollins is dangerous, and Ali is safer in there. Jessica is doing this to keep Ali safe from him! Rollins is the real bad guy! Jessica herself can’t keep Ali safe because she’s supposed to be dead, so that’s the best she can do!

Who is Uber A?

Uber A is A.D, as Marlene has confirmed.

Who is A.D?

A.D IS MONA VANDERWAAL.

I can’t take credit for identifying AD is Mona. Credit to @bethany_is_big_a on Instagram. Here’s the proof:

But now this is me: The show will come full circle and end it with the same A as Original A. This picture shows Mona’s desire to be like Ali.

Mona, the evil genius, was pissed off that the game was stolen from her. She took the game very seriously: “I have to know how the story ends”.

She was the only one to stay back to hear the story! She called Charlotte that night from The 2 Crows Diner, to confront her about stealing the game. She voted ‘yes release Charlotte from the hospital’ after Aria’s ‘no don’t release her’ which could change the judge’s mind - she really wanted her released to kill her for stealing her dolls, but Jessica got to her quicker.



Mona’s first text as Uber A was in 6x20. “Thanks for giving me Hanna. You’re free to go.”

The brilliance of this is that Mona was there when they got that text. You can’t possibly argue that Mona can’t be AD for that reason, because Mona is crazy and smart like that - remember, she sent HERSELF A texts in season 2!!

Marlene has confirmed Mary is working WITH Uber A (Mona) because both want the killer. I think Mona wanted the killer, because she wants to play the A game again but feels threatened that there’s another mysterious entity out there that can be better at the game than her. Or maybe, she wanted to kill Charlotte herself and wants to know who did it. There are so many possibilities here, we can discuss this any time.



All of the texts in 6B about delivering the killer was by Jessica for reasons outlined above; to report back to Rollins. Notice how Mona’s first move was to ‘drug’ or ‘almost kill’ Hanna - the one who threw out her bridal shower present the episode before. “It seems everything I do ends up this way”. I’m not saying Mona’s target was Hanna for binning a silly card, but it’s the theme to take away from this: no matter how much Mona tries, the girls have ALWAYS treated Mona like utter shit. Hell, they went through the dollhouse together and Mona was targeted by CeCe too, and the girls STILL are bitchy and unforgiving to Mona!? Mona. HATES. The. Liars. I’m sure there’s an additional motive at work here. I’ll leave that to Marlene.

For this theory, I am done. This is probably my last major theory like this ever before the show ends. I just want to say - if you disagree with anything here, THAT IS TOTALLY FINE. All I ask, and I don’t think this is too much to ask, but please be nice about it. Message me politely, and we can chat about how to improve it. I cannot wait to discuss this. I encourage discussion! Even if it’s discussion about how something in this theory is wrong… but if it’s done nicely, that’s totally cool. Any rude messages like “worst theory ever” or “this person has no idea what they’re talking about” or “you idiot, this is fake because you forgot in 5x01 when……” will not only be deleted, but I’ll also block you so you can’t see any future posts. I am a human with feelings and I see every single bit of feedback on this, from likes, to re-blogs, to messages, to your hashtags in the re-blogs, everything! so please be nice about it even if you have evidence that every single thing in here is wrong.

On a more positive note, I don’t anticipate my followers to be like that. I really hope you enjoyed it!! It took forever and a day to put together so if you did enjoy, I’d appreciate if you could please spread it! Can’t wait to discuss with you!