Why We Thought She Was "A":
- The texts don't start until Aria comes back from her time abroad in Iceland.
- On more than one occasion, the girls have labeled Aria as "the best liar."
- A while back, creator I. Marlene King tweeted this. Many think she's referring to this scene where Mona calls Aria "Big A."
- If King has Aria pinned as "A," other seemingly harmless coincidences could be clues. Like Aria's name, and the fact that she's the one saying, "Sh," in the intro.
- Remember when Mona says, "Miss Aria, you're a killer, not Ezra's wife"? Even though the girls figure out it's an acronym, where the first letters of the sentence spell, "MAYA KNEW," the original sentence itself is an interesting choice.
Why We Figured She Wasn't "A":
- The dollhouse scheme makes it hard for ANY of the girls to be "A," it's true. Aria is obviously emotionally scarred by the incident, a lot of the time while she's by herself. Seems like pretty great lengths to go to if she's "A."
- Mike is badly brutalized near the end of season five. Not only does it not make sense for Aria to want to hurt Mike, but she's home worrying about him the whole time.
- Aria is more or less proven innocent by Ali in the season four finale. That said, we still have our suspicions because of Miss Grunwald's comments in season four's Halloween episode.
- In the Halloween episode in season three, Aria gets trapped in the box with Garrett's corpse, and she almost falls to her death off the train. Pretty strange thing to happen to "A."
- "A" fills Ella Montgomery's car with bees. Seems like Aria would have to be pretty committed to her master plan to put her own mother in danger.
- If she is, indeed, "A," she wouldn't get texts when the other girls aren't around and wouldn't expose her relationship with Ezra.
