Lucy Hale spoke to MTV about the new villain, saying, "It's definitely life or death, and it's smarter and edgier and deadlier . . . the stakes are definitely a lot higher. It's not, 'I'm going to expose your secrets.' It's, 'I'm going to kill you if you don't give me what I want.'"
The show's creator, I. Marlene King, said, "This Big Bad has an agenda, and it's to find out why this person passes away — and to seek revenge on the person responsible. And it will not stop until that person pays, and [the Big Bad] will kill people to get that answer."
"The situations are more life or death, so it's not just all dolls and games," Ashley Benson said.
It's clear now that this new person aims to kill. It makes Hanna's prospects even worse.
