How do you explain this unless Aria is A??
This post is fully in response to this amazing theory from AnalyzingA (pictures from there as well).
Back in Season 1, episode 16, Aria finds out Hanna gave her mom the ticket to the art exhibit that she was going to with Ezra. Aria is extremely mad and they have what I think is the biggest fight that we’ve ever seen any of the four liars have with one another. Aria is seen at the end of the episode writing furiously in her diary. It wasn’t until I saw these screencaps that I had any idea what she wrote in the diary, as it only flashes on the screen for a second or so.
In case you can’t read that, check out the theory I linked above. It has the full text (the parts that are legible, at least). But basically, Aria is writing about Mrs. Potter (the woman from the bank who Ashley stole money from her safety deposit box). What’s interesting is that Aria is writing about James Leland, the guy who shows up to town claiming to be Mrs. Potter’s only living relative.
There are two VERY odd things about this:
1. Aria writes this in her diary in S1E16. James Leland doesn’t show up until S1E17. How in the world would Aria know about him before he showed his face at Ashley’s bank?? Aria never even had mentioned knowing anything about Mrs. Potter, let alone her nephew. In fact, keeping that a secret was what A had on Ashley that she used to blackmail her with to get her to give Ella the ticket to the art exhibit. Suspicious.
2. If you look at the wording Aria uses in the diary entry and then watch the scene in S1E17 when Hanna discusses James Leland to Ashley on their porch, you will notice the wording is EXACTLY the same. Word for word. I really don’t know what to make of it… but Aria wrote the script for that scene.
Sometimes I waiver on my feelings about Aria being A, but I am just completely at a loss as to how this could be explained UNLESS Aria is A. She not only predicted the future… she wrote it.
