Let’s start with pretty much everything Charlotte said when she revealed herself as Charles (aka A?). First of all, she claimed she was transgender and born as Charles DiLaurentis. And then just happened to name herself CeCe Drake during her transformation. CeCe Drake. There’s no way I’m gonna believe she has the same last name as Mary Drake out of coincidence. Sure, Jessica and Mary being twins must mean that Drake was also Jessica’s maiden name. But CeCe was born when Jessica already was married (as she’s about the same age as Jason) so I bet she just was born with her mother Mary’s last name.. which happens to be Drake.
Now her not telling the truth about that to me basically means she probably made her whole story up. This includes this:
the relevant part begins at 01:58
It was always strange to me how CeCe talked about her mother and some really good lies.. making up a story and showing how good of a liar she really is. Right before Bethany pushes Marion off that roof and blames it on CeCe (which she does in a pretty convincing way imho. Just look at how shocked she is). And for what reason? To keep her from finding out the truth about CeCe? Is that a legit reason for Bethany to KILL Marion? I think what really happened is that CeCe took the real story.. her being on that roof with Bethany, making some crazy plans and Marion finding out these very plans - resulting in Cece pushing her off the roof.. and just twisted it. Twisted it in a way that left some pieces of the truth but made Bethany look guilty and crazy.
Watch next on from 0:50 on:
So Bethany doesn’t know if she can trust anyone in the DiLaurentis / Drake family. And we find out Jessica was having an affair with Bethany’s father.. Well, can we be sure it was Jessica now that we know she has a twin? What if it was Mary who had an affair with Bethany’s father? And on top of that having children with him? Like Bethany and CeCe? Are we even sure Kenneth really is anybody’s father in this mess? I mean - Jason is Mr. Hasting’s son. If CeCe is really Mr. Young’s daughter - why shouldn’t this also be the case for Ali? Now before you start calling me crazy hear me out: In the halloween specials we learn that the twins fight over everything - even their dolls. To a level where one of them would be capable of stabbing the other (although for this to work she of course survived) and be sent into a mental institution. If you have a twin like that it not too unlikely she’d try to steal her sister’s man, too.. and if it’s just by being with him without him even knowing there is a twin sister and he’s not with the woman he thinks he is in some moments.
Here’s the twin story in case you forgot:
Now let’s say Mary was sent to Radley for stabbing her sister. She somehow met Mr. Young and had Bethany and CeCe with him (with Jessica pretending to be her and get pregnant with Alison somewhat in between the birth of the other two). This would mean the following things:
1) One twin being on the board of Radley meant she could be sure to have her twin under control any time she wanted. Plus somehow make it possible her children could stay with her although she was in a mental institution (this way she could keep away everything and everyone that belonged to her sister)
2) There’s an explanation how CeCe, Ali and Bethany could look that much alike to be mixed up constantly the night Ali disappeared
3) At least one of the twins has to be absolutely crazy and evil and taught at least CeCe and Ali how to lie. Plus there was some unknown place-switching between the twins going on here and unfortunately it was planned by the evil one.
You can see it here.. the evil twin was not the one to be locked away all the time. I think the innocent one somehow always ended up as the victim in the other one’s plans.
Anyway I think Bethany was the most pure-hearted out of the three blonde girls. The reason I think that is first of all the story Charlotte told (in the video above). You can clearly see how Bethany messes up her try in making up a good story. Plus, I think she was shocked about what happened to Marion.. and how Jessica/Mary covered it up and LIED about everything.
That’s what her paintings were all about.
Now Mary (let’s just say she’s the evil one so it stays a little less complex) did not like that about Bethany.. and wanted to get rid of her. Her original plan was to switch places whenever she wanted and have all three girls as her daughters (like the dolls she wanted from her sister as a child). But Bethany didn’t want to play her way. Therefore she started a huge scheme: Ali was supposed to fake her death, which she thought of as an awesome idea because..
But there’s more. The reason Ali was supposed to do this was that Bethany could be found dead and mistaken for Alison (as all three girls looked a lot alike). It was no coincidence all three of them were wearing the same yellow top that night.
Don’t believe it? Look at that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK9waGOCQso
(sorry, I couldn’ add more videos to this post)
Jessica said the yellow top was waaay to revealing. (Plus, a sweet side note of Ali being able to hold her breath forever.. e.g. like in could be buried for some time before being pulled out again)..
then all of the sudden she finds that yellow top on her bed with a note saying “great colour for you - Mom”. Sudden change of mind? Coincidence? I don’t buy it.
One more interesting thing to watch: Jessica trying to keep Ali away from Charlotte because the friendship was “toxic”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8LOLWD9f1M
As Bethany said in the second recording she also was able to make plans though. I think it’s totally possible she somehow managed to turn the odds in her favour.. and be the one that’s pulled out of her grave in the end, leaving Ali behind (and looking like her a lot.. be aware we still have not seen her face, there’s gotta be some reason behind that!).
This explains Ali’s extreme change.. it’s not really Ali. And it also gives us Mary’s motive.. First Ali is dead and it’s Bethany’s fault, now CeCe’s also gone.
Now why would Bethany welcome Charlotte to her home like she did and love her as a sister like she did? The reason is she thinks Charlotte really changed and went through a lot.. plus after all she really was her sister. Exactly that’s also why Uber A thinks Bethany (a.k.a. the Ali we know right now) killed Charlotte. (Plus in this case it is possible that this is the real killer and motive here).
Some more evidence:
One of the Mrs. D’s for some reason giving clothes to CeCe:
Aaand maybe Melissa buried Bethany (or Ali?) less accidently than she claims.. remember there was a little something found right at the stables one of the Mrs. D.’s used to take Bethany to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5SjWqHyTtk
Sorry for the long post, hope you liked it ♥