Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-25312059-20141129145924

In 3x24 Mona says that she saw Alison and that she pulled them all out of the fire. She’s positive it was her, and then again in 4x02 she’s telling Aria how they found footprints of a woman wearing high heels where Wilden was shot and how she thinks it was Alison.

In 4x24 we learn Mona knew Alison was alive from the very beginning and she helped her run away. She wants Alison gone. In 5x01 she learns that Alison has been exposed as alive to the world and is livid. In 5x02 she tells Alison that she’s going to wish she’d “stayed dead”. And then again in 5x05 Mona tells her no one wants her back in Rosewood and she should leave for the sake of everyone.

Why did Mona tell the Liars she saw Alison if she didn’t want any suspicion about Alison’s “death”? Surely she would have kept quiet and sided with Aria and Emily who were certain Alison was dead? She then goes as far to try to prove to the Liars that Alison is alive, which is really odd, considering she never wanted Alison to come back.

Maybe the writers didn’t think about Mona knowing about Alison being alive until they were writing 4x24, but it still seems odd to me. If you helped somebody run away and told them to never come back, why would you try to prove they were alive, and when they come back threaten them to leave again? Probably just an inconsistency like many other things but just something to think about…