Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-25755332-20141128170318

What if A's plan from the beginning wasn't to kill anyone, just to mess and torment everyone? A had no intention to actually kill anyone by himself/herself, only scare and hurt the targets for the revenge. So A's only job is to get people to turn people against each other and go after each other, and they are going to self-destruct on their own.

So A knows everything, including all the secrets. Then "blackmail" and expose secrets which lead people into doing things and cover things up to protect someone they care about or themselves, as a result there are more lies and people don't trust anyone around them. People are afraid their secrets are going to come out and they feel "obligated" to silence people they see as a threat. People that know to much about their secrets and possible could expose them. For example Ian tried to kill Spencer, because he was protecting Melissa, and Spencer simply knew too much.

This could mean that A only distributes the A-messages (exposing the secrets) and does some of the smaller dirty work, perhaps pulling stunts just to scare people and torment for fun. But A's ulterior motive is to just see everyone in the town self-destruct and simply doing the dirty work for he/she by letting them go after each other. So A is just manipulating everyone in a way to the point where people feel the need to silence each other so their secrets aren't exposed. Because if all the secrets are exposed, practically everyone in Rosewood could go to jail for felonies and misdemeanours, some more heinous crimes than others.

So perhaps that's the real A-game, A just is pulling the strings and directing the whole show. Everyone is puppets in A's puppet-show. A seeing from the sidelines the whole town turn against each other and self-destruct on their own. Because A knows exactly were to push everyone's buttons, to get exactly what he/she wants. Perhaps justice in some wicked way, it's hard to know when we don't no what triggered this insane behaviour.