Talk:A is for Answers/@comment-108.50.180.89-20140126203518/@comment-14539762-20140127141319

I don't think that Jessica meant to hurt Alison.

I think it was like this: Jason (who was drunk and probably on drugs that night) hit Ali with a stone from behind thinking it was CeCe. Jessica saw this and ran out. The script makes it obvious that Jessica was shocked, confused and angry that someone killed her daughter - she panicked. There was lots of blood - so she probably thought that Ali is dead. Ali even said this "I could hear her talking to someone. She thought I was dead. I tried to tell her I was alive. I was screaming. “Can’t you see me breathing? Look at me!” But the words didn’t come out. I couldn’t move" and "She was hysterical. Saying the same things over and over again. “What have you done? What have you done?”   In order to protect her son (it's bad enough to lose your only daughter, she sure as hell didn't want to lose her only son as well), she buried Ali. If she knew that Ali was still alive, she sure as hell wouldn't have buried her. Jason might not remember what happened that night because he was drunk or/and because his mind blocked it because it was so awful. Jason and Jessica leave the backyard, Grunwald arrives and saves Ali.

Do we really know that (new) A and Ali's killer are the same person? It could be, but doesn't have to be. And Ali never insisted that it was a girl who tried to kill her.