Talk:Red Coat/@comment-122.109.102.1-20130322123233

Here is my ridiculously underthought theory that I came up with five minutes ago

The A-Team was orginially started by Courtney, back when Alison was the only victim. Jenna, Paige, or Melissa was a member. Courtney then attempted to kill Alison. Alison is buried alive and helped out of the ground by Jenna, Paige or Melissa (you can tell I haven't thought it through, because I am equally suspicious of all three). Whoever saved her proceeds to hit Courtney with a shovel and bury her alive.

This person who saved Alison threatens her, telling her she will be in the ground too if she does not continue what Courtney started when she recovers from her injuries (no one magically is returned to full health after being injured in the head and buried alive) and claiming that she owes this person for saving her life. Alison recovers and waits fro Aria's return from Iceland before recruiting Mona to the A Team after Hanna begins to drift away from her.

Alison is red coat. But she is not leading the A Team voluntarily, she is forced to torture her friends by whoever pulled her out of the ground that night.

I think there are probably a few gigantic plotholes in this, and there could be other A team members. I just like it because it incorporates the twin theory which is obviously going to be involved somehow, but differently from the books. It also means that Alison is not the incredibly evil person that the Liars will assume her to be after she was revealed. This could explain why the Liars are always blackmailed, but not tortured a great deal physically, and why the A Team has stopped short of killing them, even saving Spencer's life by killing Ian.

As for the fire? The person blackmailing Alison lit it, she ran in to save the girls because she did not want them to die.

Let me know what you think, I would love to hear alternative theories as mine does not explain some things.