Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-25339678-20141210181856/@comment-67.182.137.227-20141210212637

Between this episode's events and her brother she will change in meaningful ways. She will finally seem less -A like. She will see that her mother raised her to be one way, and that that way of being lead her to where she is and where she could be if she stays this way. How are they as a group suppose to figure out who -A is, if Ali can't or won't be entirely transparent with the group. Ezra has surveillance equipment which could be useful, Caleb is an amazing hacker, and Toby's inside info at the police station could be useful. Alison's tendency to leave out information (lying by omission) could be the difference between all of them living or dying. If -A is a family member of Bethany's, then the liars could never have put the pieces together without snooping at Ali's house and at Radley. Spencer caught her on camera, because she was spying on Melissa (not that Ali gave her a chance to explain herself).

Alison is a sympathetic character, but not as innocent as many people make her out to be. She still did something that has caused -A to become -A. Cece has in some ways worsened Alison's character, reinforcing the bad parts of her personality that her mother seeded. Cece knows more about the Bethany-Ali connection, I have no doubt, and is protecting that secret for some reason. She has a more personal stake in it than anyone knows. I keep going back to her ex-roommate saying that Ali got her kicked out of UPenn. If she hated her for it, why are they so close now?