Talk:The Mirror Has Three Faces/@comment-4393153-20130807024505

I don't think Cece Drake is Red Coat, she has had absolutely no interaction with the girls prior to her onscreen debut, they didn't even know that she existed

Red Coat, I'm convinced, has been acting since season 1. Things happened during Mona's tenure as A that Mona admits to not being responsible for, nor knowing who is. Furthermore, we know that A was terrorizing Alison before her death, but Mona has admitted that she became A when Aria returned, because she was convinced the group was going to 'steal' Hanna. So, there was an A operating before Mona.

Also, while Radley is shady, it seems impossible (to me at least) that someone could just walk in and arrange to have it so that a patient would be able to come and go as she pleased, without getting caught. Arranging that kind of thing takes time, yet Red Coat had it all arranged relatively quickly.

Also, Mona is a master of finding out secrets, yet she couldn't figure out the identity of a person who was standing right next to her? Sounds like someone who has had a lot of experience with that sort of thing.

So, my theory is that Red Coat manipulated Mona into becoming A, by planting the idea of it in her head. Then, she used Mona as a scapegoat, knowing that anything she did would be blamed on Mona. She arranged so that Mona could escape from Radley, knowing that that would be the place she was sent to. She revealed herself to Mona with a 'partnership', where she revealed that she had other members (there is at least one other).

I still think that Cece is a bad character, but probably along with lines of Wilden and Jenna, she did something, or knows something, and is trying to get rid of people that knew because that would get her in trouble, however, Cece has no reason to terrorize the girls, esspecialy back when Ali was alive, she was Ali's friends, and Ali seemed to treat her like more of an equal than she treated the four liars, so I think Red Coat is someone else.