Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-25547603-20141128030724/@comment-25755332-20141128040926

^Well first of all this has bothered me too. =)

In the videotape, the light is much brighter than in the flashback where it's dark. The thing that is most interesting to me is that you in the video never see Ali and Ian in the same frame, you see Ali and Ian, but not together. You see Ali talking to someone, then the camera shows Ian and then the hand on the ground. We assumed that it was Ian she was talking to, but maybe the video is edited from different clips and times and just made to look that way. Ali is talking to someone is the first clip, then zooming in Ian's face is a different clip and finally the hand on the ground is another clip. So the video that we see could possible been put together of three completely different clips. Somehow I always thought that video looked a bit staged, like it was scripted in some way. Maybe that's A's editing skills, I don't know..

In the flashback Ali in 4x24 she sees Ian and the conversation starts were the video stopped so we don't know what happened before, we just have to trust that the video is authentic. And we only see Ali's point of view of the story not Ian's. Ian mentioned that he had broken up with Ali and that she wasn't going to hand over the footage.

When Ian, Garrett and Jenna were in Ali's room, Ian said. "Now we find that footage before that bitch shows up". Was Ian referring to Ali or Melissa? Because Melissa is the one that shows up. And she says "Where is SHE?". Meaning Ali. I always wondered why Melissa was the most eager one to get the footage back (Cece said it, but I don't know how realiable of source she is)? Why was it so important to her?

Sidenote; What if Ian hit either Bethany or Ali? I mean he was pissed at Ali when he left and the last time we saw Ian pissed, he tried to kill Spencer. With the line "I'm doing it because I love her", referring to Melissa. If Ian loved Melissa that much, could it have been Melissa that convinced him or perhaps she said it as an empty threat, and he took it for real and did it?