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rosewoodrebel · 8 years ago

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Ezra is AD and Big Bad of PLL - Season 3, Part One

Below are the clues from the first half of Season 3(A) clues and theories that show Ezra is AD, Uber A, Big Bad, he she, it, bitch. Spoilers abound below as I piece together clues from the third season with those from others in order to illustrate that Ezra has been pulling the strings all along. This one is long, and a doozy. That is why I am splitting it into two posts, for each half season. Let’s dive in.

Season 3A:

In 3x01, the episode begins with the girls having a sleepover at Spencer’s, getting drunk, parallel to the pilot episode. The girls realize Emily is missing after Aria and Hanna wake up and find Spencer looking for her. Emily has been drugged and coerced into digging up “Alison’s” grave and removing the body. We now know this body belonged to Bethany Young. If Cece had just taken over the A game from Mona, and they both were in Radley, why would Cece want to dig up the body? She did not kill Bethany Young, and if she spoke to Mona about Ali, she would know that Ali was not dead and just missing. The dental records for Bethany had already been switched to Ali’s so the body looked like Alison’s. Why would Cece want to dig up Bethany’s body and potentially put herself and Mona at risk? Someone wants to punish the girls and maybe Melissa for Bethany’s death. Perhaps there is a connection between Ezra and Bethany we don’t yet know about. Perhaps Ezra believes at this point that the PLLs killed Bethany to cover up for Ali while she is on the run and he wants to prove that body belongs to Bethany and not Alison.

If Ezra is running the game, he wants the stuff in “Alison’s” casket to torture them with. He wants Bethany’s body to publicly embarrass, shame, and discredit them (just like he did to Spencer with her Adderall habit in Season 4, which I cannot WAIT to get to). And who shows up on the Halloween train just in time to watch the body slip out of the ice chest? Ezra. Doing his best fake “I’m shocked!!!” schtick.

Later in the episode Spencer and Aria are speaking in the hallway about Ezra and Aria’s parents. Spencer compares Ezra to Lord Voldemort.

At the end of 3x01, tons of pictures of the girls that night are left all over Spencer’s car. Aria took photography classes that summer. Maybe Ezra did too.

In 3x02, Emily receives the necklace with the teeth, Dead Girls Can’t Smile. However, the girls accidentally flush the necklace down the toilet. Aria complains to Ezra about Meredith applying for a job at Rosewood High. They speak about how Ezra has to drop off Aria 3 blocks away from her house because that is how strongly against their relationship her parents are. At this point, Ezra is still stalking Aria for his book. Despite knowing what stress and family strife he is causing Aria, he still continues to see her, despite the fact that his feelings for her may be non-existent at this point. Because she is too valuable of a source of information for him to let go yet.

Spencer visits Garrett in jail when he tells her that the body in the ground that was stolen (Bethany’s) would have proven he was not guilty. Medical records don’t lie. He also says, “someone close to you has you fooled.” Who is this? Cece hasn’t been introduced to the plot yet. Mona doesn’t have anyone fooled anymore because she has been outed as A and Hanna visits her in Radley at the next scene. It’s Ezra.

Ezra then begins to tutor Emily at Aria’s urging. It’s another way for him to keep tabs on the PLL’s, by spending more time with Emily and gaining her trust.

Aria finds another grave present in her locker; an earring. This makes her flash back to the time she and Alison had broken into Byron’s office after finding out about his affair with Meredith. She had found those earrings on the couch, proving that her dad was still seeing Meredith despite him promising otherwise. Aria relives the memory of her and Alison trashing Byron’s office over his affair with Meredith and tells Hanna. Aria finds one of “Meredith’s” earrings. Aria then receives an A text that syas “Daddy needs to know, or I let the other one go. To the police. Nighty-Night. -A

Why would Cece care about Aria and Alison trashing her dad’s office because he cheated? Cece wouldn’t. But Ezra is having problems with Aria’s family and this issue of Aria and Meredith takes the heat off of him.

Aria meets Meredith at the Brew. She wants to go someplace more private, but Meredith refuses. Aria begins to recount the night, but Meredith already remembers the details vividly. So, Aria blandly apologizes. Meredith then tells her that she and Byron made lunch plans for the next day. Disgusted, she tells Meredith that she found her earrings in her dad’s office that night and now wants to return it. Meredith looks at it and says the earring isn’t hers, shocking Aria. Who would know enough about Aria, her dad’s affair, and the situation with Meredith enough to plant this earring? It wouldn’t be Cece. She hadn’t even met the girls yet. Ezra would, because he had Ali’s diaries and Aria told him about Byron’s affair.

Later on, Ella is grading papers at school. She finds that Emily has left the paper unfinished. After giving it a thought, she takes a pen and finishes the test for Emily. Just then, she hears a noise outside, as if somebody is watching her.

The next day, Ezra visits Ella in her classroom. He wants to talk about Emily. He admits that he has been tutoring Emily and wants know how she performed the test. Ella tells him that Emily did fine. Ezra seems unconvinced as after the test, the previous day, Emily seemed pretty distraught. He asks if Emily could take the test again, Ella assures him that it is not required. He has found a way to create a problem, insert himself into that problem, and come out looking as the hero when he saves the day in 3x03.

Ezra was the one who reported Ella’s forgery of Emily’s grade. Ella is leaving the classroom to talk to the vice principal. Emily arrives and says she is coming along too. Ella refuses, but Emily insists. In the hallway, they run into Ezra, who is speaking to the vice principal. Ezra has told him that the accusation is his fault because he asked Ella to grade Emily’s paper in front of him which may of seemed like preferential treatment. He also confessed that he was “over-invested” in being her tutor. Hackett only sees it as professional courtesy to help the system work better. He tells Ella that the matter has been resolved, and Ella gets off the

When Ella confronts Ezra about the situation, Ezra explains that he knows Arthur Hackett hates conflict and making decisions. So, if he offered a way out of the situation, he would take it. This shows that he is an expert manipulator and can make people do what he wants by exploiting their weaknesses.

In 3x04, Jason demands that Veronica Hastings tell him why she is defending Garrett Reynolds. After offering up a weak response, Jason begins hanging posters offering a $50,00 reward for information on the whereabouts of Alison’s corpse. If he was A, or involved with A, he would not have been doing this. Moments later, the liars receive another mysterious text that says: “Imagine what I could do with fifty grand.”

Spencer has a conversation with Jason and urges him to withdraw the reward. He brushes her off, and she leaves. Jason writes a cheque for the $50,000 reward, and then picks up his phone to tell someone to “meet him in the parking lot” in 15 minutes.

At the end of the episode we see “A” at Montecito airport, enjoying a cup of cocktail, and hacking the computer system of the Radley Sanitarium allowing Mona visitors. When the airport announcer announces that the plane would leave for Philadelphia in the next 15 minutes, “A” closes her/his computer, stands up, and leaves $50 as tip for the waiters before the screen cuts to black. A was in Montecito in 3 x 05 to run Caleb’s mom off the road. A person has to be at least 25 to rent a car in California. The only person that could do that would be Ezra. When we see Ezra next, Aria meets up with him and hands him a cup of coffee saying, “Here’s your red-eye!” as in a red-eye flight.

In 3x05 Ezra is claiming to be out of work and broke. Yet he gets Aria a very expensive camera that was revealed at Jenna’s birthday. And in 3x06, Aria finds a HUGE amount of money in a ziplock bag in Ezra’s sock drawer:

Aria then asks Spencer later on, why someone would have that much cash on hand. Spencer responds in the most interesting way. She says, “If you had that much cash lying around, you’d probably have a bomb shelter and like five years of dehydrated meat, or you’re a criminal.” Sound like the dollhouse, much?!

When Aria goes to Ezra and asks for an explanation, he gives her some convoluted story about selling his Grandfather’s Jaguar. We have never seen him with this car, or mention it before, and he claims to have disinherited himself.

In the last scene, we see “A” eating a bowl of ice-cream, reading the news about the dismissal of charges in the DiLaurentis murder case. “A” then circles an ad (“Rooms for Rent”) in the Classified section, and proceeds to call the number on the ad. None of the characters in high school, or Cece/Mona in Radley have the credit or age to rent an apartment themselves. But Ezra does.

It is only in 3x07 that we find out that Ezra’s real last name isn’t Fitz, but Fitzgerald when we meet his mother Dianne in 3x07. Dianne invites Aria and Ezra to an opening at a museum that night. Ezra tells Aria that he fibbed about when their relationship began. He told his mother, Dianne, that it was after he left Rosewood High School. More lies.

We then go to the Fitzgerald Art Foundation where we are introduced to the infamous Isle of the Dead painting, which has ties to Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita. Another PLL blog wrote about that beautifully hidden clue here: http://bllpll.tumblr.com/post/89854785537

Dianne asks Aria what her parents think of Ezra. She also asks about her parents being separated. Dianne then starts to get really nosy and rude about Aria’s family, beginning to suggest how bad she’s been for Ezra. She then says she’s not going to let Aria “ruin” Ezra and hints at paying her to break up with her son. Aria leaves in disgust, spilling her drink into a nearby plant on the way. Ezra asks Dianne what she said to Aria, since he can’t find her now. Ezra tells her this kind of stuff is why he doesn’t want to have anything to do with his family. Perhaps what we don’t know is that episode closes with “A” collecting a large sum of money from a bank and taking a mint from a bowl. The teller says “Just looking at you in that hoodie makes me shiver. I guess summer’s really over.” Ezra was adopted, Dianne knows that Ezra has mental problems, and she doesn’t want her son regressing by getting involved with a young girl with so many problems of her own.

Perhaps this was also a clever double entendre, because he is related to the DiLaurentis/Drake/Hastings family who are also cruel to outsiders.

The episode closes with “A” collecting a large sum of money from a bank and taking a mint from a bowl. The teller says “Just looking at you in that hoodie makes me shiver. I guess summer’s really over.”

At the bank, the amount is $50,000 in neat $100, $10,000 stacks. We know that A is OCD and very organized. The money in Ezra’s sock drawer was folded, in different bills (20s, 50s, and 100s). Any amount over $10,000 has to be reported to the government and that isn’t desirable for someone like A. I’m betting Ezra had Jason’s check cashed under an alias at a shady check cashing place, and then used another bank to convert the cash into neat, clean piles, using new bills that could not be tracked from the original transaction.

In 3x09, Aria is seen in the hallway outside of Ezra’s apartment, hearing a loud argument going on. Ezra’s brother, Wesley is now shown for the first time as he greets Aria while Ezra shouts at him to leave. Aria is surprised that again, Ezra has kept another family member from her and Ezra reveals why Wesley was there. Wes was offering Ezra money in order to buy back the car that he sold before. Apparently, the car wasn’t his to sell in the first place in which his mother had claimed it an “old family heirloom” and wants it back. However, Ezra doesn’t want to borrow the money, or even have to deal with his rich family for that matter, so he goes to withdraw money from the bank and leaves Aria behind along in his apartment. Ezra could’ve easily manipulated his brother into telling this lie and that is what they were arguing about. Or maybe Ezra just temporarily borrowed the car, and was going to use that as his cover for the 50k from Jason, and then return it eventually.

In 3x09, the Kahn Game, Cece takes Spencer and Aria to the Kahn’s cabin where she indulges in a game of truth or dare. Everyone at the party knows who she is, including Noel’s older brother. How would they if this girl was transgender, and had been locked away in Radley her whole life? She wasn’t.

Wesley arrives at the Kahn’s to pick up Aria and she accepts the ride. In the way to Ezra’s apartment, Wes inadvertently tells Aria about Maggie, Ezra’s ex-girlfriend whom he got pregnant in high school. Aria arrives at Ezra’s and tells him she knows about Maggie. Ezra explains that his mother gave Maggie money to go away and never talk or contact Ezra anymore because she thought being pregnant in high school was ruining him. That’s why he got away from his family and changed his last name to Fitz. Another strange situation about an unwanted baby….perhaps akin to his own start in life.

In 3x11, Ezra tells Aria that he has written an email to Maggie but hasn’t sent it because he is scared. Ezra has full scale surveillance set up on the girls at this point, and he cant investigate to find out whether or not he has a son?! This is, in my opinion, all a ruse to make himself look more innocent and naive. We all know Ezra could’ve gotten the information easily had he wanted it. I mean, he dated a 16 year old girl and took her virginity just to get information on her “dead” 15 year old friend who he also dated lol. Please. *eyeroll*

Aria then goes to investigate and goes to Maggie’s classroom, where Maggie tells Aria that she was a teen mom, and Malcolm is her 7 year old son. At Ezra’s house Wesley suggests that his mom is paying Maggie to keep quiet about Malcolm. Aria wants Wesley to talk to his mother. What is more Rosewood/DiLaurentis/Hastings than some good old fashioned hush money?

In the last scene, a black-gloved “A” maneuvers the jukebox. They hand the key to Room A to another black-gloved “A”. This suggest that “A” is more than one person. Who loves a jukebox more than Ezra and his infamous B-26? I think this was Ezra handing over the keys to Cece/Toby/Mona. An adult with credit is required to lease an apartment. I don’t care how savvy Cece is, she could barely talk to the girls when we saw flashbacks, but can somehow rent an apartment for the first time, in the outside world, alone? NO.

In 3x12, Aria sits in Ezra’s apartment. She seems on edge, wondering about how to tell Ezra about Maggie and her baby. Maggie unexpectedly shows up at his apartment, and recognizes Aria from her visit to her classroom. Ezra introduces them to each other. While Ezra is distracted at the door by another visitor, Aria asks Maggie why she’s here at Ezra’s. Maggie says she wanted to see how Ezra was doing. She then wants Aria to keep her son, Malcolm, a secret from Ezra until she figures out what is the best thing to do for her son. Aria protests at first, but Maggie says that there is more to the story than she knows, and that everyone has a secret, “Amy.” Aria reluctantly obliges as she watches Maggie and Ezra chat. He has so many secrets its crazy.

This entire season, A has been trying to separate Emily from Paige, which seems as though A wants Emison together in the end. However, what if Ezra just actually cares about Emily in his own sick way? Ezra knows about how Paige and Alison hated each other, and that Paige tried to drown Emily. He has surveillance on EVERYONE.

In the Season 3A summer finale, 3x12, The Lady Killer, the girls, and in particular, Spencer, accuse Paige of being A. Paige seems offended that the other girls think she is the new “A.” Then, Paige gets a text from “A,” telling her to go to Ali’s grave at the Rosewood Cemetery at 10pm or Emily gets hurt. Aria, Spencer, and Hanna decide to tell their parents about Paige being “A.” “A” sends them a text: “Stand down, bitches. Play it my way and Emily stays safe.

If the girls tell their parents about Paige being A, an investigation could ensue that would reveal who A truly is. A doesn’t want that.

“A” sends an email to Spencer, Hanna and Aria telling them to meet him/her at Alison’s grave at 10pm with Maya’s bag, without Emily. They get pictures of Spencer, Aria, and Hanna with a shovel near the Rosewood Cemetery on “that night,” from “A.” They conclude that Paige is trying to make the rest of them look bad while keeping Emily in the clear, and that by them bringing Maya’s bag to her at Ali’s grave, Paige can erase any proof of her killing Maya. Why would Cece want this or care about Paige? She wouldn’t. Perhaps Ezra knows that Paige would try to stop Emily from continuing any involvement with A, and because of his sick obsession with Ali, he genuinely wants Emily to be with someone else. Enter Lyndon James. I believe that A didn’t do their research on him because A was too busy with the 50k from Jason and Bethany’s body. This is evidenced when A calls Emily at the cabin and tells her to get out. He is trying to protect her. He even calls her and says in a distorted voice, “Emily, I owe you one,” because of Garrett’s release for Maya’s murder and the whole shitshow at the cabin.

At the end of the episode, “A” is in the lair again. “A” looks at a flyer for a Halloween Ghost Train Party in Rosewood on October 31st, and calls someone. “I’ll take two tickets for the Halloween train.”

WHEW!!! That was a doozy. I will be continuing with the Halloween Episode and Season 3B later this week! Leave any comments, clues, things to add in the replies!!!! xoxo, bitches

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