let ezra eat cake

Paige to Mona 5x04: “Did you ever wonder when you became the very thing you’re afraid of?”

Jason is dead.

When he fell down the elevator shaft because of A (Charles) and ended up in the hospital, he disappeared for a long time before anyone could reach him. It was Mrs. D who covered for him and made up lies about where he was.

What if he never survived? What if Charles stole him away from the hospital or found him when he tried to leave town and then finished the job and killed him? With Jason dead and nobody knowing about this death, Charles was free to take over Jason’s life and pretend to be him.

What did he do with Jason’s body? Easy. Part of the plan at the time was having Toby fake his death in the woods to drive Spencer crazy. So Charles used Jason’s body, gave it Toby’s tattoo, and left it in the forest with a helmet on the face for Spencer to find.

Ever since then, Jason has been rude and unfriendly to the girls, verging on scary. He hasn’t been nice to Spencer like he used to be. He acted creepy, and one he had the excuse of being convinced by Spencer, was happy to volunteer the fact that Ali didn’t have an alibi for the night of Mona’s murder.

When Aria wrote that letter about Ezra

When Ezria went a month without scenes

When Aria kissed another guy while still dating Ezra

When Ezria broke up so she could be “single”

…then she starts dating Andrew

“Understanding why was more interesting than understanding who. It’s not interesting who ‘A’ is, but why ‘A’ did it.”-Keegan Allen

Translation: Search for the most uninteresting, irrelevant, random character and you’ve probably figured out who “A” is.