•MASTER THEORY • WREN-MARY-BETHANY-CECE connection •
What if, the kid who died in Mary’s care was Charles? The real Charles?
Okay hear me out. First of all the headstone doesn’t even say the year of Charles’s death or birth and i know it is because it’s supposedly fake but what if he really died a long time ago and that’s why we are deprived from details of Charles’s life? Yeah, i know we heard Cece’s story but i’m not too convinced. Her timelines were confusing, and everything she says is debatable, whether it’s because she’s a liar or she’s deliberately concealing information.
We know from Mary’s story that she was admitted to Radley before the age of 18, because a kid died under her care, that’s why Jessica made it happen that she was institutionalized. Why do i have a feeling that it was Jessica’s child who died? And maybe that’s why her hatred is so strong towards her sister?
Okay i know they were both younger than 18 that time, but hear me out. Jason was conceived when Jessica was about 22, from an affair with Peter Hastings, for it to be an affair she must’ve been in a relationship/marriage already before that, most likely with Kenneth Dilaurentis. So it’s totally possible for her to have had a child before 18, and with Mary living with her at that time, of course she would ask her sister to look after her child at times she was gone. Also, highly possible why Jessica resulted to cheating soon after, because of course she was devastated after the death of her first born, which was why she also decided to keep Jason + why Kenneth agreed.
Anyways, an accident or not – the child “Charles” died and was buried and Mary was sent to Radley. Mary was young and most likely unstable, and could’ve easily taken loads of guilt for what happened and became obsessed with his death. During her stay at Radley, she was overwhelmed by the thoughts of Charles and soon after at the age of 23 was pregnant with a baby boy, and also named him Charles in hope to make up for ending a child’s life by bringing another one to life.
But Jessica found out, and thought that he rightfully belonged to her after Mary killed her son. So she did everything to take custody, but after Charles was accused of Kenneth of trying to harm his baby daughter (due to Mary, his mother’s past of killing a child it was easy to accuse him), he was sent to Radley as well.
Mary often visited Charles, but had to pretend to be Jessica, since Mary was a patient before. She became fond of Bethany, because she and Charles were good friends so she often took her out to ride horses and bought her presents, maybe even with the real Charles too. We know Bethany (and maybe Charles) were often taken horse riding by “Jessica” where Melissa (& i think Spencer?) also went – so maybe that’s how Mary knew Spencer and her sister from long ago when she was too young to remember.
Anyways, in my theory, Bethany is Cece – hence everything matches about them; the blonde hair, the complexion, both were in Radley, and apparently Cece lied about her age so she could have been the same age as her (because they’re the same person).
Okay, so on the tapes, Bethany was furious about Jessica and her father’s supposed affair – this is because she probably didn’t know the existence of the real Jessica, she only knows Mary as Jessica so she felt betrayed. This is where “Like mother, like daughter” line came from – she was talking about Ali and Jessica / but Jessica probably didn’t even know her. She said they were not the only ones to make plans, which is why Cece/Bethany became friends with Alison – she was out to get revenge. But i don’t think that was the only reason for her hate towards the family, since she was close friends with Charles she probably hated them for sending him away and abandoning him.
At Labor day, Charles was set for release and Mary took him with her to possibly his father to Europe (UK maybe? ;) ) and Bethany was lonely, since she too was abandoned by her family, and now her only friend was gone too. So she set her escape plan in motion, even got the same yellow top (was Mary involved? Most likely, Bethany probably found out about her some time ) – which also explains why to Emily, she admitted Jason did see her “that night” talking to Melissa, while to Alison she said it was Bethany; which isn’t a lie if they were the same person – i mean it is too much of a coincidence if 3 blonde girls roam around in identical yellow tops the same night at the same place. Also, Cece and Melissa knowing eachother makes sense if Cece was Bethany and they were friends from the horse riding.
Anyways, so all the fiasco happened – and the body found in place of Alison, that was thought to be Bethany, could be easily anyone since it took 1 year to find it and the body probably already decayed.
So Bethany took the name Cece Drake, since finding out about Mary Drake – not because they are related but because she was a mother to her during the time she was alone (with Charles). She, still angered by the Dilaurentis, befriended Alison, dated Jason – this is why Jessica also disapproved of hers and Ali’s friendship. Why would she disapprove of her if she was her adoptive daughter right? She probably recognized her from Radley since she was a board member.
I’m sure there are many more motives as to why Bethany/Cece hated the Dilaurentis, maybe there is more to what happened to Charles we don’t know about. Whether Alison got her kicked out of UPenn too, or some other reasons, it doesn’t matter she was Big A for some time and had an anger towards the Liars too.
I think she attacked them, because they knew too much – there were obviously things we still don’t know about that night, and whoever was blackmailing them didn’t want them to remember, or to lure Alison out. Remember when Ali said, they know more about that night if they all worked together? I think -A wanted informations, or tried shutting them up.
The people killed by A were:
Ian, Garrett (NAT member) - probably knew too much
Maya - MAYA KNEW code
Wilden - still debatable if he ever existed, but he was a corrupt police officer who kept a lot of secrets, + connection w/ Cece
Jessica - LOTS of secret and obviously a target of A
All these people probably knew about something “A” was desperately trying to hide. The existence of Charles? What else happened “that night” maybe. The NAT members were killed because they were probably lurking that night and saw something they shouldn’t have, apart from Jason who’s related to Charles. Maya lived in the Dilaurentis house for a while, she must have discovered something. Wilden, that’s obvious – that guy knew a lot about every secret.
Now to Charles, he is probably someone we know. And this piece of theory is only overrated because it is in fact most likely, and this person is shady. Dr. Wren fucking Kingston. I’m not gonna name all the times he’s been shady, since it’s everywhere – but i’m gonna point out for the sake of my theory that he’s connected to Cece, the previous -A, my suspected Bethany Young. He’s been obviously cahoots with Cece even back then, to give her visitor passes etc etc. Cece took all the blame because she would’ve done anything for Charles, and they had a plan to get her out anyways.
Now, Cece/bethany has been murdered, so Uber A shows up again and it has been stated that the motivation for the game again is “Charlotte”’s murder – of course Charles would be furious that his friend, lover, ally or whatever has been killed and the most obvious suspects are the Liars. So he starts the game again, and of course has access to his former ally’s equipments etc.
I think the killer might be Rollins, seeing as he tries to frame Alison so bad. Maybe he was really in love with Cece but at the night of the murder, maybe Cece tried to break up with him or confessed that she was in love with Wren – which led to him killing her. And Mary obviously is helping because Uber A is his son and Cece was like her daughter and her son’s dear friend.
Okay, i know there are still holes in this and questions unanswered but i’m working on it.