Thread:Souhaila/@comment-28193938-20170222224155

 From the beginning of season 3, there was an obsession with Ali's body. Someone wanted to make it look like Alison was dead and they went as far as steeling the body in her grave to prevent an other autopsy that would reveal the truth : It's not Alison in that grave. The question is: How would anyone benefit from the death of Alison? My theory is that : Someone didn't want the police to discover that it is not her and tell Jessica DiLaurentis her daughter Alison may still be alive (it would be logical to assume that if the body was not Alison's). Let's go back to "That night", there were three girls : Alison, the blond pretending to be Charlotte, and the real Charlotte. Somehow, Jessica managed to create a solid investment company 'the Carisimi Group' in order to make it up for Charles/Charlotte (for all the problems he/she went through) and to secure a decent living once she (Jessica) is no longer alive given the fact that Charlotte didn't have any other family to take care of her. Someone knew about that potential inheritance and they wanted to steal it. They hired another girl to knock her out at the right time. They somehow convinced Charlotte that Alison was dangerous and she needed to kill her and make Jessica do everything she could to protect her daughter from prison. After that, Charlotte would be in the run and it would be very hard for Jessica to see her as often as she wants. The second part of the plan was to kill Charlotte right after that, without Jessica figuring it out. She would only exchange messages with who she thinks is her daughter. That's where the girl pretending to be Charlotte plays her part. And she tries to make Jessica give her the reigns of the company and all the money it generates. Jessica was killed for either the fact that she discovered the lie about Charlotte, or because she had to be dead so she couldn't see the girl pretending to be Charlotte once Alison is back alive and there wouldn't be anymore reason for Charlotte to stay in the run. Something went wrong with the original plan : Alison turned out to be alive. That's not what the people who tried to make Charlotte look guilty of her murder, in the eyes of her mother Jessica, were counting on.They thought that Alison was really dead (they probably discovered the truth about Alison once Mona was in Radley and told someone she helped Alison escape from Rosewood), and that would be reason enough to make Charlotte hide forever and Jessica communicate with her in a way she could never suspect the fact that she's actually dead and that it's someone else trying to take her money giving the very good reason : in order to be able to stay hidden she needed a new identity and money. When the person (or people) elaborating that plan, knew that Alison was coming back to rosewood, it was necessary to kill Jessica, otherwise she would have discovered the true identity of the person exchanging messages and mails... with her pretending to be her daughter and that she was a fraud. That would have compromised the theft of the Carisimi Group. The girl pretending to be Charlotte went crazy about her game and it was all good because she would have killed the hole Dilaurentis family and herself. It would have been easy to make it look like Mary Drake was the only legal person to inherit the Carisimi Group. Then again, something else went wrong : the girls disabled the explosion devices and Alison was the perfect sister to the girl pretending to be Charlotte. That probably made her realize that Alison was the one who should inherit the Carisimi Group instead of the people she was initially working for. When the girl got out of the mental institution she probably went to meet Mary Drake and confronted her about all the bad things she made her do and told her she would never sign Carisimi over to her and that she grew to like Alison and love her as if she were her sister, she may even have said that she would confess the hole truth to Alison which would expose Mary Drake. Mary didn't have any other choice but to kill her and try, once again, to pin the crime on one of the girls, hence the threatening messages about giving her "Charlotte's killer". In order to take over the Carisimi Group, she worked with Rollins to make Alison feel crazy and push her to commit herself into a mental institution. Everything she worked for since the beginning was in order to take over a company that she probably thought was a way of getting revenge on her sister. I do not believe that Mary Drake is Charles/Charlotte  biological mother, I think that the file found in Radley was a set up, so she could claim inheritance. I think that even Rollins doesn't know about that and that he is genuinely convinced Alison is evil and  'Charlotte' would have wanted her 'mother' to take over the company even if it meant to put Alison through hell. I still don't know what's Sara Harvey all about, but I suspect her to be one of Mary Drake's helpers.  