The residents of Rosewood

We thought it would be interesting to write a little bit about each resident of Rosewood (past AND present), and how they could tie in with the disappearance and attempted murder of former queen bee, Alison DiLaurentis. 

The Montgomery family
Aria: As everyone knows (or should know!) Aria Montgomery was one of Alison's best friends. Aria was close with Ali and she was with no other than Miss DiLaurentis when she discovered her father's affair with one of his students, Meredith. Alison used this against her and Mr Montgomery and threatened to tell Aria's mother, Ella. Like her other BFFs Aria hated Alison but also really loved her, kind of a love-hate relationship really. 
Mike: Mike is Aria's brother, as far as we know he had no real relationship with Ali. Mike suffered with depression in season 2 after his parents' split, but that wasn't really pursued as a storyline. Mike was absent for the whole of season 3 but returned in season 4a. 
Byron: Byron Montgomery is Aria and Mike's father, he had an affair with Meredith, a student at Hollis when he was teaching there - however when the family returned to Rosewood after a year abroad in Iceland, -A revealed Byron's affair to his wife, Ella, in a note. Byron and Ella split and Meredith began dating him. Alison blackmailed Byron for money and he saw her on the night of her 'death'.
Ella: Ella is Aria and Mike's mother. After finding out about Byron's affair, she moved out of the family home - this is what seemed to have triggered Mike's depression - and moved into the apartment above the art gallery she was working at. Ella later became a teacher at Rosewood High school. Ella had a few issues with Alison.

The Hastings family
Spencer: Spencer was Ali's best friend. She was the one out of their friendship group that wasn't afraid to stand up to Alison. 
Melissa: Melissa is Spencer's older sister, they don't have the best relationship (but Spence DID kiss her then-fiancee, Wren, in the pilot episode). Melissa didn't have a good relationship with Alison either, Ali fancied Ian (who Melissa married in season 1).
Veronica: Veronica is Spencer and Melissa's mother, she has very high expectations and as she put it in 1x09 'this family doesn't handle imperfection very well'.
Peter: Peter Hastings is Melissa and Spencer's father, in late season 2 it is revealed that Peter had an affair with Alison's mother (Jessica DiLaurentis) and Jason DiLaurentis is his biological son, making him Spencer and Melissa's half brother, and Alison practically their sister.

The Fields family
Emily: Emily was one of Ali's BFFs, she was in love with her too. Alison used the secret of Emily's sexuality against her, and basically made fun of it.
Pam: Pam Fields is Emily's mother, as far as we know, Pam didn't interact with Alison - well not yet anyway! She worked at the Rosewood police station in season 4 but she was the target of -A when they were reported to family services and -A crashed a car into their house. 
Wayne: Wayne Fields is Emily's father, along with Pam he doesn't seem to have had any interaction with Alison. Wayne is an officer of the military.

The Marin family
Hanna: Hanna was one of Alison's best friends, she used to binge eat when she was nervous or felt bad, Alison showed her how to 'get rid of it' (by throwing up). Hanna has a history of shoplifting - as shown in the pilot episode. 
Ashley: Ashley Marin is Hanna's mom. She works at a bank in Rosewood, and was angered by Hanna's shoplifting habits, and as a result slept with Detective Wilden to keep Hanna from being charged for the offence. In season 4, Ashley is framed by -A for the murder of Wilden.
Tom: Tom Marin is Hanna's dad, he divorced Ashley after his affair with his current wife, Isabel. Tom returns to Rosewood in season 2 to be closer to Hanna but ends up sleeping with Ashley, but she breaks it off once she realises that he will never change. Hanna tells Isabel, at their wedding, that Tom slept with Ashley but they got married when they went home instead.

The DiLaurentis family
Alison: Alison is the former Rosewood Queen Bee. She disappeared during one of the girls sleepovers and her body was found a year later, however in the season 4 Halloween special, it is revealed that Ali is really alive and has been hiding from someone who she is scared of (-A, well - Ezra). 
Jason: Jason is Alison's older brother. He doesn't remember much from the night Alison went missing as he was 'passed out' for most of it. He is Spencer and Melissa's half brother. On the night of Ali's disappearance, he saw Melissa and Cece talking outside of his house and thought Cece was Alison because they were wearing practically the same yellow top. 
Jessica: Jessica DiLaurentis is Jason and Alison's mother. Jessica organised a fashion show in tribute to Alison who 'lived for this fashion show'. Jessica returns to Rosewood in season 4 and moves into the family's old house, much to the confusion of the liars. 
Kenneth: Kenneth DiLaurentis is Alison and Jason's father, he is only seen in the show once, in a flashback where he screams at Hanna for giving Jessica false hope that they would find Alison alive. 

Other characters
Caleb Rivers: Caleb is Hanna's boyfriend, and a phone hacker. He helps the girls on more than one occasion, he is shot when he is in the lighthouse with Emily and Nate/Lyndon who he thought was dead. Caleb moves to Ravenswood in season 4 to help Miranda.
Paige McCullers: Paige is Emily's girlfriend, in season 3 it is revealed that Paige and Alison were arch enemies and were in a full on feud with each other, but Alison was sure that by the time she was done with her 'she won't even exist'. Prior to dating, Paige was jealous of Emily's accomplishments and she makes homophobic remarks towards Emily and even physically threatens her. 
Nate St. Germain/Lyndon James: Lyndon/Nate is Maya's stalker, he met her at True North and continued to stalk her when she returned to Rosewood and re-kindled her relationship with Emily. He approaches Emily with the intent to befriend her and then kill her. When he was out of town with Emily, the two got into a physical confrontation which results in Emily stabbing him out of self defence, before he dies he manages to shoot Caleb.
Toby Cavanaugh: Toby is Spencer's boyfriend. He was wrongly accused of Alison's murder in season one, and had a brief part on the -A team in season 3 but it was revealed that he only did it to protect Spencer and the other girls.
Ezra Fitz: Ezra is a former teacher at Rosewood high, he and Aria dated briefly before splitting and seeing other people, but then get back together. In season 3 it is revealed that Ezra got his high school girlfriend pregnant but his mother paid her to stay away/have an abortion. Maggie (his high school GF) comes to Rosewood and reveals that her son (Malcolm) is Ezra's son too. This causes friction between Aria and Ezra, and leads to them breaking up. In season 4 Ezra returns to Rosewood high and in the season 4 mid season finale/Halloween episode it is confirmed that Ezra is -A, possibly the leader or a very high rank. This is possibly who Alison is so afraid of.
Jake: Aria dates Jake in season 4, when he first meets Ezra he tells him that he's gotta let Aria move on. 
Alex: Spencer briefly dated Alex in season one, but they broke up because -A framed Spencer for applying for a tennis tournament in Alex's name
Cece: Cece is Jason's ex-girlfriend and Alison's friend, they're very similar. Cece arrives in Rosewood in season 3 and helps Spencer apply for college. In season 4, episode 11 (Bring down the hoe) it is revealed that Cece is part of the A Team and in 4x12 the girls discover she is redcoat but is NOT the leader of the A Team, just a diversion and on -A's pay roll.
Noel: Aria briefly dated Noel when she and Ezra were broken up, Noel went on to have relationships with Mona and Jenna. Maya stayed at Noel's cabin when she was 'out of town'.
Jenna: Alison and the girls blinded Jenna the summer before Ali went missing. Jenna was in a relationship with Garrett. Jenna had surgery on her eyes to make her see again, she reveals to Shana, who she seems to be in a relationship with in season 4, that her eyesight is getting worse until she will lose her sight completely.
Shana: Shana is in alliance with Jenna and Melissa, she may be in a relationship with Jenna. Shana and Paige dated for a while during the summer before Emily and Paige got together.
Mona: Mona used to be considered a 'loser', she wasn't popular and Alison used to make fun of her. After Alison's disappearance, Hanna befriended Mona and they went under a huge transformation into the new queen bees. Mona was revealed as -A in 2x25 'UnmAsked'. In season 3, Mona was in Radley until episode 14 where she was released. Mona was kicked off the A Team in the season 3 finale. She was revealed as a new victim of -A in 4x1.
Garrett: Garrett Reynolds is a police officer and he and Jenna attempted to take the liars down. Garrett saw Ali on the night of her 'death' but she was still alive then. He tells this to Spencer on the Halloween train but he is interrupted and killed later on. 
Anne Sullivan: Anne is the girls' therapist, she is a victim of -A in season 2.
Detective Darren Wilden: Wilden is a detective that was investigating the murder of Alison DiLaurentis. He slept with Ashley Marin to avoid Hanna being charged for shoplifting. He is murdered in late season 3, and Ashley is framed for the murder in season 4 but in 4x12 it is revealed that Cece is the real murderer. 
Lucas: Lucas was an unpopular student, he has/had a crush on Hanna. Hanna and Lucas became friends in season one but grew apart after. Mona had been blackmailing him into co-operating with her in season 3. At the end of season 3, Lucas moved away out of fear and wanting a new start.
Wren: Wren is Melissa's ex-fiancee, who she split up with after seeing him kiss Spencer whom he was attracted to. In season 3, he volunteers at Radley and begins having feelings for Hanna who is visiting Mona. They kiss but Hanna rejects his efforts to 'woo' her, mainly because he dated Spencer for a bit and she is secretly dating Caleb. In season 4 it is revealed that he knows about redcoat and then he goes to London with Melissa, for unknown reasons.
Ian: Ian is Melissa's late husband. Ian liked to tape girls when they were getting dressed, and he taped Jenna and Toby when they were having a sexual relationship. Ian and Melissa were dating before Ali's 'death' but he was having a secret affair with Alison during this time. He also shared a 'moment' with Spencer. In the season 1 finale, Ian tries to kill Spencer and insists he's doing it for Melissa's benefit...but -A pushes Ian off the bell tower before he has the chance, his killer remains a mystery. 

Pretty Little Liars returns on January 7, 2014 on ABC Family

Season 4B: Alison

Now, as we found out in the Halloween special, little miss queen bee herself, Alison DiLaurentis, IS alive so we thought that we'd put together a little bit on what we think will happen and where she has been for the past 4 seasons! 

The girls
Since Ali 'died' the girls have completely changed and are so different. We want to know what is going to happen with the girls and Ali - how are they going to be around each other?!

Aria: once someone that Ali could trick and make do things that she wasn't completely comfortable with, Aria has completely changed - she's still a romantic though! Aria now is more confident and has really come into her own.

• She no longer has a pink stripe in her hair - an obvious difference there!
• Once fantasising about dating Noel, she's been there and done that, oh and we don't think she'll go back there again - but anything can happen in Rosewood! 
• Aria is a lot smarter and independant nowadays - apart from dating -A (Ezra)!

Emily: Emily was once a shy closeted girl who was in love with Ali, but now she's come out and is now confident.

• Emily isn't afraid of facing up to anything - coming out, and tracking down -A are just two examples.
• Emily is openly gay - which, by the way, is awesome that she's cool with it (everyone should be treated equally!)

Hanna: Hanna was once an overweight girl, craving attention and popularity but, since Alison's disappearance, Hanna has completely transformed herself from someone who wishes she was popular to a queen bee who could be mean sometimes and again to a caring friend who doesn't really care about speaking her mind.

• Hanna was once someone who was manipulated by Alison, after all - she could be nice sometimes, but now she's someone who isn't afraid of being herself.
• Hanna doesn't lack in braveness or passion. 

Spencer: Over the time since Ali 'died', Spencer has done nothing but become more sure of herself. She no longer worries about doing what other people want for her (*cough cough* Mr & Mrs Hastings) and she has learnt to create her OWN goals and ambitions.

• Spencer is always ready to battle -A no matter what, and that is why we admire her!
• She's still smart and ambitious but she also has a side to her that she knows she can let her hair down and chill out, and that's great.

We think that when or if Ali comes back to town FULLY, the dynamic between Aria, Emily, Hanna, Spencer and Ali will be so different to what it was BEFORE Alison went missing. The girls are so much more independent and aware of how Ali treated them now that she won't be able to get away with that again! But, we also think that Alison won't try to treat them like that - she's been through a lot too!

Alison:

Where has she been? How hasn't she been spotted before now? Is someone helping her? This is a topic we aren't sure about, but we have a few theories!

• Alison hasn't been just in one place for the past two years, we think she's been in Ravenswood, maybe Rosewood on a couple of occasions (well, she IS redcoat) and possibly Brookhaven, but we aren't sure about that. 
• There could be someone helping her, but WHO?! We've seen a couple of theories and who you guys think is helping her hide ranges from Jason to Cece, but we'll do a full post on who is helping Ali later. 
• When we saw Alison in the Halloween episode (4x13) she looked so different to what she does in flashbacks, and we DON'T mean looks. She looked scared - and tired, but that could come from running and hiding all the time. She looked like she has been through A LOT.
• So when she's not hiding, she's saving/helping the girls when they can't do it themselves. Warning Aria that Meredith drugged her, pulling Emily out of the garage, visiting Hanna in the hospital, helping Spencer in Radley... it's like a hobby for Alison. 

 So basically, we think that things are going to be kinda awkward at the start for the girls and Alison but then things will change, for the better though. We hope that we're going to find out where Alison has been and if somebody has been helping her in 4B.

Pretty Little Liars returns on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 on ABC family

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