Pretty Little Liars Poll: What Is Sara's Real Connection to Charles? 

fans have been cooking up crazy theories from the moment “A” sent his/her/its first text back in 2010, but with less than a dozen episodes until the ABC Family drama blows the lid off its six-season mystery, some of those crazy theories are starting to look… not so crazy.

In TVLine’s recap of this week’s episode, I noted my distrust of

Sara Harvey and accused her of helping Charles, at which point several commenters introduced — and subsequently expanded upon — a theory I can’t stop exploring in my head: What if Sara 

Here’s the thing: If I was a betting man, I’d put my money on the two characters simply working together; it’s the safer of the two options, and it’s certainly more obvious. That shoddy FaceTime murder threat — aside from being all kinds of WTF — was a dead giveaway. And I know Sara was (allegedly) held captive in Charles’ lair for two years, but seriously, who takes that many showers?

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Charles, living amongst the liars and gaining their sympathy, is too deliciously twisted a possibility to ignore. It also requires a heck of a lot more explaining, so let’s break down just a few of the (recent) clues that link the two characters as one:

* Über A must have a lot of free time on his/her hands in order to plan and execute such elaborate stunts — the kind of free time you’d have if the world thought you were dead for two years and stopped looking for you.

* Then there’s Sara’s mom, whose conspicuous absence from the show has raised major red flags for me. Why didn’t we see her at the hospital? And when Pam called to let her know Sara was staying at her house, did they ever actually speak? If Sara isn’t really who she says she is, that would explain why she can’t go home 

why she doesn’t have any other clothes (unless you buy that her mom threw them out).

* Wasn’t it also strange how adamant Sara was that Andrew wasn’t her captor, despite never actually seeing Charles’ face? Don’t forget, Charles 

credit for his actions — at least within the liars’ inner circle — so I imagine he wouldn’t be too thrilled to see Andrew getting all the glory.

Of course, every theory has its cracks, and I can’t deny there are huge, Minion-sized cracks in both of the possible outcomes mentioned above. For example, the Sara-is-Charles theory would require the show to incorporate a transgender component to the character — assuming Charles is/was actually Jason’s twin — and as commenters have also pointed out, it seems unlikely that LGBT-friendly 

would introduce a trans character as the ultimate villain.

here, I figured I’d throw this theory out there to see what you all think. So vote in our poll below, then drop a comment: If Sara and Charles 

one in the same, how would that work? And how might clues from previous seasons support — or disprove — the theory altogether?

I think this could be it since there really is no point on focusing on Sara so much near the revelation of Big A. But there are too many plotholes to this theory and at this point. Where would Sara get the money from and isn’t she the same age as the girls?

Sidenote: I really have a feeling the writers are redeeming Alison only to kill her off before the timejump. That would really be full circle to the A story. I would hate it since Alison is by far the most complex and interesting character on the show.

At this point I do not know if I care to know who A is. What is the point, there are so many inconsistencies with that show I would not be surprised if Santa Claus was A and punishing them because they were bad girls when they were in Ali’s gang.

That said, I’d say red herring of course, you know why. I may do not care who A is but I wish it was really Alison, not only because it would echo the books, but because I do not want her to be there when there is a time jump. I want them to get rid of all the characters except the liars and their family. Boyfriends/creepy teachers can go away, except for Caleb that is the only nice one of the bunch. Start fresh.

2. I’m definitely not expecting the final reveal to connect *every* story line, but as long as it makes sense in the grand scheme of things, I’ll be satisfied.

I wouldnt be surprised if PLL jumps on the transgendered bandwagon and reveals that Sara is Charles. It would be a cool twist so im all for it. But usually the reveals never make much sense anyway.

Okay, there is no way that I would want them to make Charles transgender. It’d be the most ludicrous way to finish this story. Literally, that’s the kind of stuff that they show on Lifetime movies, where it’s like “SURPRISE!” I’ll have spent six and a half years waiting for this mystery to unravel, and if they tried to explain it away with such an easy answer, I’d be furious. Not to mention that that was clearly a little boy in the video/picture with Mrs. D, and as recently as the season 5 finale, A was dressed like a man. If he’d transitioned into a girl, why wear a tux to prom? No, I don’t think there’s any way they’d go that way. (Not to mention, would they really use a transgender character for the first time on this show, only to make him a deranged murderer?)

What if before Sara ran away, she met Charles and the two of them ran away together? I mean Mona was A for a while before Charles even caught wind of the girl.

Also, everyone keeps saying she was down there for two years…shouldn’t it be three? We started at one year since ali had disappeared and two in show years?

@foodtravellaugh: In regards to how long Sara was being held captive in the Dollhouse, I’d suggest you not focus too much attention on that issue. This show plays pretty fast & loose with it’s timeline. Hell, the characters can’t even seem to agree on how long the Girls were missing, with references being somewhere between 3 weeks and more than a month.

Well, if Sara is actually Charles she doesn’t have to be transgender. Charles and Jason could be fraternal twins. Remember old 90210 with Brenda and Brandon? And Charles/Sara could also have cut her hair in pixie style, or wear boy wigs. Crazy people do crazy things. I think Sara as Charles is plausible.

This girl is too suspect for words! All I know is, of all the Liars, she latches onto Emily. Who is known to be the most trusting of the group.

I don’t think Sara is Charles, but I think she’s definitely working for him.

Emily came to her room at the hospital so that’s just probably why she came to her instead of the others.

I think it’s a little paranoid to immediately assume the worst about Sara, especially when we know that Emily is supposed to get a new love interest this season, a love interest that TPTB said was her soulmate. I definitely think it’s possible that Sara is hiding some things, but I don’t think she’s the evildoer that many people seem to believe.

Seriously, paranoid?! Have you watched this show?? Literally everyone around the girls has been suspicious at some point, even the freakin parents!!! If some creepy girl shows up at this point on the show and is all over Emily, aka the most trusting one (to be nice), it is smart to assume that there is some kind of evil going on there… Don’t forget there’s a whole season 6B for em to find her soulmate, another one…

Simple. Charles was killed when he was young and his spirit took over the body of Sara, so at certain times of the day the body becomes male and at certain times it reverts back to female — once they introduced magic, anything is possible — not necessary PLAUSIBLE, merely possible.

I think sara’s family adopted charles and he put her up to this

I don’t think Sara is a transgender or was physically born a male. She was admitted in to the hospital with the others once she was rescued and they’d totally know if she had male parts. I do think she could’ve been a Charlotte and gone by Charlie, if we want to believe she’s Charles. And being a possible twin to Jason, she could’ve been a very tomboy-like kid with short hair and then would totally look like her fraternal twin brother. Possibly lol.

Sara being Charles wouldn’t be a huge surprise. But twitching the whole story with an intersex story could work as well.

Also Sara could be Bethany for that matter. But I think stuff will become clear when Alison finds the second picture missing from the album.

You know what I’m just about fed UP with it all. I’ve been watching this show since it came on in June 2010 & its just to much, don’t get me wrong I LOVE PLL but all this trying to figure out who “A” is is really PISSING me off !!!!!!!!!!!

what about stockholm syndrome, Sara was down there for 2 years. Which means she wouldn’t be completely responsible for her actions. Also, who was the girl screaming during the torturous electrocution game, my first thought when they realized none of them had been electrocuted was Sara. I was waiting for one of them to say something when they didn’t, i kind of wondered if they were a little self absorbed and forgetting that Sara was down there to.

A is a lot bigger than her or at least the member of the A team responsible for most of his attacks and scenes we’ve seen so I’m going with she’s working with A since they said Charles A is not transsexual

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