She is seen buying black hoodies and gloves for her employees. The store owner says to Red Coat "So, are you buying this for a team? The dramatic irony is that the Liars don't seem to understand that both Mona and Toby are simply workers for Red Coat.

In the same episode, we also see Mona talking to Red Coat on the phone, learning that there is a "change of plans". Since Red Coat is usually the one planning out all of the "A" schemes, it seems as if the caller was her. When Hanna goes to the boutique, she sees in the window's reflection a blonde girl wearing a red coat across the street, watching her.

When Hanna turns around, the girl has disappeared. In the same episode, we see Mona and Toby talking in A's Lair. Mona refers to someone by saying "They need to understand she's in charge," which means Red Coat is a female. Red Coat is seen in A's Lair using a blowtorch to burn a doll representing Hanna.

The girl was seen wearing a red jacket and red nail polish. Emily remembers more of what happened "That Night". She also remembers that Red Coat had blonde hair. Emily says that she is the one in charge. Spencer sees Red Coat after her date with Wren. She manages to get away before Spencer can catch up to her.

Red Coat appears to Emily for a second time while she is in her car waiting to meet up with Toby. However, she quickly vanishes after Emily catches a glimpse of her entering in Toby's workplace. It is presumed that Red Coat lured Emily by using Toby's phone.

Aria sees Red Coat while she, Hanna and Emily are in the morgue posing as candy strippers. Aria follows her, almost catching Red Coat before she slips into an elevator and escapes. She caught Spencer's attention and she followed Red Coat until Red Coat stopped at the girl's toilet. As Spencer touched her, Red Coat turned around and was revealed to be Hanna Marin who wore the coat in order to trick Spencer and find out if she was really part of The A-Team and knew who Red Coat was.

Spencer, however, only joined the team to find out if Toby was alive and to find Red Coat's identity. Spencer sees Red Coat get off the plane, and thinks it is Alison. After Toby and Spencer leave, the girls sneak in and corner Mona, but the cabin is suddenly on fire and Mona tells the girls that it is Red Coat's doing. Locking inside, they urgently tried to find a way out and Mona reveals she does not know who Red Coat is either.

Someone saved Emily, Aria and Mona from the fire. Hanna wakes up groggily and sees Alison staring at her in the red coat. A moment later, she is gone. Mona reveals Red Coat wears an "Alison" mask, meaning it could have just looked like Alison. Red Coat is briefly seen wandering around the Halloween Spooktacular Store while Lucas Gottesman receives a phone call.

This person's red trench coat looks different than the one Red Coat usually wears. Also, this person is wearing sneakers while Red Coat usually wears black heels. Red Coat did not have a physical appearance in this episode, but her coat is seen in the rubble at the lodge. Since the coat is burned, we can assume this is the moment when "A" started to dress as The Black Widow.

Emily is taken to the police station and is questioned by Lt. Tanner concerning a video that she received. The video featured someone wearing the red coat while wearing an "Emily" mask, holding up a 'Guilty' sign. Therefore, "A" possibly bought another red coat. Hanna goes in there and sees Alison's old jewelry box. In the reflection of the box's mirror, you see Red Coat wearing the "Alison" Mask staring at Hanna, but she doesn't notice.

Also, Mrs. DiLaurentis' basement. It's a mess, filled with trash everywhere. Emily then notices holes in the ceiling of the room, and she realizes someone has been spying on her. Bring Down the Hoe. CeCe Drake is seen in A's lair which is later revealed to be only Ezra's lair with a bunch of photos of the Liars and Alison. A red coat is seen sitting on her chair. At the hoedown, Red Coat is there but runs away. Spencer and Emily see someone moving in the pile of hay and dig through.

All that's left is the red coat. In Ravenswood , someone traps Emily in a coffin and puts her on a sawmill, waiting to kill Emily. The girls see Red Coat run into the sawmill, and they try to get Emily out. Red Coat turns off the sawmill, saving Emily's life.

The girls are about to chase Red Coat, when they see another Red Coat run up the stairs of the sawmill. Aria chases the Red Coat running up the stairs, while Spencer chases the one that saved Emily's life. Spencer tries to chase the other Red Coat and notices she keeps stopping as if she wanted to be followed. Spencer believes this Red Coat is Alison. Carla Grunwald also reveals Alison is alive, further proving Alison is the second and the good Red Coat. The Liars crash the party in Ravenswood 's cemetery in order to find the other Red Coat whom they believe is Alison , before " A " does.

In the beginning, they see Red Coat, but they lose her trail. The girls find a secret mansion and attempt to look for Red Coat in there, but fail. Ezra drives the girls back to Rosewood where they hear a branch snap and see Red Coat running away. The Liars run towards her and see Red Coat standing. She takes off her hood and turns around. It is Alison. She says she wants to come home but needs their help. She takes off when Ezra shows up.

EscApe From New York. Game Over, Charles. The Gloves Are On. Red Coat was the leader of the A-Team's former disguise and the person who stole the game from Mona the Original " A ", from Season However, CeCe's sleeve rips and she falls.

The girls run to her and assume she is dead. When they turn around, CeCe's body is gone, meaning she escaped and is alive. Spencer then tells the girls she was chasing another Red Coat, who she believes is Alison. Spencer follows one of the Red Coats, who she thinks is Ali the "good" Red Coat because she appears to be helping The Liars , and she leads Spencer to what seems like A's main lair but is actually Ezra's lair.

Spencer shows The Liars the lair and a female eye is seen watching the girls through the wall, presumably Alison. After the girls leave the lair, they run into Carla Grunwald , who tells the girls she saved Alison's life the night she went missing, proving Alison is alive. She claims that someone is after her, and she cannot come home. Later, the girls find out it was all a set-up against Alison. She demanded Sara to attend the lodge fire as a decoy in order to confuse Mona.

Also, Sara was Red Coat anytime "Charlotte needed her to be". Although theorizers have suggested for a long time that Red Coat and Black Widow are the same person, it just doesn't seem possible, even by Pretty Little Liars standards, that CeCe and Sara would be able execute so many complex acts of cruelty on their own. The PLL writers have repeatedly asserted that they carefully constructed these "answers" and "reveals" three years ago and everything since then was leading up to the 6A finale. So why couldn't Red Coat have been a character who had at least some screen time prior to the Season 6 premiere?

And, no, I don't think the missing person website with Sara Harvey's face that was shown for a hot second in Season 4 counts. But we also know that she continued to wear the Red Coat disguise even after she became "Big A. If Sara truly was Red Coat in Season 4, then why didn't CeCe send her to the sawmill instead of donning the disguise herself? The only reason I can think of is that she hadn't yet "hired" Sara. If that's the case, are we supposed to believe that she actually managed to execute the A game with no helpers for an extended period of time?

I'm not just saying this because I'm bitter that neither of my theories panned out although I'm not going to lie and say I enjoy being wrong.