HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER

SEASON 1

REAL CASES CASE HANDLED CONCEPTS SAM KEATING LILA

CITED DISCUSSED MURDER STANGUARD
MURDER
Commonwealth vs Aspirin assassin Direct verdict Discovery of Lila’s
EPISODE 1 Deloatche (Commonwealth vs Murder
-Prosecution should Gina Sadowski)
have won but lost -Attempted murder
because there was no
murder weapon. CLIENT
ACQUITTED
Commonwealth vs
McGinnis
-move for faster
verdict of the
prosecution’s
evidence is
insufficient. (Direct
verdict)
EPISODE 2 Commonwealth vs Rebecca was
St. Vincent Matrix Defense arrested’ Miranda
-Murder of Marjorie rights read to her.
St. Vincent suspect
was her husband
Max. Real killer was
Max’s daughter with
his first wife, Eloise.

CLIENT
ACQUITTED
Battered husband Rebecca hid Lila’s
syndrome phone inside Wes’
bathroom closet.
 Bipolar mood swings
EPISODE 3 US vs Hearst Elena Aguilar was Keating 5 – Asher
-a person cannot be charged with felony work on their Alibi,
both brainwashed and murder for bombing. bonfire for Sam’s
under duress at the murder.
same time Elena ran away with
Gabriel Shaw the
case was put on hold
pending their arrest.
CASE ON HOLD.
Annalise takes
Rebecca’s case
EPISODE 4 Marren Trudeau was Preliminary hearing- Lila’s phone is
charged with insider determination of opened, Sam’s photos
trading. probable cause are discovered.

CLIENT
ACQUITTED.
EPISODE 5 Romini murder case,
son killer the cop Voir dire Rebecca determines
father with the that Sam was Mr.
latter’s service Darcy, she leaves as
revolver. she no longer trusts
Annalise.
Father abused mother
and son.

At the time of the

killing, there was no
imminent threat on
the life of the mother.

Because the jury was

informed about the
concept of
nullification, they
 were dismissed and
THE CASE WAS
TRANSFERRED TO
JUVENILE COURT.
Battered Woman
Jury Nullification
Mistrial
EPISODE 6 Fay vs Noia David Allen case Habeas corpus-
-An individual whose -Murder of tricia produce the body.
imprisonment doesn’t Stanley.
meet the -death row case
requirements of law (lethal injection)
must be released in a -JUDGMENT WAS
habeas corpus VACATED
proceeding
Vacated judgment
The justice system
does not reward
everyone who tells
the truth but those
who have the power
to create their own.
EPISODE 7 Sexual relations
between Rebecca and
Griffin leaked to the
press. Gag order
granted.
Griffin o’ reilley’s
counsel moved to
exhume Lila’s body
to prove that Rebecca
was the sole killer.
Commonwealth vs
Holden(murder) case
given to discredit
expert presented by
 Griffin.
Lila’s body exhumed-
marks were ant bites.
-Lila was 6 weeks
pregnant.
Nate asked Rebecca
to help him catch
Sam-Lila’s alleged
killer.
EPISODE 8 Gretchen Thomas -Bonnie met Lila the
-first degree murder night she was killed.
of her nanny. Lila was looking for
-She killed the nanny Annalise to tell her
during an episode of about the former’s
sleepwalking. relationship with Sam
-Husband killed the and to tell her about
nanny in a jealous the pregnancy.
rage after finding out
his son, like him, has
a sexual affair with
the nanny.

CLIENT
ACQUITTED.
Annalise requested
the DA’s office to get
a sample of DNA of
all the men in her life
to determine the
father of the baby.
EPISODE 9 Rebecca was working Wes reveals to
with Nate to catch Connor and Laurel
Sam. She went to that Sam killed Lila.
Sam’s house to get
his coordinates
during the night of
the murder to prove
he killed Lila. He
caught Rebecca a
chase ensued, this
time, Keating 5
minus Asher were
there. He tried to take
the evidence Rebecca
got to he tried to take
it.

Michaela pushed
Sam just as he was
about to get to
Laurel. Sam fell from
the stairs.

Thinking that he
died, the started to
plan what to do with
his body until they
saw him strangling
Rebecca. Wes hacked
Sam with the trophy
which killed him.

They cleaned the

murder weapon with
bleach and returned it
to Annalise’s office.

They burned Sam’s

body to get rid of the
DNA.
Rebecca was stealing
Sam’s information
 which was a felony.
They would be
charged for felony
murder if someone
found out.
EPISODE 10 They’re trying to
establish Sam’s
intent. –He knew Lila
was pregnant and
wanted her to get an
abortion, she didn’t
want one so he killed
her.
Commonwealth vs Annalise requests
G.P. –Observations subpoena of the
of patients in clinics CCTV footage in the
are not abortion clinic’s
communications and waiting room. -Lesser
therefore are not expectation of
privileged. Physician- privacy.
Patient privilege does The protection of the
not apply. women’s identities
are for outsiders who
object to what goes
within but it does not
protect those whose
identities can be
known to anyone
who walks in the
door.
DNA results revealed
that Sam is the father
of Lila’s child.
CCTV at the
women’s clinic
shows that Lila went
 there with Sam. They
were arguing as it
was obvious that Lila
didn’t want to be
there.
Data from Sam’s
phone shows he was
at the Sorority house
at the time of the
murder. Charges
against Rebecca were
dropped.
Connor and Michaela
were about to confess
to the murder and
invoke defense of a
stranger(Rebecca) but
were stopped by
Laurel, Wes and
Annalise.
Sam’s sister goes to
Philadelphia.
EPISODE 11 Woman’s husband is Sam’s body was
holding 2 girls found in a landfill.
captive in their
basement, he rapes
them. –Rachel and
Lynn

The wife, Jackie,

drugged the girls
each time before the
husband would rape
them. She allegedly
did it so they won’t
have to remember
 what he did.

The wife wanted a

Plea deal with the
DA- accessory after
the fact, treatment
and no jail time.

DA wants to agree
with a 3-year
probation and
outpatient treatment
deal.

ANNALISE
WITHREW
HERSELF AS
CLIENT’S
LAWYER.
Laurel’s dad joked
about committing
aggravated battery
with a deadly
weapon.
EPISODE 12 Paul Lombardo was Negligence To obtain a search
charged with drug warrant on the
possession with Keating house,
intent to distribute- Hannah Keating
300kg of heroin testified that Annalise
found in a shipment was violent and cited
container. an instance when the
latter allegedly threw
Container allegedly a paper weight at
failed a random Sam which almost hit
weigh in. him in the head.-
Search warrant
However, it was later granted, police didn’t
revealed that the feds find any evidence.
were already at the
site ready to seize the
contents of the
container even before
the weigh in.

The person who

“randomly” picked
the container to be
weighed in, Pedro
Hortua, admitted in
court that he was told
to choose
Lombardo’s
container in exchange
for green cards for
him and his wife, it
was allegedly
promised by the
prosecutor of the
case.

Prosecutor said that it

was Slander against
him.
5th amendment- Right Autopsy report on
against self- Sam’s body came
incrimination. back, his head
showed signs of blunt
“When in doubt, shut force trauma – results
your mouth” show that he was hit
with an object which
was made with metal
or steel.
 Carpet fibers were
also found in the
remains as well as
debris from a wooded
area.
Chain of custody of Sam’s ring was later
the cargo container. found in the woods
with Nate’s
fingerprints. Nate
was arrested for
Sam’s murder.
Conspiracy to
commit fraud, 4th
amendment.
EPISODE 13 Nurse, Jolene Prosecutor said that Rebecca was
Samuels, was rape shield laws questioned by the
accused of rape. prohibit the mention police in relation with
of the victim’s sexual Sam’s murder. Nate’s
Man, Chad Manning, orientation. phone showed that he
underwent a routine talked to her the night
surgery, when he Defense said that the Sam disappeared.
woke up, the nurse probative value of the
was on top of him, information on the Rebecca said that
allegedly sexually character of the Nate told her to plant
assaulting him, his victim outweighs any evidence in the
genitals exposed prejudicial effect. Keating house but
she refused so he
Bonnie alleged that –Judge agreed with threatened to hurt
Manning was the prosecution and her.
pressuring the mentioned that the
hospital for a pay out. mention of the
And that the alleged victim’s sexual
rape was a slander on orientation was
Jolene’s reputation bordering on
and will endanger her discrimination.
 livelihood.
Note: Eventually, the Annalise visited Nate On the same night
parties agreed to in Jail and slipped Lila was killed, Rudy
Ophelia, Annalise’s settle. However, him a paper telling Walters was picked
mother tells Annalise Bonnie revealed that him to fire his lawyer up at 5503 for
that she knew about the hospital’s legal along with a number disorderly conduct
what uncle Clyde did officer and the victim of who appears to be due to drug overdose.
to Annalise (hinting were lovers who another lawyer He was taken to the
at rape). planned the whole Annalise contacted to Middleton Hospital
thing to get a pay off defend nate. but was later
Because of the from the hospital, transferred to a
alleged rape, one they even set up a mental institution,
night, when Clyde joined bank account Enfield behavioral
was sleeping at the in Mykonos. hospital.
sofa of their house,
Ophelia woke her CHARGE Wes and Laurel went
children up and had DISMISSED to Enfield and when
them transfer to am Wes showed Rudy a
aunt’s house nearby. photo of Rebecca, he
Ophelia’s house kept saying the
burned down and phrase “wet” which
Clyde burned with it. lead the 2 to believe
She told Annalise that Rebecca was wet
“Sometime you do because of the water
what you gotta do tank where Lila’s
even if what you’ve body was dumped
got is a long match after she was
and a very flammable murdered.
hooch.
EPISODE 14 Commonwealth vs Change of plea; why Judge Redding was
Andrew Crawford is it not considered replaced as the
-Fr. Andrew is perjury: presiding judge as
accused of having 1. It is not a she was
killed Fr. Bernard. He sworn photographed talking
entered a plea of testimony; to Asher Millstone,
guilty however, he and the prosecutor asked
wanted to change his 2. A “not guilty for her recusal.
plea to not guilty so plea” does
he did on the grounds not mean “I
that Annalise didn’t do it”,
allegedly was unable it only means
to properly inform that the state
him of what would has to prove
happen after entering all the
such plea. elements of
the crime
Fr. Bernard’s head beyond
was cracked open reasonable
with the thurible, the doubt.
murder weapon,
beside him.

It would later be Nate was released on

revealed that Fr. bail.
Andrew found out
during Fr. Bernard’s
confession that the
latter abused Brian a
student who was
close to Fr. Andrew
so he killed him.
When the not guilty
plea was entered
Annalise wanted Fr.
 Andrew to plea guilty
for Voluntary
manslaughter instead
of First degree
murder. However, Fr.
Andrew did not want
to reveal in open
court what Fr.
Bernard confessed as
according to him, it
would be a violation
of his vow.
Ms. Willis who was
in love with Fr.
Andrew took the
witness stand to say
that Fr. Andrew could
not have committed
the crime as they
were engaged in
intimate relations at
the time of the
murder. As such was
not true, Fr. Andrew
asked the judge to
change his plea to
first degree murder.
He was
CONVICTED.
EPISODE 15 Rebecca confessed to
Wes what actually
happened with Rudy
Walters.

He saw Rebecca
coming home dripped
in water and asked
what happened with
Lila as she saw the 2
arguing earlier that
night.

Afraid that she might

be incriminated for
the crime, she invited
Rudy to do drugs
with her and gave
him PCP and a
substance called
Purple X, she
overdosed him.
Rebecca was wet
because when she
went to the sorority
house to say sorry to
Lila about what
happened with
Griffin, she saw her
dead body inside the
water tank and
because people were
coming, she hid
inside the water tank
for fear that she
would be
incriminated.
It was later revealed
that it was Sam who
instructed Frank to
kill Lila. She was
strangled to death and
her body was placed
 inside the water tank.
Rebecca was found dead inside the Keating’s basement.

SEASON 2

REAL CASES CASE CONCEPTS SAM REBECCA GRANT AND

CITED HANDLED DISCUSSED KEATING SUTTER URSULA
MURDER MURDER HAPSTALL
MURDERS
EPISODE 1 Commonwealth Hapstall murder When the Eve Rothlo It is revealed Caleb and
vs Ferber case. accused is represents that Bonnie Catherine Hapstall
-Defense won by already on trial Nate. killed Rebecca allegedly tortured
proving the for murder and to protect and murdered their
police had bias. is incriminated Annalise. adoptive parents.
The detectives for another case They were gagged
records show pending Michaela and shot to death.
they never litigation, the attempts to
considered Judge can issue contact Prosecution
suspects other a sealed warrant EGGS911, the witness, Helena
than Mr. Ferber which cannot be person Rebecca Hapstall, their
opened until the texted and she aunt, claims to
date of the receives a reply. have witnessed
arraignment. seeing the two
leaving their
parents’ room at
the night of the
murder.

Death Penalty is
legal in
Philadelphia.

EPISODE 2 During Nate’s EGGS911, Helena was killed

Preliminary Levi, introduces in her car with a
hearing, the himself to slash on her throat.
 prosecution Michaela and Forensics found
calls Annalise tries to woo her. Caleb’s DNA on
to the witness the car. A case
stand and ADA was charged
Sinclair against the two.
questions her
brutally. It was later
revealed that the
The case is police ran 2 DNA
dismissed and tests on the car,
the DA is the two were ran 6
asked to come hours apart. The
up with a new first test didn’t
case have Caleb’s
DNA. Defense of
manipulating the
test and planting
of Caleb’s DNA
were raised.
EPISODE 3 Commonwealth Parricide is EGGS911 is Motive is
vs Tanya usually the revealed to be everything in this
Randolph result of abuse. Rebeca’s foster case.
brother.
Owns the Utopia DA presents the
circle which billions dollars
hosts sex parties. inheritance.
She was charged
with the
involuntary
manslaughter of
Dominic Ewing,
a client of
Utopia.

He died while he
and Tanya were
engaged in sexual
activity during a
party.
The other clients Adoptive child Nate works with It was leaked that
of Utopia were syndrome Wes against the Hapstall heirs
questioned and it Annalise. were lovers.
revealed the
following Leak was made by
information: ADA Sinclair with
the help of one of
Dominic’s the Hapstall’s
favorite position maids. She claims
was the Octopus she has known the
and he liked to be 2 since they were
slapped. kids and she has
long since noticed
it.
It was revealed Oppositional
that Tanya defendant
switched cards disorder
with another
client, Alicia, to
have sex with
Dominic at the
time of the
murder.
Tanya Reveals Selective
that she and mutism
Dominic were in
love but could
not be together as
the latter was
married.

On the night of
the murder, she
switched cards
with Alicia so she
could give
Dominic
nitroglycerine
knowing that he
was taking
Viagra.

When Viagra and

Nitroglycerine
are taken
together, it can
cause a heart
attack. Tanya
wanted for
Dominic to suffer
such so his
activities would
be exposed to his
wife and they
could be together.
However, it
resulted to his
death.
Annalise tried to Primal wound
pin the charge of theory
premeditated first
degree murder on
Dominic’s wife
saying it was her
who gave
Dominic the pills
as she discovered
he was drinking
Viagra although
 it has been over
a year since they
last engaged in
sexual activity.

CLIENT
ACQUITTED.

DA would not
press charges
against the wife.
Mock jury
Heat of passion
defense is a
usual defense in
crimes of
passion.

However, then
there is a
cooling of the
blood period, it
cannot be used
as the client had
time to
contemplate his
actions.
EPISODE 4 Rachel Glasser Psychopathy; Bonnie tells Nate finds out Catherine is a
was murdered Shizophrenia. Asher she that Frank made virgin, she got
Asher made a plea deal with 52 stab killed Sam 3 calls the night tested to disprove
with the ADA as he was wounds. Rebecca the theory that she
blackmailed with the disappeared. and her brother
Trotter lake incident in The suspects are One was to were in an
exchange of a testimony her highschool Sabrina incestuous
against Annalise. friends, Zoe Mancini. relationship.
Mitchell, Molly
Bonnie finds out about it. Bartlett and Her brother
Megan Harris. Bruno worked
Nia talks to Annalise as According to at the
she wanted to commit Zoe, it started Stratheaven
suicide with when Rachel Cemetery where
Secobarbittal pills, she started talking to they think Frank
asked Annalise to get the Molly’s buried Rebecca
pills for her. boyfriend which after they killed
is why Molly her.
Annalise refused, Nia allegedly said
said she thought Annalise they had to teach
would do it as she had Rachel a lesson.
already killed Sad which
she denied. They brought her
to the woods
where the murder
was committed,
she was stabbed
52 times. Zoe
allegedly thought
that they brought
her there to scare
her but things
escalated and
Molly allegedly
made her kill
Rachel.
A video on Zoe’s
phone shows that
they had a video
of themselves
taken after the
murder joking
about what
happened and
Zoe even
 mentioned that
they should kill
again, she even
suggested a
victim, one of
their teachers
who gave her a
“C”, she
proposed to carve
a “C” on her face
before they
would gut her.

The video was

shown in court by
the prosecution-it
was sent
anonymously by
Connor to the
ADA’s office.
Annalise tried to
put up a defense
that it was Molly
who was the
ringleader and
that Zoe only
copied her. This
caused Zoe to
have a meltdown,
she exposed it in
open court and
was
ARRESTED.
EPISODE 5 To get Annalise Helena’s
immunity for discovers that testimony was
the Trotter lake Wes and Nate admitted as
 grand jury were working evidence.
investigation together and
and the murder that Levi had
of Sam entered the
Keating, Asher picture.
tries to enter
into a plea deal They went to
with ADA Bruno Mancini
Sinclair. to ask what
happened with
Bonnie tries to Frank and he
stop him by said that Frank
telling him she borrowed his
loves him, he storage locker,
says he feels he and Levi
the same which plan to check if
is why he can’t Rebecca’s body
Bonnie get was inside.
away with it,
because good However, it
people don’t do appears that
the things she Connor,
did. Michaela and
Laurel followed
Annalise them which led
shows Asher to a
what happened confrontation, it
to Bonnie was revealed
when she was that Levi was
young, she was EGGS911,
raped by her when they were
father and the about to go to
years of trauma the storage
were the reason locker, Police
why she arrested Levi as
resorted to they received a
 killing Sam tip that he was
when he in possession of
allegedly made meth with intent
a pass on her. to distribute.
Tip was from
Frank, Levi was
arrested. –Frank
planted the
drugs.

They went
inside the
storage and saw
the suitcase
where Frank
first put
Rebecca after
they found her
dead, they
found cash
inside when
they opened it.
EPISODE 6 US vs Mahoney Jill Hartford Frank buried It was discovered
-no verdict killed her Rebecca’s body. that Helena
Annalise warned ADA because the husband Steven Hapstall had a
Sinclair that what she did victim didn’t when she hit his Levi was sent secret child. Her
to Asher amounts to directly testify head with a bottle back to New money would go
witness tampering and because it would allegedly for self- Orleans to serve to a charity in
intimidation. cause him defense as he was time. Africa and the K5
suffering and hurting her. discovered that the
additional charity was
emotional harm. She called founded the same
CASE Annalise before year she had a
DISMISSED. calling the cops secret child, the
as they were charity was linked
Prosecutor colleagues at to a bank account
exercised his Middleton. She in the Caymans,
discretion in described the the money was
allowing such. scene and used to support the
narrated what child.
allegedly
happened. The Oliver discovered
detectives that the secret
approached Jill as child was Phillip
they discovered Jessup whi lived 2
that she was a miles away from
transwoman. the Hapstall
mansion. Oliver
Annalise hacked his
discovered that computer.
she had altered However, it was
the crime scene revealed that
to make it appear Phillip hacked his
that there was a webcam and was
struggled before now watching him
she killed her and Connor.
husband. She
confronted Jill
and the latter said
it was because
she was afraid.
She cited the case
of Cece
Mcdonalds – A
transwoman who
killed a man for
attacking her
because he was
transphobic, no
one believed her
and she ended up
taking the plea
 deal from the
prosecutor, he
ended up locked
in a men’s prison.

To acquit Jill and

have Sinclair off
her back, she
gave the DA files
incriminating
Judge Millstone
of corruption and
violation of
judicial ethics.

CASE AGAINST
JILL WAS
DISMISSED.
Nia died, Nate gave her
the pill.
EPISODE 7 Suicide of Marco Defenses to be
Tidwell. Jumped presented:
Sinclair investigated from the 15th Phillip as the
Nia’s death and wants to floor of the murderer- he has:
conduct a blood test to Eisenworth Antisocial
check whether she was building. personality
given a pill to kill her. disorder, is prone
Annalise to violence and
Evidentiary hearing was contested the has homicidal
conducted to determine if presentation of tendencies.
there is cause to test the his 911 call l in
postmortem sample of court contending Motive is the
Nia’s blood and no it was hearsay but inheritance –
Secobarbotal was the judge allowed Phillip gets
discovered, Nate asked the presentation minimum wage
the nurse to switch the as it was a dying working a job at
blood. declaration. the grocery store.
He has “white man
His 911 call was rage” and is mad
presented in court that he doesn’t get
where he to enjoy the
attributed the privilege he was
suicide to a born into when his
certain “he”. It adopted cousins do
was believed that when they don’t
the man was deserve it.
Dale, who was
his wife’s first Oliver hacked
husband. Phillip which
Annalise said
It was later amounted to
revealed that the cyberstalking,
“he” referred to harassment and
was the invasion of
prosecutor in the privacy.
case as he was
having an affair
with Marco’s Caleb talked to
wife and he Sinclair to get the
found out. He plea deal 30 yrs
was charged with for him no jail
prosecutorial time for Catherine.
misconduct and Annalise warns
plead the 5th. Sinclair that Ex
parte
communications,
where a client
talks to the
prosecutor without
counsel, were
prohibited. Caleb
countered that it
 would only
amount to that if
the ADA
contacted him but
in this case, it was
him who called the
ADA.

EPISODE 8 It is discovered
that the mystery
DNA in the crime
scene matched
Phillip 99.4% and
did not have
heterozygosis, he
was a product of
incest between
Grant and Helena
Hapstall.

ADA Sinclair
bugged the
Keating house to
track whatever it
was the defense
was preparing,
when they found
out, the lured
Sinclair into
thinking that the
murder weapon
was at the
basement of the
Hapstall house,
she secures a
warrant but does
not find anything.

Catherine gave
Wes a painting of
him with his
parents and he
realizes that the
painting was at the
background of one
of Phillip’s photos.
Caleb takes
Michaela into
Catherine's
painting room. He
removes the vent
and shows her a
gun that he says he
found last week. In
the photograph of
Philip, Wes shows
Annalise that
Philip also has one
of Catherine's
paintings. He
wonders whether
Catherine killed
their parents.

Catherine is shown
in a car and joined
by Philip, and he
tells her that he
will take care of
the situation.
 EPISODE 9
MORNING: As we learned last week, Michaela and Caleb discovered the gun suggesting Catherine’s guilt. They
Sinclair’s murder call Connor to help dispose of it. (Surprise: He didn’t want to.) At the same time, Annalise, Laurel, Frank, and Wes
debate whether to get rid of Catherine’s portrait in Philip’s pictures, since they’re trying to pin the case solely on
him and keep her innocent. Eventually, both sides convene, and Annalise ditches the plan for one simple solution:
No more protecting Catherine. Caleb’s now her only remaining client, and it’s a race to get Catherine and Philip
implicated. The problem is Catherine ran away, and she’s hiding out at a motel.

NOON: Philip has been brought into the police station for questioning, which puts Annalise and Nate on edge.
Nate’s back on the force, but he isn’t privy to what Philip is telling the cops; he’s too busy being taunted by
Sinclair, so much so that he blows up at her in the middle of the station. He loses his job; in turn, he files a racial
discrimination suit against her. Everyone witnesses Nate going after her, which certainly won’t help matters later
when she’s dead. A few hours later, Nate and Sinclair meet in her car, and she tries to bury the hatchet. The
takeaway: Nate’s fingerprints are now all over Sinclair’s car.

4 P.M.-ISH: Asher’s dad has committed suicide, hanging himself in his office after Sinclair leaked all the
information about his malfeasance and Trotter Lake. Bonnie breaks the news, and a distraught Asher goes to see his
mother, who instantly turns on him. Mrs. Millstone blames Asher for driving his father to kill himself, between the
Trotter Lake humiliation and Asher’s supposed choice of Annalise over his own family. (This was one element of
the episode I take issue with — Mrs. Millstone’s reasoning was really flawed since Asher hasn’t exactly
demonstrated that kind of loyalty to Annalise — but that is literally the least-important point to discuss right now.)

MORNING: As we learned last week, Michaela and Caleb discovered the gun suggesting Catherine’s guilt. They
call Connor to help dispose of it. (Surprise: He didn’t want to.) At the same time, Annalise, Laurel, Frank, and Wes
debate whether to get rid of Catherine’s portrait in Philip’s pictures, since they’re trying to pin the case solely on
him and keep her innocent. Eventually, both sides convene, and Annalise ditches the plan for one simple solution:
No more protecting Catherine. Caleb’s now her only remaining client, and it’s a race to get Catherine and Philip
implicated. The problem is Catherine ran away, and she’s hiding out at a motel.

NOON: Philip has been brought into the police station for questioning, which puts Annalise and Nate on edge.
Nate’s back on the force, but he isn’t privy to what Philip is telling the cops; he’s too busy being taunted by
Sinclair, so much so that he blows up at her in the middle of the station. He loses his job; in turn, he files a racial
discrimination suit against her. Everyone witnesses Nate going after her, which certainly won’t help matters later
when she’s dead. A few hours later, Nate and Sinclair meet in her car, and she tries to bury the hatchet. The
takeaway: Nate’s fingerprints are now all over Sinclair’s car.
4 P.M.-ISH: Asher’s dad has committed suicide, hanging himself in his office after Sinclair leaked all the
information about his malfeasance and Trotter Lake. Bonnie breaks the news, and a distraught Asher goes to see his
mother, who instantly turns on him. Mrs. Millstone blames Asher for driving his father to kill himself, between the
Trotter Lake humiliation and Asher’s supposed choice of Annalise over his own family. (This was one element of
the episode I take issue with — Mrs. Millstone’s reasoning was really flawed since Asher hasn’t exactly
demonstrated that kind of loyalty to Annalise — but that is literally the least-important point to discuss right now.)

Asher, broken and alone, drives around until he finds Sinclair standing in her office parking garage. Having had a
day, Sinclair is in no mood and provokes Asher with her signature combination of total bitch + terrible acting. Then
she brings up Mr. Millstone. “God knows he deserved it,” she spouts while Asher fumes inside his car. “Maybe
you’re better off without him.” She walks away, and a seething Asher throws his car in reverse and RUNS HER
OVER. I cheered. You cheered. We all cheered that Sinclair is dead and bloody and we’ll (hopefully) never have to
see her alive again. God this show is really screwing with my mental health. But on the happy side, we can now
welcome Asher to Murder, Inc.! Come to me, baby.

Asher calls Bonnie, who double checks Sinclair’s body underneath his car and confirms, yeah, she’s dead.

NEXT: Twilight arrives, and Murder Night begins

6 P.M.-ISH: As twilight looms and ABC puts on its “How To Get Away With Murder Night Scene” Instagram
filter, we find Connor, Michaela, Laurel, and Wes in the Hapstall mansion, twiddling their thumbs over a few
outstanding matters: Asher has been silent since his dad’s suicide (and outrageously, no one has his number, which
is probably the second saddest thing to happen to Asher this week). Catherine’s gone, and Caleb is freaking out
about it. Philip is at the police station, and they’ve got no updates on whether or not he’s talking. And the gun just
sits there between them, as they contemplate what to do and await a plan from their leader.

Annalise, meanwhile, is going through it. She’s getting hit in all directions from the worst kind of notification:
phone calls.

•Nate, telling her that Philip has been released from police questioning without any charges (how)

•Frank, telling her that he found Catherine at a motel (what)

•Bonnie, telling her that Sinclair is dead (#OHMYGAWM)

Annalise makes a series of swift moves: She tells Bonnie to bring Sinclair’s body to the Hapstall house. She tells
Frank to get the secobarbital pills she procured for Nate’s wife and use them to knock out Catherine (so they can at
least, like, get her in a trunk and, I don’t know, probably tie her up in a basement somewhere). She holds off on
giving Nate any direction.

10 P.M.: Annalise tells Murder, Inc. her plan — to turn in Catherine, turn in the gun, and link her to Philip. She
insists that Caleb go to Michaela’s apartment for safety. A car pulls up outside, and she leaves Connor, Michaela,
Laurel, and Wes in the portrait room to go greet “Sinclair.” It’s not Sinclair — it’s Bonnie and Asher, bearing a
trunk full of dead Sinclair (okay, so yes, technically it is Sinclair). The body is wrapped in a plaid blanket that
Bonnie was obviously gifted because Bonnie Winterbottom would never buy a plaid blanket.

Annalise, Bonnie, and Asher haul Sinclair’s dead body into the house, and in case things haven’t already escalated,
that’s when s— gets REAL.

The second Connor sees the body, he’s out. “Nope,” he says. “Nope, nope, nope. This is insane. You’re insane. I’m
leaving.” I applaud Connor for having the sense to be completely appalled at being dragged back into this homicide
nonsense, but his sound logic is for naught. He’s about to leave the mansion, as he should, when Annalise goes to
the depot, rents a bus, drives it along the highway, stops for a cheeseburger, continues driving to the Hapstall house,
parks the bus outside, has a cigarette, calls Connor downstairs, lines him and the bus up just right, and THROWS.
HIM. UNDER. IT.

“They killed Sam, Asher,” Annalise snaps as Connor is about to walk out the door, and the expression on his face
— and in fact, on all faces involved — is every shade of horrified. “It wasn’t Bonnie,” Annalise continues. “She
just said that to protect them, but Sam attacked Rebecca, and they killed Sam, and I’ve been protecting them all
since.” Asher is too distraught to even react to the news, but suddenly he’s in the loop, and with one confession,
Annalise nails Connor to the wall and forces him — and all of Murder, Inc. — to play another part, whether they’d
like to or not. This time, they’re helping to protect her. It’s easily her baddest bitch moment in two seasons, and her
scream of “Now, let’s get to work!” is as iconic as any teacher forcing her students to cover up a dead body can be.
You won’t see this s— on Degrassi.

Annalise decides their story is this: Catherine came home and killed Sinclair, who had found the gun and the
portrait (and they’ve even got Caleb, who believes Catherine’s guilty, in their back pocket). Annalise places a fake
phone call to Sinclair, telling her to come visit the mansion. She fakes another call to Catherine, begging to let her
help protect her. She calls Frank to check in on the Catherine situation. (He’s chloroformed her, but her absence at
the motel leads Philip to go to the Hapstall mansion — uh oh.)
Annalise ignores Nate’s call, but Wes decides to call Nate himself. He urges Nate to come to the Hapstall house.
“Annalise thinks she’s trying to protect you,” he says, and Nate’s immediately on his way because anytime
someone says “Annalise” and “protect” in the same sentence, it’s best to probably just nip that in the bud right
quick.

Bonnie, who has just dumped Sinclair’s body over the balcony, approaches Annalise — what’s the next move? She
offers to take the gun to Frank, but Annalise stops her, insisting that the gun stay there. Bonnie gives Annalise a
look that says “Annalise!” and also says “Annalise.” Apparently it means something because Bonnie immediately
leaves with Asher (and they go to the gas station and, pleasantly, a car wash).

And so it’s just Annalise, a murder weapon, and four kids. Like it should be. And our leading lady decides that
there’s only one way to make their alibi ironclad.

NEXT: Wes, Annalise, and Christophe

“Shoot me.” Annalise walks into the living room brandishing a gun, and as if the faces of the kids weren’t already
shocked, she pulls out her phone and calls 911 to call in her own shooting. Oh, she is not playing. “It won’t work
unless we do something to make them believe it,” she demands, holding the gun out and begging someone to grab it
and take a shot.

She turns to Connor first, riling him up, recounting how she ruined his life and will ruin Oliver’s too, plying him
with the fuel of rage like a boiling thermometer. Connor can’t do it, dropping the gun with a devastating “I hate you
so much.” She goes for Michaela, brilliantly changing the approach to appeal to the one thing she knows is most
precious to her: “Michaela, think about your future!” Michaela is already far past the point of shooting someone.
She screams and can’t do it either, threatening to call 911 and end it all right there. She appeals to Laurel — level-
headed, dependable Laurel — who almost looks like she’ll do it because, in truth, maybe it does make sense, and
Laurel will understand that better than anyone. But even she concedes failure: “Maybe we should go to jail. For
everything. Maybe that’s okay.”

Desperately, she’s left with Wes. “You know that this makes sense,” she says, giving him the gun and saying, “In
my leg; I’ll be fine.” But Wes won’t do it. He reveals that Nate’s on his way to help. “No one’s shooting you,” says
Wes, and you can see Annalise’s dreams crash in front of her.

Then, she does it.

“Rebecca’s dead, Wes.” Annalise drops the final card she’s been holding, the desperate one she doesn’t want to
 play but knows will get her where she needs to be, even if it means irreparable damage down the line. “I’ve been
lying and lying to you,” she says, or at least, she says something like this because at this point my heart is racing so
fast that I can’t comprehend anything and Lila could have tap-danced across the screen and I’d still be oblivious to
it.

Finding out that Annalise has betrayed him — and that Rebecca is really, truly, officially dead — is enough to do
the trick. Wes grabs the gun. Wes takes aim. And Wes absolutely does not shoot her in the leg. “No!” Annalise
cries as he points the gun at her torso and fires. Down she tumbles to the floor, and Wes — horrifyingly — takes
aim at her head. Damn. But Annalise begins to mutter, “Christophe,” and Wes stumbles backwards. He recognizes
the name.

Who is Christophe?

We flash back ten years earlier, when a young black boy named Christophe sits in a room in a stark, clean facility (a
police station? A psych ward? A social work office? Juvie?). He’s being questioned by a kind woman in a pantsuit,
who asks him about what he saw when he got home that day. The boy apparently called 911. He looks up at her and
asks, “Is she dead?” He’s got the eyes of Wes, the intonation of Wes, the future-plaid of Wes. And we know Wes’s
mother killed herself years ago, which raises the real question: Is Wes Christophe?

We pan out and see young Annalise and Eve (Famke Janssen) watching through a one-way mirror. “Good God,
Annalise,” says Eve. “What did we do?”

EPISODE 10
Two weeks after Annalise was shot at the Hapstall mansion, Bonnie is doing what she can to ease her transition
from hospital to home. Naturally, Annalise rejects a nurse (but welcomes pink silks and sensible moccasins, obvi).
Still, Bonnie remains by her side — not just because Bonnie’s a loyal friend, but because she’d never seen Annalise
exhibit a death wish like she did on murder night. It’s something Nate noticed, too: Annalise may have wanted to
die that night.

A tired Annalise shoos Bonnie away, but she’s not alone in the house. Almost instantly, Annalise begins
hallucinating a baby, forced into her arms by a crying woman whom we later discover to be Wes’ dead mother,
Rose. Annalise holds the baby, soothes its cries, rocks it to sleep. And yet she’s not blessed by its presence; she’s
haunted. Is the baby Wes? Or is it the boy Annalise was pregnant with — and presumably lost — when she first
met Rose, ten years ago?
Bonnie gets wise to the visions and tries to snap Annalise back to reality — she has to testify at Catherine
Hapstall’s preliminary hearing, after all, which has conveniently been scheduled right at the height of Annalise’s
mental illness and the nadir of her physical recuperation.

The good news is, at least her plan seemed to work: Catherine has indeed been accused of shooting Annalise and
killing ADA Emily Sinclair (may she rest in acting school) while a manhunt is underway for suspected accomplice
Philip Jessup. All they need to take it to trial is testimony from Annalise, who’s working far beyond the capacity of
her present trauma threshold to deliver a simple statement.

Sensing her fragility, Bonnie basically drugs Annalise with ice cream while the kids and Frank draft a statement so
Annalise won’t have to testify. Sadly, the judge won’t allow it unless it’s delivered in person, and since Annalise is
so preoccupied with visions of babies and the stress of an uncertain future (girl, same) that she absolutely botches
the whole thing when she finally rolls into the preliminary hearing.

Annalise fumbles on the stand, especially after locking eyes with Wes and hearing the eerie cries of phantom
infants and Ken Kratz from the hallway. She says she doesn’t know if Catherine shot her and that she didn’t see
anything that night and that she’s unsure if she’s lying. It’s enough to ruin the whole case against Catherine, but
then Annalise does something so characteristically Annalise that I’m still unsure whether it was intentional or not:
She breaks her former attorney-client privilege with Catherine and reveals on the stand that Catherine told her she
didn’t kill the Hapstalls. Suddenly, the prosecutor throws out the useless testimony and Annalises’s mistakes are
salvaged. I mean, sort of.

After a quick powwow with Caleb, she hatches a new story: They’re going to pin it all on Philip, saying he killed
the Hapstalls, planted the gun in Catherine’s room, befriended her before she knew who he was. He then drugged
Catherine, who shot Annalise and doesn’t remember any of it. That’s the new narrative, which basically goes
against the entire point of murder night, but what the hell? Annalise convinces Caleb to convince Catherine to
follow along as it’s her best shot at innocence. She plays the victim, and she delivers a late-in-the-game statement
asserting Philip’s guilt. (She gets five years in minimum security prison, and he gets a manhunt.)

Throughout all of Annalise’s struggle, the kids have also been forced to deal with the fallout of another murder. But
this time, it’s actually relatively lighthearted — as compared to the last time they had to pretend they had nothing to
do with a corpse.

Connor, Michaela, and Laurel are doing their best to keep spirits high, with Laurel focused on easing Wes off his
guilt and Connor encouraging Asher to crash with him and a reluctant Oliver. Michaela has lost all contact with
Caleb after she failed to keep an eye on Catherine, as she promised, and as a result, Caleb drops a damning, “You
all belong in hell” (which I like to think was actually a personal message from the show’s writers directed at me).

Asher is unraveling: Wracked with the regret of killing Sinclair (and, really, wrapping her in an afghan and
throwing her off a building), he’s undertaken a new mission. Remember that misleading cliffhanger in October
when Asher went to the police to file a statement, which we assumed was about murder night? Turns out he actually
wants to investigate his father’s suicide, claiming it was a homicide. Connor and Bonnie think he’s crazy in grief, as
do the police who aren’t returning his calls, but Bonnie enables him, and Connor offers comfort. (Dare I say, we’re
moving toward a How to Get Away with Murder where the characters genuinely feel care for one another? Gasp.
Forgiveness? Can you imagine?)

Meanwhile, Laurel has taken responsibility for shooting Annalise, a decision borne from an exemplary display of
forward thinking that the rest of Murder, Inc. would have a big issue with Wes killing TWO Keatings. Bless her
heart, she’s torn over letting Asher crumble because nobody was there to support him, and she also thinks Annalise
merely lied about Rebecca to rile Wes up. It will be the year 2019, and there will still be a character on How to Get
Away With Murder who thinks Rebecca is alive somewhere.

Blamed for shooting Annalise or not, Wes is guilt-ridden about what he actually did — so much so, he’s even
decided to grow a Guilt Beard because of it. He’s bursting to confront Annalise about “Christophe,” but at least he
shows the decency to wait until she’s better. And when she manipulates Catherine’s hearing and betrays a sign of
being back to her usual wiles, he pounces. Wes chooses that night to rummage through Annalise’s basement,
bedroom, and office for any clues about the name she muttered on her almost-deathbed. When she discovers him,
Wes lays into her in another classic Gibbins-Keating confrontation.

“You knew my mother, didn’t you?” he says. “You knew her, and that’s why I’m here. Why I got in off the waitlist.
Because you knew who I was.” He demands she tell him the truth, and she grabs a deer statue (because trophies of
Lady Justice are very outdated these days) in defense. He’s shocked that she thinks he’ll hurt her. “I think you
ruined me,” she says. “Get out.” And he leaves, answer-less, until she runs after him. It’s too late, and instead, she
descends the stairs of her Crimson Peak and finds the imaginary baby boy in her office.

Again, is it Wes? Or is it the baby in the belly of Annalise in our short but key flashback, when she wanders near a
playground and meets Rose, the mother of a happy, healthy, 12-year-old boy (Wes, though we’re still unsure of his
name).

That’s it. Just a tease of the relationship we’ll uncover over the remaining five episodes of the season, but enough to
 begin the search for clues and theories. At the very least, “Wes is Annalise’s son!” truthers can relax a bit, both
because of the flashback and the fact that Alfie Enoch is not ten years old.

EPISODE 11
The second How to Get Away With Murder after the winter hiatus dared to dangle the backwashed Gatorade that is
Case handled: forgiveness in front of the Keating House of Histrionic Horrors. The story of the mother of a slain teen who readily
Defense of Jason Murray forgave her son’s killer is an emotionally tempting court case that forces each murderer and murderess in our merry
for the 2nd degree murder gang to look inward and consider whether they, too, could abandon their grudges against one another and move
of Tyler Robinson. forward.

Murray entered a guilty Some epiphanies in and adjacent to the Keating Five are less dramatic than others: On the lightest level, there’s
plea but the deceased’s Asher, forced to realize that he may be overstaying his welcome at Connor and Oliver’s house. There’s Michaela,
mother wanted to still shunned by Caleb, forced to contemplate whether she’ll allow him to treat her like the only wrongdoer
conduct a restorative anymore. There’s Nate, who won’t make amends with Annalise and only passingly shows interest in tracking down
justice hearing which Philip (who remains on the lam, and in Canada!).
was opposed by both
parties as it was allowed As usual, it’s the nightmare vaudeville act of Wes and Annalise that can’t seem to let the damage go. Both are
only for cases with less under visible mental duress, and both are recommended by doctors to seek therapy — except only Wes becomes
severe charges. However, legally obligated to after he makes a flippant remark about suicide. They lock him up in the psych ward for a 120-
the judge granted the hour hold, and as Wes needlessly recounts the story of his life’s greatest trauma — finding his mother in a pool of
conduct of the hearing. blood after school when he was 12 — the doctor tries to get him to say that Annalise is the reason, because seeing
her in a pool of blood triggered his memory. LOL again! As if a pool of blood was a big deal on this show.
Annalise was skeptical at Wouldn’t it be delightful if a mere pool of blood — arguably a penny in HTGAWM currency — were the reason
first fearing that it was a Wes is drudging up this horrible childhood memory?
ploy to up the charge to
first degree murder. She Obviously, it’s because Annalise dared to mutter “Christophe,” which I’m just going to declare is Wes’ real name
prepared a motion for from now on unless a libel rep for the Gibbins family comes after me. After tonight’s episode, the narrative of Wes’
vindictive prosecution mother’s suicide — the unseen Murder Night of the season’s back half, essentially — is no longer a complete
and mitigating evidence. mystery. The pieces are beginning to fall into place thanks to flashbacks from Annalise’s life 10 years ago.

Case cited: Back in the early ’00s, when S Club 7 was blasting on the radio and Annalise was pregnant with Sam’s baby, we’re
1. Commonwealth offered a novel peek into her professional and home life. She’s untenured but running her practice out of her house,
vs Miller- and she’s got her own bizarro version of the Keating Five — and guess who’s the top student! Our very own
precedent for the Bonnie, cosplaying as Paris Geller, cosplaying as Rory Gilmore (this double Gilmore Girls reference is due to my
original deal to current first-time bingeing and general enthusiasm at seeing a young Liza Weil torment the very tormentable Alexis
Bledel). Bonnie is obviously on her way to becoming the alpha female who wins a spot on Annalise’s staff, and if
 stand in the event
that the she’s lucky, a spot near Sam Keating’s Winterbottom.
restorative
justice hearing Frank’s in the flashback, too, with a miserable haircut and an even more miserable position as Annalise’s inept
would prove to assistant. He botches booking airfare for Annalise’s trip to Cleveland because Sam told him to wait (suggesting the
be prejudicial to first cryptic hint of Frank’s dangerous obedience to Sam that resulted in Lila’s murder in season 1). And yes, there’s
the accused. good old Sam Keating, as well, living and well and strong-jawed and making frequent comments about his
2. Won Sung vs US excitement and concern for his future son with Annalise.
-The ADA was removed
for bias against the How does all this relate to Wes and his mother? That chance playground encounter we saw last week between
defendant. Annalise and Rose seems to have been a maneuver by Annalise to find and befriend the woman, who has some
3. A New Jersey case connection to a federal case that Annalise has undertaken on Sam’s advice. When a very pregnant Annalise travels
where defendant argued to Cleveland to meet with Rose, she reveals a folder with a news article about a hedge fund heir named Charles
diminished capacity as Mahoney who’s on trial for murder. Rose immediately freaks out, and Annalise promises she won’t let Rose or
she had PMS. The charge Westophe get hurt. LOL3. It’s pretty obvious, then, that Wes’s mother died because Annalise dragged her into a
was changed from case she either had nothing to do with or had everything to do with. The question is more whether she took her own
murder to manslaughter. life or someone took it for her.

NEXT: Annalise comes clean to Wes

It was later proved that
Tyler’s mother really did As for making amends, Annalise is moved to tears by her first court case back. It involves a teenager who admitted
want Murray reformed. to murder in search of forgiveness from the victim’s mother. I don’t mean to undersell the importance of this finely
acted case (arguably the series’ best-acted to date), but its message of the court’s systematic racism was not given as
much attention as its message of accepting responsibility and repairing damage. Annalise, inspired by the display of
humanity on both sides of the trial — and left abandoned by the Keating Five after they learn she did nothing to get
Wes out of his involuntary psych ward hold — decides to come clean herself to Wes. She drops off a folder of intel
about the Mahoney case on Wes’ doorstep, essentially beginning the process of owning up to whatever the f— she
did to cause his mother’s death.

The plight of the court case also moves the rest of the Keating Five to reconsider how they’ve kept each other at
inaccessible distances despite sharing such trauma. Normal classmates-slash-murderers might turn to each other for
solace or Starbucks runs, but the Keating Five have all pushed each other away…so much so that the very rare
sighting of all five in a car (driving Wes home from the psych ward) is as awkward and uncomfortable as it is
beautiful and necessary. Maybe it’s the addition of jovial Asher to Murder, Inc. that has forced the group to
confront the feelings they refuse to talk about. They don’t exactly hash out their emotions, but they do acknowledge
that maybe they ought to turn to each other in the future. Michaela suggests they all need therapy, and Asher oozes
out, “No, we don’t. Cause we gots each other.”
 So the Keating Five essentially moves forward. And Nate moves forward with Annalise (showing up at her
doorstep with comfort food). And Annalise even moves forward with forgiving Bonnie, perhaps not so much out of
merit as out of a general assumption that neither frenemy can truly live without the other, like Harry and Voldemort
or cookies and diets. Bonnie’s reinstatement as “the Bonnie” means the extraction of Laurel, though, who’s still
carrying the burden of being blamed for shooting Annalise and who’s now been let loose by her own boss. She
takes it out on Frank, channeling her anger into a lecture about his refusal to tell her the truth about anything. She
admits that Wes shot Annalise and solicits him to reveal any secrets he’s keeping from her since nothing could
possibly be any worse than Frank drugging Catherine and dumping her in the woods. LOL4! Laurel’s almost at the
door when Frank blurts out, “I killed Lila.” So, that’s fun.

If you add a Flaurel renaissance, then, it seems that the gang is finally on the upswing after hitting collective rock
bottom at the Hapstall mansion. Forgiveness has been awarded, and grudges have been resolved, save for the
inevitably tense Wes-Annalise reconnection and an inevitably sexy face-to-face (and likely other-things-to-face)
rekindling between Nate and Annalise.

But it’s only natural that everything would fall back into peaceful place when Connor gets an email with a shaky
video from the Night of the Fancy Mansion, featuring the entire cast running through the woods, covered in blood.
The ostensible filmmaker is Philip, and next week’s previews suggest he’s craving a meaty ransom for the video. 
EPISODE 12 We start with Wes reading files on Charles Mahoney and trying to make sense of what Annalise dropped off. We
go back to 10 year earlier in the restaurant where Annalise is trying to find out what Rose knows from “that night.”
K5 tricks the DA’s office The scene is cut into another of Annalise questioning a defendant and trying to see if his story matches up with
that the search warrant Rose’s. That way Rose, a cleaning lady, could testify in the trial. Mahoney was accused of killing his fiancée,
for the house was signed Vickie Moran, who was going to expose his parent’s company’s wrongdoings. It turns out the Mahoney company
by the judge. They was being investigated for swindling millions from clients. Rose is the key to getting the son off the hook.
entered the house and as
a result, everything Back to current time where Laurel is still processing the fact Frank killed Lila. She leaves and goes to Wes’ place,
inside became the fruit of getting all nosy about what Wes is doing. This leads to the two going to Cleveland, Ohio to investigate the case
the poisonous tree. further.

US vs Mahoney case Meanwhile Connor seeks the help of Annalise about the mysterious email threat and incriminating video from, they
2002 Mahoney Hedge believe, Philip. Another email comes in. Whoever this person is goes all James Bond villain, requesting $1 million
management. Murder of be put into his account within 36 hours or the footage from the Hapstall mansion goes to the police.
Vickie Moran who was
Charles Mahoney’s Annalise and Michaela go to visit Caleb for some help. Annalise wants a $250,000 retainer and for him to try to get
fiancé. She was more information from Philip. She doesn’t prove much help. Later on, Annalise sends the guys and girls home.
bludgeoned to death
 allegedly by Charles.
Rose was witness G-34 Michaela goes to “check” on Caleb, which leads to hot and heavy loving.
who never got to testify
as she didn’t show. Asher tries to think about what to do if the cops do find out what happened and hopes to have Bonnie for comfort.
She clearly still has feelings for him, but turns him away. Annalise has Nate over for dinner. He says he came
because he forgives her for everything (which covers a lot of ground considering everything she has done to that
poor guy.).

Connor reveals to Oliver his intention to apply for a transfer to Stanford. The craziness is becoming too much for
him.

The next morning Annalise gets professional advice from Nate regarding the blackmailing emails. Nate suggests
she doesn’t negotiate. The deadline comes and goes. Connor gets another email with video from the night before of
Annalise and Nate. This person has been watching them.

We flash back to Annalise and Frank as they travel to Ohio for the Mahoney trial. Rose agrees to testify, but
anonymously. She is worried about her immigration status. When Annalise goes to the feed from the separate room,
Rose is nowhere to be found. The Mahoney parents are not pleased. The dad in particular comes off sexist and
racist. There is a definite fear of what could happen to Rose if she doesn’t follow through. Annalise finds Rose at
her house, but is sent away.

Wes and Laurel delve into the pieces of the puzzle in present day. They get closer with Laurel talking about her
daddy issues and why she gravitated toward Frank. Wes is there for her, which leads to a kiss (Not okay! I don’t
know how I feel about this.). Wes feels he has reached a dead end after he reads his mom’s death was deemed a
suicide. Laurel finds something else, but doesn’t tell Wes. Instead, when they get home, she goes to Annalise and
confronts her.

Annalise said Rose could testify anonymously from a separate room, even though there would still be a risk of
deportation. Charles was accused of murdering his fiancee, who was going to expose fraud in his parents’ company,
with Rose presumably able to give his actual whereabouts at the time of the killing.

Looking at court records, though, Wes and Laurel learned that the mysterious unidentified witness didn’t show
when she was called to testify. Wes concluded his mother was killed for not testifying, but it was made to look like
a suicide — and that a guilt-ridden Annalise’s involvement is why he got into law school, onto her team, and under
 her protection.

Deadline comes and goes. Connor gets another email with video of Annalise and Nate from the night before. Laurel
comes back and demands to talk to Annalise. Laurel shows her a paper saying it was being investigated in actuality
as a homicide … with the primary suspect being the 12-year-old son!!! The OMG moment follows with
Christophe/Wes as a boy with a knife in his hand and his mom bleeding to death on the ground.
EPISODE 13
Rose eventually figures out that Annalise is the reason she’s locked up, and once she confronts Eve with that
information, she demands to be let out so she can at least take Christophe home. Eve lets her go — and Rose makes
a straight-up run for it, packing a bag and tossing Christophe into the car. In his stubbornness, the child leaps out of
the car and runs home. Rose follows.

At the same time, Annalise is being scolded by Mahoney, who informs her that Rose has fled. He makes a veiled
threat to her safety — and, moreso, to Christophe’s — so Annalise heads over to the Edmond apartment. She finds
a panicked Rose, who has arrived home before Christophe. Annalise apologizes for the whole situation but begs
Rose that her testimony is no longer just for her protection, but for Christophe’s, too. This absolutely knocks Rose
out, and any promises from Annalise quickly go from cookie-chunk to wafer-thin. “I was born free, I will stay free,
so will Christophe,” says Rose, fire in her eyes, reaching toward the kitchen sink. “There’s no reason to hurt him
now,” she says, locking eyes with Annalise. “Take care of my boy.”

Suddenly Rose has a knife in her throat, and Annalise can’t do anything but watch her bleed out. She dials 911 but
decides not to actually call, considering her own legal safety in this messy mess. Annalise hides as Christophe
arrives, and again she makes a selfish decision, doing nothing to protect the boy from the gruesome sight. And
that’s where we leave off, ostensibly for good, since we now know: The reason Wes’s mother died, the reason Wes
went into foster care, the reason Annalise feels crippling guilt, the reason Eve muttered, “Annalise, what did we
do?” Girls, what DIDN’T you do?

And here’s the full-circle moment: Back in the modern day, Annalise has finally shown up at Wes’s door, also
compelled by some phantom remorse to just go talk to him. She sees and hears the motions of someone inside, and
decides to enter. But the apartment is empty — and there’s a horrifying moment when it’s entirely possible that
Wes has killed himself, a tragedy I’ve been afraid might bookend more episodes than just this one. But as she
searches the definitely occupied apartment, Annalise gets a call from Eve, who tells her that Wes is at her office,
after having discovered her name on Rose’s detainee release form. And it’s only then that Annalise is attacked by
the viral voyeur video monster under the bed: Philip.
 NEXT: Oh heyyyy, Philip

As far as the police department is concerned, Philip is still all the way up in Canada. But our Keating children know
that Philip is alive and well and stalking them in Philadelphia. His menacing videos are arriving in Connor’s inbox
more and more frequently, in between Groupons, and they’re now begun appearing mere hours after they’ve been
filmed. Collectively, the group decides they’re just not safe anymore, and if there’s one thing that’s going to inspire
Annalise to finally step in and save their asses again, it’s a constant groaning complaint of paranoia.

Annalise decides to bring the computer — because everyone knows the only way to access Connor’s email is
through this one specific physical laptop — directly to the district attorney who put Catherine Hapstall away for the
murder. She hand-delivers the laptop that will help him track Philip back to Philly — a great coup for a rising local
lawyer — but in return, Annalise demands immunity for her and her associates for anything the DA might discover
on the laptop that might incriminate them in the Sinclair murder.

Naturally, the DA turns on her and orders a search warrant for her house, but Annalise is prepared, largely thanks to
a warning from Nate, and the single greatest montage in the history of How to Get Away With Murder montages.
Annalise warns Bonnie, Bonnie enlists the kids to fake the judge’s approval, and an erroneously permitted search of
the Keating office thereby nullifies all the evidence the police find in Annalise’s house. It’s a genius move by the
Keating crew, and a lovely reminder of what this show once was when they were actually working on cases every
week instead of whatever they’ve been spending their time doing.

But Philip is still on the loose, and in their collective fear, the gang decides to hold a sleepover at Asher’s place,
where dinosaur onesies are worn and bagel bites are served (both of which are hot). With Wes MIA,
this HTGAWMario Party is strictly limited to Asher, Michaela, Laurel, Connor, and Oliver, who has been kidnapped
by Philip once before and is not about to get swooped up again. Oliver accidentally reveals that Connor has applied
to Stanford, but the beauty is that nobody really blames him for it. In a rare moment, Michaela begs Connor to not
leave her. “I can’t survive here without you,” she says while everyone’s asleep, and he laments, “I won’t get in,”
which sounds less like a fear of his own inadequacy than a silent plea that he won’t actually have to leave her.
EPISODE 14
Rose eventually figures out that Annalise is the reason she’s locked up, and once she confronts Eve with that
They find out it was information, she demands to be let out so she can at least take Christophe home. Eve lets her go — and Rose makes
Caleb who was reporting a straight-up run for it, packing a bag and tossing Christophe into the car. In his stubbornness, the child leaps out of
them to DA Denver. the car and runs home. Rose follows.

At the same time, Annalise is being scolded by Mahoney, who informs her that Rose has fled. He makes a veiled
threat to her safety — and, moreso, to Christophe’s — so Annalise heads over to the Edmond apartment. She finds
a panicked Rose, who has arrived home before Christophe. Annalise apologizes for the whole situation but begs
Rose that her testimony is no longer just for her protection, but for Christophe’s, too. This absolutely knocks Rose
out, and any promises from Annalise quickly go from cookie-chunk to wafer-thin. “I was born free, I will stay free,
so will Christophe,” says Rose, fire in her eyes, reaching toward the kitchen sink. “There’s no reason to hurt him
now,” she says, locking eyes with Annalise. “Take care of my boy.”

Suddenly Rose has a knife in her throat, and Annalise can’t do anything but watch her bleed out. She dials 911 but
decides not to actually call, considering her own legal safety in this messy mess. Annalise hides as Christophe
arrives, and again she makes a selfish decision, doing nothing to protect the boy from the gruesome sight. And
that’s where we leave off, ostensibly for good, since we now know: The reason Wes’s mother died, the reason Wes
went into foster care, the reason Annalise feels crippling guilt, the reason Eve muttered, “Annalise, what did we
do?” Girls, what DIDN’T you do?

And here’s the full-circle moment: Back in the modern day, Annalise has finally shown up at Wes’s door, also
compelled by some phantom remorse to just go talk to him. She sees and hears the motions of someone inside, and
decides to enter. But the apartment is empty — and there’s a horrifying moment when it’s entirely possible that
Wes has killed himself, a tragedy I’ve been afraid might bookend more episodes than just this one. But as she
searches the definitely occupied apartment, Annalise gets a call from Eve, who tells her that Wes is at her office,
after having discovered her name on Rose’s detainee release form. And it’s only then that Annalise is attacked by
the viral voyeur video monster under the bed: Philip.

NEXT: Oh heyyyy, Philip

As far as the police department is concerned, Philip is still all the way up in Canada. But our Keating children know
that Philip is alive and well and stalking them in Philadelphia. His menacing videos are arriving in Connor’s inbox
more and more frequently, in between Groupons, and they’re now begun appearing mere hours after they’ve been
filmed. Collectively, the group decides they’re just not safe anymore, and if there’s one thing that’s going to inspire
Annalise to finally step in and save their asses again, it’s a constant groaning complaint of paranoia.

Annalise decides to bring the computer — because everyone knows the only way to access Connor’s email is
through this one specific physical laptop — directly to the district attorney who put Catherine Hapstall away for the
murder. She hand-delivers the laptop that will help him track Philip back to Philly — a great coup for a rising local
lawyer — but in return, Annalise demands immunity for her and her associates for anything the DA might discover
on the laptop that might incriminate them in the Sinclair murder.

Naturally, the DA turns on her and orders a search warrant for her house, but Annalise is prepared, largely thanks to
a warning from Nate, and the single greatest montage in the history of How to Get Away With Murder montages.
Annalise warns Bonnie, Bonnie enlists the kids to fake the judge’s approval, and an erroneously permitted search of
the Keating office thereby nullifies all the evidence the police find in Annalise’s house. It’s a genius move by the
Keating crew, and a lovely reminder of what this show once was when they were actually working on cases every
week instead of whatever they’ve been spending their time doing.

But Philip is still on the loose, and in their collective fear, the gang decides to hold a sleepover at Asher’s place,
where dinosaur onesies are worn and bagel bites are served (both of which are hot). With Wes MIA,
this HTGAWMario Party is strictly limited to Asher, Michaela, Laurel, Connor, and Oliver, who has been kidnapped
by Philip once before and is not about to get swooped up again. Oliver accidentally reveals that Connor has applied
to Stanford, but the beauty is that nobody really blames him for it. In a rare moment, Michaela begs Connor to not
leave her. “I can’t survive here without you,” she says while everyone’s asleep, and he laments, “I won’t get in,”
which sounds less like a fear of his own inadequacy than a silent plea that he won’t actually have to leave her.

In fact, it’ll happen pretty quickly because when Mean Old Mr. Mahoney comes to give Annalise some lip about
their central witness growing cold — for which he blames her unequivocally since he knows she was on her way to
speak with Rose when knife met neck — his threat to fire her pushes the “oh yeah” button in her brain. She realizes
the d-bag probably also used his inflate-the-chest-and-bark tactic on the much feebler Rose (and scared her enough
to purposefully suffer a very violent end).

After a night spent between the sheets of the redhead from Room 512, Frank’s ready with Annalise’s coffee first
thing in the morning, but like all of Annalise’s puppies, he just gets kicked for his affection. She even throws in a
cruel reminder that the only reason she has him in her employ is that Sam dragged him out of the gutter and forced
her to help save him from his “white trash future.” This mama bear’s a grizzly with growl and bite. Ouch.

What’s really bugging Annalise is not Frank’s undeserved enthusiasm, however. It’s the fact that she knows good
and well her client’s a scuzzbucket, and she’s ready to share her suspicions that the Big Bad Mahoney is a bully
(which….yeah, duh, they probably already guessed that). Only, she gets T-boned on the way by a guy who ran a red
light, and she wakes up on a stretcher where she’s informed the baby Keating-to-be is to be delivered by emergency
C-section, though they aren’t getting a heartbeat from him. Bad news.

NEXT: The past comes back to haunt Annalise…

It takes a few rings before Sam — who’s busy coaching Bonnie about some kind of weird impromptu meeting she’s
trying to arrange with a “geeky guy,” whatever that means — finally picks up and learns the news of Annalise’s
 accident. He arrives just in time to share in her grief, and it’s a solid five minutes of pure sad. Annie (as a not-so-
terrible version of Sam calls his devastated wife) blames herself exclusively for what happened to their baby, but it
doesn’t take long for her to lose her temper and hand her stillborn son off to the nurse.

Back to the Present

Everyone’s always wondered why Annalise carried such a torch for Wes, and it looks like she doubled down on the
blame game and shoulders the responsibility for Rose’s death, too. She did their bidding in pressuring this woman
to testify, after all.

She’s ready to cut that cord and set Rose’s baby free as well by spilling the gory details — including the fact that, as
a few of the keenest Internet wizards predicted back in February, ding ding ding, Mr. Mahoney is the father!

Wes has a dad! Too bad he’s a garbage human with a track record of destroying lives, but as the headlines Wes
scurries up show, he’s in good health and, more importantly, good fortune.

The rest of the squad, who’d been kicked out in one of Annalise’s record number of rage-outs this episode, are out
getting drunk. Understandably. Michaela and Asher somehow find their way into a bathroom sink rendezvous
(suggested ship name: Masher); Oliver spills the beans that he’s quit his job and wants to work for Annalise
(RUNNNN, OLIVER, RUN), and somehow this leads to Laurel showing up on Annalise’s doorstep to tell her off.

But not until we learn from a second meeting of BonBon and Frank that Annalise didn’t ask him to kill Lila; Sam
did. “She can’t know,” he pleads.

Only, Laurel’s at the ready with enough information for Annie to figure it out for herself. She rips into her boss-
slash-professor-slash-partner-in-crime and mentions Frank’s admission that Annalise made him kill Lila.

It’s enough to make her pack her bags and go — but it’s not Eve’s place she’s landed at, it’s her own mom.
“There’s my baby,” she greets with open arms, giving that requisite wink to the episode title.
EPISODE 15
ANNALISE AT HOME
It is revealed that Caleb
was the killer. At the After opting out of the frustrating circus nightmare that is her life in Philadelphia, Annalise has straight-up ditched
night of the murder, everything and headed South to visit with her mother, the feisty, fiery, Cicely Tysony Ophelia, who gives her a hard
Catherine went to his time for her sudden reappearance. Ophelia is more than familiar with Annalise’s many moods (which include
room like she always Steely, Surly, and Sad) and as a result, she knows that an excuse of “I’m your daughter, and I miss you” is a total
 does because they sleep
together and does things, lie.
not sex but other things
as usual. However, that Home doesn’t immediately seem to offer much in the way for Annalise to relax: She’s disgusted by the sudden
night she found out he reappearance of her abusive father, now back in her house and “courting” her mother. She clashes with her sister,
wasn’t there and the next who resents her for abandoning the family and their mother. When Nate arrives to talk some sense into Annalise
morning, their parents and elicit her return, he’s hilariously subjected to a family dinner and the full interrogation of the Hartness clan.
were dead. (It’s only here that I realize, is Annalise actually just an emo child who never grew out of her bad attitude?)

He killed Helena as Something in the homecoming worked, though, be it the drunken dancing or the constant battling: Annalise, in a
evidences by his fitness moment of quiet honesty, tells Ophelia that she had had a baby. And it died. Ophelia, hurt and confused, links the
tracker which showed he tragic confession to Annalise’s entire life turning upside down: “You’ve been dragging this baby’s shadow around
was at the scene when with you. It’s what got Sam murdered, you shot.” That night, Ophelia takes Annalise into the backyard and has her
the murder was pen a letter of goodbye to the dead child, whose name, Annalise reveals, was Sam. They bury the letter, and
committed. He kills Annalise clings to her mothers’ robe, and together they grieve.
himself by slashing his
wrist, he bleeds to death. It’d be easy to say that the catharsis is enough to compel Annalise back to Philadelphia, but she first hears a plea
from her rehabilitated father — “Look what all that running did to me,” he says before literally winking to the
Wes walks up to his camera, probably. And then, if it wasn’t completely clear that old people are rubbing off on her, Annalise checks
father, Wallace Mahoney her voicemail.
in New York and
introduces himself
seconds before he was There’s one from the ADA demanding she show up at the police station by 5 p.m., and there’s another from
shot and eventually died. Michaela informing her that her arrest warrant is no more than a light lob of charges from an informant: Caleb.
It is believed that Frank
shot him. Frank NEXT: Calebatouille
disappears.
A quick little rewind: It seems that nobody really knows why Annalise has a warrant out for her arrest, nor why she
jumped ship, so the Keating Five decide to use the Keating Recurring Guest to hack the police station’s video feed.
They deduce that Caleb’s the rat, and Annalise has a field day with the subsequent shakedown with the cops.

With the invincible pluck of Super Mario under the influence of a Star, Annalise cheerily lays out exactly why the
ADA is going to ignore her charges of obstruction of justice and arrest Caleb, who she says is the real serial killer.
A flashback shows a few things — one is Philip, who, after the attack gives her a USB drive with data from Caleb’s
Fitbit that places him at Helena Hapstall’s car at the time of her murder. It seems Caleb killed the Hapstall parents,
and Annalise nabs a testimony from Catherine verifying this. Catherine reveals she was so blinded by her love of
Caleb (called it!) that she ignored the fact that Caleb actually wasn’t where he said he was the night their parents
were murdered. Caleb planted the gun, planted Philip’s DNA, and took down both Catherine and Philip to make
sure he was the only Hapstall kid inheriting his parents’ windfall.

Sure. Whatever ends this story line.

The news cycle picks up the development and begins broadcasting all the details that paint Caleb as the new prime
suspect in the murder case, and tragically, Caleb kills himself. Perhaps he knows they’ve got it all right, or perhaps
he knows that Annalise is going to nail him for it even if they don’t. Also, I refuse to call this anything but a
suicide. There’s no justifiable reason for anyone to have killed Caleb, and if we begin season 3 with a flashback to
Bonnie, like, crouching inside the cabinet under the sink, I’m out.

THE FRANK SITUATION

One of the season’s strange, quasi-developed through lines was Frank’s damage with Laurel, which went from flesh
wound to critical when he revealed he killed Lila and she decided it was just about the worst thing he ever did.
Well, ROFL (Reactionary Outrage to Frank-Laurel) to that: It turns out the worst thing Frank did was rat out
Annalise for money and as a result, kill her unborn child.

Flashbacks reveal that all of Annalise’s abuse toward Frank — harsh words like “Sam dragged you out of the
gutter” and “You deserve whatever white trash future I was trying to save you from” and “You’re a Marnie” —
really chipped away at Frank’s chain-mail vest and caused him to accept an offer from Mahoney to spy on his boss.
He bugs her hotel room, and Mahoney’s team is able to overhear Annalise telling Eve she’s going to go to the
police. So Wallace orders a hit on her, which is the car accident that causes her to lose her baby.

Now, let me be clear: This is truly, easily the unequivocally worst thing that has ever been done on How to Get
Away with Murder. This isn’t an annoying sorority girl getting drowned or her awful goth friend getting smothered
in a basement or an adulterous psychiatrist getting his limbs chopped up in a forest or an outed gay hedge fund bro
jumping out a window (R.I.P. Pax).

Frank’s crime is despicable and, in my opinion, completely character-altering. And what’s worse is Sam’s
ridiculous reaction to it! When Frank admits that he’s the reason Annalise lost her baby, Sam has a minor violent
outburst before deciding that Annalise can never know. As if that’s the most realistic decision to make when a man
has just told you he’s destroyed your life and that of your unborn child. “Think about how she’ll feel knowing it
could have been prevented,” he says. “I lost my son. I can’t lose her, too,” he says. “You tell her, I’ll ruin you,” he
says. “You owe me,” he says. Every line is progressively less believable as a reason why Frank, 10 years later, is
called upon by Sam to kill Lila. How can Sam, who has repeatedly been the one in his marriage most determined
 and excited to be a parent, stand by for the next 10 years while Frank remains a close co-worker and friend in his
home? It’s absurd, outrageous, and the kind of shark-jumping oversight that’s just plainly, unsatisfyingly wrong.

So, anyway: In the present, Frank’s pacing, working out, haunted by what Annalise knows. He’s prompted to freak
out when Laurel casually tells him that Wes’ father is Wallace Mahoney — but which part scares him the most?
Knowing that Wallace is Wes’ dad? Or that Wes knows? Or that Annalise is about to catch up to everything he’s
ever done to her and her now-dead family?

Whatever he’s afraid of, he shares one last drink with Bonnie — who makes him promise not to do anything stupid,
LOL! — and then he’s gone, fleeing Philadelphia with a clean apartment and soiled psyche. But where does he go?

NEXT: Bloody Bloody Wes Mahoney

WES ORDERS A MANHATTAN

Wes, for having just learned that his father is the murderous billionaire Wallace Mahoney, is pretty quick to want to
go confront him in New York. He assumes Annalise is lying about the whole thing, as she is wont to do and he is
wont to believe, but he tells Laurel his intentions regardless. Wisely, she tries to talk him out of any big journey or
quest or sweatlodge cleanse he plans to elicit answers from. “Your dad has nothing to do with who you are,” she
says, and it carries weight because remember, her father has clearly wronged her in some ways that she’s been
quietly running away from (until season 3).

Still, Wes visits New York and approaches Wallace outside of his office building. In the twilight, Wes is polite and
amiable. “I think I’m your son,” he says, and Wallace questions why he’d even think that. Wes has barely said the
name “Annalise Keating” when a burst of blood splatters across his face.

As the camera pulls back, it’s absolutely anyone’s guess who shot Mahoney (that hashtag doesn’t have the same
ring to it, by the way). Clearly, someone in a car, right? And could it have been Frank, out to keep Mahoney quiet
before Annalise finds out about the baby? (Too late, since Bonnie has already spilled.) Or Laurel, who followed
Wes and shot him forsome reason? No, I suppose we’ll have to wait until season 3 to meet some new recurring
characters who could have possibly killed this minor character whom the whole next season is theoretically based
on.

SEASON 3

REAL CASES CASE CONCEPTS KEATING MAHONEY OTHERS

 CITED HANDLED DISCUSSED HOUSE CASE
ARSON
EPISODE 1 Fong Yue Ting vs Karim Assaf- Annalise now
US 1983 case – refugee from Iraq handles the Legal
deportation is not a charged with clinic of the
form of pumishment. possession with University.
intent to
Asylum case distribute.
International Law Deportation
proceeding.
Padilla vs Kentucky
– public defenders It was his
must advise clients daughter who
about the risks of dealt drugs but he
deportation when claimed that it
pleading guilty. was him. He was
deported.
In the Assaf case if
the public defender Ray Fonseca –
did not inform Assaf, gang leader
the charged would be charged with
dropped to extortion and
possession only, it bribery.
becomes a
misdemeanor and
therefore not a
ground to deport.
EPISODE 2 Irene Crowley It is revealed that University tries to
convicted of a dead body was suspend Annalise.
murdering her recovered from
husband Rodney. the house.
She had served
32 years in prison
and was refused
parole 6 times.
 Prior to the
murder, she was
physically and
sexually abused
by her husband.
However, at the
time of the
murder, courts
did not allow past
abuse to be part
of evidence.

Conner talked to
her to convince
her to talk about
the abuse which
she did at the
parole hearing.
The application
for parole was
granted and she
was immediately
released.
EPISODE 3 1. US vs Toby Solomon Annalise was Laurel goes to her
Warshak “Call girl arrested the same father to ask for
stated that if creeper” night but not help to look for
discovery before she could Frank. It is
requires a He did Liquid G give Oliver her revealed that her
computer with an escort, phone for him to father wiretaps
expert to be Virginia wipe it clean. her voicemails to
deciphered, Michaelson, but Frank which
it is bad faith she passed out so according to her
data he dumped her was a violation of
dumping and body outside his Title 18 Sec 2511
is prohibited. apartment. It was of the US code, it
caught on a was a federal
neighbor’s live offense
video feed. punishable by
incarceration.
She died of
respiratory failure Laurel reveals
2 days later. that at 16 she was
kidnapped but her
His internet father didn’t want
history shows to pay for
that on an ransom.
average, he According to him
procures 3 escorts it was because he
a week and had a couldn’t do
blog where he anything because
graded women on of the
the basis of breast government.
size, pubic hair
and vocal
enthusiasm.

ADA wanted to
present a photo
from the ship cam
cache of
defendant.
Annalise
contested as it
was allegedly a
violation of Rul3
573 bad faith data
dumping as
provided in US vs
Warshak.
However, judge
looked at the
photo which was
defendant’s selfie
with the deceased
while she was
passed out, judge
allowed that it be
presented.

Oliver discovers
that accused
withdrew 200
thousand dollars
from the bank
which confused
the team as his
was a pro bono
case. He is
confronted by
Annalise and he
reveals it was to
pay off his
previous lawyer
who was
blackmailing him
after he confessed
that he had killed
a girl years ago.

The murder
victim was Jamie
who was missing
since April 2012.
She went to his
house with him
because he
offered her coke
and thought that
she wanted to
have sex with
him so when he
made a move, he
insulted him
because of how
he looks. He
bludgeoned her to
death and left her
body in a broken
freezer.