Well, we finally get answers to A LOT of things in this episode of How to Get Away with Murder, a.k.a. amateur legal hour. Good thing, too, since this is the last episode until February 11, 2016! Guess all that overacting requires a lot of holiday time off to recuperate.
So let’s get started…if we remember last week, turns out product-of-icky-incest Philip and Catherine know each other, Caleb found a gun in a heating vent that is in desperate need of cleaning, Michaela finally found her O and I’m not talking Oprah, and Bonnie went mental because Asher found out her dad molested her and it’s on tape! Man, is life boring compared to these people.
So we open back at the orphan mansion with Annalise getting shot and boom! We’re now 14 hours earlier in Catherine’s bedroom, where she is sleeping peacefully.
LA-LA-LA Murder charge!
Connor is in the study with the Colonel and the candlestick, and also Caleb and Michaela and the gun from the vent. Michaela didn’t want to call Annalise about it, but she didn’t want to obstruct justice either, so instead she asks Connor for advice, thinking they should get rid of the gun. Because that is how far they have all fallen when Connor becomes the wise advisor.
Back at Batshit Legal Central, they are discussing the picture of Philip with the hideous family portrait behind him, saying they should Photoshop it out. Yes, that should take care of all of your problems. Annalise wants to talk to Catherine first.
Connor says Michaela is letting her vagina make all of her decisions, which is ironic coming from a guy who let his dick rule his world. Caleb says he will get rid of the gun as Catherine walks in and sees him with the gun. Then she does what any innocent person does, she runs away. Like it’s going to be that hard to find a rich girl: track the credit cards.
Annalise heads over to the house and sees the gun on the coffee table, demanding that someone had better start talking. But she starts first and yells at Michaela for tampering with evidence. Wow. Pot? Kettle?
My almost mother-in-law was so much less trouble.
Connor heads up Annalise’s ass by saying he wanted to call her, and Michaela says she was worried about “rule 3.4.” Which she probably made up given that she is – once again, people – a FIRST YEAR LAW STUDENT.
And…time for some Perky Prosecutor! She just happens to have footage of Nate at a computer (odd security camera placement) and she claims that Philip never had a speeding ticket, yet now he’s a schizo with the exact same record as someone else?! Looks like Nate shouldn’t have come into the office on his day off. Who the hell does that?
Nate isn’t in trouble – yet – but Perky follows him out of his boss’s office and says he’s nothing but Annalise’s boy toy and that he killed Nia. Nate totally loses his shit on Perky, who looks like she’s sucked a lemon all night.
She’s going to get you…and your little dog, too!
Back with Caleb, he continues to swear he had nothing to do with his parents’ murder. Laurel shows him the picture they got of Philip, with Catherine’s hideous artwork behind him. Caleb doesn’t believe it. Annalise says she can’t represent them both, it’s a conflict of interest. Man, her ethics are like the tides.
Annalise calls Murderer Frank and he tells her the Judge Millstone corruption story has leaked – but she doesn’t care, she has bigger fish to fry! Frank is at Philip’s apartment where Philip is being arrested, but Catherine is nowhere to be found. She tells Frank they aren’t representing Catherine, he needs to find her before she does something stupid(er), and there’s no time to explain. Oh, man, you know Frank is going to murder Catherine, if just out of habit.
Why yes, I DO need you to help cover up yet another murder!
Asher is leaving a message for his dad when Bonnie shows up at his doorstep. Looks like she may have pulled it together. She’s there to tell him that his dad killed himself in his office – by hanging. Doesn’t anyone do booze and pills? Seems so much easier/less horrifying to just fall asleep.
Annalise calls Nate but he’s about to get fired…so he can’t do anything more. Seems like now would be the perfect time to pull one last stunt, doesn’t it? Laurel then tells Annalise about Asher’s dad killing himself. Annalise is shocked but I think it’s more because someone killed himself instead of killing another human…does not compute!
We head over to Asher’s house where he’s talking to his mother about the funeral. She says she doesn’t understand why he’s not very upset. Uh, because you look like you are not the strongest person in the world and someone has to wear the big-boy pants. She blames him for his dad’s death, since the article mentioned the covered-up gang rape and she knows the dad covered it up for Asher. She says she doesn’t want to know him anymore.
Stepford Mom looks just as tight as Perky Prosecutor. Bet they were on the Women’s League Committee together.
Asher, out in his car, breaks down crying. And he hasn’t even killed anyone (yet)!
Everyone gets to murder EXCEPT me!
Bonnie tells Frank they’re to blame for Asher’s dad, but Frank is like, he was corrupt, we just let people know about it. But let’s keep that to ourselves, m’kay, Bonnie? Bonnie tells Frank that they have become the people that other people need to be protected from. Frank just wants to track Catherine, but Bonnie taps out.