Aren’t they all killers, though?
This episode of How to Get Away with Murder has officially gone off the rails, and yet it still is less crazy than any of the Real Housewives shows. If we remember from last week, everyone quit on Annalise, Annalise drops off a folder containing documents from a 10-year old case that involved his mother to Wes, and Laurel and Frank are having “relationship issues” because he killed Lila.
We open with Wes going through the whole case about some guy named Charles who killed his fiancé by bludgeoning her to death, with a quick flashback to Annalise talking to Wes’s mother Rose, about what she saw. She tells Annalise the same story Charles tells her, so all is well. Or is it? Annalise worries the family told Rose to lie.
A rich white guy? Would be out on his own recognizance, not in prison.
Back in real time, Connor is at Annalise’s house freaking out about the video that Philip sent them, showing them all leaving The Orphan house the night of the murders/Annalise shooting. Annalise acts like she’s not going to help because the kids were “mean to her” and Connor’s like yeah, bitch, you don’t get to play that card, so let’s figure out what to do. Uh, send Frank to kill him?
Seriously, bitch? Use the magic word…please.
Laurel is continuing her argument with Frank, and she figures out he killed Lila for Annalise, who interestingly enough, is calling Frank right now. Frank goes to answer the phone and Laurel books it out the door. Bonnie tells Frank to get his murdering ass to the house so they can discuss the video. Laurel heads over to Wes’s house.
The kids are freaking out and Annalise points out that the video means Philip was at the crime scene that night too, so “Let mommy take care of it like she always does.” Ew. Mommy?
Laurel won’t tell Wes why she’s there and he won’t tell her about the case he’s reading about, so great communication all around. Finally, he reveals Annalise knew his mother. They decide to go to Ohio to find out more courtesy of Laurel’s daddy’s credit card.
Murder road trip!
Philip emails again asking for $1 million in 36 hours or he emails an even better video to the police. “What now, mommy?” Connor asks. Double ew.
In Ohio, nothing on the case is digitized so Old Lady Law Library who uses the phrase “ought-nine” brings them a crapload of boxes to go through.
I liked it better when we documented on daguerreotype!
We flash back to 10 years ago, and Rose is freaking out about testifying in case she loses her green card and gets deported. Annalise tells Charles and his snobby, rich parents (one of which is Adam Arkin, love him!) and that Rose wants to testify anonymously, which I didn’t think they were allowed to do. Snobby mom tells Annalise that the only reason Rose has a roof over her head is from the paycheck from their company. So…I’m guessing she’s the one who ended up killing Rose and making it look like suicide? Because that’s pretty much how people work on this show.
Get my son acquitted or I will totally Kunta-Kinte you.
Snobby dad makes a remark that threatens the fate of Wes and Annalise looks sick. Could just be the pregnancy, woman has no empathy at all.
Annalise and Michaela head over to The Orphan house to work their charms and ask for the money by saying they will work for Caleb again, if he pays in cash and he gets info about Philip from Catherine, who is in prison.
So if we can have 250k in cash we’ll start treating you like dirt again.
But when he goes to see Catherine she’s already turned into The New Black from Orange and she’s hardened. She pretty much tells him he betrayed her and he can piss up a rope. Okay, well, then, see you…and I’ll just take the inheritance and go, then.
I can’t even get a manicure and you want me to what?
Back at the fiancé-killer trial, the prosecutor says the fiancé was about to turn the family in for all of their illegal activities, and that is why Charles killed her. While the trial is going on, the prosecutor interviews an agent who was using the fiancé as a confidential informant – and it’s the same agent we saw talking to Wes after his mother died! Dun-dun-dunnn.
Wes and Laurel see an anonymous witness on the list, and Wes says that only happens if the judge believes the witness’s life is in danger. How would it be in danger if she was testifying FOR the defense? I mean, they would be the ones to kill her, not the prosecutor…although, with this show, who does the murdering does seem to be a toss-up.
Annalise goes to interview Rose by closed-circuit TV, which is weird since you can pretty much see everything on the TV (so how she’s staying anonymous is beyond me), but Rose does not show up! She’s gone! Because Frank stopped watching her!
Frank blew it even though he’s graduated to a big-boy suit for this trial.
Snobby daddy is not happy. He says he specifically hired Annalise because she was a woman, black, and prego (so basically he’s an HR nightmare), but now he’s pissed. “Don’t give ‘your people’ a bad name,” he says. Which people? Women? Blacks? Pregos? So many protected groups to choose from.
You being a minority breeder really hasn’t helped our cause like I thought it would.
Bonnie tells Annalise maybe they should go to the police and just be done with this whole mess. Annalise all of a sudden says that she never wanted kids until she turned Bonnie’s age, then people were all over her to have kids…When? Why not? She’ll feel different when the baby is in her arms! It will be the greatest experience of her life! Which are all super-great reasons to bring a kid into the world: other people’s opinions for putting a crying, pooping shackle around your ankle for the rest of your life!
Then Annalise says that now she has five kids and it’s the worst experience of her life. Uh, you know you can fire all of these kids, right? Give them recs to other law schools and chances are you’re good to go until one of them cracks!
The library is closing and Wes says he thinks Charles killed his mother for not testifying. Again, would it not have made sense to have her testify? Also, are you telling me they couldn’t have thrown money at this problem to fix it? Wes thinks Annalise got him into school, put him on her team and protected him when he killed Sam to make up for getting his mother killed.
Michaela heads over to Caleb’s for makeup sex and it works.
Speaking of makeup sex, Annalise is making dinner for Nate and asks if he eats red meat. Seems like that should be a question prior to serving it to him, but okay. Nate questions her motives and she tosses the meal in the garbage. But then they have makeup sex and all is forgiven.
Serves you right for serving lima beans!
Connor is looking at porn when Oliver comes home, but no he isn’t! He’s looking at the Stanford law site and is applying to switch schools – and he wants Oliver to come with him. Oliver says they don’t need to move 3000 miles away. Also, does Connor even have the transcripts to switch schools? He never goes to class! Oliver tells him that he never sees him study so let’s wait for that ding letter to come in before they make any decisions. So they have sex too.
Will Stanford let you murder as much as this crap-ass law school does?
Laurel and Wes are in the car and Laurel admits that her dad is not a nice man and Frank is the exact same, and she likes it. Girlfriend is really messed up. So she and Wes kiss, then realize it’s a mistake. So no makeup sex here, too bad.
Jungle Fever…is over quickly.
Back in pre-dead Rose time, Annalise goes to see Rose and Rose admits she didn’t see what she said she saw. Annalise worries for her safety and Rose says, “You’re just as bad as them.” And how! She yells at Wes to go to bed and Wes looks like Damien. It’s just bed, she didn’t make you eat your veggies for God’s sake!
You are actually in a good negotiating position if you don’t die first.
Wes and Laurel go through the autopsy results and Wes says it was suicide, but Laurel sees there was neck laceration. The report says it was self-inflicted, which seems like an odd way to kill yourself. Wes says he doesn’t remember any of this, only all of the blood. Ick. They decide to go back home.
Annalise shows Nate the video and his advice is not to negotiate with the crazy. He says wait it out and he’ll come out of the shadows. They should do nothing.
The kids kind of freak on her, but she says Philip is taking out his anger at his parents on them. They have 20 seconds to decide! So they don’t send money to him…and nothing happens. Did they think the house was going to explode or something? Asshat does his “We beat his ass!” dance and yells “He can suck on my –“ but is stopped by the ding of email!
Oh, white guy dance moves, do you ever quit?
The newest video is of Annalise and Nate from the night before! Then Laurel walks in and demands to talk to Annalise. In her office, Laurel shoves a piece of paper in Annalise’s face. It’s a note from the autopsy that reads, “Potential homicide, primary suspect is victim’s 12 year old son.” And we see video of a young Wes, standing over his mother with a bloody knife as she chokes on her own blood. He should have used the Cruciatus Curse, it wouldn’t have left a trail for the muggle police.
Guess he keeps his green card?
Thoughts on how this ended? Think Wes really killed his mother? Stay tuned…