This was a great episode free from any unrelated cases. Here is what we learned.
Fast Forward
Next week should be the last week of all the flashing back and forth to different points in the story, now that we are finally getting used to it. This week we find out for sure that Rebecca killed Sam. We see Wes carry Rebecca up to the upstairs bathroom and gently wipe away the blood that is all over her so they can leave without attracting attention. They share what is supposed to be their first kiss. Later, at the motel room hideout, Rebecca tells Wes, “He wanted to kill me. I had no other choice. I had to kill him, or he was gonna kill me. I saw the trophy sitting there. I hit him in the head. He deserved to die. And I’m glad he did.” This seems important to me in that Rebecca was explaining it to Wes as if he was not there. It seems the Keating Four showed up after the deed was done. Now after seeing the ending, Wes’s blind faith in Rebecca seems misplaced. Is she lying about killing Sam to cover for someone else? I’m confused.
Rebecca fells badly for involving Wes. Wes tells her things will be fine and to just stay in the room. For some reason she calls 911 and then hangs up and says, “I’m sorry this is a prank call.” And 911 doesn’t call back. That was weird. Wes calls from a new burner phone at the gas station to let her know they are dumping the body and everything is fine.
The Procedural Case
The procedural this week is Rebecca’s murder trial in the Lila the Tank Girl case. It’s all about the autopsy. I suppose the lesson is never trust an autopsy. Apparently the first one missed a couple of things like red marks on her neck, and oh yeah a pregnancy. Sloppy work. The other lesson is, you can always buy an autopsy that is better for your side. And finally, if you need to buy some time, a fake cry of rape against the other suspect works well.
Micheala
It seems her fiancé’s parents have drawn up a prenup for her and their son to sign. Michaela was called to a prestigious law firm where she thought they might be offering her a summer internship, and got blindsided by the paperwork. Michaela’s marriage to her rich, gay fiancé seems about as likely as mine at this point. Pity. For both of us.
Wes and Rebecca
In “real time” we find out they first hooked up two weeks before Sam’s murder. The first sex scene between Wes and Rebecca was oddly interspersed with Lila’s autopsy scenes. Why? We also learn, postcoitally , that Wes was born in Haiti his mother moved him to Ohio when he was one. His mother committed suicide when he was 12. He says she was sweet, funny, but messed up, too. He’s allergic to peanuts. He is afraid of heights. His favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip. That might be a deal breaker for me. Mint Chocolate Chip is so uninspired. Later, Rebecca goes out for Mint Chocolate Chip and runs into Nate. Nate tells Rebecca he knows she didn’t kill tank girl. He says they both know who did. He wants her to help him catch him. And this seems to be how Rebecca finds herself in a situation where it is kill or be killed with Sam in two weeks. Great work there, Nate.
Laurel
Frank is none to thrilled by her rejection this week. He has no interest in a friends contract. This pisses off Laurel who I think was expecting him to pursue. So Laurel considers leaving the Keating Five to work with he boyfriend’s legal aid office. Rebecca tells Frank Laurel is thinking about bailing and he tries to convince her to stay. He says he will get over her and things can go back to normal. Laurel says what if I don’t want you to get over it? And they start screwing on the front porch. Where is Bonnie? In fact where was Bonnie all episode. Shouldn’t she be lurking under the porch steps or something about now?
Asher
Asher was douchey.
Connor
Connor got the sex scene this week. He hooked up in the bathroom with a guy he already did once on his tawdry attempts to get over Oliver. He could not remember the name, but it appears he did remember the sex skills. Later, Connor is supposed to be flirting for information in the bar, but instead gets drunk and cries to the target about his breakup with Oliver. He implies Oliver is more of an Olivia, but anyway. The girl tells him to try flowers. Connor goes to Oliver’s apartment, flowers in hand, to find Oliver has replaced him with a hotter black guy who cooks. Devastating for Connor but delicious for Oliver. You go Oliver.
Annalise
Things are still forced between Annalise and Sam. She did get him to help her with Lila’s family so they would testify requesting the exhumation of the body be denied. Every time the get close to getting close, Bonnie shows up to interrupt to report more damaging info. Like Sam’s little girlfriend Tank Girl was six weeks pregnant.
She also met with Nate at her request she asked for help with her case. Nate informed her that he knows she planted the phone and says, “I tried to give you an out. Don’t forget that when this all goes to hell.”
Next Week: We hear the story “straight from the dead, pregnant, sorority girl’s mouth.” That should be interesting. The announcer also says we find out who killed Sam. Um, Rebecca said she did. Didn’t she? Now I’m confused.
Thanks for the fast report. What a confusing show. Not for the average pot smoker that’s for sure;)
The BF of the LiberalLaurel– surely he will play some devious role. Otherwise, he serves no purpose. Rhimes is married to her writing formula of “Oh! BTW, this character is related to that character, the half-sister. Mother. Father…. ” (ie Grey’s Anatomy. Scandal)
Rhimes, though generally leaning towards deep character development- she has leads who spit through fast talking pursed lips with predictable lines like, “Look at me.”
Regardless, I’ll tune i next week to see what RubberNeckWes does next.
I’m really glad we got some tangible info this episode. I love the show but the flashbacks have really started to annoy me. I like Shondaland, but if this doesn’t pickup and quit with the jumping around, I might just stop watching and just read the recap here. (Sorry for the run-on). I have a theory about who did it and why. But I’ll
Keep it to my self for now.
WHY ARE YOU TORTURING ME? What is you theory? Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!
Ok here’s my almost complete theory. I really think Rebecca and Lila hatched a plan against Sam, although at the time Rebecca just knew Sam as “some married guy”. I think it had to do with the pregnancy which is how Griffin got involved. Lila tricked him into sleeping with her so she could say the baby was his. I don’t think Sam, Rebecca or Griffin killed her. Annalise….possibly? Last episode Rebecca said that her and Lila were friends and I think I believe her. Here’s what we know about Shonda Rhimes, there is no way she’d let Annalise be some poor victim. That’s not her style. And because they are trying to lead us to believe this, to me means Annalise has somehow set it all up. If it ends up that Sam did kill her, I will never watch the show again!!! And as far as who killed Sam, it has to be Rebecca or Annalise. I think Rebecca is lead to believe Sam killed Lila, so she feels threatened and kills Sam. All I hope is it’s some really clever plot we never imagined.
I’m glad we’re getting up to speed by next week. Nate knows that Rebecca
didn’t kill Lila ( to lift her up into that high up water tank ) not very likely. Besides I think Sam killed Lila but the question is who the heck killed Sam?
Since episode one when his face is revealed wrapped up in a rug. Im thinking it’s his wife Annaliese. Irl it is usually the significant other who is the first suspect add to this, that she teaches a class called how to get away with murder. Just can’t get it out of my mind along with the Keating four practising exactly that in all those flashbacks. But that’s just how it looks from my point of view. The episodes title is telling too.
I took Rebecca’s “confession” as her trying to tell Wes that she should take the blame for it since she was already in trouble due to the Lila situation and then he wouldn’t get into trouble.
So the obvious ‘Annalise and Wes are not mother/son’ throw away lines threw me for a loop. I still think Wes could be lying about his backstory. How could a community college random get into an ivy league school? No mention of a scholarship or anything. Sam could not have killed Tank Girl alone. Surely Bonnie was involved somehow. Why was she mia this episode?
We also don’t know where Nate is the night of Sam’s death. Same for Annalise. Maybe Nate and Rebecca were working on a plan to setup Sam or get a confession for Tank Girl’s murder when it all went wrong? If it turns out Sam killed Tank Girl alone and Rebecca kills Sam in self defence I wont bother with a second season. Surely there is a twist and that ending is only a red herring.
Oh there has to be a twist!!! It can’t be this twisted mess and then lead to the obvious! LOL!
Frank and Rebecca killed TankGirl and after Annalise finds out, she kills Frank & Wes is helping to cover for his bioMom Annalise!
Rebecca said she was friends with TankGirl though and appears to want to find her killer.
I still think Bonnie killed the preggers tank girl. Sam is just too obvious, I expect a little more from Shonda.
As for who killed Sam, obviously not Rebecca or the whole “whokilledsam” wouldn’t have been shown at the end nor would tre the announcer had said next week we find out who killed Sam.
Whomever it is, the whole team is protecting them so these writers BETTER HOPE ITS GOOD. Otherwise why the eff would Laurel, Micheala, AND Connor help cover it up?!? Bc it’s Wes’s girlfriend?? I don’t think so.
Or maybe they’ve been manipulated from the get to believe they will be considered accomplices, or maybe they actually are because they were there when it went down. Shit better be good. We’ve all had more than enough of the bonfire college party ESP the airborne cheerleader.
I agree with the evil Bonnie theory and could buy the Annalise kills Sam with Rebecca present theory too.
What medical examiner misses a pregnancy during an autopsy?! This diversion harkens back to Scandal Season 1 when Amanda (?) was killed after sleeping with Fitz, and she was later proven to be pregnant by Billy Chambers. Rebecca, Rebecca, Rebecca….I do not have any reason to care about her as a character, and I cannot understand Wes’ fascination with her. It seemed as if the other members of K5 were starting to warm up to her, but we still do not know who she is (sort of a misfit like Quinn). We did get a little intel about Wes when he told Rebecca that he came from Haiti, etc., which I appreciated. He lacked emotion and seemed rather matter of fact about his life, but maybe the backstory with his mother is what is fueling his urge to save Rebecca. I like Nate more and more after each episode, and I feel his Spidey senses are correct about Sam being Lila’s murderer. We need to discover who killed Lila’s boyfriend, and who ever that is will help uncover the reason why Rebecca killed Sam. My hunch is it was Lila’s mom who killed Griffin, and then she tracked down Sam to do him in, but Rebecca interfered with the mother’s plan and did the deed instead. Yes, it is far-fetched, but it could work because the mother would not want anyone to know Lila was pregnant, so she paid off the coroner, and hoped that secret went to the grave with Lila. Annalise uncovered the secret when she had the second autopsy done, and now Sam is the other possible baby daddy, so he had to go.
Shonda and her writers need to get the scripts and storylines together because if I have no reason to care about the characters, I will lose interest and stop watching all together. The plot is unnecessarily complicated and it is not adding to a suspenseful moment or progressing the story. They could have waited one more season to air this show, if they did not have the characters and the story fully developed. Let’s see what happens next week.
Um did I miss Griffin getting killed? Last I checked he was sitting at a defense table next to Rebecca’s in the courtroom…
You are correct. I became confused with last weeks episode when Frank got caught by Nate planting evidence in the car. I still think Sam’s killer could be Lila’s mom because she would have the motivation to do it. My other guess would be Bonnie because she lurks everywhere and we do not fully understand her relationship with the Keatons. Random thought~maybe Bonnie was Sam’s first wife, which is the reason why she is so familiar with the house she and Sam owned together. Perry Mason couldn’t figure this out…….
I guess Bonnie lives in the house? She sure wanders around it at all hours of the night? And that 911 call? That’s gonna come back to bite somebody.
After going back over all if the episides, I am convinced that Annalise killed Lila knowing that her husband was sleeping with her. Everything she does, for the most part, is very calculating. She may have had help from Frank. I believe Wes killed Sam trying to protect Rebecca from him, assuming that she acts on the proposition from Nate.
I thought of this theory as well, and it is plausible. Annalise did not think of Lila possibly being pregnant, and that throws her plans off track. I still cannot figure out how Lila wound up in the tank. Maybe Bonnie, Frank, or Sam helped Annalise put the body in the water tank. Questions, questions, questions to be answered, so I will keep watching for now.
Frank seems like the type of friend to Annalise that would help her bury (or float) the body.
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Nate said to Rebecca, ” I know you didn’t kill Lila. We both know who did. Now help me catch HIM.” Or words to that effect. So IF Nate is right, then Lila was killed by a man (presumably Sam). But of course Nate could be wrong.
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Sam would be the obvious choice and Nate could be wrong. However, Shonda MAY go with the obvious on this one and have the twist be something totally unexpected!
If the ‘twist’ is that there is no twist. I will be pissed. :/
You have to remember that most people will be surprised by the obvious outcome. We tend to think way more about the storyline that the normal viewer. Plus we’re smarter than them. It’s not the writers fault they write for the masses. 🙂
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Annalise could be very angry that she has only ever had miscarriages with Sam but TankGirl managed to get pregnant to Sam. #Jealousy.
I really want to like this show….but I just can’t. It is not the skipping around…it is just mind numbingly slow. I love me some Shonda, so I keep recording it, but I just cannot become vested in this one.
But it’s the best one!
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I actually am surprised how quickly we are catching up to Sam’s murder. The pacing for me so far is fine.
I’m liking Nate more every time I see him! Wes seemed so master of fact on his backstory… is it true? How did he get into an Ivy league from community college? Rebecca said she sent a text that she doesn’t remember. That may be some type of huge clue. The back and forth has become to confusing but Nates last words have me coming back this week. I don’t feel the KY are doing all this cover up just for Rebecca.
Rebecca has said Wes was the most closemouthed (or some synonym) person she had ever met. So after he did the deed he “opened up” for the first time and wanted to tell her something about it, so he started listing random facts about himself. I think it was all true.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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