It was another great #TGIT this week. Is it me of is Grey’s kind of depressing? I only started rewatching again recently, and I’m starting to remember why I stopped watching. As for Scandal, what do y’all think about Jake not really being Jake? What do you think his real name is? I need him to still be Jake. Damn you, Shonda Rimes! AND he is married to a B316 member/former member with more kills than Jake and Charlie combined? It’s twist after twisted twist on Scandal!
As for How to Get Away With Murder, “the other Tamara” is back with a recap of this week’s episode. I could not stop myself from a bit of the purple pen.
By @TamaraMissy
Flash Forward
This weeks flash forward begins with Annalise getting an IV and being carried out on to the ambulance on a stretcher. Meanwhile, the interns are in Nate’s police car listening to the scanner. Michaela gets a call that she takes while trying to act normal. Annalise flatlined in the back of the ambulance and the medics grab the defibrillator and start trying to get her heart beating again!
Present Time
Annalise is in the tub when she gets a call from Nate. Only it isn’t Nate it’s his wife Nia! Annalise goes in to visit the dying wife at the hospital. Nia is almost grateful that Nate has had Annalise in his life. She wants Nate to be happy and move on with his life. Nia asks Annalise for a favor. She wants Annalise to kill her, because while modern medicine can keep her alive forever, she’s not really living. Annalise leaves stunned.
Procedural Case
Annalise returns home and finds her next case waiting for her. Zoe is a high school girl who is being accused of viciously stabbing her best friend to death with a couple of other popular mean girls. Zoe says she never wanted to hurt her best friend and it was really the other girls who made her kill her friend. The interns get to work trying to cast doubt on the doctor who will be testifying that Zoe is a psychopath. That is, all the interns except for Asher. He has his own issues to deal with so he calls in sick for the day. Asher is off somewhere making a deal with Prosecutor Sinclair in exchange for immunity. Immunity from what? I have no idea what he could be testify to seeing as he knows absolutely nothing but I assume we will find out in due time. Damn you Tamara Missy! I’ve been waiting two days for you to explain this part to me! Also, Sinclair is blackmailing Asher with some sort of evidence about his involvement with a female from his past. Did he kill her or what? I’m so confused!
Hapstall Case
Michaela is sent off to interview Caleb Hapstall and prepare him for his future trial. Annalise just wants Michaela to find out if the siblings are in fact sleeping together. Caleb is still defensive and denies that he killed his parents and also denies sleeping with his sister.
Michaela is able to prove that the Hapstall siblings aren’t sleeping together because Catherine is a virgin. Catherine gladly goes to the doctor to confirm that she is not lying. So now we know that they aren’t some weird adoptive lovers after all! I’m a virgin too! This is ridiculous.
Wes and Nate
Wes is busy teaming up with Levi to uncover Rebecca’s killer. Although, he should be upset that Levi is hooking up with Michaela after he was told to leave her alone! He doesn’t know anything about Levi, except that he is Rebecca’s foster, but that doesn’t seem to bother him one bit. Wes goes to Nate for more help. Nate gives them the name of a girl that Frank called three times the night Rebecca disappeared. Instead of Wes looking into it himself, he just gives the information to Levi and lets him go snooping around.
Back to the Procedural Case
Meanwhile, Annalise is unable to focus in the courtroom. She keeps zoning out and thinking about Nia asking for help. Nia was good too. She laid on the guilt trip extra creamy and thick. Nia says that Annalise owes her this. I mean, she was sleeping with her husband and then she frames him for the murder of Sam. Annalise doesn’t know what to do. Zoe’s parents are getting pretty pissed off that Annalise isn’t doing her very best on the case.
Laurel doesn’t trust Zoe or believe her. So she steals the girl’s cell phone. On it she finds a video of Zoe laughing about killing her best friend and talking about wanting to kill again. When Annalise sees it, she shows the parents. They all agree to destroy the video and win the case. Conner can’t believe this. He doesn’t want to let Zoe get away with this. He knows that if Zoe is free she will kill again. So he slips a copy of the video to the prosecutor.
The video turns out not to have a big affect on the trial because the next day, Zoe loses it in court. Molly, the other girl accused of killing the best friend, is put on the stand. Molly says the girls never even liked Zoe. This enrages Zoe who starts screaming that Molly is just a “basic bitch” and better watch her back because she will kill her next! That does it for Zoe who is carted out in handcuffs while she screams how she hates everyone. Um hi, me again, does anyone see the point of this procedural? What was the lesson the class was supposed to learn from this case? Was it discussed in the classroom? Was there even a classroom? IDGI. Thanks. Now back to your regularly scheduled recap.
Later that evening, Annalise confronts Conner about interfering in the case. She threatens that if he ever does something like that again she will make sure that he is blamed for Sam’s death!
Levi has been able to track down the girl Frank called the night Rebecca went missing. She has a brother who is a grounds keeper at a cemetery. So obviously Wes and Levi come to the conclusion that the cemetery must be where Rebecca’s remains are. I’m not buying that though. I mean, Frank is pretty smart. I don’t think that he’d make it all that easy for someone to trace his steps and find Rebecca’s dead body. But Wes obviously doesn’t agree with my opinion and is off to find Nate and tell him of his new discovery.
Annalise visits the hospital and tells Nia that she won’t help kill her. Nia can’t believe it, after all, Annalise killed Sam! So it should have been easy for her to kill Nia. Annalise tells Nia that regardless of who she thinks she is, she wont be helping Nia out. I’m just glad Annalise didn’t do it. Can you imagine if she had and then somehow Nate had found out? As Annalise leaves the hospital she sees, Nate and Wes talking/arguing. UT-OH!
Bonnie has managed to track down Asher. Asher is convinced that Annalise killed Sam and that Frank and Bonnie know all about it. She tells him he is wrong for working with Sinclair Then she tells Asher that she is the one who killed Sam. Bonnie is one loyal/crazy friend. When are we going to find out who Bonnie “owes” Annalise for? Dumb question, do we know who killed Sam at this point? So much has happened I can’t remember.
We end with a flash forward of Nate and the interns pulling up to an apartment building. Michaela gets out and goes inside. Caleb asks “how is she?” I’m going to guess and say he is asking about Annalise. Technically he could be asking about Catherine. I don’t know I’m just as confused as you all are!
Apologies to Tamara Missy for purple penning this. I just have so many questions!
we know Sinclair is blackmailing Asher about the girl from the lake house. I don’t think she is dead but my guess was she tried to say he raped her or drugged her or something along those lines. She can’t be dead because I don’t think even Asher’s dad could make that go away.
The only thing I really took away from the Zoe case is how Conner is feeling. He feels like they are being used and manipulated by Annalise( umm well duh!) there was no classroom lesson this week. Conner is just beginning to see that Annalise had them do her dirty work and will only protect them as long as it benefits her.
Ps. Wes ultimately killed Sam by bashing him in the head with the trophy!!
Hope that helps ?
Oh yeah. I remember that about Wes. I just sort of thought after that season they tried to make it look like someone else killed Sam. How is it possible Asher still doesn’t know that Wes killed Sam? Why would Bonnie say she killed Sam?
I don’t remember the lake house or the girl because I have a bad case of CRS. 🙁
We never saw anything with the lakehouse or the girl. We only know anything about because Sinclair mentioned it to Asher.
What is up with the bottle of pills Annalise has Frank get her? I thought she slipped something into Nate’s hand outside of the courtroom. He put whatever it was in his jacket inside pocket. I thought she was going to tell Nia she provided the fatal meds but Nate would have to be the one deciding her fate.
Did I imagine the pasding something to Nate happened? Did she get the drugs for Nia then change her mind about giving them to her?
I started out admiring Annalise, now I think she is a horrible person. Nate seemed so sweet, now I think he is creepy.
Thank you Tamara 2 for the great recsp of this convoluted show!
I said I thought Nate was sweet but now creepy. Who I really meant is Will.
Annalise did pass the pills to Nate and he knows what the pills will do. Annalise is one twisted Sista!
Sorry guys,but I don’t think Annalise slipped Nate the pills. She just held his hand in a very awkward way. Also wasn’t she later shown liking at the pills again before she went back to Nia’s room to tell her she wouldn’t help her? I’ll have to go back and watch that part again just to be sure.
I also thought that this week’s trial was strange. The only thing that I could come up with was it was highlighting Conner’s conscience and that it is going to somehow be connected to the flash forward ; they get the creepy adopted kids off of killing their parents then find out that they are guilty so the Keating 5 and Annalease and Nate set up the siblings or sister for Annalease’s shooting?
I’m probably completely wrong, but that is my premature guess.
I’m bored with the siblings. I just don’t care what happens to them. They come off as privileged whiners.
The sociopathic teenagers on trail would have been a better season long trial. Nothing is scarier than popular psycho mean girls.
I’M still confused about the attempted Annalise murder….what was that about? Its something weird about the Hampstell kids and I thought Bonnie killed Rebecca..now she says she killed Sam…the drama never ends on this show..I’ll be tuned in net week