How to Get Away with Murder – I Hate the World

By: Dustin Bradley

We begin this week with our flash forward exactly where we left off in the previous episode. Connor (Jack Falahee) is having some sort of panic attack that seems to affect his heart during the interrogation with the FBI. Michaela (Aja Naomi King) is in the other room rightly freaking out. When it is murder night four episodes in, we only know for sure that Michaela and Connor are safe. 

We then move on to Gabriel (Rome Flynn) who is still listening to the therapy sessions between Sam (voice of Tom Verica) and Annalise that his mother dropped off in the past episode. It is also cut together with Annalise (Viola Davis) making a $50,000 deposit in an offshore account in the Cayman Islands. So far, with the exchange rate, she is at $205,000. No thoughts on how in the world she got that kind of money.

Michaela is on a mission to get the DNA from her birth father that she needs to prove that she is really the daughter of Solomon Vick (Ray Campbell). She has even dragged Gabriel along for the ride telling the gang that they are going to Poconos when in reality they are in New York. After a few short attempts to obtain his DNA off his glass at the bar, Michaela decides to do something risky and interrupt her father‘s panel on New Wave Feminism, which is incredibly misogynistic. She decides to “prosecute him“ as an audience member under the alias “Laurel Castillo.”

When the search for DNA doesn’t work Michaela decides to do the next best thing, which is break into his hotel room to get what she needs to prove that he is in fact her biological father. She tries to rope Gabriel into this plan, but he refuses only get into a big fight about the fact that Michaela never takes no for an answer or asks for others opinions. It’s always about her. Towards the end she gets the chance to actually make a move and talk to her birth father after getting caught in his hotel room. He proceeds to tell her that he’s waited a long time to meet her. She runs out crying, but a few hours later she finds him at hotel bar and will only talk to him if she gets to ask whatever question she wants.

Annalise was busy with not only her case of the week but her new romance. The case this week is that of a popular dating website who seems to be discriminating against the disabled by only matching disabled people with fellow disabled people. The plaintiff is trying to sue for the algorithm to be changed, but the founder and creator of the dating website refuses. As we find out later, it seems that she is selling the algorithm to the government as a means to weed out people of color from certain legal applications and assistance.

Annalise hates this case and finds her client a horrible person, but at the same time she’s not too fond of the plaintiff either as he is an “incel,” in layman terms a woman hater. The team at C&G decide on a plan to get him to drop the suit which involves Asher (Matt McGorry) handing over the client’s personal passwords as a means for them to disappear and basically back themselves into a corner by committing another crime even if it isn’t just to try and ruin the career of a not so great woman. In the end the plaintiff drops the suit, but only after Annalise has a heart to heart with him in the C&G hallway where she explains that for her being a dark skinned African-American woman it was hard to find someone herself. However, in the end it’s more about loving you and who you are than the affection and presence that you get from others.

The other major thing was her little date with dating company’s lawyer, who at first seems skeezy but ends up being kinda cute. After Annalise goes on a date and tells him more of her baggage than she ought have, he still decides that he will keep pursuing her. So, let’s see if this goes anywhere.

Next we move on to Nate (Billy Brown) who is still in contact with the FBI. But instead of giving the lowdown on Annalise, they want to know more than he’s willing to tell. He tries to shift their focus on Tegan (Amirah Vann), who he views as shady right now. Through them and with Bonnie’s (Liza Weil) help we find out that Tegan owns stock in a shell company owned by Laurel (or who we can assume is Laurel) and that she did, in fact, do something shady to get it back in the days of C&G Mexico.

Our final two storylines are that of Conner and Oliver (“Coliver”) and Asher who are on the opposite spectrum of relationships. Asher is finally realizing that he’s truly alone in that department and is desperate enough that he gets catfished by his own sister (Kelen Coleman) who shows up in one of the final moments. On the flip side, Connor and Oliver (Conrad Ricamora) are attempting to spice up their marriage by having a steamy threesome.

To close out the episode in the final moment we get Gabriel showing up at Annalise’s apartment with one of the Sam tapes where she admits that she has fallen for her therapist – a/k/a Sam.