How to Get Away with Murder – I’m The Murderer

By starrymag | November 13, 2019

By: Dustin Bradley

 

 

We begin with Annalise (Viola Davis) having a phone date with Robert (Cas Anvar). They have better communication for a while, but still haven’t gone on the second date that Robert so badly wants. The conversation is going really smoothly until Annalise hears someone trying to break in through her front door. In that moment she grabs a gun from her drawer and approaches the door only to find that it’s just some lady who got the wrong penthouse number for her Airbnb. This mysterious lady seems to look like someone we might know….

 

We then go to our Keating Four testing out some security cameras at their place in case of another event with the Castillos. Asher (Matt McGorry) still vying for the affection of Michaela (Aja Naomi King) after their little tryst. Michaela assures the group that she is “fabstinent” and focusing on class. We will see where that goes.

 

We then see a glimpse of Frank (Charlie Weber) who is feeling a lot better after his dust-up with Xavier Castillo. He’s even exercising shirtless and trying to get Bonnie (Liza Weil) all hot and bothered.

 

We flash to the next day in class where Gabriel (Rome Flynn) is leading the charge on their case this week. He has given Annalise and the class the bright idea that the future of the criminal justice system is “reformative justice,” which is where the victim and\or the victims family go through a series of court dates where everyone sits as a group with the judge and the plaintiffs get to speak their mind and have the defendant hear them out and help them heal. It is also in this class that we learn that one month ago Micheala broke up with Gabriel and reassures him that the reason has nothing to do with Asher or any other man besides her father and the fact that he stuck up for Solomon instead of her.

 

We learn that the defendant this week is a teacher who brought a gun to school and shot a 16-year-old boy who he believed had a gun during their altercation. After Gabriel convinces our defendant that restorative justice is the best way to go the only part they need to do is convincing the victim’s family. And for that they need someone who can persuade them using the emotional connection that will get to them. That means that Asher has to come along and talk to the victim’s family and reassure them that the only way for them to heal after such a tragedy is to talk about it out loud and not bottle it all up. The family ultimately agrees.

 

Next we go to C&G where Nate (Billy Brown) is having a meeting with Tegan (Amirah Vann) about his father’s wrongful death suit against not only the prison and the DAs office but the governor. The latter gives Annalise some real pause seeing as how she knows that the governor is one shady character who will stop at nothing to get her agenda past. We don’t even know if the governor is perhaps working with the FBI or not. Because the stakes are so high Annalise has to call in “Bad Frank.” She asks him to scare Tegan and make it look like the Castillos that way they don’t file the suit and Bonnie won’t know the truth about what happened to Miller.

 

The next day the trial begins and the family, along with other witnesses, get to say their opening remarks and we learn more about the situation. It turns out our defendant is not only a teacher at a Catholic school but is in fact gay! This leads a few of them involved to believe that perhaps the reason why our defendant shot the boy was because the boy knew his secret and he couldn’t risk it getting out. We hear from classmates about how the victim was a rowdy child who was getting into fights. Also, from what we hear from the family, the child couldn’t have been a sweeter kid. The defendant, of course, feels huge guilt about the whole situation because at the end of the day he doesn’t quite know why he did it. It could be because the student knew that he was gay or it could’ve also been an honest mistake since the student was the quiet, loner type who seemed to be angry at the world. 

 

After seeing the remorse that our defendant has Asher is understandably confused on how the Keating Four have been so easy to shove down all the guilt and emotion of the trauma that they’ve suffered and instead move on like nothing ever happened. Understandably, none of them want to talk about the past and lucky for them they don’t have to because right at that moment Gabriel shows up to try and talk to Michaela. Michaela goes outside, but she doesn’t really want to hear it from Gabriel. 

 

Frank is trying to convince Bonnie that she needs to drop the suit against the prison and the governor because he’s worried about her well-being if the Castillos to get ahold of this. Bonnie being Bonnie refuses and has to do the right thing, which is help out her good friend Nate. And Bonnie might be his only hope because while this is happening Tegan receives a flash drive taped to the steering wheel of her car that contains creepy photos of her ex-wife Cora in a seemingly suggestive hitman style manner. Tegan, of course, wants to immediately drop the suit. 

 

Back at the trial the victim’s family gets to say a few words to the defendant where they use the time to say that despite his crime and how much they want to see them burn in hell and go down for what he did, that they Pray for him and forgive him. In our defendant’s closing statement he admits that it is quite possible that he may have shot the victim because the victim knew about his orientation and then it may have been a subconscious decision that he didn’t quite realize in the moment. The judge (Michael Bofshever) sentences him to the original agreement of 25 years jail time. Gabriel takes this as a loss, but Annalise takes this as a win because even though the defense didn’t win the fact that restorative justice was such a healing for not only our victims family but the defendant himself is a win in her book.

 

After all the raw emotion in the courtroom Michaela decides to finally come clean to Gabriel about hooking up with Asher a month ago before they broke up. Of course, Asher and Gabriel being the dudes that they decide to duke it out in the public courthouse. Lucky for them neither of them are arrested. 

 

Annalise finally has her second official date with Robert at his apartment where he is serving her a candlelit dinner and shows her an amazing time. I can’t wait to see where this relationship goes in this final season.

 

In the first of our final moments montage we see Tegan officially dropping out of filing the wrongful death suit and Bonnie stepping up to take her place as the official lawyer on the case. Frank is none too happy about this because he is trying to shield her from the truth about Miller‘s death and innocence. In that moment we flash to Governor Birkhead (Laura Innes) and Xavier (Gerardo Celasco) talking about the suit and the governor asking Xavier for everything they have on Ms. Winterbottom. This leads us to the lady from the attempted break-in, a.k.a. Laurel and Xavier‘s older sister that was posing as Laurel in the beginning of the season, to get the security deposit box. She is still in town and is still doing the bidding of Xavier. It seems that her job now is to live across from Annalise and gather information on the whole gang. 

 

After all the talk about healing and past mistakes this week Connor (Jack Falahee) tells Oliver (Conrad Ricamora) one of his deepest darkest secrets – that he is the one who chopped up Sam‘s body. This, sadly, leads us to our flash forward which shows a stoic and panicked Oliver at the police station in a haze. Frank shows up to try and get him out of there, but instead Oliver freaks out and starts yelling, “I am the murderer! Arrest me!“ OLLIE WHAT ARE YOU GETTING YOURSELF INTO?!