How to Get Away with Murder – We’re All Gonna Die

By: Dustin Bradley

We begin the episode with Annalise (Viola Davis) crying on the floor of her bathroom listening to the therapy tapes that Gabriel (Rome Flynn) has given her. The lie that she has been telling herself for years has finally caught up to her that she was, in fact, the aggressor in the beginning of her relationship with Sam. She quickly has to stop her breakdown when Nate (Billy Brown) calls to inform her that Frank (Charlie Weber) has been admitted to the hospital after his attack by Xavier Castillo. She quickly rushes to be by Bonnie’s (Liza Weil) side at the hospital. Frank doesn’t look to be in good shape. It’s there that we see Annalise open up to Bonnie about the Sam situation and tells her the truth that she may have come on to him, but Bonnie fully expresses that this is what manipulators do  – that they make it feel like it was your idea. Annalise explains that she may have come onto him because she didn’t want to fully be bisexual and have a gay relationship with Eve. 

We then flash to continue the conversation that we left off with last week between Michaela (Aja Naomi King) and her birth father, Solomon (Ray Campbell). He offers her to come by his room in the morning so that they can discuss business. And when she does the next morning he informs her that he needs her help running parts of his organization due to there being a need for a female in many of these conversations with the women’s advocacy groups. She accepts the position for now but not without haggling Solomon on the pay. She eventually gets fed up with Solomon not paying any attention to her or her ideas and constantly having to take a business phone calls or be interrupted by his assistant. She quickly asks for money, except she doesn’t have a figure in mind so he presents to her a blank check with his signature and tells her to take whatever she believes she is worth.

Back at Asher’s (Matt McGorry) apartment Asher’s sister Chloe (Kelen Coleman) is still in town and begging Asher to come see his sick and suicidal mother. He quickly asks to leave though since Annalise calls an emergency meeting. She brings the Keating gang, minus Micheala, together to discuss Frank’s condition. It is then that Oliver (Conrad Ricamora) confesses to helping Frank in his quest to find Laurel which in turn led him right to her brother’s trap. Everyone is exceedingly mad at Oliver, but to be fair, Frank did ask for this information and for all of their help so we can entirely put the blame on him.

We next go to Teagan (Amirah Vann) who has invited her wife Cora (Mercedes Mason) to come to Philly to finally sign the divorce papers as they are both ready to do so. Before they get to the signing they get drunk and reminisce on the glory days. They also discuss the man that Cora is with right now. Cora reveals that they broke up and she swears that nothing officially ever happened in their relationship until after Teagan and her ended things. Teagan tells her to be prepared because she is going to “take her for everything she’s worth.” It isn’t until later, whenever Teagan has a conversation with Annalise, where she realizes that she may still have feelings for Cora. Later that night she tries to reveal those feelings, but Cora does not reciprocate so they sign the papers and make it final. Relieved, Teagan in a puddle of tears at C&G.

Back at our gang’s house, Connor (Jack Falahee) is still upset with Oli. After Michaela comes back home he confides in her about the whole situation. She then reveals that Gabriel took Solomon’s side in the situation and that has never happened in any of her relationships before. So, she considers going back to Asher since he always stuck up for her no matter what. 

At the hospital Frank finally wakes up and tells Bonnie that he whispered Laurel to Annalise because Annalise helped Laurel disappear. We then flash to see Frank getting tortured by Xavier (Gerardo Celasco) and Xavier showing him evidence of what we saw last week with Annalise depositing money into the Bermuda bank…a bank in which the Castillo‘s are known to use for their back door operations. This leads Xavier and Frank into believing that Annalise had something to do with Laurel’s disappearance. He then reveals that the girl we saw in the cab photo exiting the security box was not Laurel but in fact they’re older sister.

Annalise has some explaining to do and tells Bonnie that the $208,000 that she had she received was her bonus from C&G and she stashed it away so that if anything happens with this FBI case she has the money and can run. But, of course, because Xavier knows about it she immediately goes home and checks the balance which is now $2.17. Xavier wiped it all. So Annalise has to turn to her last option, which is to call up Solomon and say, “It’s time to pay up.” Pay up for what? For keeping an ion Michaela? For taking Michaela under her wing? For giving Michaela all of the experiences that she has had professionally? Solomon is not a lucky man right now.

We also see in Annalise invite Gabriel over to explain to him that she may have in fact been the aggressor it in her relationship with Sam, but it came from a scared place. She explains that at that time Sam was the epitome of what she wanted in order to not be gay. She saw him as her way out and a way to get that white picket fence and family that both of them ultimately wanted, but that Annalise felt she could only have with a man. She then ultimately smashes the tapes that Gabriel gave her.

We end the episode with the flash forward to “Bloody Grad night” where we see Teagan showing up to Asher and Gabriel’s apartment building and demanding to see “the body” before the Philly PD does anything to sabotage or frame her client. Who is this client? And most importantly who is this body?