How To Get Away With Murder – Whose Blood is That?

By: Dustin Bradley

ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” is ramping up and it’s only it’s second outing this season! Last week’s episode titled “Whose Blood is That?” gave us zero clues as to who the mystery victim is during the “Night of the Bloody Snow,” but did deliver us a delicious flash forward for Liza Weil’s Bonnie to show us that at this point we truly don’t know what this little ball of what one-time murderer is capable. Oh wait? She’s capable of murder. Well, let’s discuss last weeks episode right now.

Before we get to the flash forward later on, we start three weeks earlier where Bonnie (Weil) is packing up baby Christopher’s nursery with zero help from Godfather/wannabe daddy Frank (Charlie Weber), who instead is more interested in his secret mission of finding out what’s up with new guy Gabriel Maddox (Rome Flynn) and what it is he wants with “her.” Frank being the sly thug that he is attempts to bug Gabe’s phone but can’t because Gabriel just might be the smartest person on this show and is using the unhackable, uncloneable and very 90’s retro FLIP PHONE! So, Gabriel is definitely up to something or is just the most non-materialistic 20-something ever.

Frank needs to find some way to get inside Gabe’s head and figure out his intentions and that leads to him orchestrating Gabe’s move into Wes’s old place, which he had bugged with cameras and audio devices. Has anyone warned Gabe about this apartment building and it’s tendency to be the home of former victims of violent crimes? Guess not. Rent must be cheap. The only good thing about this new situation is that now we should be getting more Gabriel and Asher (Matt McGorry)  as they live across the hall for each. So, not only will that mean the start of a great new friendship but it means if Asher tries to double cross Annalise (Viola Davis) that Frank will know about it.

Speaking of Annalise, she has chosen her the first case/appeal for the legal clinic. Her first appeal is Nanda (Ramona DuBerry), a Muslim woman accused of running over her white wife late one night. Annalise decides that Michaela (Aja Naomi King) will help her with this case after she came up with the best defense in class. You would think that with one of the biggest point of overworked public defenders in Annalise’s SCOTUS case that one of these students would have come up with that immediately. In court Michaela destroys the P.D.A. on the stand and starts to prove herself as a true lawyer and adult to Annalise, especially when she relinquishes her chance to make the ultimate kill and catch the true killer – a/k/a the victim’s son (James Allen McCune). They come to this conclusion thanks to the work of Oliver (Conrad Ricamora) who finds his IP address linked to an alt-right website where he shows off his penchant for white supremacy.

Speaking of Oliver, Connor (Jack Falahee) tells him that it’s time to stop being petty with Michaela over Simon, so much so that they ask her to be their other best man. I assume the other is Laurel (Karla Souza). While I’m mentioning Laurel, it’s worth noting that after firing Frank as her manny she’s hard pressed to find child care, which leads her straight to Caplan and Gold since they have a daycare for associates and in order to do that she needs to play nice with Tegan (Amirah Vann) who isn’t pleased that her or Michaela are allowed back in the building after all of last season. She gets the permission because she lies to Tegan and Emmett (Timothy Hutton) and says that her mother was the whistleblower knowing good and well that it was Tegan. But hey, free child care!

On the note of childcare, the mystery baby is still Nate’s (Billy Brown) top priority, which leads him to learn that the baby on file is unknown because it is a missing child who was kidnapped as an infant but a woman who looks suspiciously like young Bonnie. Could it be? Elsewhere in the episode Asher takes matters into his own hands and gets a job with Bonnie and Interim D.A. Ronald Miller (John Hensley), of whom Bonnie is slowly falling in love with.

We end the episode with the title quote happening on the “Night of the Bloody Snow” when Bonnie rescues baby Christopher from the snow and gets caught by Michaela with blood on her ankle. The only question is “WHOSE BLOOD IS THAT BONNIE?”

Be sure to catch an all new episode tonight and every Thursday of “How to Get Away with Murder” at 10/9c on ABC!