The paranoia is starting to set in, and this season of How to Get Away with Murder is winding down. What’s good? Marcia Gay Harden and the great twist at the end of the episode. What’s bad? That lame mafia boss subplot.
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
You know you are going to get a saucy episode of television when it begins with Marcia Gay Harden screaming at a police officer. Ms. Harden has been a quiet but reserved presence on screen in her arc as Sam’s devoted sister, but her curtain of hatred towards Annalist was torn back at the very beginning of this episode. The police informed the pair that Sam’s dismembered body had been found, and Hannah completely flies off the handle. Surely, it’s a monologue that will inspire at least a handful of kids to go into theater.
Hannah is found slinking around the precinct demanding that they search the Keating household. Did I miss earlier in the season that it was the house that she and Sam grew up in? Not only does she want the bitch out, but she just might want her family house back. When the idea of the search warrant is brought up in court, Harden’s Hannah is lounging on the witness stand, and she steamrolls over Bonnie: “Do I have to do all the work for you?” Hannah asks her.
This Week in Filler Court Case Drama…
Annalise is defending a mafia boss’s nephew whose shipping containers will fill to the brim with heroin. You get some heroin! You get some heroin! Originally, it seemed like a set up, because a container was “randomly selected” to be weighed, but the authorities were on hand. Annalise later proved that someone was promised a green card to select the shipping container. Case closed. Annalise saves another lowlife. We can move on, right?
No, Seriously—Who is Rudy?
This second half of the season has been slowly revealing who our headboard biter is, but we don’t get very many answers about Rudy. When Wes questions his landlord about the former tenant, he tells Wes that Rebecca called the cops on him, but she claims Rudy was making weird noises in his apartment. All we know is Rudy is biting a headboard somewhere else, but it makes me even more suspicious of Rebecca. I’m telling you! She’s probably involved with EVERYTHING!!! Did she kill Rudy? Methinks she and Rudy might have been involved with Lila’s disappearance.
That Twist…
At this point in the season, it’s all about the final twist at the end of the episode. Bonnie pieces everything together from the autopsy report that the students killed Sam—carpet fibers were found on the body and Sam’s skull was fractured with a heavy metal object. We might dismiss Bonnie for her poor choices in men, but remember, she’s smart as hell. Bonnie urges Annalise to not let her students be her downfall.
A ring was found in the woods behind the school, and everyone takes a collective gasp when they think they found Michaela’s iceberg of an engagement ring. Annalise had Frank plant Sam’s wedding ring in the woods, but first he breaks into Nate’s apartment and transposes one of Nate’s fingerprints on the ring. Nate is arrested and charged with the murder of Sam Keating. Annalist gives up the man she truly loves (and the audience’s only real muscled eye candy) to protect those sniveling snots she promised she’d look out for.
Annalise better get one hell of an Edible Arrangement from those kids. That’s all I have to say on the matter.