Professor Keating and her students learn that no one can be trusted.
by Andrea Braxton
There isn’t a single trustworthy character in all of the different plot lines of How To Get Away With Murder.
During future scenes, it is hard to put any trust in Michaela because of her panicky nature as the students start moving Sam’s body (which we are now 100 percent sure is actually Sam). Thanks to Laurel, they decide to use the campus rally as an alibi, and they take selfies to show that they were there. Connor commands a nervous Michaela to “smile or go to jail”, but she ends up jeopardizing the entire plan by losing her engagement ring.
Even Michaela’s fiancé, Aiden, in the present, can’t be trusted. This is the first episode in which he has a role, and he’s not a part of the class, but Aiden confesses that he and Connor hooked up as teenagers. He insists that he isn’t gay, but there is a lot of chemistry between the two, and Michaela doesn’t completely buy his story.
This week’s court case highlights Annalise and Michaela’s inner struggles. The client, Paula, is on trial for a bombing when she was a part of a radical group years ago. Connor claims they can’t win, which makes him lose the trophy he won in the first episode. Annalise tries to pin the bombing on the group leader, Gabriel, while Gabriel and Paula’s love reminds her about her feelings for Nate. Michaela works very hard to prove her worth on this case, but it is all for nothing because Paula betrays her husband and runs away with Gabriel.
Michaela gets ample screen time, but Wesley is still the most important student. In the last episode, Rebecca and Griffin, the star quarterback, are arrested for murdering Lila, one of Sam’s former students. Wesley is desperate to find out if Rebecca is innocent, which leads him to forge a lawyer’s ID so he can meet with her. He pleads with Annalise to defend Rebecca instead of Griffin, and Annalise eventually agrees.
According to Griffin, he and Lila were waiting until marriage to have sex. One night at a party, Lila called Rebecca to bring them some drugs, and eventually Rebecca and Griffin have sex. Griffin thinks Rebecca set it up so that Lila would catch them in the act. He blames Rebecca for the murder, and I have to admit that Rebecca doesn’t seem trustworthy when Wesley discovers that she has Lila’s phone. I knew Annalise would have an uphill battle when Rebecca actually confesses to the murder on camera, but can even her confession be trusted? Either way, the police now have it on tape.
Annalise is asked to defend Griffin because his parents have donated millions to the school, but she first wants to know about Sam’s “alibi.” Nate investigates and lies to her by saying that Sam’s alibi is solid, although I’m not sure why. Sam said he was giving a guest lecture at Yale the night of the murder. Nate finds out that he didn’t show up to the lecture and that no one knows where he was until early in the morning the day after Lila is killed. Basically, he doesn’t have an alibi anymore.’
It seems that there are few honest people in Annalise’s life.
We’re left wondering how Annalise is going to defend a client who has already confessed, why Nate lied to Annalise, and when the students are finally going to dispose of the body. I like the drama created by taking everything the characters say with a grain of salt, no matter how innocent they appear to be. The next episode promises even more intrigue and excitement, and according to the previews, the last nine words will blow your mind.
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Andrea Braxton graduated from the University of Missouri in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and an English writing minor. She lives in Baltimore, MD and works as an editorial assistant for an educational publishing company. Andrea wrote recaps for TV shows for the VoxTalk blog, and if she could, she would watch TV all day. She’s addicted to Netflix and any show with a good cast and tons of drama. She has a publishing blog at http://abraxtonwriter.wordpress.com.
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