We've gotten a
lot of stuff about this show in the past few days. I decided to start recapping this show again because of that. Thanks, Pete.
We start off with what previously happened. Wes met his hot neighbor Rebecca, Annalise is cheating on her husband, Connor was the first student to get laid on the show, Michaela is jealous Connor got the trophy, everyone wants to murder Asher, we began the most boring ship ever between Frank and Laurel, Bonnie is perfect as always, Annalise's husband gets murdered in the future, Lila is dead, and Annalise hasn't lost a case yet.
So, yeah. Lotsa shit.
Michaela, Connor, and Laurel are in the woods. Michaela and Connor are fighting because they're not as cool and constructed as Laurel and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Michaela says she never agreed to this, and I mean.... Michaela has a point. She just wants to be perfect Michaela Pratt, the girl who went to law school and is now a famous lawyer. Murder isn't exactly going to make you famous for the right reasons.
Connor tells Michaela to stop acting like a little bitch baby, and I wonder how the hell anyone on Tumblr can ship this. Connor is kind of an ass. I mean, I love the character, but he's still an ass.
Wes comes back with the trophy that isn't from track and field.
Then, flashback to two and a half months earlier (that's.... weirdly specific but alright) and Annalise is in her kitchen. She's reading up on Lila Stangard. This show has taught me that in order to be a lawyer, you should probably read up on the crime in your area.
Sam (Annalise's husband who later gets murdered) comes by and asks if there's any new information. Foreshadowing, man. There's not any new evidence, and Sam says it's probably because Lila's body was in that water tank for so long.
Annalise gives him that, "Bitch I know something's up with you and I ain't afraid of killing another bitch to find out" look and honestly, Viola Davis is such a great actress.
We get a hint that Lila and Sam had something going on.
Then, we get back to class at Middleton. Annalise says that she gets asked often if her clients are guilty or not, and she says she doesn't care if they are or not. Then, she says it's not because she's heartless- although that's up for debate- but because everyone lies.
Then she calls out our Secret Fave Asher Millstone.
She asks if he really is who he says he is, and he says that he can assure her that he would never hurt a fly. Which is true. He's a bit of a douchebag, but he's probably not the one who murdered her husband.
Connor rolls his eyes. I laugh. It's all good.
Annalise continues to interrogate him, because Annalise is good at it.
She says that nobody knows who anyone is, which is deep shit, man.
We move on to the case of the episode. Some rich woman who got stabbed in her master bedroom 16 times. Wes and Laurel aren't impressed. I'm not impressed. The alleged killer is her husband. His name is Max.
Apparently the couple met in Paris. He fell in love with her when she translated French for him. Woo. Can you tell I kind of hate this case?
The guy is kind of a creep. Keating 5 looks for clues, and the guy asks for a volunteer. He asks for the ladies, and both Laurel and Michaela are like, "Oh hell fucking no!" I agree. I agree, Laurel and Michaela.
Connor takes one for the team and volunteers. The guy goes over the forensic report while getting on top of poor Connor. All the other students look concerned as fuck.
Fucking TV drama law school.
The man starts pretending to stab Connor with Laurel's pen. Connor probably wants to get back to IT guy and not come back to this mess. I feel you.
We go back to Keating's place, and Frank is handing out things to help prove Max is innocent. Sure, he might be innocent, but he's still a crazy. Bonnie suggests something to Annalise about the case. She suggests to send the puppy to go get the 3rd officer from the crime scene.
Annalise thinks it's a smart move.
Go Bonnie! Forever and always!
The puppy is Wes.
Connor suggests that Wes didn't actually earn his spot here. Laurel says to knock it off and stop calling him Waitlist. Asher suggests that Annalise is actually his secret mother and she just gave him up for adoption. Michaela responds and says sarcastically, "Because all black people are related."
Asher tried to defend himself, and Connor repeats what his original statement was. Bonnie comes by and asks why any of them are even here. Again, go Bonnie, call out the bullshit!
Laurel gives her a hopeless look.
Back in Annalise's office, she interrogates Wes. She says that Frank says that Wes is having second thoughts about the job, and she usually agrees with what Frank says. Hopefully not about banging law students, but I digress I suppose. Another day, another blog post.
Wes says he's happy to be here. That doesn't mean much from someone from Ohio. We could be one inch off the Ohio border and think it was fucking fantastic compared to The State of Corn.
Annalise hands him more responsibility. Which is a good thing. Wes needs to feel important because he is important. After forcing him to do that, she tells him to get out. She can't let anyone know he's her secret fave. Although, everyone already knows.
She just has to pretend it's not true.
Also, I kind of forgot Connor has the trophy from the last episode. Keep that in mind.
Wes has to go get the supplement for the arrest report without naming names. Got it.
The woman helping Wes just assumes he's working for someone else. Amazing.
We get to look at the scratches on Wes's wall again. At this point, I still think that Rebecca's crazy rabbit X tiger sex theory is still the best theory. There's a knock on his door. It's 3:46 A.M. and Wes was studying. What the hell?
It's Rebecca. She needs to use his shower. Somehow, this reminds me of some fanfiction. We learn a bit about the guy who lived there before Wes did; his name is Rudy. Or was. We don't know if he's dead or alive yet.
Rebecca takes off her towel and catches Wes looking at her naked. That's probably the first girl he's seen naked. I can tell by his awkwardness.
We know these two are going to sleep together.
We get a flashforward to the woods. Wes tells everyone to shut up. We go back to the coin situation. Everyone thinks it's dumb, but Wes tells them that nobody else has a better idea.
Heads, they get the body. Tails, they leave it where it is.
Everyone agrees and stares at the coin being flipped. Wes catches it.
It's tails. Wes says it's heads. I mean, who leaves a body? Didn't we learn anything from
Misfits?
Breaking news on the Lila Stangard murder from the television, though! Police released information that declared this a homicide.
Asher tells everyone that the best part of the fact Lila was in the water tank is that corpses shit themselves. So all the sorority girls were drinking poop water. Thanks, Asher. Really.
Wes gets told to shh. He remembers Lila's boyfriend from Rebecca's apartment.
Annalise asks Wes if he did what he was told, and he hands her the papers. She's proud of her little puppy from Ohio. That sounds a lot creepier and a lot weirder than it was meant to be. I'm sorry.
Wes was studying the files last night when his hot neighbor needed to use his shower. He found a discrepancy. Which helps the case. Go, Wes!
Michaela starts spouting off stuff and Connor interrupts her. He says he can figure out how to discredit the witness. It's
time.
OUR FAVE.
He's hacking into stuff. Go, IT guy, you go!
Connor plans a date with him. They're going to dinner. Then, there's a 'reward' they're talking about. I know not a lot of little tykes follow my blog, but I'm not going to risk it right now. Maybe later in the post.
The witness is a woman that was best friends with the deceased wife. She claims Deceased Wife wanted to divorce Max. All I can think about is Max from Life is Strange. I know I'm publishing this on Thursday, but it's Sunday while I'm typing this up. I just want Chloe and Max.
IT guy found a post she wrote at the anniversary two months back about how in love they are. Oh, shit.
Michaela whispers to Connor and asks how he finds this crap. Spoiler: by sex. Totally by sex.
They need a neighbor who saw Max walking outside when the murder occurred. Annalise tells Frank to take who he needs. He picks Prom Queen (Michaela) and Doucheface (Asher) but doesn't take Laurel.
Poor Laurel. She's been seriously ignored so far. Everyone has been interrupting her.
Doucheface is digging in the trash while Michaela whines. Frank just knows that this is his job. He just bangs the law students on the side for fun.
Frank tells Michaela to suck it up. Agreed. Asher finds a receipt from a strip club. Frank already knows all about that strip club. I could believe it.
So we go back to the courtroom. The neighbor who went to go see some women dancing and stripping (it's 3:10 A.M. shut up) says it's very possible that he saw Max walking that night.
The prosecution has rested. Laurel volunteers to write up the prep questions for Max's daughter.
Annalise already acknowledges that Frank is interested in Laurel in some way. Yawn. Can we please go to Hot Neighbor Rebecca or Nerdy IT Guy? I liked those pairings more.
Michaela laughs at Laurel, which is funny because other than in the courtroom, she's a whining mess. Frank, however, tries to pretend he doesn't know shit. I'm calling bullshit- he knows where he puts his dick and he don't care what we have to say about it.
We see Annalise's boyfriend arrive. He looks uncomfortable. Annalise says she'll meet Bonnie back at the house.
Bonnie knows what's going on.
Boyfriend tells her to be careful embarrassing cops on stand. Annalise starts getting all mushy and asks why he hasn't been returning her calls. He's not having it. He says that he blackmailed her, and he's done with her crazy.
He threatens her and tells her that he'll tell Sam about the oral sex on the desk. Also, all the other things that we haven't seen yet. I wonder if he did Connor-type stuff to her. Actually, I'm not wondering. I'm horrified.
my face rn
Flashforward. Wes at the convenience store. He's buying lighter fluid. He buys a prepaid phone and is calling someone. Probably the corn from Ohio. He tells the corn he's taking care of it and that he'll protect them.
Back to the present. Sam is in the shower. Annalise grabs his phone and starts to look through it. We have some friendly messages between Lila and Sam on his phone. Nothing too extreme like a dick pic or anything, but enough to let sharp ol' Annalise to think something went on.
Why doesn't this sorry ass fucker have a lock on his phone?
Annalise tries to hide the fact she was looking through his phone, but Sam is a physiology professor, right? He suspects shit immediately.
Annalise puts the phone down.
Back to Wes. He's going home with his bike, thinking about the corn fields he misses. Rebecca is off to work, and Wes is coming home from work. He calls them two ships in the night. Then he brings up Griffin. He asks if Lila was her friend, and Rebecca says she wasn't. Then she asks if he's a cop.
Can we just admire how good Rebecca looks in this episode though? Seriously.
Of course, this doesn't go well.
Back at Keating's. Laurel has the prep questions. She hands them to Bonnie.
Laurel starts talking about why all of the Keating Five are here. Connor and Michaela are both top of the class (obviously) and Asher's dad got him in here. Meanwhile, Wes gets along great with Annalise, and Laurel suggests that the reason why she's in Keating Five (sounds like a fucking superhero name honestly) is because Frank picked her and not Annalise herself. Bonnie says the most beautiful thing ever.
"I look nice, I know, but that's just my face."
Bonnie tells her off. She tells her to stop wasting her time on Frank and use her time getting Annalise to actually learn her name. It's harsh, but what can you expect from Paris Geller? Honestly. Then Bonnie tells her that she's done speaking with her.
So we're back in class. Jesus fuck, this is like a roller coaster of drama. Like high school.
Annalise starts to talk about character witnesses. She says it all comes down to pretrial prep.
Back to creepy Max guy. We're introduced to his daughter Eloise (however the fuck you spell that) who dropped everything to come here. She's getting a master's in poetry, so there's not much to drop. Her words, not mine.
Of course, since Max has earned his spot as Creepiest Motherfucker, he has to be even more creepy and suggest that Wes and his daughter should make beautiful babies. While they would make beautiful babies, Rebecca and Wes would make even more beautiful children. Plus, Rebecca seems to have family issues, which is a lot better than creepy father Max.
At least he didn't suggest Connor.
Interrogated by Bonnie, Eloise says that if her father killed his wife, she'd insist he'd get the death penalty.
It transfers well to court.
We learn Eloise's bio mom died in a car crash. But, two seconds later, we learn that someone here is full of shit. Max and Stabby Wife had an affair. Max killed Eloise's biological mother with a hunting knife.
Of course, Annalise gives him that
you-stupid-fucking-idiot-I-fucking-hate-my-job-so-much-I-am-about-to-get-away-with-murder-on-your-ass look.
Eloise is hurt.
Bonnie reads off crazy shit from the files. Basically, he was found not guilty from killing Eloise's bio mom in Switzerland. He ran away with his daughter and Stabby Wife and created an entire new identity. Only in TV law dramas. Really.
Annalise sarcastically says it's charming.
Eloise flips out and says that she hopes that the jury decides to kill him. Asher whispers and says he agrees.
Annalise says that if Max lies to her again, he no longer has an attorney. She makes Frank find out who slipped in that whole 'Killed my first wife' stuff because they could be a possible suspect. She tells the rest of them to prove she wasn't wrong for hiring them.
Connor is back at her place on the phone. IT guy is mad he skipped their date. Michaela smugly asks him if he's having boyfriend drama. He says something that we need to keep in mind through these recaps.
"I don't do boyfriends" -Connor Walsh, How to get Away with Murder Season One, Episode Two
Of course, Oblivious Asher just goes,
"Wait, you're gay?" I know many Oblivious Ashers in the real world.
Also, IT Guy=Oliver.
There's an awkward conversation between Bonnie and Sam. Sam asks where his wife is, and Bonnie tells him where she is. Also, she says sorry about the fact his student y'know, got murdered. He says thanks and she gives him a hopeful smile. Don't do it Bonnie. Don't do it.
Annalise hands Bonnie a paper for the motion to surpress.
Sam asks how court went, and Annalise drinks and tells him her client is a liar and she doesn't think she can win this one. Annalise, this is a court/murder drama! You'll help Max get away with murder! You'll win!
Annalise then asks if he was screwing Lila. The students, of course, are all interested in this. Paris/Bonnie has to be the kindergarten teacher in the situation and tell them to get back to work. She probably double majored.
Annalise goes all crazy, and we learn that Sam has cheated on her before. Sam totally lies to her and says nothing was going on between him and Lila. Annalise says she's sorry, it's just the fact that the case is making her this way.
Then, they kiss and I look away because I am literally grossed out by them.
Frank comes in. I never thought I would be happy to see his face.
He says that there's something Annalise needs to see. Probably her husband cheating on her with her clients. Wouldn't that be some shit?
Sorry, I'm hanging out with someone too much.
They're back at the crime scene. Not the woods. But Stabby Wife's murder. Y'know, the place where Connor was stabbed with that pen?
People suggest all sorts of stupid shit, and Annalise isn't impressed. Laurel says something intelligent.
She suggests that he's a hunter, so he knows how to kill. Meaning he knew how to slaughter. So the murder of his first wife could be him, since there was only one gash in her neck. However, the Stabby Wife was stabbed 16 times. A hunter wouldn't need to stab that many times.
Back in the courtroom. Bonnie is being used as a demonstration for the courtroom. He pretends to slaughter her so everyone knows that it couldn't be him who killed Stabby Wife.
Everyone is uncomfortable with seeing him pretend to slaughter Paris Geller. Annalise asked if the way he just demonstrated was how he killed his first wife. He says yes without hesitating.
The next witness says that the two murders could not have been done by the same two people. The first one was done by someone with a knowledge of anatomy. The second one was sloppy and whoever did it should be ashamed of themselves.
Wes looks at Eloise suspiciously, and it's not because he's wondering what their babies would look like. Yes, it's
that kind of crazy now.
Defense rests. Wes gives out his theory. Annalise pretends not to know and says his theory is interesting.
Remember that time I was excited for Frank to be on screen? That stuff he had is important. Eloise dug up the story on how her mom died apparently. So Frank found the IP address of the computer that the information slipped from to the DA and it traces back to Eloise's.
Holy shit.
Back to the courtroom. They're leaving, and Annalise turns around. She tells Laurel to speak up more, because she likes her ideas. I like her ideas, too, so I totally agree. Also, she says to watch out for Miss. Castillo and Mr. Gibbins, because the quiet ones are usually the most dangerous.
Level up!
Michaela isn't caught up to speed, so she wants to know why she got down-ranked on Annalise's faves. She was at least a three, but now she's #4. She's near Asher.
Frank tells Bonnie he told her that he had good taste. Bonnie says that they're not having this conversation. Frank suggests that they should worry about Bonnie making a move on someone more than him banging the law students,
Back in the courtroom. Max is found innocent. This gathers a lot of press for obvious reasons.
Michaela says that she doesn't like this part. Which is okay because she doesn't like any part of anything other than being better than other people. I get it, you're perfect. It's fine.
Max and Annalise are talking. Annalise tells him that he could have just pinned it on his daughter and have been over with this a lot more quickly. Max says he'll find a way to punish his daughter for this.
Max says something creepy and walks away to join his daughter.
We're back at our fave's apartment. Oliver!
Oliver isn't buying Connor's shit and says he doesn't care what his boss needs. Connor says he's here for dinner and holds up takeout. Oliver says that he's not going to get down on his knees like some sad twink, and Connor informs him he's too old to be a twink. This doesn't go well for Connor, and he gets the door slammed in his face.
Of course, that door comes back open. But only if Oliver gets to top. Don't ask me what a top is in the comments section, please.
Then, sex scene. Kind of. Not as graphic as last episode's. It's more implied than anything.
Annalise goes back home to her sorry ass husband.
Sam wants to celebrate her win. He goes down to the cellar to go get a bottle, and tells Annalise not to move. Annalise sees the phone and moves to go look through it again.
Sam has deleted all of the messages, which makes it look even more suspicious. Yeah, he put his dick in that girl. Annalise and I both know it.
Annalise is angry and starts looking through the trash files on his e-mail.
Sam walks in with the bottle, and Annalise says that she has to go meet a client from jail. We know that's bullshit but what television couple hasn't lied to each other?
Instead, we get Annalise's detective boyfriend and her chatting. Annalise wants to talk about the Lila case, but Nate tells her that he's not on that case.
She starts freaking out about Lila and Sam.
Annalise goes back home to her husband and makes up another lie that her client got off on a misdemeanor. Sam asks her if she's sure their relationship is okay. This is television, of course it's not. But, since this is also television, she's going to lie and say no.
They get sexual and I can't watch.
We go back and forth between Nate's and Sam's scenes.
"We're all capable of terrible things."
Annalise demands that Nate figures out where San was the night Lila was murdered. Nate agrees, because he just loves screwing her so much or something. I don't really understand them, but it's better than Sam.
Then, Rebecca gets arrested. So much for Wes X Rebecca babies this episode, amirite?
Wes tells her not to say anything to them. He goes into his apartment and watches the news on his laptop. Apparently Rebecca has a previous criminal record. Way to go, Wes!
All Wes can remember is her taking a shower. He remembers that she put something somewhere. He goes into the bathroom and finds a cellphone. Finally, someone knows how to lock their fucking phone around here.
Flashforward.
Wes rides his bike to some shady motel. We figure out that Rebecca actually has something to do with the murder of Sam now. Also, we get a cute scene of Rebecca without makeup and her hair all curly, while Wes is still the adorable puppy he always is. Other than, y'know, murder.
Wes promises not to leave her. God damn, they're like vampires. Is this what murder does to people?
It's over. Thanks for reading!
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