But then the girls tell Annalise that Jackie gave them spiked warm milk, something to knock them out before her husband would come in to rape them. In the interviews, it all seems to be going smoothly. So stop judging and do your job.”īut the judge won’t seal the plea deal until she hears from the victims firsthand - a closed session. “If the DA agrees, then it’s your job to make sure every word out of your client’s mouth is an element you use in their defense.” The lady confesses, claiming she did everything she could to protect those girls.Īnnalise asks for three years’ probation and outpatient mental treatment, which elicits frowns from the team. What, have you guys never done anything bad that you need a lawyer for?” She’s got them there.Īnnalise goes to the DA and cuts the deal without even giving them her name. “She was 16 - she’s a victim of his abuse, too. The team is conflicted: The newbies think she should pay, but Annalise wants to get the woman a plea. The last time the baby died, which is why Jackie’s turning herself in.
She’s been with the guy since was 16 and couldn’t get pregnant, so he showed up with Rachel. A skeptical Annalise lets her have it - she thinks she’s a “rubbernecker,” there to get a good look at the freak who sold out her own husband - but then the woman says her husband’s holding two girls captive in their basement. Aīack at the office, we meet a DUI walk-in named Jackie. The more people who know your business, the more likely the secret is to get out. Why didn’t Annalise tell him? Because he’s still on a need-to-know basis.Īnd that’s really the heart of the this week’s lesson: Keep your mouth shut. Wes, meanwhile, is caught off-guard by the Hannah revelation. Connor doesn’t care he’s worried about Hannah’s arrival. Michaela’s making small talk and rocking a knockoff rock. Annalise’s answer: “People don’t make sense.” She hands a box of evidence over to Hannah and says, quite definitively, “He is not the man we thought he was.” Bįirst day of the new semester and we’re back in the classroom - woo-hoo! “This is How to Get Away With Murder, the second semester - where things get even harder than they were in the first.” He was looking forward to “a fresh start.” Doesn’t sound like a killer to her. They shared lobsters he fixed the squeaky front screen-door. Hannah says she saw him the day after the dead girl, Lila, was supposedly killed. You put up posters so that you’re there when they come back.”Īnnalise tells her that Sam’s not coming back. The first thing Hannah does is call Annalise out on the fact that she’s going off on visits to her mom while her husband is missing. When she finally returns to the old Keating Victorian (rocking a really cute cobalt-blue coat), purportedly from a visit to her mother’s, Hannah’s already settled in - after all, it is the house she grew up in. As the ball drops, so do the tears, fast and furious. By “vodka-fueled haze,” I mean straight-up cleaning out the minibar. Because in Sam’s sister Hannah Keating, you can rest assured, Annalise is about to meet her match.Īnnalise is wiling away the days between Christmas and New Year’s in a pancake- and vodka-fueled haze at the Hamrick Hotel, ignoring calls from Nate and her team. That’s right, Murder fans, Shondaland’s brought out the big guns.
Last week on How to Get Away With Murder, it seemed that one Annalise Keating and her murderous mentees were all set to see their slaughter of Sam go down quietly, now that they were all for one and also #TeamAnnalise.Įxcept then there was a hitch.