How To Get Away With Ambulances
In the present, Annalise has been carted off in an ambulance, while Nate is driving around with the Pretty Little Lawyers in his car. Then someone calls Michaela and they tell her to act cool, so they drop her off somewhere and she goes up to an apartment and knocks. Caleb Hapstall answers the door and asks how "she" is. "Good," says Michaela, lying through her teeth. We don't get any more information in the next hour about why he's there, or why they're hiding him. Nor about Annalise, really, but SPOILER I'm pretty sure she's alive.
How To Get Away With Suicide
Nate's wife knows he and Annalise are having sex, and she doesn't entirely mind, because it gives Nate something to do. That's... dysfunctionally generous. Wifey then plays on whatever strings of Annalise's she can find to get her to provide pills so that Wifey can kill herself, thus sparing herself and Nate any further drawn-out suffering. Annalise gets the drugs, but then decides it's wrong to provide them. Bitterly, Wifey says she was sure Annalise wouldn't have trouble killing someone after offing her own husband, and Annalise just says, "I'm not the woman you think I am," before backing away and then going and telling Nate what his wife asked -- and how she didn't do it, because hey, anything that makes her look good might get her back into his drawers and thus make him useful to her again.
How To Get Away With 90s Fashion
Michaela's dress is totally cute, and once again, Laurel looks like she thinks Clueless was a documentary.
How To Get Away With Asher
And then Asher makes this face. It doesn't matter why.
How To Get Away With Nicknames
And then Asher's phone makes THIS face. I enjoy that Bonnie is in his phone as "BONBON," but like... what the hell is that photo? Why is Asher's desktop picture -- or, picture specifically assigned to Bonnie; either one -- a close-up of the base of a column and a long shot into... what, a bar? A library? Asher is full of mysteries. Maybe y'all can help parse what this is of, because my eyes aren't having it.
Asher, by the way, is blowing off work by pretending to be sick -- but actually, his father has him in meetings with DA Sinclair, arranging a deal so that he will testify against Annalise for various crimes and be immune himself (for this AND Trotter Lake, whatever the hell that was). I find it interesting that Asher is willing to testify that Annalise killed Sam without any knowledge thereof. I guess he's just doing it for the Trotter Lake thing. DAMN YOU TROTTER LAKE.
How To Get Away With Phone Sex
Twice in these two episodes, Michaela is engaging in saucy talk with Eggs 911 over the phone. The first time he's asking her to shout, "Spank me daddy," and then the next time he's demanding a photo. She is all giggly and charmed by this, but I think it makes him look like the most tragic idiot. Caleb overhears and they joke about it before Michaela gets down to business; trying to figure out if he and Catherine are having sex. He insists not. There also appears to be some groundwork being laid for the two of THEM to... well, lay. Even Connor teases her about being the new Wes.
How To Get Away With Covert Confabs
Wes and Nate are trying to poke into Annalise's secrets, and Wes and Eggs 911 are trying to figure out if Rebecca is dead -- although Wes has basically decided she IS, and is using Nate to try and get information. Nate finds out later that Wes has been repeating Nate's intel to Eggs 911, and excoriates him for trusting someone without actually CHECKING INTO that person. And of course Annalise ends up seeing them talking, because they are totally unsubtle and are having these discussions out in the wide open. At LEAST meet in a shed like normal conspirators.
How To Get Away With Virginity
Catherine offers up a way to prove she and Caleb are not lovers: She's a virgin. They take her to a doctor to prove it, and I CAN'T EVEN, because the implication is that they're performing blood tests. As if, upon having sex, little tiny penis-shaped cells inhabit your blood and wave up at the microscope. You would think maybe they'd just conclude that her hymen is intact, but Catherine actually hands Annalise a printout of some kind. Maybe it's a doctor's note; I don't know. This whole thing seems pretty dumb, especially because their whole defense hinges on it, and yet her being a virgin has no bearing on whether she and Caleb are being sexual with each other. It's left of the point. But everyone acts like it's now Gospel that Caleb and Catherine are not involved.
How To Get Away With Meatball
And then Meatball from Hart of Dixie makes this face. It doesn't matter why.
How To Get Away With Confessing To Murder
At the end of episode four, Bonnie tracks Asher to a parking garage, where she confronts him about how he's clearly going to turn on Annalise. Then Bonnie stars weeping and tells Asher that SHE killed Sam. At the top of the next hour, she invents an admirably deft story about how Sam tried to force himself on her and he was playing on her desire for him, but she didn't want it, and the rougher he got, the more her instincts overtook her and she clubbed him over the head. If Asher testifies, then, he'll be putting BONNIE at risk, not Annalise. It's really very savvy on her part to counter with the one thing that actually matters to Asher: her. It's very clever. But remember, she suffocated Rebecca, so let's not dance about her intellectual superiority for long.
How To Get Away With Asher
And then Asher makes this face. It doesn't matter why, but you can certainly imagine.
How To Get Away With Whatever That Is
Back at the ranch, Bonnie tells Frank and Annalise what she did -- and just in the nick of time, because Asher shows up to confront Annalise about it. Perhaps Bonnie should have used the back brace she's appropriating as a belt to prove that she did it -- as in, she strained a muscle bashing in Sam's brains.
How To Get Away With Eavesdropping
I'd like to note that these people CONSTANTLY have loud arguments outside Annalise's door while they're trying to hear what's being said inside. if they think the door is thin enough for eavesdropping, then they should realize it would also be thin enough for her to hear them squabbling about her. Here, the PLLs think Asher has figured out the truth and that they're all busted, because EVERYTHING comes back to them making wrong and annoying assumptions about their levels of bustedness.
Also, please note Michaela's shirt, which looks like something ballerinas wear in dance movies while they're practicing (it's basically Jenna Dewan's entire Step Up wardrobe). This shirt will also come into play in a minute.
How To Get Away With Asher
And then Asher makes this face. It doesn't matter why.
How To Get Away With Glaring
This is his response to Annalise's desperate efforts to convince him he shouldn't testify, all for the sake of Bonnie. He does give good Angry Pout.
How To Get Away With Dumb Staging
This was so irritating. Annalise is assigning the PLLs some research in the Hapstall case. But she herself is going out. So does she stand at the top of the stairs and bark out orders? No. She tromps downstairs, turns around and tells them they'll be poking through all these boxes with the usual ASAP fervor, and them tromps back upstairs again, squeezing past them. It's just... really dumb blocking. I get that it gave them this shot, but it was distracting to me that she would go all the way down there just to be like, "I have to leave."
How To Get Away With Sadness
Asher wants to know if Bonnie only slept with him that first night as an alibi. She admits that's true, but then insists that's not at all how she feels now. Later, they exchange I Love Yous, but Asher keeps insisting that good people don't kill other people. Over and over. He can't NOT testify because he doesn't believe a person with good in them could end another person's life. This has me very concerned that Asher is behind some of the Hapstall carnage we're seeing in Present Day -- because it would puncture this little balloon of his.
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How To Get Away With Continuity Errors
This shot is the best. The whole scene is about Annalise learning -- from Frank -- about the various interactions between Eggs 911, and Wes, and Michaela. So she interrupts a personal call (more phone sex) as an excuse to confiscate Michaela's phone for further snooping. Ergo, the entire point of this shot is that Michaela has just had her phone ripped out of her hand and is upset. But hilariously, we can all see her iPhone hanging out inside the fold of her wrap shirt. It's like a third, rectangular breast. My guess is, the actress stashed it there so she wouldn't lose the prop while they were doing her tight close-ups, and then forgot it was there for the medium shots, and nobody else noticed either. I don't know HOW they didn't notice. But it's amazing. It's a really great, terrible mistake that I cannot believe made it through that many editing and notes passes. Shit happens -- lord knows we make typos -- but I sincerely laughed really hard at this one because it's smacking me in the face.
How To Get Away With Needing Time
Blah blah blah everyone needs more time before another orgasm. Moving on.
How To Get Away With Basement Sex
Laurel is so worked up about how they all think Asher will send them to jai, that she decides to nail Frank right there in Annalise's basement. He's basically like, "Well, no responsible penis would turn this down twice in a row."
How To Get Away With Growling
Annalise catches everyone ragging on Bonnie for keeping secrets about Asher, or whatever is going on, and she snaps that they should all stop being idiots and that Bonnie confessed to Sam's murder to protect all of them. Again. Like always. So much protecting. She's a regular condom, this one.
How To Get Away With Surveillance
Quick break for the Hapstall case: Dashboard cams from the cops show the dead aunt being hysterical that morning, and also totally gross and racist. Oliver hacks into the database -- of course -- and gets the audio that wasn't turned over in discovery, which (the video had cut out) features the aunt saying things that directly contravene her later statement that she was home and she heard and saw things. But FINALLY, good sense prevails, and the judge is like, "Well, you can't use material that's ill-gotten, so SUCKS TO BE YOU," and disallows it. Nobody uses the word "objection" but at least a courtroom person finally acted sensibly. It only took 23 episodes.
How To Get Away With Anguish
And then Asher makes this face, and it's quite sad: He realizes his father was never out to help him, but rather, only wanted to protect HIMSELf and get HIMSELF a deal protecting him about Trotter Lake. His heartbreak over his father never once putting Asher first makes him sad. Matt McGorry plays the buffoon so easily on this show that you forget he really can ACT. I love you, Asher. You're just trying to do what's right.
How To Get Away With Nothing
So, these two. Okay. Eggs connected Frank to a dude who works at this cemetery, and thinks they used him to hide Rebecca's body. They confront the guy, with Eggs promising Wes that Frank's name won't come up... then pulls a gun on the cemetery dude and is like, "So, tell us about Frank." Eggs has no finesse. He is, you might say, cracked.
The worker sputters that all Frank wanted was to borrow his storage space. Later, when Frank drops his keys on the desk, Wes notices one that says STORAGE on it in a way that storage keys do NOT because you provide your own padlocks. Wes pockets the keys. Which are the first and second clues that Frank is setting him up, because Frank would NEVER leave his keys lying around. He just wouldn't. He is, right now, the only person on the show who has ACTUALLY gotten away with murder, because nobody realizes that he offed Lila.
How To Get Away With Scheming
Michaela comes back as Eggs and Wes are preparing to go to the storage space... and, while she rages about him lying to her about his identity, the cops arrive and pop Eggs's trunk and reveal a boatload of meth. He's under arrest. Breakfast is no longer served.
How To Get Away With Luggage
Wes then takes everyone to the storage space, where we see Sam's suitcase sitting in an empty room -- the one we know Frank put Rebecca's body into, at Annalise's suggestion. The way they draw out What Will Happen When He Opens The Case makes it equally clear that Rebecca's corpse is not inside it.
How To Get Away With Cash
And of course, the case contains cash. By now, viewers have realized this is because Frank -- who was following Wes, and we know it -- figured out the issues and got ahead of the problem. But the show thinks we're stupid, so here, it does its FAVORITE trick of flashing back and montaging scenes where Frank a) told the cemetery worker what to say, b) left his keys on purpose, and c) set up the storage space. WE KNOW. I wish shows let us make those mental leaps, rather than doing the gymnastics for us -- and AFTER we have already puzzled it out.
How To Get Away With Laptops
Meanwhile, Bonnie calls Annalise and weeps that she was unable to get Asher to not testify. And that Annalise is right: She's a terrible terrible failure and an even worse person, and she should take all the blame in court and go to jail forever. Annalise instead grabs a USB key and goes to Asher's. "Meet Bonnie," she says, pressing play on the video she cues up on his computer. It's Bonnie, as a little girl, sitting on a bed and facing the camera while her father sexually molests her. And... like, I am not clear why anyone has perfect footage of this happening. Are we to think Bonnie rigged it up herself? The dad did, out of bonus grossness? Annalise did, because she met Bonnie and decided to help catch her father? I am unclear.
How To Get Asher
And then Asher makes this face, and it does matter why. I feel for him, because he's a) correct, as what happened to Bonnie is horrific; and b) being manipulated out of testifying by Annalise herself. The student has NOT outplayed the master.
How To Get Away With Horror
And then Asher makes this face, and it DOES matter why YET AGAIN: Bonnie is spiriting him away from the Hapstalls. We saw this at the top of the hour and again here, and it's why I am really wondering if we'll realize he whacked someone for what, say, Bonnie might consider noble reasons -- something that would go against his theory that good people don't kill.
Bonnie stops at a gas station, and in the bathroom, she throws away a bloodied blouse after washing it as best she can, and cleans herself of the blood she sees on her chest (in roughly the same spot as Annalise's, actually). I am not sure she should have disposed of the blouse. That seems... problematic. At least burn it? The gas station totally sells lighters.
But when Bonbon returns to her car, Asher is gone.
How To Get Away With Asher
And then Asher makes this face, and ONCE MORE, it matters why: He is at a police station, announcing he needs to make a statement. GOOD. TELL THEM EVERYTHING.