How To Get Away With Murder (Spoilers)

[orangeblossom]

What'd y'all think?

[orangeblossom]

I liked it. It had a lot of twists and turns, though two hours was a long time. I thought I wasn't going to stay up for the whole thing.

I was not expecting the end. I thought when Sam went to hug Lila that they were going to show him choking her.

I liked that they highlighted HIV testing for Conner and Oliver.

Asher is such a jerk, but he's a funny jerk.

I love Lynn Whitfield.

I wonder who Rebecca was texting.

[downtoearth]

Feb 27, 2015 12:53:20 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Who killed her, that's all I want to know

Ditto... who did it? I just want the spoilers.

[Vespasia]

Sam had Frank kill her.

[Vespasia]

I liked the episode but I don't like Frank as the actual killer. When Lila went to the house I was hoping the blonde was going to be the one who did it. Wasn't she banging the husband too?

I missed a bunch of episodes so it didn't all make sense.

[orangeblossom]

Feb 27, 2015 12:54:10 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

Feb 27, 2015 12:53:20 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Who killed her, that's all I want to know

Ditto... who did it? I just want the spoilers.

@soudesafinado

Frank killed her.  Lila was insistent on keeping the baby.  Sam played her and was all, I love you. We'll be together, etc.  Sam of course wasn't having that.  Sam called Frank, and said you owe me.  Frank then came and killed her.

Rebecca went looking for Lila, after Lila caught Griffin and Rebecca having sex, which Rebecca orchestrated specifically for Lila to see. Rebecca saw some hairs on top of the water tank, opened it up and saw Lila.  She heard some people on the roof, and jumped in the tank.

Rebecca came home, and the guy next door saw her soaking wet.  Rebecca figured no one would believe a drug dealer, and got the boy high on some drugs, and had him carted off to a mental hospital.  Wes found all of this out, and tells the group, they think Rebecca did it.

They hold a mock trial at Annalise's house, and determine that Rebecca didn't do it.  However, she has threatened to go to police with the info she does no.

Rebecca supposedly got away from the  basement where they were holding her (at least the group thinks so).  The end scene is of Rebecca dead in the basement, with Frank and Annalise going now what.  

The end.

[secretlyevil]

::breathes heavily:: Ahhhhhh muuuu gaaaawwwwwwddddd!

Who killed Rebecca?

[orangeblossom]

Feb 27, 2015 15:57:58 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

::breathes heavily:: Ahhhhhh muuuu gaaaawwwwwwddddd!

Who killed Rebecca?

I think Frank killed her.  At the end, he was all "Don't look at me, now what".  As if to say he doesn't kill folks, but of course Annalise knows otherwise.

[orangeblossom]

Here is one recap I saw.

SPOILER: Click to show

Someone drape a prayer cloth over my legs because I still feel faint from all the twists, turns and masterfully crafted flashbacks in the How to Get Away With Murder two-hour season finale!



First, absolutely no one cared about the case of the week involving the guilty/not-guilty priest and his lover/not lover. In fact, I’m mad that I wasted a sentence on it.



Let’s sort out everything else that happened over the two-part finale.



Question: Who Killed Lila?



Bury me in my pink Dior! Frank killed Lila. If you say that you knew it was Frank all along, you’re lying!



Through a lengthy series of flashbacks, we finally found out what happened the night of Lila’s murder:



Lila tells Rebecca that she’s pregnant with Sam’s baby and she blames Rebecca, saying that if she hadn’t been slumming with Rebecca, she would never have been smanging Sam. Instead, she would still be in a celibate relationship with her boyfriend Griffin.



This hurts Rebecca’s feelings, so she shows up at Griffin’s frat house, convinces him to sleep with her (it didn’t take much) and makes sure that Lila catches them in the act to prove that Griffin is no good. (Wait, I thought Griffin was celibate!) Lila storms out.



Lila calls Sam, who was supposed to be giving a lecture at Yale that night, and threatens to tell Annalise that she’s pregnant. Sam hightails it back to Philly, but he doesn’t make it back in time to stop Lila from showing up at Annalise’s door to break the news, but Lila can’t get past Bonnie.



Sam meets Lila on the roof of her sorority house, where she’s having a meltdown. Sam assures her that he loves her and only her, and he’s going to go home and tell Annalise. But instead of going home, he calls Frank, saying, “I need you to do what we talked about. You owe me.” Frank shows up, strangles Lila and tosses her body in the water tank. Gasp!



Rebecca goes to the roof of the sorority house looking for Lila and discovers her dead body in the water tank. When she hears people coming onto the roof, she jumps inside the water tank to hide.



When Rebecca returns home, she’s soaking wet, and her across-the-hall neighbor Rudy sees her. She knows that if Rudy tells anyone she was wet, they will figure out that she was in the water tank, so she offers Rudy a combination of PCP and “purple X,” which literally drives him up the wall. Then she calls the police and has him carted away to an insane asylum.



There you have it, folks. The murder mystery is finally solved! We can all go home now.



Wait! No, we can’t because now Rebecca’s dead!


Question: Who Killed Rebecca?



Sorry, folks. We probably won’t have this answer until the end of the season 2 finale.



In the midst of these flashbacks, Wes is trying to find out if Rebecca, the woman he loves (for some inexplicable reason), has been lying about killing Lila.



The Keating Five (minus Asher) confront Rebecca in Wes’ apartment. Rebecca is looking at Wes like, “You’re going to let them do this to me?” And Wes is like, “Speak louder. And can you project, please?” Ouch. It gets gnarly. Michaela slaps her, and by the time Annalise arrives on the scene, they’ve tied Rebecca up in the bathroom and covered her mouth with duct tape.



Annalise brings the party back to her house, and she asks the group to make the case for Rebecca’s guilt, but they all come up short (because Frank killed Lila, remember?), so Annalise says they have to let Rebecca go. But before they get the chance, Rebecca is already gone and no one has any answers.



Wes breaks down in tears in Annalise’s lap because everything is his fault. (No, but seriously, it is.) Sam is dead and Rebecca is gone. Annalise comforts him and assures him that they will find Rebecca and sends him home.



Then Annalise goes downstairs to the basement to find Frank ... and Rebecca’s dead body.



They both swear that they didn’t kill her.



Other Things That Happened



It’s hard to believe they could pack even more into this finale, but they did:



* Annalise went to great lengths to ensure that Nate isn’t convicted of the murder for which she framed him. She got him out of jail on bail, she provided an explanation to the prosecution for why his fingerprint is on Sam’s ring and she finally convinced him to call the lawyer at the number she slipped him.



* When Asher busted into Annalise’s house to tell Frank about his super-sweet feelings for Bonnie, Rebecca grabbed Michaela’s phone and texted “Eggs 911 Lawyer’s House” to someone before Michaela could stop her.



* The snoopy prosecutor showed up on Asher’s door late at night with questions about Annalise.



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* Before Rebecca died (may she rest in peace), she told Connor that Wes’ mother didn’t commit suicide when he was 12 as he’d told her. Instead, she implied that Wes killed his mother.



* When Michaela’s ex-future-mother-in-law begged her to get back together with Ayden, Michaela confessed to being Southern backwater trash (with an accent to match) who was just trying to marry up with Ayden. However, she tells her XFMIL that they both know that Ayden is gay, and she just wants Michaela to be his beard. Michaela says, “He doesn’t love me, but here’s the thing ... I love me. So I’m done.” Then she packed up both of her accents and strutted out.



* Connor and Oliver decided to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases before they have sex again. Connor test results are negative, but Oliver finds out that he’s HIV-positive. I feel for sweet Oliver as he grapples with this news, and I’m thrilled to watch a show that addresses sexual health in addition to sex.



* And for my favorite reveal: Laurel had Michaela’s engagement ring all along! Laurel found Michaela’s ring as soon as Michaela said she lost it the night of Sam’s murder, but she held on to it because she knew that Michaela wouldn’t talk to the police as long as she thought her ring could possibly be recovered at the crime scene. So slick, so shrewd, Laurel. I’ve got both eyes on you. Did you kill Rebecca??



HTGAWM, get back here! We have so many questions!

[orangeblossom]

Feb 27, 2015 16:11:27 GMT -5 @songforyou said:

Feb 27, 2015 16:08:10 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

I think Frank killed her.  At the end, he was all "Don't look at me, now what".  As if to say he doesn't kill folks, but of course Annalise knows otherwise.

I hope not. I think it almost has to be someone else or then this is more like How to Help Frank Get Away with Murder. It basically makes him a serial killer, it really needs to be another character.

Yeah, that's true.

Who do you think did it?

[secretlyevil]

Feb 27, 2015 16:14:58 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Feb 27, 2015 16:11:27 GMT -5 @songforyou said:

I hope not. I think it almost has to be someone else or then this is more like How to Help Frank Get Away with Murder. It basically makes him a serial killer, it really needs to be another character.

Yeah, that's true.

Who do you think did it?

Bonnie! Duh duh duh!

[orangeblossom]

Feb 27, 2015 16:30:23 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

Feb 27, 2015 16:14:58 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Yeah, that's true.

Who do you think did it?

Bonnie! Duh duh duh!

Nah.  She's too mousy to have done it, I think.

[summer]

I haven't watched in ages. Rebecca was so annoying.

[orangeblossom]

Feb 27, 2015 16:37:06 GMT -5 summer said:

I haven't watched in ages. Rebecca was so annoying.

You could watch the finale and be all caught up, with all of the flashbacks and such. 

[summer]

Maybe I will. I still chuckle at @bunnybean saying he always tilts his head like a bird

[orangeblossom]

Feb 27, 2015 17:14:29 GMT -5 @songforyou said:

Feb 27, 2015 16:14:58 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Yeah, that's true.

Who do you think did it?

I guess one of the students, probably not Wes. Laurel seemed ready to kill her. It also would have been easy enough for Annalise to go down there to talk to her, kill her and then run out like she was looking for her. Once again, I guess what is weirdest to me is why Annalise keeps trying to cover up these murders that don't have more than half a thing to do with her??

Plus, when did Bonnie get in on the whole story? I thought most of it was a secret from her, then the next thing I know she was in the room and they're all, "yeah, we probably shouldn't have killed Sam" with her standing there. I was so confused.

Other confusing (some not really) things: Frank being all indignant when Laurel wanted him to "take care of Rebecca" like murder was beneath him; Rebecca being offended that Wes thought she was lying when she never told him the truth; why Rebecca didn't tell the truth; and what Frank owed Sam?

Yeah, she's going through a whole lot of trouble that she doesn't have to go through, but I guess without it, there'd be no show.

Bonnie's known for awhile.  I can't remember what happened, but at one point, she told Annalise, "you're not going to get away with this".  Previews made it seem like she was saying Annalise wouldn't get away with it, but she was talking about the students.

I think for Frank, the truth hurt, so that's why he acted all hurt.  Who knows about Rebecca?  The Sam and Frank angle, who knows. Maybe he knows about some other crimes that Frank's done.

[orangeblossom]

Feb 27, 2015 17:23:23 GMT -5 @songforyou said:

Feb 27, 2015 17:18:36 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Yeah, she's going through a whole lot of trouble that she doesn't have to go through, but I guess without it, there'd be no show.

Bonnie's known for awhile.  I can't remember what happened, but at one point, she told Annalise, "you're not going to get away with this".  Previews made it seem like she was saying Annalise wouldn't get away with it, but she was talking about the students.

I think for Frank, the truth hurt, so that's why he acted all hurt.  Who knows about Rebecca?  The Sam and Frank angle, who knows. Maybe he knows about some other crimes that Frank's done.

Bonnie didn't know while the sister was sniffing around, though. And speaking of, where did she go? Maybe I missed an episode. Because I saw the mother come, the sister was gone and I never heard boo about it. Then during the flashbacks, Frank was asking whether he wanted Annalise to take care of it, so I was wondering if he killed her, too. I don't know.

 I think the sister just went away.  Maybe she'll come back once Nate goes to trial.

[niemand88f]

Bonnie figured out what was going on when she found a piece that fell off the trophy laying around the house (while the police were sweeping for evidence).

The show definitely improved as the season went on. I was so confused how they were going to set up a second season, but now I guess we know! I might give it a chance. It's ridiculous but I kind of like it anyway.

Poor Oliver I wonder if Connor will stay with him?

[orangeblossom]

Feb 27, 2015 18:17:42 GMT -5 niemand88f said:

Bonnie figured out what was going on when she found a piece that fell off the trophy laying around the house (while the police were sweeping for evidence).

The show definitely improved as the season went on. I was so confused how they were going to set up a second season, but now I guess we know! I might give it a chance. It's ridiculous but I kind of like it anyway.

Poor Oliver I wonder if Connor will stay with him?

Ah yes, I forgot about all about that.

I know, poor Oliver.  I wasn't expecting him to be positive.  I loved the nurse when she was talking to Connor.  She was like stop with the BS.

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I don't think a different person killed Rebecca otherwise why would AnnaLise tell them she ran away? She came right up and said she was gone, 10 seconds later Wes is standing in the basement and the chair is empty.
Why wouldn't she come up and say ' who killed her ?'

And poor Nate. I wish he could just run Away.
I liked Mikaela and the Mom at dinner. And the return of the ring. That shocked me.

[niemand88f]

Feb 27, 2015 22:30:24 GMT -5 @hannymaren said:

I don't think a different person killed Rebecca otherwise why would AnnaLise tell them she ran away? She came right up and said she was gone, 10 seconds later Wes is standing in the basement and the chair is empty.
Why wouldn't she come up and say ' who killed her ?'

And poor Nate. I wish he could just run Away.
I liked Mikaela and the Mom at dinner. And the return of the ring. That shocked me.

I think whoever did it could have hidden the body before Annalise went down, and she/Frank didn't find it until later. Wes came up, explained Rebecca's story, then Annalise went down but started yelling right away. So Rebecca was alone maybe 10-15 minutes, and the killer left the door open to make it look like she ran away.