How to Get Away With Murder season 1, episode 3 linked Connor and Michaela together forever. Read our full recap of the episode here.
The third episode of How to Get Away With Murder opens up on the night of Sam’s murder. Wes, who lied about the outcome of the coin toss, urges the group to go back for the body. While they are all cleaning up they come up with their alibi, the bonfire. They all put on their happy faces and snap pictures and videos of themselves partaking in the celebrations. It is a great idea, but that cop did also see them leaving Annalise’s office, so it’s not exactly airtight. Plus, there’s the whole thing where Michaela’s engagement ring went missing when they were torching the body. So far, they seem to be making some dumb mistakes.
In other news, this week’s case involved bombs and getting frisky in the park, which sounds like it should be a fun story line but instead just ended up making us scratch our heads. Guest star and Ugly Betty alum Anna Ortiz plays Paula/Elena, a soccer mom who is picked up by the police for, well, performing sexual acts on a stranger in a park.
Annalise gets her off clean only to have her arrested once again right outside the police station for the bombing of a building and the murder of the janitor inside said building. Paula/Elena has been in hiding while her cohorts all landed behind bars, including her leader and former lover. On the stand, the leader goes against Paula/Elena and reveals she was involved in order to get an early release from jail. This somehow leads to Paula/Elena and her newly free lover making a run for it and hitching a ride on a public bus out of there. Right, not exactly a plot line we’re going to remember after we finish writing this paragraph.
On to a much more memorable plot, if not the highlight of the night: Connor and Aiden. Connor was in all of his glory this episode as he got to dangle information over Michaela’s head regarding her fiancé’s past. Turns out Connor and Aiden went to boarding school together and had a bit of engaging of their own. Yup, they slept together back in the day and it’s a secret that’s nearly too much for Michaela to handle, but in the end she’s determined to have the perfect life and stays with him.
In the present day Annalise has been approached by the school to take on Griffin O’Reilly’s defense case. Annalise can get anyone off but is hesitant to take this case until she figures out exactly how much her husband was involved in Lila’s murder. She sends Nate to investigate and what he finds out isn’t pretty. Apparently, on the night of Lila’s murder Sam was supposed to be teaching a guest lecture but called in sick last minute because of “food poisoning.” Not that this information matters much because Nate lies about it to Annalise, which leads her to take on Griffin’s case.
Griffin goes on to tell the story of the night of Lila’s murder and how he was getting his freak on with Rebecca when Lila walked in on them. Lila clawed at his neck, which he claims explains his DNA being under her fingers nails. He pins the whole thing on Rebecca, who he believes set the whole situation up.
Wes still has the phone Rebecca planted in his bathroom and he still can’t unlock it, but he is able to pick up a call that comes through. It’s actually Lila’s phone and the caller is looking to be hooked up with some drugs. Knowing that Rebecca is about to be blamed for the murder, he quickly makes a fake attorney’s license (so casual) and heads to the prison in order to warn her. When he gets there, though, Rebecca doesn’t want him there and calls the guards on him. Annalise comes to get him and he is able to convince her to take on Rebecca as a client. It can’t be that easy, however, because by the time Annalise arrives Rebecca has already confessed to murdering Lila.