Tonight on ABC their gripping new drama How to Get Away with Murder starring Viola Davis continues with an all new Thursday October 16, season 1 episode 4 called, “Let’s Get Scooping.” On tonight’s episode a brokerage firm’s founder and CEO is arrested for insider trading, but the students’ investigation of the case reveals a major surprise. Meanwhile, Wes finds a cell phone hidden by Rebecca that contains disturbing information about the Lila Stangard murder case.
On the last episode, Annalise helped Paula Murphy (Ana Ortiz), a suburban soccer mom, get released from jail after she was arrested for a misdemeanor, but just as she was about to walk free, she was arrested again by the FBI in connection for felony murder. Annalise and her students were tasked with proving her innocence which depended on the testimony from another suspect in the case. Meanwhile, the Middleton University president asked Annalise to represent Griffin O’ Reilly, the star quarterback who had also been linked to Lila’s disappearance but she was unable to make a decision until she knew that Sam (Tom Verica) wasn’t involved in the case. In flash forwards, more clues were revealed and we discovered someone else who was also there besides the students during the night of the murder. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode Annalise and her students uncover a shocking truth while investigating the case of Marren Trudeau (Elizabeth Perkins), founder and CEO of a major brokerage firm, who has recently been arrested for insider trading. Meanwhile, Wes discovers a cell phone hidden by Rebecca whose contents reveal an unsettling clue in the Lila Stangard murder case.
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Tonight’s episode of How To Get Away With Murder kicks off with Connor showing up at his boyfriend’s apartment and orders him to take his clothes off. His boyfriend whines that all they ever do is have sex and he thinks they should go out to dinner like a normal couples.
Annalise is in court arguing to have Rebecca’s confession thrown out. The judge doesn’t want to hear it, he sets her bail at $1 Million. Rebecca meets with Annalise and Bonnie afterwards, she says that she didn’t kill Lila. The reason she confessed was because Wes was right and Griffin was trying to pin her on it. Annalise drags Wes in to her office and screams that it’s his fault Rebecca confessed. She announces to everyone that Wes is off of Rebecca’s case, he isn’t allowed to speak to her or even look at her.
Annalise takes her students to meet with her next client, Marin Trudeaux, she is a self-made billionaire who owns her own stock exchange firm. She is being charged with inside training. They head to Marin’s office which is being raided by the FBI. Marin takes their warrant and lights it on fire and says that she hasn’t broke any laws. The agent fwhips out his laptop and says that she received inside stock trade information from Edson Pharmaceuticals, and they have a tape of her having sex with the CEO of Edson Pharmaceuticals.
Annalise sits down with Marin to discuss her case, Marin doesn’t see what is so horrible about making a sex tape. Marin insists she didn’t buy any stock from Edson, Annalise points out that she made the purchase from her log-in. Marin insists that she was hacked, and Annalise says that she will have an IT group look in to her account to see if there were any log-ins from someone else’s computer.
Annalise sends her students out to interview all 50 of of Marin’s employees at her firm to see if there are any disgruntled employees who might have tried to frame their boss. After spending the day with Marin’s staff, who all have nothing but nice things to say about her, Marin shows up at Annalise’s office and is furious that she interrogated her employees. She is certain that it was an outside job, and argues that her employees are her family.
Annalise heads home and her husband Sam is getting ready for a department dinner, he kisses her goodbye and says that he will be home as soon as he can. He catches Nate getting out of his car in the driveway. Nate lied and told him that he seen his light on while he was jogging and wanted to make sure his battery didn’t die. Really, Nate was looking at his GPS in his car to see where he went the night that Lila was murdered. Nate lied and told Annalise that Sam’s alibi checked out and he was out of town at a seminar, but Sam actually called in sick and never showed up at his seminar.
Fast forward seven weeks – Connor, Micaela, Wes, and Laurel are driving out of town to buy lighter fuel to burn the body. Connor has a melt-down while he is driving and tells them that they are wasting their time buying lighter feul in a different city because Asher knows they were in the house, the police spotted them leaving with a rug, and they left DNA and skin cells all over the house.
Flashback – Micaela is caught trying to steal Laurel’s outlines from her bag. She is having a meltdown because she is certain she is going to flunk the exam.
Connor heads back to Marin’s company and talks to her personal assistant Braxton. He insists that Marin would never be dumb enough to make that inside trade with Edson and she was definitely set up. Braxton starts flirting with Connor and asks if he has a boyfriend, Connor says he “does what he wants,” and they start ripping each other’s clothes off. Connor rushes out after they are done having sex, but apparently bugged Braxton’s phone before he left the room. Connor listens in while Braxton’s phone rings and over hears him bragging that the lawyers still think Marin is guilty. Connor heads back to his boyfriend’s house with his illegal phone recording, he has his boyfriend hack in to the phone company’s records to try and figure out who Braxton was on the phone with.
Bonnie heads to the police station to get the confession tape. She reveals to the officer that she knows that Nate is investigating Sam Keating for Lila’s death, she threatens to expose his department if he doesn’t hand over the confession tape.
Connor and Annalise play the recording of Braxton setting up Marin for her. Marin is furious that he betrayed her after everything she has done for him. She screams at him that she treated him like a son after his family disowned him and she is going to send him to prison for trying to ruin her. Marin turns around to walk away and Braxton cries that he is sorry and then jumps out the office window and commits suicide in front of the entire company.
Annalise and Marin head back to her office and have a drink, Marin is beside herself and blames herself for Braxton’s death. Annalise says that her case isn’t over, even without Braxton’s confession they can still figure out who his accomplices were. Annalise interrogates Marin’s other employees and is determined to “pound the truth” out of them. They are certain that Jimmy and Talia were working with Braxton, and after hours of hounding them in the interrogation room they finally get confessions out of them.
Wes, Laurel, Connor, Asher, and Micaela gather in Annalise’s office with Bonnie to watch Rebecca’s confession tape. They head back to the courtroom the next day with the video evidence, and Annalise shows the judge that Rebecca’s confession was clearly coerced. The judge agrees and sets Rebecca’s bail to $100,000. Annalise announces to Rebecca that she is going home.
Connor heads to his boyfriend Oliver’s house and has sex with him again. While he is getting a beer in the kitchen Oliver finds the recording of Braxton’s phone call and listens to the whole thing where he brags about having sex with Connor. He kicks Connor out of the apartment.
Wes greets Rebecca as she comes home from the police station, he shows her that he still has Lila’s phone. He takes the phone to Annalise and she thanks him and tells him that he did his job, now he has to let her do her job. Wes leaves and she takes her hair down and washes her make-up off. Her husband Sam comes home, she holds up Lila’s phone and calmly asks him, “why is your penis on a dead girl’s phone?”
THE END!