Tonight on ABC their gripping new drama How to Get Away with Murder starring Viola Davis continues with an all new Thursday October 30, season 1 episode 6 called, “Freakin’ Whack-a-Mole.” On tonight’s episode a man sentenced to death by Asher’s father years ago is Annalise’s new client. Meanwhile, Wes is still peeved at Annalise for not revealing everything about Lila’s case; and in a flash-forward, Asher’s whereabouts on the night of the murder are revealed.
On the last episode, Annalise took on a tough case defending a minor who fatally shot his police officer father. Meanwhile, Annalise and Sam continued to argue over his relationship with Lila, and Wes and Rebecca began to question Annalise’s motives. In flash-forwards, we learned more about Laurel’s relationship with Frank and why he was calling her the night of Sam’s death. 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 a case gets personal for Annalise and the team when their client is a man from the projects who was sentenced to death by Asher’s father several years ago. Meanwhile, Wes is still angry at Annalise for hiding information about Lila’s case, so Annalise must convince him to get back in line. In flash-forwards, we find out exactly where Asher was on the night of the murder.
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Tonight’s episode of How To Get Away With Murder begins with Annalise’s students piling in to the lecture hall. Annalise sees Wes’s seat and has a flashback to the night before, Wes cursed her out and told her that she “was disgusting.” While Annalise is lecturing about habeas corpus, Bonnie rushes in and says there is an emergency.
Michaela, Connor, Asher, and Laurel stay behind and informs that that 21 years ago David Allen was convicted of murdering his girlfriend – even though her body was never found. She announces that today they have the chance to make an “unjust system just.” The Supreme Court has given her a chance to produce facts for an appeal. Annalise pays David a visit in jail, where he is on death row and scheduled to die in two weeks, and tells him that they have one last shot.
Keating’s law students get to work going over the court transcripts, and they are shocked when they realize that Asher’s dad was the judge that sent David Allen to prison for murder. Annalise is arguing with Sam, and Bonnie interrupts.
Annalise heads to Wes’s apartment and he answers the door in a towel. She wants to know why he didn’t go to class, and isn’t answering his phone. He dives her a sealed envelope and says that he wrote down everything that he knows and put it in a safe deposit box – he won’t call the cops on her and Sam as long as she finds Rebecca and gets her back.
Annalise and Wes head back to the office and she order the other students to catch him up on David Allen’s case. She tells Frank that their “puppy” AKA Wes is “acting up” and he needs to go find Rebecca, and check at her drug connections’ houses.
Annalise orders her students to go talk to the lawyers that were on David’s original case, and the prosecution. She sends Bonnie to go talk to the eye witness, and take Asher with her. She is adamant that she saw David leave the scene with a gun.
David’s original lawyer tells Laurel and Wes that David had an alibi, but he was a heroin addict and always high so they didn’t put him on the stand. Michaela and Connor talk to the original DA, who was replaced halfway through the case. They report back to Annalise that the attorney says Asher’s dad Judge Millstone was ignoring evidence and pushing for a conviction because of race.
Asher heads to his parents’ house, and begins snooping around his dad’s office. He finds a hand-written ledger on David Allen’s case. Meanwhile, Annalise heads to the jail to talk to David about his alibi Jason Watkins. He says that Jason was a kid in his neighborhood, and he was in his apartment with him giving him an outfit to wear to a job interview. Annalise is sure Jason will help their case, she heads back to the office and Bonnie reveals that Jason Watkins is dead – he overdosed 15 months ago.
Asher sits down to watch TV with his Dad and brings up David Allen’s appeal. He confesses to him that as a kid he used to always look through his journals. He wants to know why he never wrote a journal entry for the day he met with the DA Travers. According to Travers – he told the judge that the case had been tampered with and Asher’s dad ignored him because he didn’t want to jeopardize his promotion. Asher’s dad refuses to answer and kicks him out, and calls him an “ungrateful little twit.”
Asher heads to Annalise’s office and informs her that he has two stipulations – they have to spare his father and leave his name out of it, and he wants the trophy. Annalise says it’s deal if his information is as good as he says it is. He reveals that Senator Art Trueko paid one of the witnesses to lie on the stand so that David Allen would be convicted.
Annalise’s team goes in to overdrive and pounds coffee all night and begins reworking the case and calling all of the witnesses. Laurel sees Frank leaving the office in the middle of the night – and wants to know if he is looking for Rebecca. He refuses to answer her and leaves. Bonnie corners her in the kitchen and tells her to “stop leading Frank on.”
Annalise heads to the prison, and asks David about Art Trueko. He reveals that Art was buyig up all of the property in their neighborhood and turning them in to rich condos that only white people can afford to buy. His wife was leading an activist group against Trueko. Annalise heads back to the office ad Asher reveals that the key witness that they interviewed lives in an apartment building owned by Trueko.
The next day they head to David Allen’s appeal at the supreme court. Annalise pleads their case, and puts the key witness on the stand. The witness confesses that she was three months late in rent, and after her testimony the ret lawsuit was dropped. They put Art Trueko on the stand, and Annalise asks him if he had Trisha Allen killed so that he could put up his condos unopposed. Annalise goes on a tirade ad accuses Art of tearing apart a community and taking a life and stealing 21 years of life. After careful consideration, the judge announces that David Allen is a free man ad they will have a retrial.
After court Annalise calls Wes in to her office ad reveals there has been a break in Lila’s murder case. The police found Lila’s phone I Griffin’s car – and believe that he killed her because he found out she was seeing another man [Annalise had Frank plant the phone in Griffin’s car]. Annalise tells Wes to go tell Rebecca it is safe for her to come home, and Frank has the address where she is staying.
Wes visits Rebecca, and tells her what happened with Lila’s phone. She tells him that no one has ever believed in her like she has before. He pleads with her to come home and let Annalise defend her.
Annalise heads home and finds Sam watching the news about Lila’s phone, he wants to know why Annalise is protecting him. She sobs that after everything that he has done to her – she still needs him. There is a knock at the door, Wes and Rebecca are standing on the porch.
Nate receives a phone call, he has had surveillance o Griffin, and there are photos of Frank putting the phone in Griffi’s car.
THE END!
