Tonight on ABC their hit drama How To Get Away With Murder (HTGAWM) airs with an all-new Thursday, October 20, 2016, episode and we have you How To Get Away With Murder recap below! On tonight’s HTGAWM season 3 episode 5 evidence of Frank’s (Charlie Weber) difficult past becomes apparent; and new facts emerge about the fire at Annalise’s (Viola Davis) house.
Did you watch the HTGAWM season 3 episode 4 where the fate of a young client was jeopardized after the Philadelphia Bar Association disciplinary board discovered damaging information about Annalise? If you missed it we have a full and detailed How To Get Away With Murder recap, right here!
On tonight’s How To Get Away With Murder Season 3 episode 4 as per the ABC synopsis, “The mystery behind the Annalise “killer” flyers takes a surprising twist. Meanwhile, Frank’s troubled past is exposed and a shocking new discovery changes everything about the night of the fire.”
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Bonnie had to go out of town for a few days. She had to decide what would happen with her father’s remains and so she had gone to Coalport however Laurel had called her while she was gone. Laurel had expressed her sympathies and she had asked how it had been for Bonnie at the funeral home. But Laurel eventually got to the bottom line when she had asked Bonnie to call her when she saw Frank and Bonnie had been her usually snarky self. Bonnie had said that she didn’t know if Frank would call her and then just said to Laurel that she’ll call her.
Only Bonnie hadn’t exactly told Laurel the truth. Bonnie had more or less said that she would call Laurel if she saw Frank though funnily enough, she had still been on the phone with Laurel when she saw Frank. So Bonnie was technically splitting hairs on that one. However, she would only have done that for two people in the world. Annalise and Frank. Bonnie and Frank didn’t have much of a childhood or even a family growing up so they created one with Annalise and Sam. Annalise and her husband had been like the parents they never had and so they had loved each other as siblings.
Though a few things have changed since then so that changed Bonnie and Frank’s relationship. Bonnie had protected him like she always does and so she hid the fact that she saw him from Annalise yet she had finally wanted answers from Frank. Like why did he set Wes up to see the murder of his own father? So Frank told her that he had somehow hoped Annalise wouldn’t come after him if Wes had been there and it such a lame excuse that Bonnie was forced to knock some common sense into him.
Bonnie told him that Annalise was only coming after now because of what he did to Wes and how that made Wes look like a suspect. So Frank had tried to laugh that turn of events off however, he couldn’t. Bonnie wouldn’t let him and that was despite how much she cared about him. Yet, what Bonnie did do was lie when Annalise called to see how she was doing and she also put off returning many of Laurel’s messages. Laurel was supposed to be studying for an upcoming exam only she couldn’t really do much of that because she texting and calling Bonnie at every chance she could. And so Laurel wasn’t that great during group study.
Laurel along with the rest of the Keating Five were supposed to hitting the books this semester seeing as they barely got through their last one what with all the murders. But Connor wasn’t doing any of the stuff he was supposed, Wes was preoccupied with meeting Meggy’s father for the first time, and Michaela was busy being a klepto. So the only person that truly cared about getting better grades was Asher. Asher had put off sex with Michaela in order to focus on their exam and he was generally considered to be the clown of the group.
Yet, Asher was finally taking some responsibility for his actions meanwhile everyone else were continue to unravel. Including Annalise who did realize that she might have a drinking problem. So it wasn’t that surprising that one of them nearly got everyone in trouble though Michaela’s inner klepto had eventually paid off in the end. Michaela had taken Simon’s laptop because he had always hated the Keating Five and she had given it to Oliver who found out that Simon had made those fliers about Annalise.
Simon had always resented the favoritism that he believed Annalise showed the group and he had also been one of the few people to cheer when Annalise got suspended. So it makes sense in a way that Simon would be behind the fliers. If he couldn’t be part of Annalise’s circle, then he was going to find a way to destroy it. However, he didn’t take down Annalise with mere fliers. There could be a case that he had gotten the board at the school riled up with his fliers though by then they had been pretty fed up with the negative press.
Annalise’s married boyfriend had been on trial for the murder of her husband and the thing with the Hapstalls was a full-on mess for everyone involved. So Simon hadn’t forced or pushed anyone into firing Annalise and Annalise’s own behavior worked against her. Which was why her “favorite” students weren’t going to do anything about Annalise possibly losing her job until they were afraid that Simon might have something on them. Laurel, Asher, Connor, and Michaela had all believed that they would finally be free if Annalise was gone and Wes was the only one that seemed to care about her.
Wes had later gone to see how Annalise was doing and he had found her so drunk that she couldn’t stand up. So the only responsible to do was to take care of her. Wes had actually watched over Annalise through the night and by morning she had been her usually ass-kicking self for when the others finally came to her house as well. Though funnily enough they probably didn’t see the trash bags of alcohol bottles or even asked Annalise how she was doing. They had just told her that they were in trouble and then waited to see what she would do about it.
But Annalise did take care of their problems. She went to Simon, she threatened Simon, and then Simon gave her kids his notes for the upcoming exam. So pretty everything fell into place however Wes was thinking about breaking up with Meggy and he had sort of floated the idea that he and Laurel could see how things play out. And that’s what ultimately forced Laurel to crack. She had gotten a text earlier from Bonnie that said Frank was fine and so she didn’t want to hide the fact that she had still been worried about Frank.
So both Wes and Laurel went to Annalise and Wes had forced Laurel to tell Annalise the truth. However, right after the truth came out, Laurel had asked Annalise if she had tried to kill Frank because that’s why she pretended she didn’t know where Frank was and therefore Bonnie had been in trouble with Annalise when she came in yet there’s chance she won’t be protecting Frank anymore. Frank and Bonnie had slept together after wondering about a starting over somewhere else and Frank had pulled another disappearing act right after that.
THE END!
