This episode should probably be titled "How NOT to Get Away with Murder" as all the lies start to unravel. And not just the lies, the students start to unravel too!
But first, we will start with the Hapstall case. Sinclair did a last minute request to use the siblings' now deceased aunt's testimony. So the judge gives Annalise about 6 hours to provide evidence on why the aunt's testimony to the police should not be used in the trial. So Annalise has the students dig through the files to find anything that shows the aunt lied. Michaela finds the police dashcam video from when the police encountered the aunt the morning after the murders. It shows her using racial slurs against the siblings, but cuts off before she answers how she knows they killed their parents. Caleb comes to the house prepared to provide pill bottles to discredit his aunt with a possible drug addiction, but ends up overhearing the video. For obvious reasons he was hurt by the new knowledge that his aunt thought of him and his sister in the way she spoke of them on the video. Later, with Oliver's help, Michaela and Connor are able to get additional audio footage from the dashcam. While Oliver is hacking the police department, and Michaela is in the bathroom, Oliver's comments about Annalise not paying him for doing work that could land him in jail leads Connor to tell him that he may actually be going to jail. Oliver of course asked what was going on, but Connor told him he couldn't tell him because he would get in trouble too. So it turned out the police deleted the video footage of the aunt saying she doesn't remember hearing anything the night of the murder but failed to delete the audio footage. So Annalise played it during the hearing. Sinclair pointed out that it wasn't a part of discovery, meaning Annalise illegally retrieved the footage (Connor's face shows a hint of concern about Oliver who would certainly get jail time if it's ever discovered that he was the one who hacked the police department for the footage). Annalise claims it was just anonymously dropped off to her, but the judge doesn't believe her. So the judge is going to allow Sinclair to use the deceased aunt's testimony that she heard screaming the night of the murders, noting sometimes when people are traumatized they forget things when first questioned on an event. The judge also said she will be investigating how Annalise got the footage. Catherine Hapstall has a big outburst about the judge being Black and hence being able to see their aunt lied due to her racist bias against the siblings. The judge says she understands racism all too well but she has to uphold the law.
Asher is pretty much MIA the whole time, because he's working with his dad on getting immunity for anything having to do with Sam's death and the Trotter Lake incident in exchange for testifying in a hearing where Sinclair is trying to get a wiretap in Annalise's home. While waiting to be called to the stand, Asher gets up and leaves after reflecting on Bonnie's confession to him that she killed Sam. She told him Sam tried to rape her when he came home drunk, and she hit him with a lamp...killing him. He then goes to Annalise's house, where everyone sees him go into her office to talk to her alone, planting the fear that he knows what really happened to Sam and may be turning them all in. But what really happened was he asked Annalise for the truth, and she feeds him the same lie Bonnie did about Bonnie killing Sam after he tried to rape her. Later, when speaking to Bonnie, he asks her if Frank and Annalise helped her put the body in the forest, and she says yes. He asks if the others knew about it, and she says no they were already at the bonfire (but he has a flashback to knocking on the door that night, because he saw Connor's car in Annalise's driveway). He then asks her if that meant their first night together was just so she would have an alibi, and she hesitantly says yes, throwing in that everything after that night was real and meant something. Later, in what turned out to possibly be a stalling mechanism according to Sinclair, Asher tells Sinclair he knows who kills Sam and requests a revised immunity agreement. While there he learns his dad is only helping him out to get his own immunity (seemingly related to the David Allen death row case). With that, Asher once again leaves. Much later in the episode he basically tells Bonnie he's going to do what's best for her, which Bonnie takes as him telling Sinclair Bonnie killed Sam. When Bonnie informs Annalise of this she tells Annalise to just let her take the blame for being as stupid as Annalise told her she was for telling Asher she killed Sam (earlier in the episode when Bonnie was telling Annalise what she told Asher, Annalise told her she couldn't possibly hate her any more than she did at that moment). Annalise then goes to see Asher where she shows him footage of Bonnie's father recording himself raping Bonnie as a young girl. Horrific thing to watch, but the fact that Annalise would use this video for such a purpose is sad and sickening. And honestly, I wouldn't put past Annalise that she made up the fact that that was Bonnie in the video, and that it was someone else. Either way, very tragic.
Attempting to use other tragic news to her advantage, Annalise spent part of the episode working with Frank to figure out what Wes and Nate knew. She informs Frank that she saw Wes and Nate together working on something. So Frank went to finding out what they knew and fixing the situation. Annalise went about trying to get them to individually confess whatever they were working on. First she goes to Nate, where she tells him she didn't want any more lies between them so she had to tell him his wife asked her to get her some pills to commit suicide. He asks her if she did, and she lies and sasys no (the truth is she did get the pills from Frank, but she decided not to give them to her). But, by the look on her face when Nate left without mentioning Wes, it was all just a ploy to give him a chance to come clean with her. Later she calls Wes into her office (which made everyone suspicious of him since he's managed to be so calm the whole time. But it's not because Annalise had him in the loop, it's because he's been working with Levi and Nate to figure out if Annalise killed Becca). She asks him how everything is going, hoping he would bring up Nate, but he doesn't. She asks him how he felt about their relationship, and he simply says he was upset that she wouldn't disclose what she and Asher discussed but now she's told them (when they all started picking on Bonnie to tell them what was going on Annalise told them Bonnie told Asher she killed Sam to save them) and he's no longer upset. That's it...nothing about Nate. So Annalise goes to Nate and demands he tell her what's going on with him and Wes. Nate tells her Wes thinks she had something to do with Becca's murder, and then she goes on to tell him Bonnie's made up story about killing Sam after he tried to rape her (so much for not wanting any more lies between them! Ha!). And of course Nate asks her where was his protection when she was trying to protect Bonnie by framing him. Then Annalise goes into this spill about hating herself and not wanting to be this person that makes everyone's lives worse. Saying she'll die if it means not hurting him again.
While Annalise is seeking out confessions, Frank is putting in work. He tells Annalise that Wes has been calling Levi, Becca's foster brother. He also tells her that Levi and Michaela have also been talking. Annalise tells him to keep Wes and Michaela away from Levi, and noticing Michaela talking to Levi on the phone she snatches the phone, tells everyone to get to work on the Hapstall case, and continues to walk away with Michaela's phone as Michaela is telling her she still has her phone. Wes and Levi go to confront Frank's friend about possibly burying Becca's body in the cemetery, and Levi pulls a gun out on the guy. Wes deescalates things and tells Levi to put the gun away, and then he asks the guy to tell them what he and Frank talked about when he called him three times. So the guy tells them Frank asked to use his storage unit, and Wes conveniently gets a hold of a storage unit key on Frank's keychain when Frank leaves his keys on a table. Later, when Wes and Levi are preparing to get in the car to go to the storage unit, Connor, Laurel and Michaela pull up. Michaela jumps out and yells Levi name and demands to know what's going on. So Wes tells them he's Becca's foster brother and Eggs 911. He also tells them Becca's most likely dead. Shortly thereafter the cops come and arrest Levi after finding drugs in his trunk. Wes, Laurel, Connor, and Michaela go on to the storage unit expecting to find Becca's body, but instead they just find a suitcase full of money. They see this as yet another time Wes leads them on a wild goose chase to nothing, but poor Wes actually got duped by Frank's master plan. Frank got to his friend before Wes and Levi and told him to tell them Frank asked to use his storage. He then put the suitcase full of money in the storage unit and left the key in plain sight for Wes to see and grab. He also put the drugs in Levi's trunk!
Then there's the flash forward scenes. This episode the scene shows Bonnie running out of the Hapstall mansion with Annalise and Sinclair dead. She runs to a car Asher is waiting in and asks him if he is okay and then says it is almost over. Asher says nothing and just has a look of shock on his face. She drives to a gas station where she tells him she needs to use the bathroom, but instead goes in to wash blood off. By the time she gets back to the car, Asher is gone. He's gone to a police station to make a statement.
So the question is, did Bonnie and Asher show up before or after Wes, Connor, Laurel, and Michaela? I'm leaning towards before. In earlier episodes I got the sense Wes and Connor had tried to help Annalise but figured it was too late. Also, Asher and Bonnie have a clear tie to Sinclair that could lend itself to them attempting to murder both Sinclair and Annalise. But it'll probably turn out to be something I haven't even thought about, which would be an even better twist!