Saturday, October 31, 2015

How to Get Away with Murder Season 2, Episode 6 ("Two Birds, One Millstone") Recap


The episode opens with a flash forward scene. Annalise is being taken into surgery, and then Frank runs in after the people rolling her on the bed asking what they are going to do and yelling for them to not let her die. He continues this as he is escorted out, but when he leaves and passes the camera outside, he becomes very calm (as in he was faking for the camera) and gets into his car. And in the back of his car, on the floor of the backseat, Catherine Hapstall knocked out or dead!

Back to present time, Frank and Laurel stop messing around when his alarm clock goes off. He asks if she wants to shower, and she tells him to go without her. She then tries to look through his things to figure out why he had all that money in that suitcase. But she doesn't find anything. In class, she and Wes begin discussing it when Michaela and Connor walk up to find them discussing the suitcase as they expected. Laurel, Michaela, and Connor agree that there is nothing to find, but Wes still thinks something is going on and that Becca is dead. 

When class begins, Annalise calls on Asher to tell the class the verdict in a case where a witness decided it would cause too much emotional harm if they testified and the prosecutor agreed to let them not testify. Then the show goes back to the scene where Annalise is showing Asher the video of Bonnie and her father. Annalise tells Asher the abuse Bonnie suffered from her father is why she ended up killing Sam. She convinces Asher not to testify by saying everyone protects who they love. She later tells Bonnie Asher decided not to testify, because of what Bonnie said to him, not disclosing she went to talk to Asher and showed him the video of Bonnie's father abusing her. When Asher later tells them that Sinclair has something else bad on him and his father, Annalise says they can take care of it. Asher warns that his father is a federal judge and can do bad things to them if his deal with Sinclair falls through. So without Asher knowing, Annalise goes against her word from last season, and tells Bonnie and Frank to gather info on Asher's father's mishandling of cases. Annalise goes to talk with Sinclair, where she tells Sinclair how she would look if the media found out what she was doing to Asher just to take Annalise down. So Sinclair agrees to lay off the issue and just focus on the Hapstall case. Annalise later uses the information on Asher's father to get the D.A. to drop the charges against her client ( a transgender professor who killed husband) and to get Sinclair to end her witch hunt against Annalise. Later in the episode, Asher's father tells him he sold out his own father, because the D.A. is investigating all of his cases. He tells Asher they are done and to have a good life. 

The group is tasked with finding another potential suspect that could have a reason to kill Caleb and Catherine's parents. They throw out a few people, but they have alibis. Asher asks about their birth parents, but the siblings do not want to go down that road and Michaela agrees. While the siblings are talking outside of the room, the group talks about Caleb's butt and their belief that the siblings may be the murderers. And then they discover Catherine was recording them to see what they really thought about them, after which she and Caleb ask that none of the students work on the case. But they continue to work on the case and decide to look into their birth parents, and with Oliver's assistance discover their aunt had a son who she was supporting with a charity she created the year she gave birth to him. So a secret baby that could inherit everything after taking out his aunt and uncle, and then his mother, and then getting rid of his cousins by framing them. Annalise informs the siblings of the discovery. Afterwards, Michaela ran after Caleb when he was leaving to apologize for what was recorded, and he asked if the part about her being single was true. She said it was a long story, and he said maybe he'll get to hear about it some time. Later in the episode, Oliver tells Connor he kept digging and found the secret baby AND hacked into his computer. But someone is watching them from Oliver's laptop, and it looks like it may be the secret baby...who may also be the Hapstall killer!

Meanwhile, Wes is giving Frank the evil eye, and Frank is asking Annalise when she is going to talk to Wes. And Nate tells Wes he's done working with him and anything having to do with Annalise. It turns out his wife died. Annalise went and left peach cobbler at his door when he wouldn't answer. She went back again, and this time he opened. He admitted to giving his wife the pills, and also told Annalise she took away precious time he could have had with his wife but had to spend in court and in jail. He said he didn't want her apologies, and corrected her by saying he didn't hate her...he just didn't care about her (in a way that clearly meant he cared so little about her he didn't even hate her). After he yells at her to leave and closes the door, Annalise turns and sees Wes there. He leaves, but she beats him home and is waiting for him by his door. She tells him she didn't kill Becca, and that all she knows is that Becca ran away. He says he doesn't believe her, and she says she knows he feels abandoned by his mother (who committed suicide) and Becca, and that is why he can't trust her. He asks how she knew about his mother, and she says it's her job to know. Wes tells her she is nothing like his mother, she is just a liar. She once again says all she knows is that Becca ran away. Then says the worst part is it is destroying them, but that she is here for him and never leaving him. With a tear in his eye he says she has to stop lying, and she says there will be no more secrets. But then she lies to him and says they looked all over for Becca and can't find her. 

Sinclair offers to give Bonnie a file on Tiffany Howard since she is dating Asher, but Bonnie declines, telling Sinclair she lost and should move on. Sinclair says Bonnie is going to want to read it, because Tiffany was gang raped. Bonnie stops, and seems to decide to take the file.

 Frank takes Laurel to meet his family. Then he meets up with his high school friend to get a bag wih a woman's body in it. After leaving Wes' apartment, Annalise calls Frank to ask if he's taking care of "it." He says it's handled, and then proceeds to take the body out of the bag in the woods. Initially the body has on the same jacket as Becca, and there is a flashback scene to Becca being smothered in the basement with the jacket on. But then there are flashback (or flash forward) scenes of Catherine knocked out. Then we see him carrying a woman in her pjs in the same scene. It's Catherine. An officer finds her body the next morning, and then Catherine jumps up grasping for breath. I rewinded a few times, but it's still very unclear. They didn't indicate a jump in time, like they do every other time. They clearly showed a woman with Becca's jacket initially being lifted up by Frank. And furthermore, Catherine wakes up in the woods, but in the flash forward scene showed in the beginning of the episode she was knocked out in Frank's car after he walked out of the hospital Annalise was taken to after being shot. So unless he drugs her again, and puts her in his car around the time Annalise is shot, it's really making no sense. I guess I'll have to see how they explain it in the next episode. SMH.