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The following recap contains spoilers for How to Get Away With Murder'S Season 5 final fall. (Need to catch up? Read our previous recap here.)
Worst. Wedding. Ever.
How to Get Away With MurderConnor Walsh and Oliver Hampton have waited a long time to get hitched; they've dealt with meddlesome parents, faced with HIV diagnosis Many criminal acts.
But in Thursday's final fall, the long-awaited "Coliver" wedding – sweet and romantic though it may have been – was ultimately eclipsed by a devastating death and a life-changing revelation. (As if you expected anything less than a show with "murder" in its title.)
Although the final midseason has several unresolved storylines (like, say, Annalize 's mysterious adoption), it did not answer the question: what was killed at Connor' s and Oliver 's wedding reception? And, seriously, who's the heck is Gabriel Maddox?
Let's break down the revealed in Thursday's episode:
WHO DIED AT THE WEDDING? | The poor, unfortunate soul who dies in the snow: A.D.A. Ronald Miller (because Bonnie just can not catch a freakin 'break). Miller's untimely demise comes from the hands of both Nate and Bonnie, who have reason to believe that Miller was responsible for Nate Sr.'s death, despite Miller's protests to the contrary.
Early in the episode, Nate asks Bonnie to get a piece of intel from Miller, which could help Nate get to the bottom of his dad's death. (Nate would ask Miller for the info himself, but he has resigned from his job at the DA's office, Bonnie by surprise.) Bonnie mentions the favor to Miller just as they're about to leave for Connor and Oliver's wedding – and it does not go very well. Miller launches into an attack on Annalize, explaining that he thinks she's a bad person and that she's taking advantage of Bonnie's "issues" in order to get Bonnie to do her dirty work against the governor. ( "My from? "Bonnie fires back, clearly unhappy with Miller's choice of words.)
Bonnie relies on the wedding without Miller; Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, and Bonnie. Meanwhile, Michaela does some digging and finds that the prison ward has been broken down by Nate Sr., Nate Sr.'s death in the first place. What does it mean to pay a toll? Philly – and she also sends a message.
Nate receives all of this damning information while he is at the wedding reception, and he is not one of those who believes that Miller might be responsible for Nate Sr.'s death. When Miller shows up at the reception in an effort to make amends with Bonnie, Bonnie herself accuses Miller of coordinating Nate Sr.'s demise. At this point, she does not know anything about the call to the warden, but she does piece together the fact that Miller has multiple contacts at the governor 's office and where Nate Sr. was supposed to be. the way Bonnie sees it, Gov. Birkhead likely promised Miller that she'd make him district attorney if he had Nate Sr. killed.
Miller tries desperately to tell Bonnie that she's wrong, but Bonnie wants nothing to do with him anymore, and she goes back to the reception. Shortly thereafter, Nate spots Miller standing outside the coming, and he makes his own accusations about Miller's involvement in his dad's death. But Nate is a whole lot of angie than Bonnie was, and he only gets more infuriated as he accuses Miller of robbing a "defenseless old man" of the last years of his life. Despite Miller's pleas for Nate to hear him out, Miller punches Nate, who falls over the snowy ground. Nate punches him again, and again, and again, and again, promising to make Miller feel the same bread, until Miller is practically dead.
Once Bonnie is back at the reception, Asher's heralds and Laurel's her, Christopher, having grabbed the baton babysitter from Oliver's mother. As she leaves the coming, she gets a lot of fun with a lot of money. Miller, Nate who shows her the photo of Miller making that payphone call. (She decides to keep her eye on it.) "He hurt my Pops," Nate mumbles over and over – and Bonnie, knowing she needs to finish the job, walks over to Miller and suffocates him, sobbing as she does it.
At that point, we've caught up with the season's previous flash-forwards: Bonnie instructs Nate to clean up the mess, which he does (and finds the engagement ring that Miller was holding in his pocket); Michaela becomes suspicious of the blood on Bonnie's leg; and, for a little bit of levity, Asher is hooking up with Connor's mom, just 'cause!
WHO IS GABRIEL MADDOX? | The leading theories in this season's Gabriel Maddox mystery were that Gabriel is Bonnie's his, or perhaps he's Annalize's his previous relationship (or earlier in her marriage to Sam Keating).
In the end, though, it turns out that Gabriel is Sam Keating's son, from Sam's first marriage – Annalize broke up by being the other woman.
Let's back up: On the morning of Connor and Oliver's wedding, Annalize texts Connor to tell him she's sick and will not be attending the festivities. But when Connor pays a visit to her apartment, Annalise looks remarkably healthy; it's not she who's not going to be married want to go. "I'm no good at weddings," Annalize shares, revealing to Connor that she did not even have her own wedding. After all, she was Sam's mistress back when he was married to his first wife, so Annalize and Sam's eventual nuptials were not something they wanted to display publicly. For that reason, Annalize is not a fan of Any wedding, and she does not want to wait Connor's – until Connor reminds her that she's the reason he even puts Oliver in the first place, thanks to her insanely demanding first-year law clbad.
Annalizes goes to the wedding, after all, but Connor and Oliver's sentimental vows seem to trigger her, and she bails halfway through the ceremony to hide in a bathroom stall and drink from the flask she brought in her purse. Annalize sneaks back to the church where the ceremony is taking place drinking. "My mom waited way too long to get help," Gabriel tells Annalize, baduring her that he'll provide whatever support she needs to get sober again.
While Gabriel is at the wedding, Gabriel keeps stashed in his fireplace. Frank discovers a small key in the bag, which corresponds to a locked box on a shelf in Gabriel's place – and when Frank opens the box, he finds a series of documents, one of which seems to stun Frank as soon as he reads the information on it.
That's when Annalize asks, "Why do you look like somebody just died?" Frank gravely informs her that "Gabriel is Sam's kid," and he presents with Gabriel's birth certificate. Father? Sam Keating. Mother? Vivian Maddox. Annalize looks understandably sick to her stomach, and she bails on the front desk. (Thankfully, she did not stop to check on her date, Nate, who's busy Miller pummeling until he practically dies.)
As we've already seen in previous episodes, Annalize immediately collapses upon getting home and breaks down in tears on her living-room floor. But then she hears a door creak open somewhere in her apartment, and Gabriel walks out to meet Annalize, lying on her to the church. (The real scenario? Gabriel swiped Annalize 's keys after she drunkenly dropped her purse at the wedding and spilled its contents everywhere.
"I know who you are," Annalize tells Gabriel – and as Gabriel waits expectantly for her to say more, her face morphs into that of Sam Keating, who smirks right into the camera.
A few parting thoughts:
* Even though we know who Gabriel is, we still do not know who Frank has been talking about the phone about him – y'know, the contact labeled "The One." Also, when Frank first saw Gabriel on Middleton's campus, he said, "Her kid's here, "which must be referencing Vivian Maddox. But how does Frank know Vivian? Who is he talking about?
Annalize would kiss Gabriel during that scene in the church?
Raise your hand if you were flabbergasted by Oliver's lovely performance of "All of Me" at the wedding reception. (You can not see me, but I am frantically waving a hand in the air as we speak.)
Do you think Miller was really involved in Nate Sr.'s death? I'm looking forward to watching this storyline play out in 2019, but I have a feeling that Miller may have had nothing to do with it.
OK, your turn. The final fall in your poll, then hit the comments with your thoughts on the episode!
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