The episode opens with Wes remembering the end of the last season’s event, he takes us on a detailed tour from when he introduced himself to his father. Apparently he met up with Annalise straight after the tragedy, but we also figure out that Frank was behind it all and was the one that tricked him and led him to where he is.
Since the beginning, it’s pretty obvious that the relationship between Wes and Annalise plays an important role, and it seems that their ‘bond’ is going to be an important plot point once again, but Viola Davis and Alfred Enoch are so perfect together that it isn’t at all a bad thing.
In the Now, there’s Frank’s absence and there’s Annalise spy-texting from a burner phone she keeps hidden in her jewelry box. But just as how HTGAWM episodes usually go, the premiere is full of flashbacks giving us a ‘I know what you did last summer’ sort of vibe, since they mainly revolved around how Annalise and the Keating Five spent their summers, which on a front level is quite boring.
Annalise helped Michaela get out of trouble after a night of too much drinking & driving. ( let’s pause and point out how Michael seemed to have gone up from being an up-tight perfectionist to a party girl )
Annalise refused to money-aid Asher’s poor pocket now that rich daddy’s dead.
Annalise drenched her feet in the rooftop pool of Connor and made him a promise to never hire Oliver (a promise she very quickly breaks). ( Let’s also pause and point out that Conner weirdly opted for a quite relaxed and easy lifestyle than what we would have expected from him )
Annalise planted some flowers while arguing with Laurel who tried to convince everyone that she is not Team Frank. Although, In present-day September, it’s revealed Laurel has been calling Frank for months and leaving voicemails, seemingly getting no response.
Pieces of paper with Annalise’s face and “Killer” scrawled in red are popping up all over campus, first in her law-clinic lecture hall and then on various boards. Annalise doesn’t seem too concerned by this, but she did mention it to Nate as they exchanged massages
And most importantly this episode flashes forward two months to reveal Annalise’s house burning up in flames with a DEAD BODY being carted out on a stretcher. We’re promised a bit of a game over the next several episodes, with weekly hints on which characters are still alive.
I’m totally up for the guess game…and this couldn’t get more exiting !