How to Get Away With Murder
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Olivia Pope has entered the picture!
It may have only been for a few seconds, but its all coming together.
Were setting up the big crossover event for theTGIT Cinematic Universe.
The episode opens with Jimmy Smits sitting in his car right after Laurels custody hearing.
Hes banging on the steering wheel and keeps almost calling Jacqueline.
What kind of casual food-truck hipster opioid business is happening on the streets?
He has flashbacks of his daughter and a flushing toilet and her extremely creepy eye.
And the gang is holed up working on Annalises opening statement for the class-action suit.
Jimmy Smits admits that he wasnt at his girlfriends house because he doesnt have a girlfriend.
He was doing tragic heroin.
He tells her that hes been sober for 23 years and he threw it all away last night.
Annalise offers to take him to a meeting.
But well get to that later.
At breakfast, Jimmy Smits tells the story of when he hit rock bottom.
He was in a bodega when the woman in front of him turned around and smiled at him.
She helped him turn his life around.
This is just proof of my moms theory that any woman can make any mans life better.
But hes got a house now!
Bonnie goes to see a prosecutor to ask about Jimmy Smitss case and OH MY GOD!
Its the guy who played Matt onNip/Tuck!
Where my OG Ryan Murphy heads at?
I couldnt stop looking at those eyebrows.
That man has some brows.
Bonnie tries to flirt and offers to help with the case in exchange for a drink.
Meanwhile, the Keating Gang are arguing about what the opening statement for the class-action suit should be.
Frank calls Oliver to ask him for help hacking into phone records.
Frank thinks that Laurels mom is up to something.
Maybe shes working with Laurels dad?
She definitely knew something about Wes.
Thats what caused him to snap on the other prisoner.
Sis, that is BOLD.
That is a BOLD decision in the case of your life.
That means Annalise doesnt get to call any witnesses and just has to submit a brief.
Lil Nate heads to the prison to tell his father that the case wont go to trial.
Big Nate thinks that its because they dont trust him.
Lil Nate says that hes still got his dads back, but Big Nate is over it all.
She calls Connor a secretary and Im over their squabbling.
Hes got to tell her that hes the reason the baby came so early.
NOT NOW, FRANK.
He wants to protect her from her parents scheming and goes with her to the hospital.
But then Annalise sees the drugs that were in her system.
K-Pex sounds suspiciously like K-Pax, but its actually Jimmy Smitss drug of choice.
Annalise storms over there and demands the truth.
Jimmy Smits tells her everything.
He found Stella at home and she had taken almost every pill he had.
He flushed the pills and sent the good-bye text from his daughters phone so his wife wouldnt be crushed.
And the only person shes willing to work the system for is Annalise.
THE DEAL IS OFF, BONNIE!
NO MORE FLIRTY DRINKS!
Annalise waits for the panel after submitting her very profound and passionate brief.
Okay, she doesnt saythat, but the spirit is there.
He agrees to back off.
Annalise visits Nate and tells him that the court threw out her case.
Annalise says hes high!
She calls him a liar and he just says that hes broken.
Annalise tells him he needs to own his mistakes and that theyre not good for each other.
He flips out on Annalise and says that everything is her fault.
He calls her narcissistic and says she should have seen all this coming.
If you saw any of this coming, youre a fucking psychic.
Annalise says she didnt ruin him because you cant make someone be anything other than who they are.
He has a terrible angry-laugh moment.
Annalise calls Jacqueline and tells him that Jimmy Smits has relapsed.
Is there anyone in Laurels life not actively trying to sabotage it?
Partially because its the right thing to do, and partially because Michaela wants the glory.
But they need connections.
They need …
Olivia Friggin Pope.
Shes doing a lecture called How to Survive a Scandal.
A little on the nose, dont you think?
