After last night's episode of How To Get Away with Murder, things will never be the same again between the Keating 5. The student assistants of Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) are in the middle of a murder and cover-up. During the show's winter finale, it has been revealed that Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch) is the one who killed his professor's husband Sam (Tom Verica) who is also accused of killing a student lover named Lila. Wes was just trying to save Rebecca Sutter (Katie Findlay) who was attacked by Sam while trying to retrieve a drive she stole. But things got out of hand.
Laurel Castillo (Karla Souza), Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee) and Michael Pratt (Aja Naomi King) actually didn't have part on the murder. They were just at the wrong time, on the wrong place. However, they stayed and helped on the cover-up of the murder, and that is the decision that will change them dramatically. When How to Get Away with Murder returns next year, fans will see the impact of the decisions they made.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, How to Get Away with Murder series creator Peter Nowalk said that the Keating 5, including Asher (Matt McGorry) who remains clueless about what went on, will see their behaviors towards each other change.
"They're under even more pressure to learn the law because the only way they don't get found out is if they go through their life like normal. That's what's really fun for me and hopefully interesting for the audience is to watch these characters, especially the students they don't know that much about, and now really to reveal who they are in the aftermath of this trauma," Peter Nowalk said of the effect of the conspiracy in the How To Get Away with Murder finale.
"That night is going to have ripple effects through rest of life and is going to change their behaviors. That's what we're having fun with in the writers' room: learning who these characters are in a really high adrenaline, they're-all-on-acid-type of way (laughs). They're all going to react in ways that they don't expect and viewers don't expect."
How To Get Away with Murder will return on January 29 next year.
