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Summary:

Annalise Keating, comes in and welcomes them to criminal law 100 or how to get away with murder. She says she doesn’t teach how to study the law but how to practice it like a real lawyer. The first case to study is the aspirin assassin. She calls on Connor Walsh. He rattles off case facts. Another students says the guy’s mistress replaced his meds with aspirin. Michaela says this caused anaphylactic shock. She calls on Wes and he asks what the mens rea is. She says she emailed the assignment two days ago and he says he didn’t get it. Then, she ends the class by telling them the trial starts in two days and tells them each to present a defense the next day to see if they can beat the ones she has. She offers them the discovery files, access to her associates, Frank, Bonnie and her library. She tells them that this assignment will help decide who comes to work for her. It’s a statue of the scales of justice she says will get you out of a test.

Wes goes over the case fact in his room which is largely unfurnished. He was exhausted and worn out but sleep wasn’t practical in the situation. His neighbor has their loud music on, he didn’t know where to start and how to make it. The rial day came, Michaela says they should offer up Arthur’s wife Agnes as an alternate suspect. Wes crosses that one off his list. Some suggest jury strategies and some forensic errors. Wes crosses item after item off his list. He has to go last so he’s in a tough spot since his has to be original. Diminished capacity and many others are suggested. Finally, Annalise calls on Wes. He stands and says they should say it was self-defense because Gina had Stockholm Syndrome and says the affair was just one example of his brain washing. He goes to move to the wall of shame but Annalise moves him to the finals. 

Source:

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2014/how-to-get-away-with-murder-recap-92514-season-1-premiere-pilot/

Attitude: BEHAVIORAL

Summary:

A flashback of Professor Annalise reading the newspaper article about the dead girl that was found in the water tank. He says that he has to work with the students in grief counseling and heads to work.

Annalise heads to class, and lectures her students about lying, and how to tell when people are lying. She tells them to look around and ask themselves if they know who anyone really is. She brings up a case she is working on with Marjorie St. Vincent. The wife was stabbed 16 times, with blood everywhere. Everyone was coming up with their own defense. 

Source:

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2014/how-to-get-away-with-murder-recap-10214-season-1-episode-2-its-all-her-fault/

GROUP THINK

Summary:

Michaela in bed with her boyfriend, he wishes that he could move to Philadelphia to be with her, and they daydream about how amazing their lives will be. She gets a phone call calling her to work. Wes is snooping around the jail trying to get information on Rebecca’s arrest.

Professor Keating is in a meeting with Griffin’s coach and the dean of the school. They remind her that she and Sam have both received generous packages from the school, and they need her to represent Griffin and make sure he isn’t found guilty of murdering Lila. It would look bad if the college’s star quarterback was convicted of murder. Keating says she will think about it and get back to them. She heads outside and calls Nate and asks him if he has checked out Sam’s alibi. She can’t take the case and defend Griffin if she doesn’t know if her own husband killed Lila. Sam heads to New Haven and talks to a student who was supposed to be at Sam’s lecture the night that Lila was murdered, she reveals that Sa never showed up and called and said he had food poisoning that weekend.

Griffin shows up at the office to tell his story about what happened the night Lila was killed. Griffin explains that he and Lila had taken a vow to wait until they were married to have sex. And then one night he and Lila wanted to get high, so she called her drug dealer friend Rebecca. He and Rebecca got really messed up and were having sex when Lila walked in and caught them, she freaked out and smacked him. Griffin says that Rebecca set the whole thing up, and texted Lila from his phone and told her to come to the room because she wanted him to get caught. He thinks Rebecca killed Lila.

Wes makes a fake lawyer ID so he can get in to the police station and talk to Rebecca. He lies and says he is from the public defender’s office. Once they are alone, he tells Rebecca that he found Lila’s phone after she hid it in his bathroom. The phone is locked, he begs Rebecca to tell him what is on the phone so he can help her. Rebecca calls for the guard and says that Wes isn’t her lawyer. While the guards are dragging him out, he warns Rebecca that Griffin is going to pin Lila’s murder on her.

Annalise heads to the police station to pick up Wes since he was caught with a fake lawyer ID. She demands to know why he didn’t tell her Rebecca is his neighbor. He rants that he doesn’t care if she fires him, but she can’t defend Griffin, he’s not a good guy. If she is going to defend anyone, she should be defending Rebecca because she can’t afford a lawyer and she needs his help.

Source:

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2014/how-to-get-away-with-murder-recap-10914-season-1-episode-3-smile-or-go-to-jail/

Attitudde: JOB INVOLVEMENT

Summary:

Rebecca meets with Annalise and Bonnie, she says that she didn’t kill Lila. The reason she confessed was because Wes was right and Griffin was trying to pin her on it. Annalise drags Wes in to her office and screams that it’s his fault Rebecca confessed. She announces to everyone that Wes is off of Rebecca’s case, he isn’t allowed to speak to her or even look at her.

Bonnie heads to the police station to get the confession tape. She reveals to the officer that she knows that Nate is investigating Sam Keating for Lila’s death, she threatens to expose his department if he doesn’t hand over the confession tape. Wes, Laurel, Connor, Asher, and Micaela gather in Annalise’s office with Bonnie to watch Rebecca’s confession tape. They head back to the courtroom the next day with the video evidence, and Annalise shows the judge that Rebecca’s confession was clearly coerced. The judge agrees and sets Rebecca’s bail to $100,000. Annalise announces to Rebecca that she is going home. Wes greets Rebecca as she comes home from the police station, he shows her that he still has Lila’s phone. He takes the phone to Annalise and she thanks him and tells him that he did his job, now he has to let her do her job. Wes leaves and she takes her hair down and washes her make-up off. Her husband Sam comes home, she holds up Lila’s phone and calmly asks him,“why is your penis on a dead girl’s phone?”

Source:

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2014/how-to-get-away-with-murder-recap-101614-season-1-episode-4-lets-get-scooping/

Models of organizational behavior: SUPPORTIVE-AUTOCRATIC MODEL

Summary: 

Annalise and her students in class, Laurel finally stands up for herself and argues with Annalise in front of everyone. 

Annalise and her students head to her office to meet with their next client, a teenager named Ryan shot and killed his abusive father, who happened to be a cop. Annalise says their only chance of winning this is by appealing to their juror’s emotions. They decide their best bet to get jurors that will feel sorry for Ryan is at juror selection to try for women and minorities who don’t trust the police. Laurel speaks up and speaks her mind. Annalise was shocked but also impressed at the same time.

Source:

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2014/how-to-get-away-with-murder-recap-102314-season-1-episode-5-were-not-friends/

Attitude: JOB SATISFACTION

Summary:

Wes storms out of Annalise’s place when he realizes she can’t stop lying. He thinks she’s sick. When Wes skips class, Annalise shows up at his apartment. She wants to know what he wants. That’s easy. He wants her to find Rebecca or he’ll tell the police everything he knows. Annalise later orders Frank to do something for her.

Annalise lets Wes know that the police found new evidence that Griffin O’Reilly killed Lila because she was seeing another man. It’s the cell phone. Annalise had Frank make sure any evidence of where the photo came from was cleared. An anonymous tip led the police to find the cell phone in O’Reilly’s car. Annalise has fulfilled Wes’s wishes. She’s done whatever it takes to bring home Rebecca, who tells Wes that no one has ever believed in her like this before.

Annalise has the wallpaper in her bedroom replaced. It’s the last thing that could link Sam to the photo on the phone unless, of course, someone else knows what his penis looks like. Annalise admits that she’s doing this for Sam because she needs him. She loves him. Sam loves her, too. Their mini-love-fest is interrupted by a knock on the front door. It’s Rebecca. She’s back. Wes is by her side. A discussion on next steps for her case is forthcoming. In other news, surveillance footage shows Nate that Frank broke into Griffin O’Reilly’s car.

Source:

http://abc.go.com/shows/how-to-get-away-with-murder/episode-guide/season-01/106-freakin-whackamole

Model of Organizational Behavior: SYSTEM MODEL

Summary:

Two weeks earlier, a news report claims that Rebecca had sex with Griffin O’Reilly the night of the disappearance. It’s becoming the story of a love triangle gone wrong. After Annalisegets her request for a gag order granted, Griffin’s attorney introduces photographic evidence to help his client. He wants to exhume Lila Stangard’s body to prove Rebecca is the only killer.

A.D.A. Wendy Parks claims she doesn’t want Lila’s body dug up either. She gives Annalise ammunition on how to battle the request. During the hearing, one expert is discredited and another is called in to help Rebecca’s defense. Next up strategy-wise is finding a way to get Lila’s parents to speak out against exhumation.

Sam says Lila’s parents didn’t trust Griffin. They were worried he had ulterior motives with their daughter. Armed with this info, Frank and Laurelare sent to persuade the parents to block the exhumation. They succeed. Lila’s mother testifies that she wants her daughter to rest in peace.

A.D.A. Parks pulls a fast one in court by saying she had her own expert suggest that the markings on Lila’s neck were from a female’s fingernails. Annalise asks Nate to help her understand why Parks flipped on her. Connor, Wes and Asher take their own approach at a bar to learn that the D.A.’s office worked out a deal with Griffin’s attorney. Annalise has an idea as to how to work this collusion-fest to their advantage.

Even though a gag order is in play, Rebecca leaks the story that she was raped by Griffin. This leads to all plea deals being ditched and the judge ordering Lila’s body to be exhumed. A second autopsy is performed. Wes is ticked at Rebecca for what she did. They get into an argument back at his place. After the yelling is done, they end up making love. Afterwards, Wes opens up about his personal life.

In random relationship news, Connor runs into one of his recent one-night-stands. His name is Julian, not that Connor remembers this right away. They make time for a quickie in the men’s room. It’s intense, but only truly satisfying for old what’s his name. Later, Connor is warned to stay away from Oliver by his new boyfriend.

Michaela thinks she has a job interview at a big law firm. In reality, she’s been called in to sign a prenuptial agreement. Laurel is offered a job working for her boyfriend, Kan. Frank doesn’t want her to quit at Annalise’s because of him. He’ll get over her. Actually, that’s not what Laurel wants. They two of them proceed to kiss and climb all over each other.

Nate confronts Rebecca in convenience store. He knows she didn’t kill Lila Stangard. He wants her to help him catch who did. Elsewhere, Sam caresses Annalise’s face in bed. She reciprocates until there’s a knock on the door. It’s Bonnie. She says the marks on Lila’s neck were ant bites, not fingernail marks. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this new examination reveals that Lila Stangard was six weeks pregnant when she died. Annalise turns to Sam with an icy stare. No more face-caressing tonight.

Source: 

http://abc.go.com/shows/how-to-get-away-with-murder/episode-guide/season-01/107-he-deserved-to-die#more

Model of Organizational Behavior: COLLEGIAL MODEL

Summary:

In class, Annalise reveals her next client, Gretchen Thomas. Gretchen has been taking prescription sleeping pills, which have caused her to buy things online and have sex when she is completely unconscious.  And then her sleepwalking progressed and she killed her own nanny.  They have her on videotape dragging her dead nanny through her house.

Back at the office Annalise calls Wesley in to her office and reveals to him that Lila was six weeks pregnant.  She says they are going to do a DNA test to see if Griffin is the father, Annalise says it is good for Rebecca’s case.  But, she wants Wes to keep it a secret from Rebecca because she is scared that Rebecca will act out and celebrate before her trial.

Rebecca shows up at Annalise’s house and she is at court.  She says she forgot her gloves and tries to go in the bathroom but Sam kicks her out.  Meanwhile, Annalise’s students are interviewing Gretchen’s family about her relationship with Gretchen.  Everyone is doing their very best to win the case but some of them to get attention from Annalise because they want the trophy.

After court Michaela heads to Annalise’s office and demands to know why she can’t have the trophy since she won the case.  

Source: 

http://www.ew.com/recap/how-to-get-away-with-murder-season-1-episode-8

STATUS SYMBOL

Summary:

Michaela shows up at Annalise’s place to turn in the trophy. Rebecca orders her to call Wes as she locks herself in the bedroom. She plops a flash drive into Sam’s laptop. Michaela freaks from downstairs as Sam breaks down the door. Wes, Connor and Laurel arrive. Rebecca exits the bedroom’s bathroom once she downloads what she needs from the laptop. Sam tackles her. Everyone gets involved in a mad scramble for the flash drive. A chase into the hallway has Sam pursuing a flash drive-holding Laurel. Michaela pushes him away to protect her. Sam goes flying over the second floor railing. A lifeless Sam ends up on the first floor below.

Wes heads back to Annalise’s place to grab the trophy. He apologizes to a dead Sam. A short time later, Wes meets up with the others in the woods to figure out their next move. He dupes the others into going back for the body by lying about the outcome of a coin flip. Frank calls Laurel during a time when she’s busy burying a body in the woods with her classmates as, one of whom, Michaela, loses her engagement ring. This leads to disposing the body in a dumpster as opposed to by fire.

Wes smashes Rebecca’s flash drive to get rid of the evidence that they were at Annalise’s place. Elsewhere, Oliver calms an unravelling Connor. He wants him to tell him everything. That doesn’t happen. Connor instead claims to have a drug problem. Laurel brings the trophy to Frank’s place. She cons him into returning it without anyone knowing. As for Asher and Bonnie, their time together ends abruptly when a worried Annalise calls fearing that something terrible has happened. 

Wes assures Annalise that they will all do as she asks. We jump back to see why. When Wes went back for the trophy, he said he was sorry for what he’d done. A voice said, “Don’t be.” It came from Annalise. She knows Sam is dead. Now she’s invested in Wes. Do the two of them secretly initiate a plan on how to get away with murder?

Source:

http://abc.go.com/shows/how-to-get-away-with-murder/episode-guide/season-01/109-winter-finale-kill-me-kill-me-kill-me

Model of Organizational Behavior: CUSTODIAL MODEL

Summary: 

Annalise at the police station – the DA is questioning her about Lila’s murder, and whether her husband Sam killed her. Annalise explains that she could tell by the way Sam freaked out about the DNA test that he was responsible for Lila’s death – and she explains that Sam confessed to having an affair with Lila. Annalise tells the police that she thinks he skipped town because he knew she was going to turn him in. She neglects to tell them that Sam is dead – and her law students killed him and burned his body.

Connor corners Michaela and tries to get her to go to the police station with him and explain everything that has happened. Connor reminds her that Wes and Rebecca were the ones that killed Sam, and they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and were bullied in to helping them cover up the crime and burning the body.Annalise heads back to court and they have the data from Sam’s laptop. They track him and prove that he went to New Haven, and then a coffee shop in Philadephia, then he traveled to the sorority house where Lila was killed and stayed there for three hours – coincidentally the same time period that Lila was murdered. The judge drops all of the charges against Rebecca, and she is a free woman.

Connor and Michaela try to convince Laurel to go to the police with them and confess – Laurel caves and agrees to go with them. She tells them that she “is in.” The three of them drive to the police station later that night, when they arrive Wes and Annalise are waiting for them. Connor and Michaela realize that Laurel sold them out. Annalise tells them that she knows what really happened to Sam – and they have to trust her. Annalise comforts Connor and tells him that she doesn’t blame them for Sam’s death, she promises them that if they listen to her – they will get away with Sam’s murder.

Source:

http://poptius.com/2015/02/01/how-to-get-away-with-murder-episode-10-recap/

PERSONAL POWER

Summary:

It’s the first day of the 2nd semester, Michaela, Connor, Wes, and Laurel head back to Annalise’s class. Connor fills them in on Sam’s sister coming to town and looking for Sam, Wes is furious that Ananlise didn’t tell him about Sam’s sister and corners her in the office. While Wes and Annalise are bickering over Sam’s sister – Bonnie interrupts and says that a woman just walked in and said she was arrested for a DUI and needs a lawyer. Bonnie thinks it may be a member of the press getting close to Annalise under false pretenses, but Annalise agrees to take on the case. She and her students could “use a little fun.”

Annalise storms out of her office and sees a mousey woman sitting in the waiting room. Annalise demands to know what precinct arrested her, the woman begins stuttering and it is clear that she doesn’t have a DUI, so Annalise tries to kick her out. She tells Annalise that she “wants to do what Annalise did.” Annalise kicks her out and heads back in the office but the woman shouts, “Please take on my case! My husband is holding two girls captive in our basement!” Naturally, Annalise is intrigued.

Source:

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2015/how-to-get-away-with-murder-recap-2515-season-1-episode-11-best-christmas-ever/

STATUS RELATIONSHIP

Summary:

A police officer arrives at Annalise’s house to tell her that Sam is dead. Sam’s sister Hannah begins freaking out and screaming at the cop to arrest Annalise. She screams that Annalise is a murderer, and she killed Sam. 

Annalise finds out that her client Leo cancelled their meeting, and doesn’t want her representing his nephew Paul anymore in his drug case because of Annalise’s current poor reputation.  Annalise calls Connor in to his office when she hears him ranting to the other students that Annalise is setting them up and should be grieving. Annalise calls him in to her office, she tells him to say what he needs to say to her face. Connor whines that they can’t trust Annalise, she is supposed to be protecting them and she doesn’t even talk to them. Annalise explains to Connor that the reason she gave him a trophy the first day of class is because he is just like her, and they are both warriors. She understands that it is not in his nature to trust her – but he can stop worrying. At the office that night Bonnie tells Annalise that she read that coroner’s report and she knows that Sam was killed with the trophy, and the carpet fibers they found on Sam’s body will lead back to her house. Bonnie knows that the law students killed Sam, she warns Annalise that they aren’t going to get away with it and they keep sneaking off to talk about it. She warns Annalise not to let the students bring her down with them. The next day the police call Annalise in for questioning, she decides to finally talk to the police. They show her a photo of evidence that they found in the woods with Sam’s body. It’s not Michaela’s ring – Annalise says that it is Sam’s ring and she gave it to him as a gift.

The police show up at Nate’s house and arrest him for the murder of Annalise’s husband Sam.

Source:

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2015/how-to-get-away-with-murder-recap-21215-season-1-episode-12-shes-a-murderer/

Motivation: COMMITMENT

Summary: 

Jolene Samuels, a nurse who has been accused for allegedly raping her male patient while he was unconscious at the hospital following a routine surgery. Bonnie steps out of Annalise’s shadow this week.

Connor is in a celebratory mood due to Nate being their scapegoat for murder. To assist on Bonnie’s case, he enlists Oliver to help stalk the patient, finding out that he is gay. Bonnie uses the patient’s sexuality to aid her case, but it gets thrown out of the courtroom for being irrelevant and “bordering on discrimination”. Bothered and basically helpless, Bonnie is urged by Frank to consult Annalise for help, but she refuses to, bent on proving her capabilities. She’s also upset that Annalise and Frank never let her in on what was going on with Sam’s disappearance. Asher finds out that the patient once visited the legal floor at the hospital, which although might seem ordinary, helped Bonnie joined the dots. She exposes the truth in court: the hospital’s lawyer, who had been gunning for Bonnie to reach a settlement for a case, is actually in a relationship with the patient. They were in cahoots to siphon money from the hospital, under the guise of a legal settlement, to their joint bank account.Exhilarated at their victory, Bonnie and Asher make out at the parking lot, unaware that Frank is in a nearby car observing them.While all these unfold, Annalise coops up half-dead in her bedroom. Her mom comes down to take care of her, and I knew she was gonna be badass. There’s no way Annalise’s mother is not more of a personality than her.

Source:

http://abc.go.com/shows/how-to-get-away-with-murder/episode-guide/season-01/13-mamas-here-now

TRUST BUILDING

Summary: 

Father Andrew is a pastor who is accused of murdering his colleague, Father Bernard. He intends to plaed guilty, but makes a last-minute change in decision when Agnes, a woman who works at his church walks into the courtroom. He indeed killed his colleague for sexually abusing a boy at their church (it drove the boy to commit suicide).Annalise convinces Agnes to be an alibi for Father Andrew, but this in turn reveals their reputation-tarnishing sexual relations in court. Aggravated, Father Andrew abruptly reverts to his original plea of guilty and is sentenced to jail.

Wes, upon returning to their apartment, Wes assures Rebecca that everything is fine (“Nothing’s wrong… I’m always honest with you“), and they have sex. He later investigates discrepancies and loopholes in Rebecca’s past police statements, and deduces that her coerced confession might have been true after all. She indeed went to the sorority house on the night of Lila’s murder.Via Frank’s unorthodox connections, Annalise gets Nate beaten up in jail in order to be transported to a hospital, but Nate’s judge rules that he is placed in solitary instead. Through a blur Asher whose father is friends with the judge, she schemes to replace the judge with a more favorable one that grants Nate bail.

Connor and Oliver are about to have sex until the latter stops them (“One in five gay guys are HIV positive and half of them don’t even know it“). Connor takes a HIV test and is extremely anxious, but is eventually relieved to find out he is negative.The kids confront Rebecca at her apartment and interrogate her. “I swear to god, I will personally destroy you,” Michaela threatens. “Tell us the damn truth, Rebecca. Did you or did you not kill Rebecca?” Instead, Rebecca frightens the kids by revealing she’d found the cop that spoke to them on the night of Sam’s death.At a loss of what to do (as usual), the kids call Annalise down…

All of them was confused, Annalise then made a decision to make their own versions of stories, and whoever can come up with the best one, that will be their basis.

Source:

http://poptius.com/2015/03/02/how-to-get-away-with-murder-finale-episode-14-15-recap/

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

Summary: 

A new prosecutor on Nate’s case gets a statement from Annalise about Nate’s trial. Annalise cooks up a story that Nate followed her home after they had sex that night, and that he engaged in a physical altercation with a drunk Sam. Later at night, the prosecutor approaches Asher for a statement about Annalise. This spells trouble because Asher will probably unknowingly reveal info about how Annalise caused Nate’s original judge to be replaced. Rebecca tries to psycho Connor into doubting Wes, insinuating that he killed his mother when he was 12. When Asher comes to work and bangs on the office door, everyone is distracted. Rebecca quickly uses Michaela’s phone to text an unknown number with a cryptic message: “Eggs 911. Lawyer’s house.”While Frank deals with Asher, everyone else retreats to the basement to hide from Asher. There, they tie up Rebecca. They all hear Asher talk to Frank about his relationship with Bonnie.Rebecca also reveals that she found Lila dead in the water tank, then hid inside when a few sorority girls came up the roof. Annalise finds out that Rebecca is missing from the basement. Frantic, she returns back up asks everyone who did it. Wes goes to the basement and is dumbfounded to see her gone. Desperate and a loss of what to do, he seeks solace in Annalise, who tells him to profusely believe that Sam killed Lila.

5 months ago: Over the phone, Lila tells Sam that she will reveal their affair and her pregnancy to Annalise. She goes to the Keating house but is turned away by Bonnie. Sam meets Lila at the rooftop of the sorority house and claims he wants to be with her. As soon as he leaves, he makes a call to someone on the payphone. “I need you to do what we talked about. You owe me,” he says. That someone goes up the roof and strangles Lila to death.

We find out that Lila’s killer is in fact Frank, who disposes her body in the water tank. Rebecca then goes up the rooftop and finds nothing but Lila’s phone. She checks the water tank and finds her body inside. Annalise goes back down the basement after Wes leaves the house. Frank is standing there overlooking something underneath the stairs.

Source: 

http://poptius.com/2015/03/02/how-to-get-away-with-murder-finale-episode-14-15-recap/

ROLE CONFLICT