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How to Get Away With Murder

What If Sam Wasn't the Bad Guy This Whole Time?

Season 6 • Episode 13

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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Season 6, Episode 13 ofHow to Get Away With Murder, “What If Sam Wasn’t the Bad Guy This Whole Time?”]

Just when you thinkHow to Get Away With Murder has run out of ways to make you go O-M-G, an episode like Thursday’s comes along.

“What If Sam Wasn’t the Bad Guy This Whole Time?” delves deep into Tom Verica‘s character’s past — specifically his relationship with Hannah that resulted from their parents’ neglect. First, Vivian (Marsha Stephanie Blake) reveals to Annalise (Viola Davis) that she and Sam were briefly together in 2005. In the months that followed Annalise and Sam losing their baby, he tried to become part of Gabriel’s life.

Then Vivian drops a bombshell. “Think about how Sam always used sex to get what he wanted,” she tells Annalise. “I’m guessing he did the same thing with you. Generous sometimes, freaky others. That’s how he played us. And what woman do you think he learned that from?”Annalise refuses to believe it, but Vivian continues: “Who was Sam closest to his whole life? And when their parents ignored them their whole childhood, left them to fend for themselves? Hannah and Sam were desperate for love so they found it in each other.”

Neither Sam nor Hannah ever said a word themselves to Vivian, but flashbacks throughout the episode contain moments that do suggest that Vivian could be right.“What happened to me and Hannah, we weren’t okay,” Sam tells Vivian in one. In another, he admits to Annalise that he has “personal experience” with abuse, but she assumes that he’s categorizing his parents’ neglect as such.“Love and abuse often feel like the same thing,” he replies.

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And at one point, Sam asks Annalise, “What if there are things that you don’t want to know? … What if there are things you can’t accept?” He calls himself “ruined” and “broken in ways you can’t fix,” but the conversation turns to him still loving her and he doesn’t say anything else on the subject.

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But does Vivian have any proof to support her claim? Not really, other than the research she’s done. “Incest comes out of neglect a lot of the time,” she shares with Annalise. “Then when you think about both him and Hannah becoming psychologists, that’s so they could try to understand it.” After she suggests Hannah was all up in her marriage to Sam, Annalise — after a flashback illustrating that point — kicks her out.

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But she follows up on the possible lead with Frank (Charlie Weber) and Bonnie (Liza Weil). It could help her case, too, Bonnie points out. They could argue that Hannah started the conspiracy against Annalise because she stole her man. Annalise has Tegan (Amirah Vann) get an investigator to dig into Hannah. While they don’t come up with proof of incest, Hannah has been near the FBI building in Philadelphia.

Still, Annalise believes Vivian, she confides in Bonnie. “He was so good with us … because he was us,” she realizes.“Why did we love him? Because he understood us? It was his gift, getting us to see that we were just children, that we weren’t to blame.”

But he, too, suffered trauma. “Hannah was older. He might have been a boy. But there was nobody to tell him that,” Annalise continues. “He could heal others, but he couldn’t heal himself.”

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It’s when Tegan gets Annalise Hannah’s school records that she figures out how they can find proof. Hannah missed 83 days of school, ostensibly for mono, but Annalise suspects she was pregnant. And once she realizes that Hannah gave birth in March, she puts the pieces together. All that’s left to do is run a DNA test.

Annalise then calls Bonnie over to share the proof that Hannah and Sam slept together: a child. They ran a DNA test against Sam, and the sample was a match: Frank.

The fallout of that should be something, but there are only two episodes left of the series. Will this affect Frank and Bonnie’s future? How do you think it’ll end?

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FAQs

Did Sam really love Annalise? ›

Sam tells Lila that he no longer loves Annalise and that he loves her, Sam says that things between him and Annalise were wrong since long before he met Lila, and that he has not felt the way he feels with Lila for a long time.

Did Sam and Hannah sleep together? ›

And once she realizes that Hannah gave birth in March, she puts the pieces together. All that's left to do is run a DNA test. Annalise then calls Bonnie over to share the proof that Hannah and Sam slept together: a child. They ran a DNA test against Sam, and the sample was a match: Frank.

Who killed Sam in How to Get Away with Murder? ›

13. Even Alfred Enoch didn't know it was going to be revealed that he killed Sam. Arguably one of the series' best, most important, and shocking reveals, the moment everyone found out Wes killed Sam shocked everyone, including Wes Gibbins himself, Alfred Enoch.

Is Bonnie's child alive? ›

Bonnie passed out during the birth and when she awoke, her father, their father, told Bonnie that her baby had died. In reality, the baby survived and Bob and Julie took the baby to St. Lincoln Hospital. Sometime later, Julie returned to the hospital where she took the baby back.

Did Annalise know Frank was Sam's son? ›

Annalise obviously had the DNA tested, and sure enough, Frank's DNA matched. He is officially the son of Hannah and Sam Keating.

Does Annalise know Gabriel is Sam's son? ›

When the season fall finale aired in early November, Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) finally discovered that Gabriel Maddox (Rome Flynn) is the biological son of her dead husband Sam Keating(Tom Verica).

Is Sam the father of Lila's baby? ›

Thursday's midseason return was a night of big reveals and tested loyalties: the late Sam (Tom Verica) is revealed to be the father of Lila's baby; Rebecca (Katie Findlay) is no longer on trial; and Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) was far more involved in the Murder Night than that initial “thank you.”

Who killed Annalise's baby? ›

It is later revealed that Frank was responsible for the car crash that killed Annalise's baby, which is why he had to kill Lila for Sam, because he held this over him. Frank runs away and takes the suitcase full of cash with him (which he most likely never spent due to his guilt) at the end of the Season 2 finale.

Who is Gabriel to Annalise? ›

He goes to Annalise at the wedding reception and reveals that Gabriel is the son of her late husband Sam Keating, and Sam's first wife. Annalise slaps him and goes home, where she finds that Gabriel has let himself into her apartment. After Bonnie kills Ron, Nate takes the body in his car to dispose of it.

Is Bonnie in love with Annalise? ›

However, when Annalise was shot, Bonnie helped her in many ways. Since then, Bonnie has remained Annalise's right-hand woman and closest associate. Bonnie told Annalise she loved her after they fought about Bonnie's relationship with Frank, although it's not clear whether she meant platonic or romantic love.

Who buried Bonnie's son? ›

Julie later confesses to Bonnie, telling her a third and most likely true version — that Julie was caught trespassing because she was dumping Jake near this home to keep him from being raised by her and Bonnie's own sexually abusive father. She tells Bonnie that she buried the baby in the woods.

Why did Annalise kiss Bonnie? ›

While Nowalk has told EW that the kiss could mean anything, Bonnie has always had an interesting relationship with Annalise that toed the line between mother-daughter attachment and single white female obsession. “Boundaries get very blurred with these people,” Weil says.

Who does Sam Winchester fall in love with? ›

Although Sam was planning on marrying Jessica, he never revealed his hunting past to her, thinking it would be safer. The two had been together for over a year by the time Dean arrived to drag Sam off to hunt a woman in white. Sam intended to return to his life with Jessica after helping Dean.

Who is Annalise Keating in love with? ›

We learn that in law school she was in a long-term relationship with Eve Rothlo. They remained together until Annalise falls in love with her therapist, Sam Keating. Eventually, Annalise leaves Eve, Sam leaves his wife, and the two get married.

Is Bonnie In love With Sam? ›

Early in the series, Bonnie was portrayed as a stoic, blunt, and responsible adult, though she also held an unrequited crush for Annalise's husband, Sam Keating.

Is Tegan in love with Annalise? ›

In the series finale, while Annalise and Tegan are waiting for the verdict to her conspiracy trial, Tegan (who is no longer Annalise's attorney but still on her legal team) finally tells Annalise that she is in love with her - a revelation that seems to genuinely surprise Annalise.

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