Hello Friends!
Here we are again, with one of the greatest nights on television. Were you able to watch it? I know I enjoyed it.
Let’s recap.
Grey’s Anatomy
Now that Cristina is gone, Alex has taken over as Meredith’s person, and I really love it. I’ve always loved Alex and Meredith as friends, and it’s nice to see them continuing to develop their relationship. Meredith spent the episode worried about and trying to figure out if Maggie Pierce is really her sister. With Alex’s help, Meredith hacks into the . I can only imagine how hard it was for her to lose Lexie, after she finally developed a relationship with her, and I’m guessing that’s part of why she was so hesitant to the idea. Also, let’s talk about Meredith being drunk during the day. I love it.
Derek seems to be struggling with the idea that his baby sister is the Head of Neurosurgery, which is not a huge surprise. While Derek seemed pretty wonderful when Grey’s began, his ego has consistently grown over the history of the series. I understand he turned down a really important job in DC to stay in Seattle with Meredith and that he is probably struggling with the fact that his wife isn’t super happy about it, but he needs to leave his sister alone.
Poor Jackson is struggling with being the head of the board and being a “hall monitor,” but he finally got to do a surgery this episode, which was excellent. He’s still got those hot plastic skills.
Owen is still dealing with Cristina leaving, and has chosen to put all of his eggs in Callie’s proverbial basket. They spent this episode working with robotic legs and hoping to give them to injured veterans. All Owen wanted was for something to be good, and Callie and Jackson opened up that opportunity for him.
Richard finally admitted to Maggie that he is her father, which went about as well for him as her telling Meredith went for her. And at the end of the episode, everything seemed to blow up. Meredith and Derek are mad at each other about him giving up his job in DC, and Callie and Arizona are trying to deal with the fact that they’ve both taken on too much work to have another baby (and that Arizona doesn’t really want another baby). And ultimately Alex, who spent all day helping Meredith deal with her new sister, does not end up getting the spot on the board. Instead it is Bailey, and I can’t wait to see what she does with her spot on the board.
Scandal
Cyrus is continuing to get to know Michael, which is both nerve-wracking and exciting. I’d love to see Cyrus happy again, but I worry about him getting closer to Michael because of Michael’s relationship with Lizzie. They end up sleeping together, and Cyrus pays him, which I think is going to end up being a serious issue for him.
David Rosen is killing it as the new Attorney General, and Fitz knows it. It’s awesome to finally see Rosen do something that isn’t putting papers on the wall and sleeping on couches. He is doing quite a bit of blackmailing, though, particularly after Fitz loses it about the gun legislation not passing and starts talking about his presidency needing to mean something because he can’t be a soccer dad in Vermont. When the man Rosen blackmails (the judge voting on the challenge to the gun legislation) ends up killing himself, it seems to make Rosen rethink his blackmailing.
Jake gets his hands on Charlie, who insists on seeing Quinn. Charlie and Quinn are nearly as icky to me as Quinn and Huck, but I was thrilled to see Quinn take him down a couple of notches. Charlie asks Quinn if she ever gets lonely, and she says no, because she has people. It’s nice to see Quinn realizing that she has OP&A as her people, even if she and Charlie do end up making out after (gross). When Quinn returns to OP&A, neither Olivia nor Huck noticed she was gone, which sends Quinn in to an angry rant that ends in her blaming Harrison’s death on the fact that OP&A wasn’t paying enough attention to what was happening around them.
Mellie is coming back together, and wraps her fits around a news story she sees at the beginning of the episode, where a woman allegedly pushed her husband off a cliff just days after they were married. She even sends Fitz to the cemetery on his own, which makes him think she’s finally on the mend. Instead, it appears as if she has chosen the case as a replacement for the loss of her son. She calls a meeting, which includes many members of Fitz’s cabinet and members of the FBI, only to learn that eye witnesses came forward confirming that the husband fell and wasn’t pushed. Abby saves the moment with a “meeting the first lady must get to,” but it’s still clearly an awful moment of realization for Mellie. It sends her back to her pajamas on the couch.
Abby is doing well as the press secretary at the White House, despite the fact that Fitz still calls her Gabby. She’s struggling with her separation from OP&A, but ultimately impresses Fitz (though he does spend his time with her asking about Olivia).
Olivia spends the episode dealing with the case of a former law school colleague, whose daughter first goes missing and then ends up dead. The woman, it turns out, was sleeping with her daughter’s boyfriend, and the possibility of what that might mean about the death of her daughter is too much for Olivia. It takes her friend coming back to OP&A, admitting the affair with the boyfriend, and insisting that she was not involved in the murder for Olivia to take on the case again.
Olivia also invites Jake over to her father’s for dinner, and when he refuses because they’re “not in a relationship,” it send their relationship, whatever it is, on to the rocks, particularly when he won’t let her into his hotel room because he’s “working.” He eventually concedes and has dinner with Olivia and her father, who says some nice things to Jake, even though Jake tears him a new one.
Ultimately, it’s going to be interesting to see if Olivia’s father goes anywhere (as Jake insisted he do), and what happens with Olivia and Fitz next week.
How to Get Away With Murder
Wes goes to the jail to find out more about Rebecca, and discovers that Griffin (the boyfriend of the murdered co-ed found in the water tank) has posted bail. He tries to get Connor to help him with an ID so that he can get in to the prison to see Rebecca, but before that can happen the phone he found under his sink rings. Turns out the phone never belonged to Rebecca – it belonged to Lila, the murdered co-ed. Wes gets his fake ID, and goes to visit Rebecca at the jail. He gets rid of the guard by insisting that he’s her public defender, and then tells Rebecca he has Lila’s phone. Rebecca won’t tell him anything and yells for the guard, having Wes removed from the room, despite that he’s trying to help her. Wes spends the night in jail, and when Annalise arrives to pick him up he tries to get her to defend Rebecca. Instead she reminds him that they have a current client
Annalise is asked to represent Griffin, but insists she cannot until she knows whether or not Sam was involved in the murder. Nate goes in search of Sam’s alibi, and discovers that he never showed up for the lecture he was supposed to be at out of town, and his car left the parking lot he keeps it in. Annalise ultimately interviews Griffin, who insists he was looking for Lila when she was murdered, and that Rebecca is ultimately responsible for Lila’s death. Nate eventually tells Annalise that Sam’s alibi is solid, which is an outright lie. Ultimately, Annalise decides not to represent the football player and instead represent Rebecca.
Annalise and the team take on the case of a soccer mom arrested for a misdemeanor, but just as they’re about to take her back to the offices to get more information from her, she’s arrested by the FBI for her involvement in a felony murder. The woman and her husband want to take the plea, but Annalise insists that they can win the case. Annalise and the team go for a mind control defense, which is fascinating to see in action. Eventually, they find the man who was in charge of the group their client was working with, and take her up to the prison to see him. It seems their client and this man (Gabriel) had a pretty serious relationship, and he is willing to get on the stand for her. At the trial, he’s called by the prosecution and instead tells the court that she planted the bomb in question. After Annalise discovers the the prosecution worked out a deal with Gabriel, she sends her team out to try and prove the woman’s innocence. Instead, their client goes missing, and the audience discovers that she has run off with Gabriel.
Michaela is engaged to a man named Aiden, who it turns out had a relationship with Connor back at prep school, which Michaela didn’t know. He insists that it was a one time event, and she says he better be certain that he wants to marry her and that he isn’t gay. He apologizes, but I have a feeling this will come up again.
The four students involved in the murder of Sam Keating finally figure out their alibi, which is the bonfire, and try to make it look like they are having a great time. Michaela is not having it. And after they burn the body, Michaela discovers that she has lost her engagement ring.
At the end of the episode, Annalise gives the trophy to Wes for insisting that they defend Rebecca, but when they go to meet with her the first time, she’s already confessed to the prosecution. This is going to get really interesting in the next few episodes, I can feel it.
That’s it for last week, and here at The Write Teacher(s) we cannot wait for the new episode on Thursday! What did you think of the episodes?
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