sorry to bother you but do you think you could clear up the end of the last night's ep of htgawm for me? like, as far as annalise, she knew sam was dead when she called bonnie, but she's pretending not to know, and told the police that she thinks he fled? also, what was in the bags they put in the dumpster? i thought they burned his body? sorry if this is annoying, i'm just kind of confused
Michaela steals the trophy from Asher’s house, while Laurel, Connor and Wes get together to study, and Rebecca decides to steal info off Sam’s computer.
Annalise and Sam fight. She tells him she doesn’t love him, knows he killed Lila, etc. He chokes her but stops and then she storms out.
Michaela shows up at the Keating house to return the trophy, and shit goes down. Rebecca shows up, Sam/Rebecca fight, Michaela calls the other 3, Sam gets killed via trophy. They panic, and leave.
Annalise returns home and finds Sam’s body and waits.
The Keating 54 flee the scene, and argue about what to do. Rebecca gets taken to the motel and comes up with her self-defence argument, which Wes ignores and tells her to stay put. Wes realizes he needs to go get the trophy while the group argues over what they do, leave the body or not.
Wes goes to get the murder weapon (the trophy) and realizes Annalise is there.
This hasn’t been confirmed yet but what I strongly suspect happens next is that Annalise tells Wes precisely what to do. Then, Wes leaves to reconvene with the other 3, and suggests burning the body (per Annalise’s instructions). That’s why when they flip the coin, Wes lies about the result to ensure they burn the body.
The gang goes back to the Keating house to get Sam’s body. They roll it in the carpet and Wes makes a call in the convenience store — it’s implied that he is calling Rebecca, but likely he is really calling Annalise.
Meanwhile Annalise has left the house and is establishing her alibi. It’s during this period that she drives to the police station, hooks up with Nate, calls Sam’s phone and leaves a teary “let’s get back together” voice mail, and then calls Bonnie. All of this is establishing her alibi, her “love” for her husband, etc.
At some point the group goes to the bonfire but I don’t remember exactly where this fits in. But anyway, they establish their alibi that way.
They burn the body, and once it’s mostly burnt, they chop it up and put it into garbage bags. Not everything would burn away with just a low-heat fire like they built, so there’d still be bone, that they need to incinerate. Around this point is when Michaela realizes she lost her ring.
Wes wants to take the garbage bags of Sam’s body and incinerate them (somewhere? lol IDK where), but the other 3 are panicking, and they decide to leave them in the dumpster.
Annalise calls the police to report her husband missing. Her story is that she (just) found out about his affair with Lila, they had a fight, she left, and when she came back he was gone. She leads the police to believe that Sam has fled because she knows he is guilty of Lila’s murder.
Wes, I think, is the only one in the murder group who knows that Annalise knows the truth. Connor, Michaela and Laurel all buy into her story. I’m not sure whether or not Bonnie knows the truth. Asher is ofc oblivious.
Does that clear it up? I might have mixed up a couple things like when they take Rebecca to the motel and when they go to the convenience store, but the big things should be in about the right order, I believe.