Thursday’s “How To Get Away With Murder” fall finale made good on its promise to reveal who was “under the sheet.”
It was not a character most were expecting.
Going into Thursday’s episode, the prevailing assumption was that either Nate or Frank would be revealed as the dead character. Every other major character, after all, had appeared — alive — in one of the flash forward scenes.
It turns out, however, that one of those flash forward scenes happened prior to the fire.
Thursday’s finale revealed that Wes’ meeting with at the police station — during which he apparently agreed to provide testimony against Annalise — actually happened several hours before the other events (the house burning down, Annalise getting arrested, Laurel and the others popping up at the hospital, etc). It was not, contrary to common assumption, confirmation that he was safe at the time of the fire.
Indeed, Wes ultimately did end up dying. It was his body retrieved from the fire — and “under the sheet.”
He did not, however, die as a result of burns. Thursday’s episode revealed that he was murdered prior to the fire. And so in addition to chronicling the major characters as they cope with Wes’ death, the back half of season three will presumably reveal which of them is actually responsible for his murder.
