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E'er since Annalise Keating wrote the name of her law course on that chalkboard in 2014, she's been teaching those closest to her How to Become Away With Murder. Information technology's fitting, then, that Th'south serial finale gave us closure on who — if anyone — managed to go away with their many crimes from the past six years.

Heading into Murder'southward concluding hour, we had enough of other questions that needed answers, also. Would Annalise really fake her death and start a new life? Would Hannah Keating's killer be revealed? Has Wes been alive this whole time?! And though the ABC drama just had 43 minutes to tie up loose ends, many of our questions were addressed — some of them with devastating results. (Click here for our full mail service mortem interview with serial creator Pete Nowalk.)

Read on for the details of "Stay":

Human Down?| We begin in the future, seemingly subsequently Annalise's trial has ended. There are gunshots. Reporters and onlookers scream and beginning running away from the courthouse. Nosotros encounter a close-up of a claret-soaked body, though we don't find out whose it is. Inside the courthouse, Annalise's mother frantically asks if Annalise has been hurt.

In a later version of this same scene, we get a few more details: When shots are fired, Tegan tells Annalise to get down. We however aren't told whether Annalise has been shot, but in that location is a glimpse of Tegan looking horrified. Laurel, meanwhile, is putting Christopher in a machine seat when the shots band out. She turns around to run across what happened, so looks like she's been punched in the gut after spotting whomever'southward been injure. "Drive. Drive right at present!" she cries to the person at the wheel.

SAM'S Club| 3 days before that shooting takes place, Annalise is yet figuring out how to win her case, and she's none too pleased that Bonnie blabbed to Frank almost his real parents. Tegan is yet sure that Gov. Birkhead orchestrated Hannah Keating's decease — merely when we render to the scene of that crime, it seems Frank was the one to impale Hannah, later on all. Information technology'south not that nosotros get explicit confirmation of this, like a flashback of Frank finishing the job; rather, when Hannah's lawyer, Floyd, gets back in his motorcar that night, a gloved Frank is all of a sudden there, pointing a gun at Floyd's head from the backseat. Then it tracks!

"Don't move. I just want to talk," Frank tells Floyd, who asks what this is virtually. "My female parent," Frank replies. (Well, it'south more similar "my mothah" when yous add a little Delfino to information technology.) The adjacent time nosotros see these men, Floyd is presenting Frank with everything that was in Hannah's prophylactic deposit box, including her passports and will. But when Floyd accidentally reveals that at that place's something he's still keeping from Frank, Frank threatens to cease his life right and so and there — and Floyd immediately crumbles, revealing that there's a flash drive with crucial information on it.

After, during a suspension between testimonies at Annalise's trial, she and Frank speak in the hallway, and he denies that he killed Hannah. "You know what you never get? That you're it for me," Frank tells her, tears in his eyes. "You got me out of the pound. Certain, I mess up. But all I want at present is to make you happy." (Man, Charlie Weber is a heartbreaker hither.) Later on their sweet conversation, in which Annalise implores Frank to stop hating himself, he presents her with the aforementioned flash drive. "What'south that?" she asks. "How you're gonna win," he replies. (Merely nosotros'll get back to that!)

HTGAWM Series Finale That evening, Bonnie — who expressed to Laurel in an earlier scene that she regrets telling Frank virtually his real parents — comes abode to find Frank conveying a suitcase. "What am I supposed to exercise now, knowing what's in me?" he asks her, adding that she should have known better than to brunt him with the truth about Sam and Hannah. Bonnie insists the burden is on both of them, and she wants to support him through all of this — but Frank counters that "you should put a bullet in my head, 'cause that would have been nicer than what yous did." (Ouch.) Despite Bonnie'due south pleas for Frank to stay, he can't be persuaded. "I'll forgive you. I volition," he tells her. "Just not right now." And afterward kissing her one last fourth dimension, he leaves.

As it turns out, Frank's suitcase isn't total of his belongings. Rather, it contains $87,000 — the money he got from the Mahoneys, I presume — which he presents to Gabriel, who was potentially going to appear as a surprise witness in Annalise'due south case. Though he knows that Gabriel still wants the truth about what happened to Sam, Frank reminds him that Sam was a bad dude; he fifty-fifty reveals that Sam enlisted Frank to kill Lila Stangard a few years back. "Have the money. Become abroad from all this," Frank tells Gabriel, urging him non to testify against Annalise. "Or Sam's gonna destroy your life like he'southward done everyone else." (Every bit we after learn, Gabriel does take the greenbacks, instead of taking the stand up, and seems to become outta Philly for good.)

LET'Southward Brand A Deal| Meanwhile, there's Connor, who's starting to remember that he, Michaela and Oliver should just come make clean virtually all of their crimes. (Perhaps this deleted scene has something to do with his guilt?) Neither Michaela nor Oliver is on board with that plan; Michaela insists that her nightmarish, abusive childhood was enough imprisonment for one lifetime, and now she plans to make something of herself.

That night, Oliver comes abode from doing research at Middleton's library, happily revealing that he's figured out a style to get Connor the same immunity deal as Michaela — one that doesn't include any jail time. Connor isn't thrilled by that news, and he wishes Oliver would respect that he wants to get to prison; Oliver is irked by Connor'due south stubbornness and threatens to divorce him on the spot (!) if Connor doesn't practice what's best for his husband this time.

Suspiciously, though, Connor receives a phone phone call from Agent Lanford that same night, and he visits the FBI offices the next day, where he's of a sudden offered the exact same immunity deal as Michaela. U.S. Attorney Lennox tries to convince Connor that he simply had a alter of heart near the immunity deal, thinking it unfair that Michaela got a improve arrangement than Connor did. Simply Connor doesn't buy it: When he returns home, he seems to know that Oliver wasn't actually doing research at the law library the previous night; rather, he was secretly coming together with Lanford and Lennox in an endeavor to go Connor a better deal. What'due south more, in gild to secure that better bargain, Oliver had agreed to evidence confronting Annalise — and he was going to lie that Annalise had asked him to wipe dirty photos of her and Wes from her hard bulldoze.

HTGAWM Series Finale That'south when Connor drops two bombs on Oliver: He turned down the new immunity bargain, and he wants a divorce. He's got the paperwork all drawn up, in fact. Connor volition be taken abroad to prison house as soon every bit the trial is over, and he doesn't desire Oliver to await for him while he's backside bars. And certain, Oliver might be alone for a while, "only only until you run into someone who's really salubrious," Connor insists, adding that the but thing holding their relationship together is death and trauma and lies. Oliver refuses to become through with the divorce, peculiarly since he's certain that Connor nonetheless loves him… but Connor and so breaks it to him that "I don't dearest you." (And Oliver weeps, just like the balance of us watching at home.)

Accept THE STAND AND DELIVER | Every bit for the actual trial proceedings, there are three major testimonies that have identify in Thursday's finale. Outset up: Jorge Castillo, who isn't much assistance. Non only does he deny working with the governor and the FBI to take down Annalise, but he identifies Tegan every bit the informant who got him locked upwardly in the first place. (You might recollect that Jorge isn't supposed to have that information; Tegan had previously shared that she only helped Laurel go out of Philadelphia considering Laurel had threatened to tell Jorge that Tegan was the informant. And plainly, Jorge found out anyway!)

Side by side, at that place's Gov. Birkhead, who similarly denies knowing the Castillos and conspiring with the FBI. But during the cross-examination, Annalise plays an audio file that was on the flash drive Frank gave her, which is a telephone phone call from Hannah Keating to Xavier Castillo. "I just saw the governor on TV saying Nate Lahey Sr. died," Hannah is heard telling Xavier, who confirms Nate Sr.'s death. "Because the governor killed him?!" she continues, incredulous. "I wanted Annalise to get down for my brother, non hurt all these other people." (Gov. Birkhead maintains that she doesn't know why Hannah and Xavier are speaking so intimately of her on that call, but this doesn't look great for her regardless.)

And finally, there's Nate'due south testimony. Now, Annalise doesn't have a lot of faith in him at this point, because Lanford and Lennox only offered Nate a $20 one thousand thousand (!) settlement for his begetter'southward wrongful decease lawsuit. And for that kind of money, surely Nate would tell whatever lies about Annalise that the FBI wanted, right? But when Nate takes the stand, he comes through for her. He lies that Hannah Keating was the one who framed him for Sam's murder (when it was really Annalise), and he reveals that the FBI tried to coerce him into saying what they wanted. (Annalise, for her part, looks like she just won the Powerball.)

That evening, Nate stops by Annalise's flat, and she asks why he decided to help her. Though he admits he hated Annalise for a long fourth dimension, he besides wanted to take responsibility for the role he played in their collective mess. In lodge to truly move on, he needs to "own my side of the road" — and he thinks Annalise needs to do the same, which isn't exactly her strong accommodate. Before he goes, he has one concluding parting souvenir for Annalise: Wes' written confession, which he institute on Xavier Castillo after killing him. "Goodbye, Annalise," Nate says, kissing her on the cheek and leaving for good. Annalise, meanwhile, wisely burns the confession, then gets a surprise visit from her mom and sis, who have come to offer her moral support.

'THERE'Due south A VERDICT' | And at present, the trial has reached its end. Despite some initial doubts that she even deserves to exist acquitted, Annalise gives an emotional, compelling closing argument to the jury, admitting that she's a flawed, messy person — but she's no murderer. Then, while Annalise and Tegan wait for the jury to deliberate, Tegan finally reveals what nosotros've all known for months: "I retrieve I'thousand in dearest with you lot, Annalise." (Give thanks y'all, Pete Nowalk, for not letting this go unaddressed!)

Though Tegan insists that she can give Annalise love and make her happy, Annalise can't promise her the aforementioned. "That'southward what you deserve, and it's out at that place for you," Annalise assures her. "But it'southward merely not me." Moments later, they're interrupted past Bonnie, who tells them the verdict is in — and one time everyone has returned to the court, it'south revealed that Annalise has been found non guilty on all charges. In that location's tears! There's hugging! There's Lennox looking defeated, as he should!

The acquittal isn't cracking news for everyone, though: Connor is handcuffed shortly after the verdict is announced, and he shoots down Oliver's pleas for them to stay together while he's behind confined. "Oliver, give thanks you. At present I know how to love," Connor says — sob! — before he's whisked away, and Oliver has no interest in Michaela's attempt at condolement. "That should have been yous," he says icily before walking abroad, and when Michaela tries to phone call Laurel, she's stunned to find that Laurel has inverse her number.

Here, we catch up with the episode's earlier flash-forwards (with an astute sense of dread, I might add!). Annalise is on the steps outside the courthouse, triumphantly answering questions from the press; ane reporter even remarks that Gov. Birkhead is too at the courthouse that day, where she'south taking a meeting with the attorney general. So, Bonnie spots Frank working his manner through the throng of reporters, looking both miserable and adamant. (In an before scene, Frank had paid a visit to Baby Sam's gravesite, full-on weeping that he was sorry.)

Seeming to realize Frank's plan, Bonnie tries to intercept him on his mode up the courthouse steps. But she can't stop him in time: As Gov. Birkhead makes her way out of the building, Frank raises his gun and shoots her multiple times, making her the casualty nosotros saw at the top of the hour. But afterwards Frank opened burn down, someone on the governor's security squad grabbed their own gun, and we realize that Frank was also shot amid the chaos. "I had to arrive right," Frank tells Bonnie, bleeding out in her lap. "Tell Annalise." But just equally Annalise rushes over to assistance, Bonnie discovers that she had as well been shot during the pandemonium — and despite Annalise's best attempts to keep her conscious, Bonnie dies on the courthouse steps, likewise.

OUR DEARLY DEPARTED ANNALISE | With that, we're suddenly back at Annalise'southward long-teased funeral — and not only is information technology revealed to exist a real funeral for Annalise'southward legitimate death, but information technology'due south prepare many years in the futurity. That photo of Annalise nosotros've been seeing, surrounded by a wreath of flowers? It'southward continuing right adjacent to a photo of Annalise equally an erstwhile woman, every bit she patently got to alive a long and full life afterwards her acquittal. And kudos to those of y'all who correctly assessed the Wes twist from before this season: Alfred Enoch isn't playing Wes at this funeral, but an adult version of Wes and Laurel's son, Christopher.

"Practise you desire to say annihilation?" Christopher asks (in Spanish!) to Laurel, who is also in attendance. "No," she responds. "But you should." Every bit for the acquaintance who was brought up to say nice things almost Annalise, that would be Eve, who delivers an honest, emotional eulogy. As she does, a number of storytelling gaps are filled via montage: Annalise and her sister, Celestine, mourn their deceased mother. Nate is photographed at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lahey Justice Middle. Jorge Castillo is stabbed to death in prison. (!) Michaela, at present an older adult female, is sworn in as a lawyer (or estimate?), seemingly accompanied by her two daughters. And at Annalise'south funeral, Laurel looks back in the oversupply and spots both Connor and Oliver, who stayed married, afterwards all. (Yay!)

The very final scene probably feels a bit familiar: As adult Christopher walks into a Middleton classroom, he introduces himself as the professor of Criminal Law 100 — "or, as my mentor liked to call it," he says, writing an alternate course title on the board, "How to Go Abroad With Murder." (He's got the Keating cadence down pat, likewise.) And when he looks out to the lecture hall, he envisions Annalise sitting in ane of those seats, beaming at him.

It'south been a pleasure watching and theorizing with you,Murder fans! Now, it'south your plough to weigh in. What did you think of the series finale? Cast your votes in our polls below, so hit the comments with your full reviews!