Season 1[edit]

Main article: How to Get Away with Murder (season 1)

Annalise Keating is a prominent criminal defense attorney and law professor at Middleton University in Philadelphia.
She selects five of her first year students to intern at her firm: Wes Gibbins, Connor Walsh, Michaela Pratt, Asher
Millstone, and Laurel Castillo (The Keating 5). They work with Annalise's employees, Frank Delfino and Bonnie
Winterbottom, an associate lawyer. As the first season introduces occasional clients for Keating, it explores two
related murders through both flashbackand flashforward sequences: Lila Stangard, mistress of Annalise's husband
and a student at Middleton, and then Sam Keating, Annalise's husband, who was killed by Annalise's interns.
The first nine episodes alternate between the present-day timeline in medias res, depicting Wes, Connor, Michaela,
and Laurel covering up Sam's murder by disposing of his body, and flashbacks detailing the course of events leading
up to Sam's death, including Annalise's becoming involved in the Lila Stangard investigation, at Wes' urging, leading
her to discover Sam's affair and creating suspicion that he killed Lila. The final six episodes explore Annalise's
attempt to help her interns cover up Sam's murder and legally implicate Sam in Lila's death, and flashbacks to Lila's
final moments before her murder.

Season 2[edit]
Main article: How to Get Away with Murder (season 2)
The first nine episodes focus on Annalise's defense of Caleb and Catherine Hapstall, who were accused of torturing
and murdering their adoptive parents. Wes, in the meantime, teams up with Rebecca's foster brother to try and find
Rebecca. Connor struggles with his relationship with Oliver, while Asher works with A.D.A. Emily Sinclair, in order to
protect his secrets. In the mid-season finale, Sinclair is murdered, and Annalise helps cover it up, at the expense of
her being shot in the stomach by Wes.
The second part of the season focuses on Wes' investigation of his mother's suicide 10 years ago; flashbacks reveal
Annalise's involvement with Wes' mother's suicide. The season ends with Annalise's finding out that Frank was
responsible for the car crash that killed her baby, and Annalise sends him away. Michaela and Asher hook up, and
Wes meets with his biological father right before the latter is shot dead by an unknown shooter.

Season 3[edit]
Main article: How to Get Away with Murder (season 3)
In the aftermath of Wallace Mahoney's death, all five of the students attempt to move on. A new mystery arises
around the burning down of Annalise's house and who was found dead inside. The events leading up to it involve
Annalise's starting a free legal clinic and struggling with alcoholism. Oliver starts working for Annalise, and he leaves
Connor when becoming disgusted with himself for rejecting Connor's Stanford acceptance. Michaela and Asher's
relationship starts to progress, as does Wes and Laurel's, and Frank starts working to atone for the death of
Annalise's child. Ultimately, it is revealed that it was Wes who died, and that he was killed before the fire. Annalise is
arrested for Wes' death. Frank attempts to help Annalise by confessing to killing Wes. It is further revealed that Wes'
death was commissioned by Laurel's father, who disapproved of their relationship.