DID LAUREL HURT HER MOM?| Uh… maybe. The last time we saw Laurel and her mom together, Laurel was furious after learning that Sandrine had been involved in Wes’ death after all. But did she do anything to harm the woman?
Throughout the episode, Laurel maintains that she didn’t do anything to her mother — physically, at least. Apparently, she encouraged Sandrine to kill herself, which horrifies Annalise; given Sandrine’s mental health issues, she might have taken Laurel’s suggestion seriously and actually committed suicide.
The hour ultimately concludes before we learn what happened to Laurel’s mother. But at the end of the episode, when Laurel hops in the shower after bringing her baby home, we see she’s got some serious scratches on her arms. But who put them there?
DID ANNALISE WIN HER COURT CASE?| She did! It’s not often that we can add a tally mark to the “win” column for Annalise — or anyone on this show, really — but it seems her monologue to the Supreme Court had the desired effect. And not only did she win the case, but she’s hailed on the news as “a legal powerhouse on a national level,” a far cry from the disgraced woman we saw at the start of Season 4.
WHAT ABOUT SIMON?| Oh, poor Simon. He just can’t catch a break. At the start of the finale, Simon’s immunity deal is still a go, provided he agrees to blow the whistle on Jorge Castillo and Antares. But Simon begins to get antsy throughout the hour, and he threatens to go to the police with everything he knows about Annalise and her students, unless he sees cold, hard proof of the Antares files on Laurel’s hard drive.
Knowing full well that it will take too long to sort through the hard drive for anything incriminating about Antares, Annalise takes a different approach: She goes to Tegan Price and asks her to blow the whistle on Jorge’s company, revealing to Tegan that D.A. Denver was on Jorge’s payroll. And even though Tegan’s verbal response to Annalise is, “Get the hell out of my office,” her nonverbal response is a quick note scrawled on a piece of paper: “I’m in.” She agrees to anonymously sign an immunity deal under the name Jane Doe, which results in Jorge Castillo getting arrested by the FBI just a few minutes after Laurel retrieves her baby from the hospital. He gets slapped with a few different charges upon getting handcuffed, including the murder of Denver.
As for Simon, Annalise meets with Bonnie and the students later that day to tell them all charges against Simon will be dropped, as long as he signs an affidavit that says he brought the gun to Caplan & Gold’s party that night. The deal seems simple enough… until Michaela reveals that, despite Annalise warning her not to, she called Immigration and Customs Enforcement and anonymously reported Simon on a felony gun charge, which is grounds for deportation. Agents from ICE are coming to Simon’s hospital room to get the ball rolling on his deportation as we speak — and even though Michaela’s friends are aghast at what she’s done, Michaela is proud of herself for having the guts to do something that Annalise wouldn’t.
