'How to Get Away With Murder' Dives Deep into Sam's Past (RECAP) (2024)

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Did Sam and Hannah sleep together? ›

And once she realizes that Hannah gave birth in March, she puts the pieces together. All that's left to do is run a DNA test. Annalise then calls Bonnie over to share the proof that Hannah and Sam slept together: a child. They ran a DNA test against Sam, and the sample was a match: Frank.

Arguably one of the series' best, most important, and shocking reveals, the moment everyone found out Wes killed Sam shocked everyone, including Wes Gibbins himself, Alfred Enoch. Later it was revealed that Enoch didn't know this reveal was coming until it was time for the table read for that episode.

By the end of the first season, Nate is charged for Sam's murder.

Bawling and waterlogged, Bonnie has revealed everything to an equally tearful Annalise—that she met Lila the night she was murdered, that Sam knew about the pregnancy, that he kissed her on the porch. “He kissed me so I'd lie to you. He thought he was finally giving me what I wanted.

Longtime viewers may remember that Sam was very interested in helping Frank get out of jail for the attempted murder of his father (or rather, "father"), despite the fact that Frank had no idea who Sam was. The only explanation Sam gave at the time was that Frank's "Aunt Bev" had known Hannah.

In season six, it is revealed that Frank Delfino is the son of Sam Keating and his sister Hannah. Because Frank is the catalyst behind the car crash that killed Sam in utero, Frank is indirectly responsible for his baby brother's death. Sam, Frank, and Gabriel Maddox are all sons of Annalise's husband, Sam.

Blaming Miller for his father's death, Nate savagely beats him outside of the wedding tent. Bonnie finds them both and finishes the job by smothering a bloodied Miller, then orders Nate to dispose of the body.

Asher is questioned on Sam Keating's death, and then Bonnie tells him that she killed Sam to protect the real person who killed Sam. Bonnie later finds out that Asher let a girl get raped at a party when he was younger.

Bonnie passed out during the birth and when she awoke, her father, their father, told Bonnie that her baby had died. In reality, the baby survived and Bob and Julie took the baby to St. Lincoln Hospital. Sometime later, Julie returned to the hospital where she took the baby back.

Nate Lahey

In the end, Nate lied for Annalise, saying that Hannah was the one who framed him for Sam's murder (if you remember, Annalise actually did this).

Who killed Nate Lahey? ›

During his transfer to the psychiatric facility, two of the guards shot Nate in the head, killing him while under the orders of Lynne Birkhead. The two guards then staged the crime scene to make it appear that Nate tried to attack them.

The remains of Sam are found and Annalise incriminates her lover Nate Lahey as a way to avoid her student's arrest. However, she tries to help him go free by offering him a number of a fellow lawyer.

In his childhood, Sam and his sister Hannah were neglected by their parents and starved for love, this led to an incestuous relationship between the siblings that possibly started as abuse as Hannah was older and could have began when Sam was a boy.

Bonnie tells him the secret that his birth parents are none other than Sam and Hannah Keating, and as a result he's the product of incest. After the truth has been revealed, Frank threats Hannah's lawyer to obtain more information to help Annalise win her case.

But if anyone goes to the FBI with this information, Annalise will be linked even more to Wes, aka Sam Keating's killer. For now, the only person who can help Annalise out of this mess is Gabriel. Annalise reveals to him that she tried to adopt Wes when he was 11, and that the governor found out about it.