How to Get Away with Murder is one of the most watched shows in the 2014-2015-television season, and one reason is its smart and snappy dialogue, which brims with emotion, humor and fierceness. In last Thursday’s episode, “She’s a Murderer,” the stakes are extremely high, and the one-liners are packed with heat.
Viola Davis stars as Annalise Keating, a top-notch defense attorney and law professor whose star group of students get involved in a murder cover-up that has to do with her husband Sam Keating (Tom Verica). Annalise has to figure out a way to help them, but when her husband’s sister Hannah Keating (Marcia Gay Harden) comes to town, she seeks to find out what happened to her brother.
TheCelebrityCafe.com is counting down the top ten lines from the episode “She’s a Murderer.” Comment below and tell us if your favorite lines made the list, and if not, tell us your favorites.
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10. “Tell all the rest of the Rat Pack the same thing.”
In an episode that features impressions from The Godfather and mobsters, it’s a perfect reference. Frank tells his lover Laurel (Karla Souza) that she must not call him on the phone—as well as her fellow law students “The Rat Pack”—for fear that it will be used as evidence against her.
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9. “We’re all together. Now the police can round us all up at the same time.”
Full of sarcastic humor, Connor points out what a lot of the show’s viewers have noticed.
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8. “You’re a single lady now. Call me if you get lonely. What? Chocolate and Italian wine always pair well together.”
After Annalise talks with one of her mob clients in the middle of the street, he tries to soften her hard-as-nails personality. Could he be a potential romantic partner for Annalise? Time will tell.
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7. “Annalise wouldn’t—
Connor: --do that. We know Wait List, you suck from the teat of our dear old professor.”
Connor (Jack Falahee) is commenting on Wes’ (Alfred Enoch) status at Annalise’s favorite student. The line brings to mind a comical image.
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6. “I grew up in this house”
Annalise Keating: “And I live here now.”
The cops knock on the door and the two Ms. Keating’s (Annalise and Hannah) stand side-by-side fighting for dominance.
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5. “Law is not my field, but I do know that reputation is everything and here on you’ll each be painted with your own scarlet ‘A’ for Annalise.”
It’s a hilarious and clever line for the way it alludes to Annalise as a synonym for adultery.
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4. “Do you know why I gave you that trophy the first day? Not because you screwed your way to it, although, that’s certainly something I’ve done in my day.”
Connor and Annalise have a heart-o-heart in Annalise’s office. It’s the first time she has connected with Connor.
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3. “You dragged him down to the gutter Annalise, just like everyone else in your life.”
At the end of the episode, Hannah has the last word, getting under Annalise’s usually thick skin.
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2. “Oh, honey. I can’t do all the work for you.”
Hannah Keating (Marcia Gay Harden) is testifying on the stand against Annalise, and she silences Annalise’s employee Bonnie Winterbottom with a searing remark that gets applause from the jury and humiliates Bonnie.
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Annalise gets under sister-in-law’s (Marcia Gay Harden) skin by implying that Hannah was sexually attracted to her brother, saying it as if it were a nursery rhyme.