Written by Erika Harrison & Matthew Cruz
Directed by Mike Smith
Emmett (to Annalise, re Nate Sr): "I didn't kill that man."
And thanks to that last scene, we know that Emmett is telling the truth. However going by the trailer for next week's finale, it does however appear that Emmett might end up taking the fall nonetheless. On the other hand, how great was Timothy Hutton this episode?
I haven't really talked about his acting a lot this season and I've been a little back and forth on the character but I have to admit that with this episode alone, he put in a season performance as both him and Viola Davis played off each other so well during that confrontation scene in Annalise's apartment during the final few minutes of this episode.
All episode long, we had Tegan (who I do want to believe is on Annalise's side) encouraging Annalise to use her "gifts" in order to extract a confession of guilty from Emmett and Annalise did exactly that with dressing up at work and the dinner scene with Emmett as well. I do think Emmett's feelings are genuinely real and while I don't want a pairing with him and Annalise, I did actually feel bad for the guy as he realised that Annalise thought he was a murder suspect.
I think during their argument, both Annalise and Emmett made some rather harsh if fair points about the other's foibles and while I am a little relieved that Emmett is not a killer, it does mean that once again, we're having things tie back to Laurel's family as Nate Sr's mystery lawyer has been revealed to her older brother, Xavier and with a certain gift given to Laurel, you can see where the next season will be going for problems with Annalise and the Keating 5.
Going to be honest, I'm not really thrilled with revisiting Laurel's family yet again, though I'm not entirely shocked it's happening there. There was always going to be consequence to sending her father down and with her mother being missing for most of this season, it does make sense to revisit it. I just hope it doesn't eat up much of next season like it did in the fourth season though.
As for the rest of the episode - after this one, Gabriel can definitely be on the next bus out of here and soon. All season long, he's failed to really add anything to the show and while he does have a right to know what happened to Sam, the show killed any chance of rooting for him and Michaela when he projected his own issues onto her. On the other hand, I did like getting a little more insight into Michaela's past.
As for the laptop subplot - Oliver's methods of getting his laptop by essentially guilt tripping a judge were pretty damn effective and it's nice to see one of his less shady plans go off smoothly as well. It also bought the gang some time and clued them in on the fact that Telesco (who despite being suspended is still predictably a thorn in their side) had quite the profile on the lot of them. Then again, I can see Telesco going the same way Sinclair did next week.
- Nice to see Bonnie apologising to Laurel while Frank really does prove how much he cares for Christopher with his scenes.
- Emmett mentioned plans of running for DA and considering what happened to the previous two, you'd think that would put anyone off the job.
- Asher had some good moments, being supportive to both Michaela and Bonnie but next season, the show does need to give him a decent storyline.
- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.
Make Me The Enemy is a strong penultimate episode. While I still do have reservations about Laurel's family reemerging as antagonists for next season, at least we can rule out Emmett as Nate Sr's killer and I'm sure by next week, we'll have a few cast changes as well for the next season to boot.
Rating: 8 out of 10
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