How to Get Away with Murder (season 3)

The students start their second year of law school and attend a class where Annalise is teaching a pro-bono law clinic. The "Keating 5" struggle with their academic reputations after getting low test scores and, at the same time, worry about an unknown person who is targeting Annalise with a series of flyers identifying her as a killer. For the pro-bono deportation case, Wes is given first chair until Michaela finds evidence that could win the case. Ultimately, however, they lose the case. Oliver secures a job with Annalise after revealing he deleted Connor's Stanford acceptance letter and has the ability to hack Annalise. After Connor reacts understandingly, Oliver sees his lack of justified anger as a sign that they have an unhealthy relationship and breaks up with him. Meanwhile, Annalise has hired an investigator to track down Frank, but Frank overpowers and kills him instead.

Flashback: During the summer, the students cope with what they have been going through. Immediately after his father's murder, Wes is picked up by Annalise, who tells him that Frank set them up. In May, Laurel gets into an argument with Annalise and they both agree to cut Frank out of their lives. In June, Asher asks Annalise for a loan after going broke. In July, Connor asks Annalise not to hire Oliver. In August, a depressed Michaela is saved from getting a DUI by Annalise.

Frank stages a fiery car accident to hide the body of Annalise's investigator, while Annalise destroys her burner phone so that he cannot contact her. The clinic takes the case of Irene Crawley, a woman who has spent 32 years in jail for murdering her abusive husband and is applying for parole for the seventh time. Connor and Oliver deal with the deterioration of their relationship, as Oliver begins working for Annalise. Asher struggles with the revelation that Michaela is just using him for sex, while the university attempts to suspend Annalise from teaching as the story of the flyers begins to make national news. Laurel discovers that Annalise has asked Eve to keep an eye on the Mahoney murder investigation and drunkenly admits to Bonnie that she loved Frank even though he was a murderer.

Annalise's clinic takes the case of a sexual offender/murderer, seemingly restoring her reputation in the process. Laurel visits her seemingly-tactless father in Miami to seek his help in pinpointing Frank's location; later, she receives a call from Frank and, after returning to Middleton, lies to Annalise and Bonnie about getting her father's help. Meanwhile, Connor and Oliver's relationship is tested.

Annalise's clinic represents a teenage boy named Tristan accused of credit card theft. At the start of the trial, Annalise learns that her license was suspended after a university board member, Barry Lewinston, sent a video of her slapping her last client to the bar association's disciplinary panel. She agrees to a rehab program for her alcoholism in exchange for getting her license back. After breaking up with Annalise due to a vicious fight, Nate sleeps with ADA Rene Atwood. In Coalport, PA, Frank kills Bonnie's father at the prison in which he was serving time, avenging her mistreatment as a child. Listed as his next of kin, Bonnie informs Annalise of his death and warns Laurel not to tell Annalise that she lied about not knowing Frank's whereabouts.

Annalise attends only one AA meeting, where she finds the university president, Soraya Hargrove, who is also an alcoholic. After suddenly remembering her memories with Sam she starts drinking again. She later finds out that one of her students, Simon Drake, is the one behind the flyers. She threatens Hargrove for the neglect of the flyers investigation and the suspension of her teaching license, which the latter then reverses. Meanwhile Bonnie heads to Coalport to have her father’s corpse cremated and implicitly “thank” Frank for killing him. Frank wants Bonnie to join him in his escape and they later have sex. The next morning, Bonnie finds Frank gone and cries. Wes reveals to Laurel that he's considering breaking up with Meggy, upon realizing that he actually loves Laurel, who later reveals to Annalise the truth about Frank just as Bonnie walks in. This episode marks the first appearance by Mary J. Blige.

Flashback: The events that lead to the Keating couple’s first encounter with Frank, who served an unspecified sentence for injuring his father when he was 13 years old, are shown.

As the Keating Five defend an Army Vet accused of attempted murder, the NYPD come looking for Wes to question him on the murder of his father, Wallace Mahoney. Asher and Michaela confess their love for one another. Oliver meets someone new. Wes breaks up with Meggy and sleeps with Laurel. Frank frames Wallace Mahoney's other son and makes his way back to Philadelphia.

The clinic defends two brothers and a sister charged with the attempted murder of their mother. Although she portrays an elderly woman, frail and sick, things are not always what they seem. Wes lies to the NYPD after believing that Eve is still on the case. Oliver is turned down by his date Thomas, after he reveals that he's HIV positive, and he runs back to Connor for comfort. Frank returns to Philadelphia, and goes to see Laurel and then Bonnie. Bonnie, furious that he both left her in Coalport and went to go see Laurel first, throws him out after a vicious exchange of words.

Annalise threatens to kill Frank if he approaches her house, but, as Wes is subpoenaed by Charles Mahoney’s lawyer to give testimony, she instead asks Frank to find Charles’ alibi. Frank finds out that the Mahoneys’ employee who gave him the suitcase of money 10 years ago is the alibi. To clear Wes of the charge, Annalise decides to frame up the woman (who claims herself to be Charles’ one-night stand once and that she met him on the day of his (and Wes') father's murder and before he was arrested) with Nate’s help. In the meantime, Annalise and Hargrove discuss the latter’s child custody battle with her husband due to her history of alcoholism. Later, Connor and Oliver fight again after spending their time together, culminating in the latter’s opinion that Connor has emotional damage. Frank visits Annalise; trying to fix everything bad he caused to Annalise, he's prepared to shoot himself in the head in front of her and Bonnie, leading to the duo’s heated argumentation.

The Keating Five prepare to take their midterm exams for Annalise's class. Annalise learns that she's under investigation by the DA's office, causing her to relapse into drinking. Bonnie convinces Frank to spare his own life for her sake, revealing their love affair to Annalise and encouraging him to turn himself over to the DA's office to save them all from being arrested. Annalise burns all the files from Sam's and Rebecca's case and, in her drunken stupor, leaves for Bonnie's but doesn't close the front door all the way. Wes is called in for questioning, where he learns that Rebecca's corpse has been discovered in the woods. They offer him immunity to testify against Annalise. Nate, realizing that Atwood only hired him to gain intel on Annalise, ends their relationship. A drunken Connor admits to Oliver that he lied about being an addict, accidentally making him suspicious about the night Sam died. Annalise calls the Keating Five to her home (before meeting with Oliver to ask him for a favor) but Asher is too drunk from celebrating, Connor is hooking up with Thomas and Michaela is dealing with her mom, leaving Laurel to go to Annalise's alone. Nate and Laurel arrive separately before a bomb detonates in the house, setting it ablaze. Annalise is arrested, while Laurel is taken to the hospital. Bonnie takes a call from Frank at the hospital, where she's confronted by Asher, Michaela, Oliver, and Connor. Nate, safe and sound, arrives at the morgue to identify the man under the sheet: a half-burned Wes. He visits Annalise in her holding cell, revealing that Wes was already dead before the fire started.