How to Get Away with Murder
It's a Trap
TV Flash files “It's a Trap” as hour 27 of 90 in the TV Flash guide — How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020) on ABC, season 2, episode 12, aired 2016-02-25, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E12: listed hour 27 of 90 in the How to Get Away with Murder guide, hour 12 of 15 in season 2. It aired 2016-02-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “She Hates Us” (S02E11). Next is “Something Bad Happened” (S02E13).

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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With Philip still out there, Annalise tries to keep the team from panicking and get one step ahead of Philip's threats. Meanwhile, Wes and Laurel start putting the pieces of Wes' mothers death together, but some things just aren't adding up
Viewer FAQ
Where does It's a Trap sit in the How to Get Away with Murder guide?
S02E12 is listed hour 27 of 90 — hour 12 of 15 in season 2, season 2 episode 12.
When did How to Get Away with Murder S02E12 air?
It's a Trap aired 2016-02-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
The 2014 premiere. Nonlinear murder mystery is the grammar from hour one; skipping ahead dumps you into a conspiracy already in progress.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Annalise Keating's class buries a body, then improvises a life of cover-ups. Peter Nowalk's Shondaland thriller made Viola Davis a network gravity well and the first Black woman to win the Drama Lead Actress Emmy. Six seasons of flash-forward murder boards and Keating 5 loyalty tests. Pulp academia with awards heat — twists first, tastefulness never.
Somebody already buried the body; the group chat is on the board. Peter Nowalk's Shondaland thriller premiered on ABC September 25, 2014: brilliant defense professor Annalise Keating and her students improvise a life of cover-ups, flash-forward murder board as house style. Viola Davis as a network gravity well — the first Black woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The Keating 5 — Wes, Michaela, Connor, Laurel, and company — learn law and loyalty the hard way. (From here: mild. The…
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- Viola Davis as Annalise Keating
Viola Davis’s Annalise Keating made How to Get Away with Murder a network gravity well — a class that buries a body, then improvises a life of cover-ups. Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, flash-forward murder boards, Keating 5 loyalty…
- Billy Brown as Nate Lahey
Billy Brown’s Nate Lahey stood in How to Get Away with Murder’s blast radius — Annalise Keating’s class burying a body, Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, Viola Davis as a network gravity well, six seasons of flash-forward murder boards…
- Alfred Enoch as Wes Gibbins
Alfred Enoch’s Wes Gibbins entered How to Get Away with Murder as Keating 5 conscience — Annalise’s class burying a body, flash-forward murder boards, Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, Viola Davis as network gravity. Six seasons of…
- Aja Naomi King as Michaela Pratt
Aja Naomi King’s Michaela Pratt hustled through How to Get Away with Murder’s Keating 5 — Annalise’s class burying a body, flash-forward murder boards, Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, Viola Davis as a network gravity well. Six seasons…
- Jack Falahee as Connor Walsh
Jack Falahee’s Connor Walsh made How to Get Away with Murder feel like a cover-up with cheekbones — Keating 5 loyalty, flash-forward boards, Shondaland thriller as a 2010s network gravity well. Ambition in a tailored risk. TV Flash files…
- Karla Souza as Laurel Castillo
Karla Souza’s Laurel Castillo survived How to Get Away with Murder’s Keating 5 — Annalise’s class burying a body, then improvising a life of cover-ups, Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, Viola Davis as a network gravity well. Six seasons…