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In season one: episode 4, there is a very important moment during the last minutes of the show. In the scene, Annalise Keating is a criminal law professor who owns her own law office. She is presented on the show as a very guarded and harsh individual. In this scene though, you get to see the more vulnerable side of her. We see her take off her ‘mask’ of bravery and confront a serious issue in her life. At the beginning of the scene, there is an extreme close-up of Annalise’s hand as she is taking off her wedding ring. There is a very quick close-up of Annalise looking at herself in the mirror before it goes back to an extreme close-up on her dropping her ring into a jewelry box. After dropping her ring into the box, it quickly shows a close-up …show more content…

After taking off her jewelry, it switches to another extreme close-up from the back of Annalise’s head. We see her taking off a wig that the viewers did not know that she wore. Once the wig is off, the camera switched to a close-up of Annalise and we can see a tear on her fast before the scene switches to a medium shot with a deep depth of focus. The shot is from behind her as she is looking into a mirror. As she is looking at herself, the scene cuts to a medium close-up of her from the same angle before switching again to a close up of Annalise taking off her fake eyelashes. After taking them off, there is an extreme close-up of Annalise’s hand grabbing a facial tissue before returning to the close-up of her taking off the rest of her makeup. She takes her time doing this, looking at herself in the mirror periodically. She still has a look of disappointment and sadness so far. Once done taking off her makeup, the camera switches to an extreme close-up of her hands. As she rubs lotion on them until the camera switches to a close-up of her in the mirror. When the camera switches, we see and hear her husband, Sam, walk up behind her. …show more content…

The whole episode is very exciting and suspenseful. At the end of they reveal two huge surprises. Throughout the season, the characters have been trying to figure out who killed Lila Stangard. During this episode, we also found out that Rebecca Sutter, who is a suspect in Lila’s case, has gone missing. This is important because Rebecca also knows that all the main characters minus Asher and Bonnie are involved in the murder and cover-up of Sam’s death. Sam died because he attacked Rebecca and the main characters believed that Sam killed Lila because he was hooking up with her and found out that she was pregnant on the night that she died. The scene starts with a close-up of Sam and Lila. Sam tells Lila that he loves her and the two proceed to make-out. During this part, they switch between having a close-up of Lila and having a close-up of Sam. The shot switches to a medium close-up of Lila as Sam tells her that he should go. As they are talking, they continue to switch between showing a close-up of Lila and Sam. After sharing a last kiss, it cuts to an extreme long-shot of Sam and Lila on the sorority house’s roof with the whole city in the background. This lasts for a second before it turns into a time-lapse of Sam walking away from Lila, it stops at a medium long shot of when Sam opens the door to leave and looks back at her one last time. After he closes the door, it switches to a close-up of Lila as she’s

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