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How To Get Away With Murder?

The show has established that Willow is capable of underhanded acts — toying with Sasha (Sofia Mattsson) and Michael by taking their newborn daughter, Daisy, out of her nursery, for example — but plugging two bullets into the back of a sitting congressman is on a whole different level. Just what should the audience make of Willow and her psyche at this point? Says Korte, “What we hope the audience will see unfolding is that Willow was pushed into a corner and fought back the only way she could in the moment. And then once events started to unfold, she had to maintain — and kudos to the actress; she’s done a fabulous, fabulous job — is that she was legitimately terrified. You would be too if you had shot somebody and you were afraid you were going to get caught! There’s nothing cold-blooded about anything that she has done, but the problem is that she did do this thing, right? The circumstances she was in put her in this impossible position and this is the action she took. And once she had taken that action, she has to continue to deal with it and fight her way through with the long-term goal of loving her children and wanting them back.”

And though she may have given an Oscar-caliber performance on the witness stand, Willow certainly can’t breathe easy as her fate will soon rest in the hands of a jury — or possibly Trina and Kai! “They’re now in the hot seat,” previews Van Etten. “They have information that’s that more or less — 99 percent — cinches the idea that Willow has done this.” Korte picks up, “A couple of things are really weighing on them, one of them being the fact that their actions that night — by not staying in the house, by not calling 911 — allowed these events to unfold. And they themselves sat there in that courtroom and the defense that Alexis has put up was effectively to convict Michael, to argue that it was Michael who did it. So they now are sitting in a position of knowing that an innocent man is being tried — in the court of public opinion, anyway — for having done this. And so they need to decide who they can go to with this information. But they are also themselves in jeopardy because they were in the house that night. It’s not as if they are not at least culpable for not coming forward before now. So, what decision do they make? They’ve got to turn to somebody, but who do they go to?”

Van Etten stresses that this whole messy GH saga is still only really just getting started. “There is so much left to unfold,” he professes. “Revealing who shot Drew is, I think, the end of chapter one or chapter two, depending on how you’re constructing it [laughs]. What happens as a result of Trina and Kai making this realization is going to cause huge drama for the people who have been involved in this trial or anyone who has been implicated — and that’s barely even the beginning!” Sums up Korte, “The revelation of who’s the shooter is — I hesitate to use the cliché ‘just the beginning,’ but all it does is set the table for a whole slew of other revelations and actions by everyone involved.”