- "He took the baby because he thinks we have it. He knows we won't come after him if he has custody."
The hard drive was an item seen in season 4. It was used when Oliver and Laurel broke into the Antares server room to steal files that could be used to put Jorge Castillo in prison. Following the events at the Party at Caplan & Gold, the hard drive went missing.
History[]
Season 4[]
The original plan for the party was for Tegan's key card to be returned to her when they were done with it but Asher had the idea to plant it on Simon to further incriminate him. Simon ended up catching wind of what they were doing and getting himself shot with Laurel's unregistered gun. She then left for Annalise's hotel with the drive and had her baby in the elevator and fell unconcious. By the time she awoke in hopsital, Bonnie told her that the hard drive was gone. Jorge Castillo then fabricated Laurel's medical records to gain custody of her son because he wanted the hard drive. This led to everybody's top priority being getting the hard drive back. ("Live. Live. Live.")
A few weeks passed when Nate rang Annalise and told her that Simon remembered Laurel was at the party and was giving a statement to the detectives the next day. Annalise told Laurel this and that she might be called into questioning that night so she had to hide with Frank. Annalise then went to Michaela's apartment and interrupted an argument between Michaela and Asher when he found out that she cheated with Marcus Walker. She said that Simon remembered Laurel was there and must remember everything else too. She said they had to convince Simon to give a statement by sending Oliver back in. The plan was for him to make a fake ID posing as Tegan's assistant and enter Simon's room to then give him a phone to speak with Annalise. Connor said that wouldn't work because Tegan would be in there, so Annalise had Michaela slow down Tegan by stopping her to chat.
The plan was successful and Annalise told Simon on the phone that whatever he said to the detectives would put him in jail. She continued that it was his word against theirs, healthy minds against a brain trauma victim. She added that there was also proof on his laptop that he planned to steal the files. She said all he had to do was admit he stole the files to be granted an S-visa for whistleblowers. The only part of the plan missing was the Antares files, which Bonnie was taking care of by bribing a guard to find out who took the drive from evidence. Once Tegan arrived in Simon's room, he told her to cancel the interview with Nicholls and then fired her. Later, Bonnie rang Annalsie and left a voicemail saying that she found out Denver had the hard drive and he was playing 'both sides'. ("The Day Before He Died")
It is revealed that Denver died in a car crash shortly after Bonnie's voicemail. Annalise, Frank and Bonnie put it together that Jorge must have bugged all of their phones and heard the voicemail, so tampered with Denver's car to kill him for betraying Jorge. Nate said he would try his best to get the drive despite the FBI investigating Denver's death. That morning, everybody was in Annalise's hotel room. Laurel was called into an interview with the FBI because she was the last person to see Denver before he died. Michaela was tasked with keeping Simon occupied whilst they tried to get the drive. Later, Nate found the hard drive and Denver's files in an old case storage locker. Annalise went back to her hotel room and rang Jorge on Laurel's phone and told him they had the drive. They met and Annalise exchanged the drive for him recanting his testimony against Laurel to grant her custody of her son. ("Nobody Else Is Dying")
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| Season 4 | |||||||||||
| "I'm Going Away" | "I'm Not Her" | "It's for the Greater Good" | "Was She Ever Good at Her Job?" | ||||||||
| "I Love Her" | "Stay Strong, Mama" | "Nobody Roots for Goliath" | "Live. Live. Live." | ||||||||
| "He's Dead" | "Everything We Did Was For Nothing" | "He's a Bad Father" | "Ask Him About Stella" | ||||||||
| "Lahey v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" | "The Day Before He Died" | "Nobody Else Is Dying" |