In " It's Her Kid ," the fifth episode of season five of How to Get Away with Murder , the legal team fights for Nate’s father, while the students investigate Gabriel Maddox. The episode pivots on a major revelation for Bonnie Winterbottom , whose search for her allegedly deceased child reveals a potential kidnapping by her sister. The intense flash-forward reveals a devastated Bonnie suffocating an unidentified person in the snow at the wedding.