How to Get Away with Murder Boss Says You'll 'Get Your Answers' in Final Season

If you've been a faithful fan of How to Get Away with Murder for the past five years, you'll know the show tends to leave you with more questions than answers, even on a good day. But that trend, like the show itself, is coming to an end with the forthcoming Season 6.

Fortunately, knowing the conclusion is near, How to Get Away with Murder showrunner Pete Nowalk says he was able to craft a purposeful -- and hopefully satisfying -- ending for the audience that wouldn't leave anyone in a lurch. In fact, more than anything, he's promising answers as we head into this final season.

"What I'm just excited about is this show should have an ending," Nowalk told TV Guide. "The storyline, any good mystery, you answer as many of the questions as you can -- and I'm going to try to answer as many as I can. We really put the audience and our fans who have kept watching on a rollercoaster, which just is one giant cliffhanger. Whenever we answer something, we give them another cliffhanger. So, I just feel good about finally saying, 'Guess what? We're going to end it and you're going to get your answers and there will be no cliffhanger at the end. There will just be a story ending.' And that feels really good and lucky to be able to do."

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The biggest question of them all? Obviously, the show's title. Rather than an instruction book on how to get away with murder, as the past five seasons have detailed, the final season of the show will pose the question of whether you really can get away with it. And if so, what sort of toll will that take on you and the ones you love? As Annalise (Viola Davis) and her students sit on a precipice of ruin as the FBI inches closer and closer to toppling their murderous little house of cards, they'll be asking themselves that very question a lot.

"It's called how to get away with murder, and I don't know if you really can," Nowalk said. "I definitely don't know if all of these characters can. I think this has been three years of these characters lives, and that's not very long really in the grand course of anyone's life. So they're all going to have to decide who they want to be and what they want to stand for, whether that's justice -- meaning confessing to their sins -- or do they just want to run away and escape and will the guilt eat them alive? We're just basically heading for an answer. Everyone is going to be forced to answer that question for themselves. Do they want to be a typically good person or a bad person, and who do they have to hurt to do that?"

We can definitely think of one or two characters who would rather confess at this point than continue on covering up murder after murder, but we can also think of a few who would kill again if it meant keeping their secret (and the ones they love) safe. Maybe that's why it's so foreboding to realize that the coffin in the Season 6 trailer could, in fact, belong to one of our beloved characters. After all, in a final season, all bets are off.

Nowalk seemed to agree with that sentiment, saying, "There will definitely be one death if not more [this season]. These people have been living with the highest stakes of stress and pressure and life or death that anyone can live with, and I don't think everyone can survive."

How to Get Away with Murder returns Thursday, Sept. 26 at 10/9c on ABC.