Fans of the ABC hit series "How to Get Away with Murder" have to prove their patience, as the show is taking a mid-season break until February, which is when the second season of the legal drama surrounding Middleton University professor Annalise Keating is set to return to the small screen.

What better way to make time than to speculate about how the story featuring the instructor and high-profile defense attorney, played by Tony Award winner Viola Davis, might develop?

One of the bigger mysteries left over from the final fall installment, Episode 9 titled "What Did We Do," concerns Asher Millstone ("Orange Is the New Black" star Matt McGorry), Keating's wealthy student who murdered Assistant District Attorney Emily Sinclair (Sarah Burns) in the episode, Design and Trend noted.

"How to Get Away With Murder" creator and executive producer Pete Nowalk acknowledged the surprise element in that twist in the story line.

"We definitely did not set out with that in mind. It actually hurt me to make him part of the murders, because his levity is one of my favorite parts of the show," Nowalk told TV Line. "[But] it just felt the most real and honest outcome for the character. And we set it in motion with Emily roping him into this mystery and using him as a mole. From that point on, he was on a path to Hell."

Rumors about what will be next for Millstone, meanwhile, center on the theory that he did not come clean to the police out of his own goodwill, but that there is a darker element viewers have yet to discover, Design and Trend suggested.

But whatever his fate, fans of the character need not worry that the well-to-do student might soon be gone for good, Nowalk told The Hollywood Reporter.

"He is definitely part of the murder crew, especially now that he knows they killed Sam," the producer reassured THR readers. "Out of all of them he is the least equipped emotionally and psychologically. (But) what's fun about when we come back is it will be two weeks later and we'll see how the dynamics have changed and if any of them have been able to move on from this."