While Enoch's time as Wes came to an end during season 3, it wasn't the last time he appeared on the show. In an interview with TVLine following the series' cancellation and the finale, How to Get Away with Murder showrunner Peter Nowalk revealed bringing Wes back was never a legitimate possibility in the way that it was for other characters, like Sam or even Karla Souza's Laurel.
"It would have been if we hadn't seen him and shown his autopsy, which was such a horrible, graphic thing," Nowalk told TVLine. "I mean, work backwards from there — Annalise seeing him on the stretcher was one of our biggest twists, one of our most painful twists and most painful decisions to make. That would have had to be, like, the police put makeup on him. There was no way to make that work."
But Alfred Enoch did return appearing at Annalise's funeral in a flash-forward as Wes and Laurel's grown son. Oddly enough, it happened in the very same way Enoch proposed a possible return for himself. "Maybe they could do some real age makeup, and you know, the show's always about flash-forwards," Enoch told Access Hollywood in 2017. "So maybe cut ahead like 25 years? But maybe they wouldn't give me the part of Wes' son. That would be too weird."
Apparently, it wasn't "too weird." Nowalk told TVLine that getting the former HTGAWM actor back was, in the end, the fitting and true to the series' spirit. "It wasn't set in stone until [Enoch] said he would do it," Nowalk said. "And luckily, he was thrilled to do it. But yes, that was my pitch. That was a way to kill Annalise and also stay in the style of the show, which is flashing forward. This is the ultimate flash-forward."
