Sadly, the hospital he was taken to wasn’t exactly equipped to handle trauma.
Only one could live.
And when Moira stood up and told Slade to pick her, jaws dropped everywhere.

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Maybe that’s why he failed to notice the truck coming straight at him.
Cut to the aftermath: Matthew lying crushed under his car, blood pouring down his face.
There ended the season andStevens' contractual obligations toDownton.

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First, her husband Rick (Andrew Lincoln) died of a pre-zombie-attack gunshot wound.
Thendouble twist!Lori had her own privateMamma Mia!hell when she became pregnant.
(Potential Daddy #1 wound up killing Potential Daddy #2.)

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Darren Franich
George O’Malley (T.R.
Knight) to the Army.
But when didThe Walking Deadever care about rules?

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In hindsight, Dale’s Stanley Kramer-esque self-righteousness probably marked him for zombie-assisted disembowelment.
At least the kid learned from his mistake!
The stage seemed set for a triumph-of-the-human-spirit plotline.

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She looked at herself in the mirror, grinned… and then fired a raised gun at\ her forehead.
About as troubling and despairing as TV death gets.
Fans were upset when Badler spent nine episodes doing nothing in the sewers.

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Fans were excited when, in the season finale, she led a rebel uprising.
Then she was killed by her daughter.
It’s rough out there forVfans.

Turns out she was wearing a vest.
She stood, and viewers exhaled as Gibbs told her she did well.
‘‘Wow,’’ she said.

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‘‘I thought I’d die before I ever heard a compliment’’ and gunshot.
The news was great… for her.
What is it, but a dream.

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That scene of bleeding Carter lying on the floor looking at Lucy’s face… heart-wrenching.
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Kenny,South Park
They killed a kid.
Then his friends and some rats desecrated his body.

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Viewers bypassed denial and went straight to the anger phase of grief.
Death threats were made.
And through it all,Torchwood’s creator remained shockingly (and somewhat admirably) unapologetic.

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‘‘Find something else.
Go look at poetry.
Poetry’s wonderful.’’

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Michael Ausiello
Maude Flanders,The Simpsons
It’s Homer’s fault, of course.
She didn’t grab our attention with memorable catchphrases, or comical accents.
Theirs was the love story that viewers were watching, even when the two weren’t together.

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But her moment of victory was quickly ruined by another Oni putting a sword through her.
It happened in a split second, but it was a split second that fans will never forget.
As Allison fell, Scott caught herand she got to die in the arms of her first love.

He’s not really dead?
George went all out when purchasing their wedding invitations, springing for bottom-of-the-barrel envelopes laced with toxic glue.
Susan paid the price for his cheapness when she died after licking too many of the hazardous receptacles.

For a show about nothing, this was something.
Well, one of them anyway.
And, as usual, she was right.

Hurley’s loud sobs on the beach at the news of their demise were echoed in many households.
No one would ever say Chris-tuh-fuh the same way again.
But in the end, it was the firm’s building that did her in.

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As if the act weren’t shocking enough, the violence took things to another level.
Actor Reed Diamond was billed as a main cast member, so none of us expected it.
Mike Bruno
Teri Bauer (Leslie Hope),24
On Day 1 (a.k.a.

Narrowly escaping, she headed to one safe house after another that didn’t live up to its name.
He used his dying words to reassure his friends.
Rita (Julie Benz) and the kids were sent away on vacation.

(Say it with me, fellowDexterfans: Nooooooo!
How much worse could the sad-sack alcoholic get from there?



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