Didn’t the terrorists in that episode demand that Jack execute him in a railyard while they were watching from a van? His boss went along with it to keep them from carrying out their plan (whatever it was).
There was no way they could have faked it.
Nitpick; he didn’t get “chopped in half” but instead lost an arm after walking (or was he backing?) into a helicopter rotor. It was great in that it was completely unexpected and handled really quietly, at least initially.
And then when a helicopter fell off the roof on him, I think this was the same helicopter.
I liked both of these deaths on LA Law and ER because they were so unexpected. Usually, NBC will telegraph a big event like that for a week or more in advance.
Don’t forget the death of Dr. Sweets on Bones.
Nina Sergeevna on The Americans. I was literally horrified. “The sentence of death has been upheld, and will be carried out … shortly.” Bang. :eek:
Whats-her-name the reporter/mistress on season 1 of House of Cards, pushed in front of a subway train.
As I recall (it’s been years since I saw it), he originally went along with it at the office, thinking that they’d find a way out of that situation. It wasn’t until he was in the railyard and saw the situation that he realized there was no easy way out.
Still, Jack could have simply refused to do it and walked away - a lot of people would have done that, terrorism be damned, rather than excute an innocent person. Especially one they had known for years.
They did kill her in the pilot.
She got better.
Likewise Ptl. Bobby Hill and Andy Renko, both shot in the pilot of Hill Street Blues.
Leaving out the ones where they died but it didn’t take.
Jesse in episode one was notable. He seemed to be a major character and we poor viewers hadn’t caught on to the kill’em-at-a-whim nature of the show.
Some of you people have a strange definition of the word minor.
Only Renko was DOA at the end of the original version of the pilot; Bobby was in critical condition. Which explains why Charles Haid got special billing in the regular series’ credits.
They had to refilm the scene where Esterhaus reports the shooting to Furillo, in order to correct the “DOA.”
The Asian nurse on St Elsewhere who committed suicide after Terence Knox raped her. For that matter, Terence Knox himself after Ellen Bry shot him twice … once in the chest and once in the balls.
Poets, priests, and politicians do too.
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