All the TV Deaths That Shook Us to Our Core

Ummm, WTF just happened?!

That was the reaction when Detective Colin Zabel (Evan Peters) was brutally shot and killed by Mr. Potts in the HBO limited series’ fifth episode when he and partner Mare (Kate Winslet) were following up on a lead in their investigation into multiple missing women. After Colin was shot, Mare was able to take down Potts, who was also trying to kill her, and save the two girls he had kidnapped and locked away in his attic. 

Just hours before his death, Colin ominously told his concerned mother, “My whole life’s been about being careful…look how far that’s gotten me,” and then he unexpectedly kissed Mare after they shared their respective secrets. Oh, what could’ve been for two of Pennsylvania’s most f–ked up investigators.