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* Similarly, in ''Series/BreakingBad'' episode [[Recap/BreakingBadS5E7SayMyName "Say My Name"]], Mike Ehrmantraut has more screen time and focus than usual. That's because Walt shoots and kills him at the end of the episode.

* Similarly, in ''Series/BreakingBad'' episode 5x07 "Say My Name", Mike Ehrmantraut has more screen time and focus than usual. That's because Walt shoots and kills him at the end of the episode.

* Similarly, in ''Series/BreakingBad'' episode 5x07 ''Say My Name'', Mike Ehrmantraut has more screen time and focus than usual. That's because Walt shoots and kills him at the end of the episode.

* RealityTV does this often. If an episode is focusing on a contestant, chances are they are [[CatchPhrase auf'd]] that episode. This is particularly true if their confessionals emphasize 1) How much winning the competition would mean to them; 2) How much they have come to appreciate their teammate/showmance partner; 3) How much they have learned / grown / matured because of their participation; 4) How wonderful the experience has been or how many new friends they've made; and 5) How much better / stronger / more skillful / better-liked / more in control of the game they are than one or more of their fellow competitors.

* "''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':"[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]" begins with Kirk performing a wedding for two crew members, which is interrupted before he can complete the ceremony. The end of the episode reveals there was exactly one casualty in the incident: the groom.

* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'': The third episode, largely focusing on an otherwise unknown character named Pvt. Blithe, concludes with him being shot in the neck and effectively dying (he leaves permanently and is said to have died from this wound years later). Unfortunately for this miniseries that prides itself on TruthInTelevision, Blithe didn't die from this wound and continued serving in the military for most of the rest of his life until he died in 1967.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E15LowerDecks Lower Decks]]", Sito Jaxa, one of the cadets from "The First Duty" who was reprimanded for unauthorized flight activity, was shown to have stayed on the straight and narrow and become an ensign on the Enterprise. She's then sent on a dangerous mission by Captain Picard. She doesn't survive. There was a story planned for ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' that would have involved her turning up alive in a Cardassian prisoner camp, but it was turned into the "O'Brien must suffer" episode "Hard Time". As far as canon's concerned, she's dead.
** Also on ''The Next Generation'', the character of Lt Natasha Yar gets something like this in her final episode. After having not really gotten much by way of focus since the ill-fated "Code of Honor" at the beginning of the season, actress Denise Crosby had gotten fed up with being relegated to being a BridgeBunny spouting dialogue like "Hailing frequencies open". Having resigned, for her last episode we get a brief character scene between her and Worf where he admits he has placed a bet on her winning an on board martial arts tournament. The sudden warmth and character infused into the scene reputably impressed Crosby, who often said if they'd simply provided her with more little character scenes like that throughout the preceeding episodes, then she would never have left the show.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Inverted in the episode "Who Mourns for Morn" in which Morn, a minor character who NEVER SPOKE is presumed dead by the station crew. However, he only turns out to have been hiding in fear of his life.

** "Resolution" has a record of scenes featuring Manny Horvitz ([[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters four]]), three of which with him as the main character. In the first, he demands his own distillery from Nucky in exchange for killing someone for him, in the second he has a very cute interaction with his [[TheGhost previously mentioned, but unseen]] wife, and in the third he is getting his brains [[BoomHeadShot blown out]] by [[OneManArmy Richard Harrow]].

* ''Series/TheWestWing'': "18th and Potomac", the penultimate episode of season 2, deals primarily with the escalating crisis surrounding President Bartlet's failure to disclose of a life-threatening illness. Inserted into this intense episode is a charming and comic sub-plot about the President's long-serving executive secretary Delores Landingham, and her plans to buy a new car. (Most of the sub-plot revolves around various male characters offering patronising advice on how to handle the dealer). In the last few minutes of the episode, this sub-plot is revealed to be of major importance, and also reveals the meaning the episode's title, when it is reported that Mrs Landingham has been killed by a drunk driver at the eponymous intersection while driving back from the dealership in her new car.

** Joyce's death could count in a sort of drawn-out way. Having previously been mostly "Buffy's mom," in season 5 she gets a subplot where she has to undergo surgery to remove a brain tumor. Then we finally have "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E15IWasMadeToLoveYou I Was Made to Love You]]", where she's well again, gotten out of bed, and starts dating a nice (though never-seen) man. The episode ends when Buffy gets home, [[MoodWhiplash smiles at the bouquet of flowers said guy has sent, walks into the living room...and finds Joyce's pale,]] [[FunnyAneurysmMoment unmoving body on the couch]], leading into the TearJerker episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E16TheBody The Body]]."

** The extreme BelatedBackstory version is also seen in ''Voyager:'' two episodes had {{Redshirt}}s created ''just'' to be brought BackFromTheDead in that episode.

** Seeing Red has the flashbacks focus primarily on Moira Queen. She is killed at the end of the episode, sacrificing her life for her children when Slade Wilson takes them all hostage.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]] sees Adric draw more of the focus than usual, and in the last episdode he's separated from the others and starts to act more like the Doctor himself (or at least, that's what the director told his actor to do). Then he's smashed very fatally into the Earth (or at least, that's what the dialog says the [[SpecialEffectsFailure special effects were trying to show us]]).

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]] sees Adric draw more of the focus than usual, and in the last episdode he's separated from the other and starts to act more like the Doctor himself (or at least, that's what the director told him to do). Then he's smashed very fatally into the Earth (or at least, that's what the dialog says the [[SpecialEffectsFailure special effects were trying to show us]]).

*** What happens to Adric is the lethal version of ''Doctor Who'''s characteristic trope for companions exiting the program, in which someone who's about to leave the TARDIS suddenly becomes a lot more central and story-driving in their final adventure, often with new layers of backstory, demonstrated growth, or hidden character traits added in just before they go to make sure you miss them properly. Notable examples include [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E6FuryFromTheDeep Victoria]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath Jo]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E5PlanetOfFire Turlough]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E2Mindwarp Peri]]. It's not a universal trope in the original series, though--sometimes the opposite happened (I'm looking at you, [[DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines Dodo]]).

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day"]] gives Rose's dad, Pete, a ''lot'' of development, then kills him. Granted, that character's death was a ForegoneConclusion and we are explicitly told this at the start of the episode. (Actually the story did such a good job making Pete interesting that a later story provided an alternate-universe BackupTwin.)

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]". Granted, that character's death was a ForegoneConclusion and we are explicitly told this at the start of the episode.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]".