Will Gardner from The Good Wife
The Good Wife never lacked exictement, but fans of the show went from exhilarated to grief-stricken when Will Gardner (Josh Charles) was shot and killed by his own client in court. It was bad enough to watch Will in the hospital, lifeless and caked with dried blood, but even more agonizing was the reaction of friend-lover-enemy Alicia (Julianna Margulies), whom he had called only hours earlier. The following episode delivered a wallop to the gut as Alicia imagined Will saying to her, “I’m sorry. I want what we had. I want to be with you and only you forever. Call me back, please.”
Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad
It took Hank (Dean Norris) quite a while to figure out that the drug kingpin he’d been pursuing for so long was actually his own brother-in-law, but he couldn’t have had the revelation at a worse time. By the final season of Breaking Bad, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) had gotten in over his head when he started doing business with a group of ruthless Nazis. When Hank finally caught Heisenberg, he found himself in quite the predicament: surrounded on all sides by white supremacists with nowhere left to run. For all intents and purposes, Hank was a good man, which made it even more upsetting to see him gunned down in the desert.
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