There were at least two unexpected deaths of recurring characters on last Sunday’s TV shows. One was during the Season 3 finale of Downton Abbey, which our own Eric Gould writes about in his Cold Light Reader. And the other was a minor but likable character on The Walking Dead, shot down in his prime – or, at least, in mid-sentence – in a climactic scene that was as unexpected and stunning as the one on Downton Abbey was clumsily foreshadowed. So what’s going to happen this week on this show, now that the prison gates have been compromised, the survivors have been separated, and the zombie equivalent of a car bomb has just been detonated? I don’t know – but I can’t wait.

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