Animal Kingdom

The 11 Most Shocking Deaths in Series History

The 11 Most Shocking Deaths in Series History

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Animal Kingdom knocked off and rubbed out so many characters over the course of its six blood-soaked seasons that you might envision laying a spade just about anywhere in the desert and accidently hitting a body that the Codys had buried. Of course, not all of the fatalities in the TNT drama were genuinely, ahem, murderous.

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Now that the series' conclusion has aired — and three more important casualties have been added to the list

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This Story counting down the 11 most stunning murders in the show's entire existence.

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#11 Lucy

It was a lot smaller surprise when Smurf hired the Trujillos to blow away his crafty sweetheart in Season 3's conclusion after she had him at No. 2 on this list offed.

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#10 Agent Livengood

We were certain that crooked officer Chadwick had genuinely turned on the Codys until he arranged to have them meet with the DEA and put their greatest nightmare in before of their eyes in Season 5, Episode 10.

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#9 Colby 

In Series 4, Part 6, the lowlife was fatally killed by the surfer's boyfriend, Deran, for threatening to place Adrian on Pope's death list as a stool pigeon. Who knew he was capable? Not us, at least not until then.

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#8 Mia

After seeing how wicked Baz's executioner was in Season 4, Episode 8, J was offered the choice of shooting his scheming f*ck friend in the head and chose to do so.

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#7 Penny

The legal secretary had no idea what was about to happen. But, following the events of Nos. 8 and 6, we knew J had it within himself to kill his significant other during the series finale.

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#6 Morgan 

J's most brutal murder occurred in Season 3, Episode 12, when he cut the leg of the attorney who knew too much and abandoned her to the sharks.

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#5 Pope

If these deaths were sorted by how tragic they were, Andrew's would be at the top. But, c'mon, we're evaluating their shock value. We all know he wouldn't make it through the season finale, right?

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#4 Catherine

It was inevitable that Smurf would order Baz's babymama's death. It's terrifying that the Pope would carry out the command after having sex with the lady he'd loved for so long.

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#3 Craig

We'd anticipated the third Cody brother dying a million times. But we never saw the intro made by a pistol-packing child during a minor-league holdup, as it was in the series finale.

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#2 Baz

After such a long, warm summer of suspense, we learned in Season 3's debut that Smurf's surrogate kid had died as a result of the hit she'd put out on him at the conclusion of Season 2.

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#1 Smurf

They wouldn't, we reasoned. They were unable. But they still did. The higher ups ordered J to fulfil his grandmother's last desire in the season four's penultimate episode so that she wouldn't be able to shoot Pope.

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