Those of us who are fans of 24 have noted that there seems to be a higher body count this year. True, 24 has always had a high body count, but this year seems different. Here's a convenient summary of the major characters killed thus far, and the season's only slightly more than half over.
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It isn't. Well, it is a little, but not totally. OK, it is, but actually, it is complicated.
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I'll believe Tony's dead when he hasn't been on the show for a full season, and not a moment sooner.
And yet Kim still lives! Why, oh god of the television, can you not smite the magnet of disaster?