10 Actors Who Spoiled Huge TV Deaths

The first episode of British crime thriller series Trigger Point ends with bomb disposal expert Joel Nutkins (Adrian Lester) getting caught in an explosion after investigating a suspiciously parked van.

In fairness, while the episode ends without confirming Joel's death, given both his proximity to the van when the bomb detonates and that what appears to be his severed arm is found amid the carnage, it's pretty fair to assume that he's probably dead.

All the same, those swept up in the drama began feverishly speculating about Joel's fate on social media, with some even optimistically believing that he may have somehow survived.

But the scuttlebutt was quickly put to bed by actor Adrian Lester himself, who tweeted two days after the episode aired, listing a number of projects in which his characters have been killed off and counting Trigger Point among them, adding that Joel had been "blown up."

Lester quickly received blowback from fans who felt that he had derailed any suspense leading up to the next episode, prompting an apologetic Lester to delete the offending tweet and admit that he was "too soon" in posting it.

And indeed, when the second episode aired the next week, Joel was confirmed to have been killed in the explosion, ensuring that the actor's time on the show was for a mere single episode.