8 TV Heroes You Didn't Realise Probably Died Horrible Deaths

2. Audrey Horne - Twin Peaks

Across Twin Peaks' original two-season run, Audrey Horne was one of the most important - and popular - characters of the series. Initially presented as something of a femme fatale, she gradually becomes one of the most fascinating characters of the whole show, and her evolving relationship with Dale Cooper provides the hook for much of its character-based drama.

Audrey was perhaps second only to Coop himself with regards to how beloved she was, but when the show returned some 25 years after that first run, she was nowhere to be seen. So what had happened to her? The episodes went on and on, and still Audrey didn't appear until the 12th instalment, where we find her living a seemingly unhappy life with a man called Charlie.

That leads her story to the Roadhouse, where she performs a captivating dance, before we're pulled back out of that to find her in a white room, staring into a mirror. It's left ambiguous, but there are things we can piece together. Mark Frost's book The Final Dossier reveals that Audrey was indeed raped by Cooper's evil doppelganger while in a coma, after which she became pregnant. When her son was 10, she married her accountant, who is presumably Charlie. However, one day she simply vanished from public life to parts unknown, but one rumour is that she was checked into a private care facility.

That is quite likely where she is at the end of Twin Peaks, and suggests a troubling, unhappy fate for our former heroine, destined to be alone and to never truly recover from the horrific acts committed while she was in a coma, and where she'll presumably die eventually too.