9 Worst TV Show Fake-Out Deaths
6. Scott's 'Fatal' Test - Strike Back: Project Dawn
Strike Back is one of the most underrated shows of modern times, playing like an eighties action movie in TV series form. The show also had bizarre ties to Game Of Thrones, with most of the guest villains being played by GOT stars.
Charles Dance, Iain Glen and Ser Davos himself Liam Cunningham all played baddies, with Cunningham playing a former IRA bomber who forces lead character Damien Scott into a nasty test. He straps a bomb to his chest and gives him a choice; confess he’s a spy, or he’ll let the timer run out.
Scott keeps his mouth shut, sweating it out while the bomb counts down. Naturally, you expect the whole thing is a bluff or his partner will save him, only for the bomb to go off and the episode to end. After picking your jaw up off the floor the next episode reveals the gigantic explosion was pointed away from Scott, so he survived the blast. Strike Back occasionally liked to pull some cheap tricks, and this one was the worst.