Watch: The Rainmaker Cast Reveals How the Stakes are Even Higher in Season 2
This Rainmaker death will make fans lose their heads.
And in this case, that expression takes on a fairly literal meaning. While it seemed like Tom Cassady (Austin Nichols) had his death sentence written at the close of episode four, he wasn’t the victim of the Nov. 13 episode.
Instead, it was Miss Doppler Dumbass herself. Lynette, Tom’s new wife played by Sarah O’Connor, found her head separated from her body and stuffed into the designer handbag now in the possession of Bruiser (Lana Parrilla).
Yes, really. A full decapitation.
The beginnings of Lynette’s dark fate were teased in episode four, when it was revealed that Tom’s gambling debts hadn’t actually gotten him—as well as the attorneys of J. Lyman Stone—mixed up with the likes of Gator Jack Guidry (Owen Roe).
Instead, the former pro baseball player was covering for his wife’s own money loss. After all, the weatherwoman was looking for other lucrative avenues when Tom’s pro career (and the buckets of money she thought would come with it) was cut short.
Once Bruiser made the connection, however, she stressed that Lynette and Tom must remain married to ensure they don’t have to test against one another.
So, a drunk Lynette—devastated that she is further chained to her disappointing marriage—rushed to the headquarters of Gator’s operations, begging the crime boss to help her out of her situation.
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But while it seemed like he’d take out Tom, Gator felt Lynette to be the looser of the two ends and cut her life short. As for exactly how, where, when and who? That’s all still left to be determined.
For Austin, making the bloody discovery was intimidating.
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“There’s a funny story behind this,” the actor, who joined season two of the hit show, told USA Network. “We have so many light, fun scenes. And then I remember getting a call sheet and it saying, ‘Tomorrow, you’re going to discover your wife’s head in a purse.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, okay, I got to act. I got to be serious. I got to do some real work here.’”
As he put it, finding a head in a handbag is “not something you see every day. It’s super high stakes.”
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