Warning: This article contains spoilers for Game of Thrones' season 7 finale 'The Dragon and the Wolf'.
The latest Game of Thrones season finale was a little short on deaths (until the end at least), but the big one was indeed a big one.
Lord Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish's schemes and lies came back to bite him, as he faced the combination of the three Stark children: Three Eyed Raven Bran, Faceless Man Arya and a vengeful Sansa.
With one stab in the throat, the Lord of the Vale and master of slippery accents perished, and for showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss, his death was "one of the great ones".
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Weiss praised actor Aidan Gillen (who speaks about his exit here) for what he brought to the character.
"He's been such a pleasure to work with and so consistently elevates everything he does," he said.
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"I was so happy with his last performance on the show. We think people will get some good gasps out of the scene."
Benioff added: "We had been huge fans of Aidan's work on The Wire and other movies and TV shows. He's just one of those guys you know is going to give you something good.
"And with Aidan, you don't know what he's going to give you. He's able to change things in ways that are strange and beguiling, yet to the betterment of the character and the show."
Speaking about the character's final scene, Benioff continued: "It was one of the harder death calls we had to make.
"Relatively speaking, he's a minor character if you look at his screen time but... Littlefinger looms so large when people talk about the show. We loved having Littlefinger along for the ride, but he f**ked with the wrong girls.
"We've had a lot of death scenes on this show and this is one of the great ones. Diana Rigg was so true to her character in the end, and Littlefinger was so true to his character — in his own cowardly, horrible way."
Game of Thrones will be back for its eighth and final season... in 2019 (maybe).
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