One place that Big Sky and Ryan Phillippe fans alike could look for guidance is to last year's Watchmen, which aired on HBO and also killed someone that viewers may have perceived to be a main character off in the very first episode, in Don Johnson's Chief Judd Crawford. Box, the 2014 novel upon which Big Sky is based.Ĭlick here to subscribe to MH MVP and get the best in exclusive features and workout tips. This is shocking for anyone watching, but not for anyone familiar with The Highway by C.J. Oh, and he shoots Cody in the head for daring to get too close, with a shot of a blood-stained window seen in the aftermath to leave no question regarding his fate.

While this is shocking, the twist at the end of the episode is that Rick Legarski (John Carroll Lynch) a State Trooper who we previously thought was just, you know, a weirdo, is actually behind the kidnappings and in league with Ronald. No question about it.Ĭody was investigating the disappearance of young women at the truckstop along the Insterstate-as we see throughout the episode with both Jerrie Kennedy, the singer/prostitute (Jessie James Keitel), and the two road-tripping teen girls (Natalie Alyn Lind and Jade Pettyjohn), a truck driver named Ronald (Brian Geraghty) is a sociopath who uses a stun gun with leisure and apparently routinely kidnaps women. Ryan Phillippe, who had been a key component of the show's marketing campaign as private investigator named Cody Hoyt, got shot in the head at the conclusion of the episode. That's right: the show 100% killed off its lead. It's a stunning twist, especially granted that Phillippe is a big star and had been marketed as one of the series' leads.įans who tuned in for the first episode of ABC's Big Skyprobably mostly got what they expected-a thrilling story with a few minor twists and a pretty interesting story-until the very end, when the show took a leap that most network thrillers wouldn't dare to make.

In a shocking twist in the episode's closing moments, Cody is murdered by State Trooper Rick Legarski (John Carroll Lynch).Ryan Phillippe plays Cody Hoyt, a private investigator, in ABC's new David E.

The following story contains major spoilers for the first episode of Big Sky.

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