Why Did [SPOILER] Have To Die In ‘Orphan Black’ Season 5?

“Orphan Black” Season 5, episode 8 recently saw the shocking death of Mrs. S (Maria Doyle Kennedy).

In “Guillotines Decide,” an angry Ferdinand (James Frain) discovered that Mrs. S had a paper trail that could expose some information about Neolution. In order to stop her from doing so, Ferdinand decided to kill Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) and Felix’s (Jordan Gavaris) mom.

Read: What secret is Mrs. S hiding from Sarah in “Orphan Black” Season 5?

While speaking with TV Line, Kennedy said that killing off Mrs. S in episode 8 was the right thing to do for the character. But this does not mean that she and her co-stars didn’t have an emotional time saying goodbye to Mrs. S on set. “Her death is such an extraordinary loss for everybody and such a disruption to that family. The challenge is then: Will they be able to rise from that experience and gather the things that she has given them, the coping skills that she has imbued them with, and be able to take them forward and form lives and maintain relationships for themselves?” she said.

Meanwhile, even though Mrs. S’ death did not end in vain since she was also able to take Ferdinand down with her in a way, the character admitted that there are still a lot of questions surrounding Mrs. S that haven’t been addressed.

“They would never answer it for me, and it’s a question that I often get asked at Comic-Con or places like that, and Jordan and I used to sit around and make up answers for it ourselves every so often: How did she make her money? How did she pay the rent on that great house and always have food and everything? ‘Cause she didn’t go out to work, right? She lived a reasonable lifestyle in terms of somebody who never seemed to have a job. So that’s just one. Someday, I’ll have a cocktail with Graeme Manson and he’ll say, ‘Well, actually…’” she said.

“Orphan Black” Season 5 has two more episodes left before the series finale. The series was canceled last year based on the executive producers and lead star Maslany’s decision.