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Philadelphia took a lot of hits this week. The Phillies are out of the MLB playoffs for fourth straight year. The Eagles lost to one of the worst teams in football. Task<\/a> <\/em>audiences found out that the Dark Hearts only got to Cliff (Ra\u00fal Castillo<\/a>) because Anthony Grasso (Fabien Frankel<\/a>) is a good-for-nothing mole. As I pled to my TV<\/a> screen last week, \u201cNot DJ Grassonova, say it isn\u2019t so!\u201d Sadly, it\u2019s true. Not only that, but episode 6 drives the wedge in even deeper.<\/p>\n Every single character in Task <\/em>converges in Delco\u2019s woods for an all-out brawl that left me feeling like there couldn\u2019t possibly be another episode next week. Two of our favorite characters don\u2019t even make it out alive. Episode 6 feels worse than dropping all your red cherry-flavored water ice on your new white shoes, but that\u2019s what happens when you jostle the cup around as much as Task <\/em>has for the past five episodes. We saw the signs. It was inevitable\u2014and Task <\/em>is still damn good TV. But that doesn\u2019t make it hurt any less.<\/p>\n Last week, Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo) gave Robbie (Tom Pelphrey<\/a>) his last chance to walk away from all this mess. In an emotional and honest car ride to Bushkill, the two lead actors finally shared a scene together where they spoke about death, faith, and family. Although Robbie let Tom live, the FBI agent gathered his team quickly and doubled back to the woods to apprehend him. Episode 5<\/a> ended with the two actors pointing their guns at one another before the credits rolled. It was a chilling cliff-hanger, and one that spelled certain doom for either Tom or Robbie when we returned. We just weren\u2019t thinking dark enough for creator Brad Ingelsby<\/a>. We lose two characters this episode\u2014and it\u2019s not the two you\u2019d think.<\/p>\n