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What Happened to Armand Gamache?

In the ninth episode of the show, Gamache discovers the dead bodies of Blue and her partner Tommy. He discovers several bullets with dead bodies and sends the same to a lab to determine the gun the bullets are fired from. The results astound Gamache since the bullets that killed Blue were fired from the gun of Chief Inspector Pierre Arnot, Gamache’s best friend for forty years. He confronts Pierre about the same and realizes that the latter killed Blue for filming his involvement in the illegal tobacco trade with his accomplice Dan Chowski, another police officer. When Pierre realizes that Gamache discovered Chowski’s involvement in the murders, he kills his subordinate officer and tries to pin down the two murders on him.

Gamache, who knows Pierre for over four decades, asks him to stop lying to him. Although Pierre is his best friend, he doesn’t try to turn a blind eye to the former’s actions and murders and tries to convince the murderer to surrender. Pierre, fearing that his relationship with his partner Estelle and his police career will get destroyed if he surrenders, shoots at Gamache. The first season of the show ends with the Chief Inspector trying his best to stay alive. His subordinates Isabelle Lacoste and Jean-Guy Beauvoir arrive at the scene in no time and try to help him as well.

Considering the closing shot of the season, Gamache hasn’t died yet. Since Isabelle and Jean-Guy are there to help him, he may get the required medical attention within the window of hope. If that’s the case, Gamache may survive the bullet wound and stay alive. There is a possibility that the detective gets shot right outside the “chest kill zone,” near the right shoulder, which may give him a bit more to fight for his life. Pierre must have even shot Gamache out of the region intentionally not to kill his best friend but to stop him. If the detective manages to stay alive for a short period, Isabelle and Jean-Guy may succeed in bringing an ambulance into the secluded region.

If the second season materializes, we may see Gamache surviving the bullet wound and staying alive. He may capture Pierre and bring him to justice for the sake of the promise he made to Blue Two-Rivers’ family.

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