Noooooooo, not Train Daddy!! Julian Fellowes, how could you do this to us? (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) Just when it seemed The Gilded Age couldn’t possibly raise the stakes after last week’s shocking carriage accident that killed off John Adams (Claybourne Elder),

The Gilded Age season 3 delivered another shocker — just one week after killing off beloved character John Adams (Claybourne Elder) — and now the fate of Morgan Spector 's character hangs in the balance following the penultimate episode.

The episode ended with an assassin disguised as a delivery man arriving at George’s room at the club. The man shot the others in the room, and the final seconds showed one last bullet being fired point-blank at George. Was the shooter hired by Clay? Can the millionaire CEO survive this attempt on his life? Find out next week.

Details follow for Season 3, Episode 7 of “The Gilded Age,” “Ex-Communicated,” which aired Aug. 3 on HBO. On its best days, Le Pain Quotidien’s Bryant Park branch is a far cry from the 61st Street mansion where the Russell family presides over New York society in baronial splendor on HBO’s “The Gilded

This might come as a shock to you, but Morgan Spector tells TVLine that he’s “thrilled” with how Sunday’s episode of The Gilded Age ended. The penultimate hour of Season 3 went out with a bang, ending with a moment that surely left every viewer’s jaw on the floor.