When Season 3 kicked off and he hadn’t been killed, though, it seemed like maybe that line wasn’t quite as ominous as it seemed.
But no, as Jennie Snyder Urman told Deadline, the line was definite foreshadowing, as well as narrative insurance.
Back in the tenth episode of the series, the narrator first hinted at Michael’s demise with a line about how he would love Jane “until his last breath.”
Alas, while it was an emotional jolt to see Michael succumbing to heart problems spurred by his shooting – not to mention having to see Jane get that knee-buckling phone call – the big death was not one that came completely out of left field, as the narrator reminded viewers.