Death
In the episode "Mars, Bars", Lamb and Deputy Sacks answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Mindy O'Dell. Lamb confronted Mindy's former husband and suspect in the Dean O'Dell murder case Steve Botando, who attacked him by hitting him in the head with a baseball bat and who was in turn shot by Sacks. The county commissioner informed Keith Mars that Lamb had died in the hospital from the severe trauma to his head and had asked for Keith to become interim sheriff.
Lamb's last known words were "I smell bread." This is a quote from a fatally wounded soldier (just before he died) in an episode of the television series M*A*S*H. As Lamb could very reasonably be assumed to be a fan of that show, its use here is a strong indication that Lamb knew he was seconds away from death and could not be saved but still wanted to be, as the actor phrased it, snarky.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“My glass shall not persuade me I am old
So long as youth and thou are of one date,
But when in thee time’s furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is something antique, even, in his style of treating his subject, reminding us that Heroes and Demi-gods, Fates and Furies, still exist; the common man is nothing to him, but after death the hero is apotheosized and has a place in heaven, as in the religion of the Greeks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)