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:
“Oh, you cold-blooded English. You’ll be the death of me.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“In every unbeliever’s heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic’s Hell.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)