Warning: This article contains spoilers for Another Simple Favor, as well as descriptions of the violent deaths of fictional characters.

Another Simple Favor contains a number of brutal deaths that occur over the course of its twisty narrative. The Prime Video thriller is a sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor, which was directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay by Jessica Sharzer, adapting the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell. Feig and Sharzer reunited for the sequel, which features returning characters including Emily (Blake Lively), Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), and Emily’s now ex-husband Sean (Henry Golding) alongside newcomers such as Emily’s fiancé Dante (Michele Morrone), his mother Portia (Elena Sofia Ricci), and Stephanie’s literary agent Vicky (Alex Newell).

Almost all of these characters are in mortal peril at one point or another throughout the movie, and nearly half a dozen of them die by the ending of Another Simple Favor. While all their deaths are violent, they have varying levels of brutality given the fact that they all have different M.O.s and there are a variety of perpetrators. All of this is in addition to the death by suicide of a swim coach, which takes place before the events of the story but is shown in flashback and haunts Stephanie throughout, because she feels that she is responsible.

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Agent Irene Walker

Played By Taylor Ortega

One of the many characters who die during 2025’s Another Simple Favor is FBI Agent Irene Walker. Although she is first introduced as a mysterious figure who is seemingly trailing Stephanie, she quickly reveals herself to be a bumbling agent on the trail of Emily’s con artist aunt Linda (Allison Janney). She offers very little real protection to Stephanie, to the point that she loudly calls her name while attempting to take her to a nearby safe house. Almost immediately after doing this, she is stabbed in the back by Emily’s long-lost identical triplet Charity (also portrayed by Blake Lively).

Irene’s death, while violent, is the least brutal of the murders in Another Simple Favor. This is because, like all of Irene’s scenes in the movie, it contains quite a few notes of comic relief. It also occurs very quickly, as it is designed to intentionally disorient Stephanie, who is overwhelmed so much by the sudden development that she finds herself holding yet another bloody knife that makes her seem even more suspicious in spite of the fact that she is not responsible for any of the many deaths that take place during her time attending Emily’s wedding in Capri.

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Margaret McLanden

Played By Elizabeth Perkins

As Linda and Charity (who she kidnapped as a baby and then raised to participate in her various cons and murders) mow their way through the cast, one of the victims that Linda herself claims is her sister Margaret McLanden, the mother of triplets Hope, Faith, and Charity. Although Margaret is showing signs of dementia, she has enough clarity while in Capri to both tell Stephanie about Linda’s long-ago betrayal and then inform Linda that she has done so. This leads Linda to smother her with a pillow in revenge, preventing Margaret from telling anybody else about her dark past.

The murder itself is not particularly brutal in terms of onscreen violence, because it does not involve any blood. However, it is considerably more shocking than Irene’s death, because Margaret was a character from the original movie (previously portrayed onscreen by Jean Smart) and thus is more of a part of the fabric of the franchise, even though she has always played a supporting role. Another more brutal element of this murder is the fact that Linda has murdered her own sister, emphasizing the franchise’s overarching themes of the strained relationships between siblings spilling over into pᴀssion, violence, and more.

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Dante Versano

Played By Michele Morrone

The death of Emily’s new husband Dante on their wedding night could perhaps have been foreseen. The wedding featured the presence of the Versanos’ rival crime family, the Bartolos. Although they were invited in order to foster peace, guns had already been drawn earlier during the event for a situation as minor as Stephanie taking a video and accidentally capturing the presence of a Bartolo family member. This is why his death from multiple gunsH๏τ wounds (which turned out to have been inflicted by Charity) was seemingly potentially mob-related, muddying the waters as to the idenтιтy of the true culprit.

Dante’s death is brutal because of the aftermath rather than the way it is meted out. Although it is most likely the gunsH๏τ wounds that killed him, he falls into a shed that contains some of the wedding fireworks, which are lit by the spark from another gunsH๏τ. The fireworks then explode around him, presumably scorching his body beyond recognition, though his corpse is never shown onscreen after the fact. The intensity of his dramatic final moments is further compounded by the fact that the fireworks around him were meant to be celebrating his nuptials rather than marking his death.

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Sean Townsend

Played By Henry Golding

Sean Townsend, whose life has seemingly fallen apart entirely since the events of the original movie, is the first of the Another Simple Favor characters to perish over the course of the story. In fact, his death is even implied by the opening sequence, which begins in medias res with Stephanie livestreaming while under house arrest and proclaiming her innocence. It is not revealed until later that, when she refers to the death of Emily’s husband, she is actually talking about Dante, as both of Emily’s husbands have died by the time the movie catches up with that introductory moment.

Sean also holds the distinction of being the only returning A Simple Favor character played by the original actor to die during the movie. His death is particularly brutal, though it starts off subtle. He is approached by an unseen ᴀssailant in the shower, mimicking Janet Leigh’s iconically shocking death in the shower during the first act 1960’s Psycho, and has an unknown substance injected into the tip of his finger. This causes his brain to hemorrhage, and he dies after his ears, mouth, and nose begin to bleed, falling through the glᴀss wall of the shower in the process.

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Aunt Linda McLanden

Played By Allison Janney

The death that is perhaps the most brutal of them all is doled out to Oscar-winner Allison Janney, who joined the cast as Emily’s Aunt Linda. One of the biggest reveals of the movie is the fact that Charity is still alive thanks to Linda’s duplicity during her birth. While Charity perpetrated the majority of the murders in the movie, and ends up taking the fall for all of them, Aunt Linda is the mastermind of the operation, cleaning up Charity’s messes while finding a way to attempt to make enough money out of the situation to retire in luxury.

Her poor treatment of Charity ends up being her downfall, and she ultimately loses the battle for control over the lovelorn triplet, who harbors a psychoSєxual fascination with her surviving sister. In addition to being sH๏τ, Linda is thrown from the cliffside in Capri that is known as Tiberius’ Leap, from which the former Emperor supposedly flung entertainers who failed to amuse him. Another Simple Favor concludes with Linda’s body excessively bouncing off the rocks during her fall into the ocean, delivering the most brutal death to the character who was the most unvarnished villain of the movie’s entire cast.