{"id":49494,"date":"2025-09-29T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49494\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:26:09","slug":"cliff-broward-dies-in-wild-plastic-suffocation-scene-that-the-actors-did-not-fake-he-went-to-the-point-of-not-being-able-to-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49494\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Broward Dies in Wild Plastic Suffocation Scene that the Actors Did NOT Fake \u2014 “He Went to the Point of Not Being Able to Breathe”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Task<\/a> Episode 4 \u201cAll Roads\u201d ends with Robbie Prendergrast (Tom Pelphrey<\/a>) and his best friend Cliff Broward (Ra\u00fal Castillo<\/a>) walking right into a trap. However, that\u2019s not what is so shocking and upsetting about the HBO<\/a> drama\u2019s end this week. Rather, it\u2019s the fact that Task Episode 4 ends in a way that hammers home just how dangerous the Dark Hearts are and just how deeply they\u2019ve embedded themselves within law enforcement.<\/p>\n

**Spoilers for Task Episode 4 \u201cAll Roads,\u201d now streaming on HBO MAX**<\/p>\n

Task Episode 4 culminates in a sting operation led by FBI agent Tom Brandis\u2019s (Mark Ruffalo<\/a>) task force to capture Cliff Broward and hopefully rescue the kidnapped Sam (Ben Doherty). The FBI has been using Ray Lyman\u2019s (Peter Patrikios) cell phone to connect with Cliff, tricking him into meeting up in a local park late at night. However, it turns out that the plan is a bust because someone within the law enforcement has swapped Ray\u2019s phone out with a fake, giving the Dark Hearts the real Ray\u2019s phone. <\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s operation ends in confusion and chaos, while Cliff drives right into the Dark Hearts\u2019s trap. Jayson Wilkes (Sam Keeley<\/a>) and Perry Dorazo (Jamie McShane<\/a>) capture him, torture him, and eventually murder him. <\/p>\n

So how did Task pull that visceral death scene off? And who could the mole within the task force be? Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the end of Task Episode 4 \u201cAll Roads\u201d on HBO\u2026<\/p>\n

Task Episode 4 Ending Explained: How Does Cliff Die? <\/p>\n

At the end of Task Episode 4, Jayson not only brutally tortures Cliff, but kills him in a grotesque way. He wraps cellophane \u2014 or cling film or Saran wrap, if you will \u2014 around his already beaten head. Cliff asphyxiates to death. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a scene that\u2019s brutal to watch, but was even more \u201crough\u201d on set, according to the stars of Task.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was an energy in that room that day,\u201d Sam Keeley said. \u201cWe were in this kind of industrial garage \u2014 like a big kind of shed, basically \u2014 and everyone felt that there was an energy in that room. We knew what we needed to do and we knew that we had to go there in order to really kind of portray that energy, but we did it. I mean, Ra\u00fal was a champ.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering if Task Episode 4 director Salli Richardson-Whitfield used special effects or stunt performers to pull off Cliff\u2019s suffocation scene, she didn\u2019t. Actor Ra\u00fal Castillo did it all himself.<\/p>\n

\"Raul Photo: HBO<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was just like, \u2018There\u2019s no way to fake this, so just cover my mouth,’\u201d Keeley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how you did that,\u201d Jamie McShane said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, he did it. He did it several times and it was rough,\u201d Keeley said. \u201cAt one point he went to the point of basically not being able to breathe.\u201d Castillo had to puncture the plastic in order to save himself from really suffocating to death.<\/p>\n

According to Castillo, there were \u201csome technical components in place\u201d to fake it on set, but \u201cboth Sam and I found them a little bit restrictive at different points.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it was the spit or the plastic, these things, just the end of the day, they were holding us back,\u201d Castillo said. \u201cI was like, \u2018Just wrap [me]. Just do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Director Salli Richardson-Whitfield confirmed to DECIDER that they initially had a stunt performer in place on set, but, \u201cRaul felt that he could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really think it\u2019s a testimony to the trust he had for his fellow actors, for the crew, that we would protect him,\u201d she said. \u201cWhenever your actor can do it all, it\u2019s better\u2026It definitely, I think, gives you a visceral feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jamie McShane echoed this sentiment, revealing that Keeley actually got \u201cvery protective\u201d of Castillo on set. \u201cWhich was great,\u201d McShane said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that\u2019s right,\u201d Castillo said. \u201cThat\u2019s right, exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was brutal,\u201d Keeley said. \u201cJust rough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who is the Mole in HBO\u2019s Task?<\/p>\n

While we know that Eryn (Margarita Levieva) is the mole working with Robby to help bring down the Dark Hearts, where is the Dark Hearts\u2019s intel coming from? How did they get Ray\u2019s real phone? How deep does this betrayal go.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t spoil the rest of Task, but it should go without saying that Tom Brandis can\u2019t trust anyone at this point. Not only are Anthony Grasso (Fabien Frankel), Lizzie Stover (Alison Oliver), and Aleah Clinton (Thuso Mbedu) still potentially rats, but there\u2019s a chilling scene where we see Tom\u2019s boss, Kathleen McGinty (Martha Plimpton) make a distressing phone call immediately after shrugging off his concerns. She calls someone and suggests they have a problem. Is she the Dark Hearts\u2019s mole? <\/p>\n

Task returns next Sunday, October 5 on HBO and HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Task Episode 4 \u201cAll Roads\u201d ends with Robbie Prendergrast (Tom Pelphrey) and his best friend Cliff Broward (Ra\u00fal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,43045,111,139,69,43046,43047,43048,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-49494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jamie-mcshane","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-raul-castillo","14":"tag-salli-richardson-whitfield","15":"tag-sam-keeley","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}