Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-16047999-20140131200629/@comment-19765459-20140201191932

Pizzanigs wrote: Regarding the original post:

I genuinely believe that if Gage had never left, they would both be alive now. Jeff said himself that he had some plans for Erica and Boyd (which included a relationship) this season, and I believe that without Erica, they simply had nothing to do with Boyd's character and just killed him off.

They were supposed to have a romance, and some of that was carried over to Cora, although toned down considerably to the point where it was inferred rather than overt. It is also true that Boyd had no other storyline, and as I said before, had been given a very dour personality that made it hard to fit him into the story without something like a relationship. He was not really friends with any of the main characters, and his sole other role, that of Derek's Beta, simply made him the sacrificial lamb.