Yet again David Hewlett has been asked the question about his co-stars rumoured departure, this time by Eclipse Magazine  (click the link to read the full interview). He once again neither confirms nor denies the rumour:

Talking of people not coming back, what can he say about the rumours flooding the internet that Carson Beckett is killed during the second half of Season 3? There’s silence at the other end of the phone line before he neither confirms nor denies.

“Well, that’s not been confirmed yet, has it?” Hewlett says enigmatically. “It’s amazing how fast that little piece of, shall we say, information or misinformation has been propagated. All I can say about that is that I think people will be incredibly surprised by what happens. And I mean that both in a good and a bad way. So you can take that as you wish! But either way, people who think they’ve got it right, you know, I think they’ll be very interested to see what happens and its repercussions on season 4!”