Warning: This post contains spoilers for Sunday’s Task premiere.

HBO’s new crime drama Task got off to a fast start in Sunday’s premiere — and then hit us with a gut-punch.

The premiere introduced us to two men on a collision course: veteran FBI agent Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo), who was assigned to lead a task force to stop a string of violent home robberies; and trash man Robbie ( Tom Pelphrey ), who’s been pulling off those robberies with his buddies. While Tom assembled his task force, Robbie and his friends Cliff and Peaches went after a big score — and it went sideways, with three people ending up dead, including Peaches. But the real gut-punch came when Robbie realized there was a young boy asleep in the house they were robbing… and now both his parents are dead. Not knowin

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