premise: EW reports at least two characters will be killed during this season, which ends in May 2009. During a January interview with New York magazine, Mitchell said of the Shakespearean roots in her name, " I'm certain it's not random because they're never random. It does seem to me that she's pretty much destined for tragedy, whichever way she goes, no matter how hard she tries to fight against it."
hypothesis: Shakespeare is a relative of Mitchell.