He's not dead. He's just gone undercover so as to find those weapons-of-mass-destruction that have been so difficult to locate thus far. Always working. Always on the job.
Are we certain that he is truly dead? I saw a Perry Mason episode once where the victim faked his death. Maybe we should drive a stake through his replacement heart just to make sure.
I'm bracing myself for a union-based war against Mamdani. I remember that that sort of conflict started shortly after John Lindsay's inauguration and it was devastating.