Musings: Hunter plea deal fails, the ds knows this is another key line of no return and goes to put the pressure on barry, (probably what happened to mitch the glitch too) and kill his chef/body guard/assistant as part of the warning and set it up to look suspicious as part of the squeeze.
The end game is at hand. The ds are now starting to consume each other.
warning? no. payment, yes. these people pay in blood and it is seldom their own. the blood of someone important to them, yes. still a knowing payment. apply this to all those rockband deaths that occur before the band gets big and understanding might occur.