W convinces Skullshatterer to head straight and kill the Doctor, suggesting that their death would severely weaken Rhodes Island. But unfortunately in doing this tactic, Skullshatterer got himself quickly killed by Amiya. On the other hand, this could be interpreted as a Batman Gambit of W manipulating Skullshatterer's emotions so that he could get himself killed in combat, stopping Talulah from getting the key to Chernobog's sarcophagus that his father had entrusted to him.