If Mike had died, wouldn't Phil already know...

That's an interesting question. In the timeline of the show, the "Unwitnessed Deaths" episode (3x6) probably happened no more than a few weeks or so since the end of s.2; so if Mike were dead behind that door, Phil/Tandy most definitely would smelled something.  Since he apparently didn't, I assume that still gave him hope that his brother was alive (albeit very, very sick) but maybe he didn't want to see him in any more of a declining state than he had last left him (or else he didn't want to take a chance on finding the room empty -- leading him to assume maybe Mike had gone out while feeling momentarily better but suddenly taken a turn for the worse and ended up dying somewhere else...)


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In b4 the boards close: I don't think any of them maybe even HAVE a sense of smell anymore. Assuming every street has, I dunno, a couple dead bodies in it... maybe no-one can actually smell a *new* dead body, if that makes sense.

I thought Mike actually went to a different house to die, this didn't look the same to me at all - though it was shown at night and a different angle that time. I'd have to go back and look.