Georg's character isn't fit for spying/assasin roles as his visible/public persona is too strong and flamboyant.
He was able to use those traits to lure corrupt nobles to his side, but now that he's a traitor, there's not much he can do to hide what he is.
I do not think it was a fake death, unless that crappy group gets him out and thinks they saved their hero only to fall in the same trap as their predecessors haha.

It's still a way out as random guards where their the whole scene and I would not want them to learn the details of what Georg did.