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I'd have to sit down and work it out multiple ways, but I would probably have taken the ATCU element out of it completely (has then track him to John's some other way, rather than John calling them). They could have had a confrontation over Lincoln lying, John could have still gotten angry/scared and threatened Lincoln to stay put until he had explained himself, Lincoln could have reacted the same way (with the bat) and the heart attack thing could've happened, too. Then while he was running away, someone ELSE could have seen him and called the ATCU to that area. It might have required some extra scenes/actors, but it would have also made John's death weigh more heavily on Lincoln, too. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

Right now AOS deals in high stakes most with a character death cocktail, where they loom over us with "YOUR FAVE MIGHT DIE" and it gets really tiring, because one a piece is off the board, unless that's dealt with long term, it becomes useless. We saw that happen with Tripp -- it was a wasted death. So when they need to raise tension, their default is to rush to the "LIFE-THREATENING SCENARIO!" grab bag instead of using interpersonal relationships to drive the action (they're kind of doing it with subsequent episodes in S3 tho). Other people don't find this lazy, but I admit I do most of the time. But I find killing characters off to be pretty lazy in general, and a boring way to get rid of characters on short notice/for ratings/whatever. >.>