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in Season 3 once the show was renewed. Polito then gave an interview where he called out
Fontana and revealed spoilers on his demise, which led to a permanent estrangement with Fontana and the end of the plan to bring Polito back as a new character. Polito later apologized publicly to Fontana, stating that he didn't know the showrunner well enough at the time to know that he was a man who kept his word, and that he caused the end of his work on H:LOTS by wrongly believing Fontana was lying about the return plan.
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aired some of the Season 3 episodes out of order, a mention of a still living
Crosetti appeared after the episode that revealed the suicide. When NBC gave Tom Fontana an ultimatum of "write off Polito or this show will be cancelled", Fontana told Polito he had to do it but would bring him back later
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A dear friend of
Crosetti's, a police officer named Chris Thormann, is shot in the head while apprehending a suspect. Thormann survives, but is left blind and deeply depressed. Crosetti tries his best to help him and his wife get through it, and forces himself into the investigation. Eventually, his
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As evidenced by the teleplay in "Gone for Goode" and later "Rockets' Dead Glare", Crosetti was fascinated and probably obsessed by the
Lincoln assassination and rejected the belief that John Wilkes Booth was the lone assassin. In the first episode, he tells Meldrick he was up all night pondering the
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Crosetti's own marriage had fallen apart sometime before the beginning of the series. He has a teenage daughter, Beatrice, whom
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are called when a body is fished out of the bay. The body turns out to be
Crosetti, and the initial evidence suggests a suicide. Lewis refuses to believe that Crosetti would kill himself, especially in light of his faith and his daughter. Lewis does everything he can to get the death classified a
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in his system and died by drowning. Lewis later recalls that before his vacation
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drinking coffee and playing cards. They invite him to join the game, commenting that he can spend eternity peacefully in this place even though it is not heaven. Giardello takes note of an empty chair and wonders if his son
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