But did the team at Alcon go back and revise the ending of this latest episode?

“The truth is,” franchise co-creator Ty Franck says, “it’s kind of a meaningless question in television, because as an on-set producer, I have literally walked off the set, climbed the stairs to my office, and rewritten a scene we’re about to shoot. And Naren has done the same. Daniel has done the same. I mean, that is part of the television process. So there is no sort of ‘once the story is set’ when you’re in the TV realm.”

In other words, they definitely did rewrite him out of the show, they’re just trying to pass it off by saying that rewriting is common anyway.