That's a good question.
I will never understand why Kobe felt she had to kill off Hillary. Just fire the actress. I don't even think they needed to do the plastic surgery bit. Clark wasn't that popular. In this case, people would have accepted a recast pretty easily, IMO.
I got the impression they had Jim falling for Anabelle because they really didn't know what to do with him once the Dreaming Death story was over and Hillary was gone.
Maybe have the Beirut plot but have Mo and Fletcher missing together while Mo's pregnant by Ed. Ed and Claire become close because they have lost their partners and realize they're in love just as Mo and Fletcher pop back up with the baby. There were other ways to go with this.
That would still leave the not-dead Hillary out in the cold. Yeah, they probably would have had to create a character especially for her, I guess. All the Lewis men were spoken for, Phillip was too young for her (and occupied with Beth and India). I suppose they could have brought in yet another Reardon male for her, but that was played out.
I think that leaves Ross and Justin. Justin was on his way out the door. I definitely could not see Clark with JvD, so Hillary would have to be a different actress. They did have some negative history (he treated her pretty badly during Roger's rape trial) they could have drawn on for some conflict.
It would have been a challenge but I think it would have been worth it to salvage the character because she was a Bauer.
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