It occurs to me this may seem contradictory when I said earlier don't change paternity out of the blue, but I think this is a different situation:
For one thing, no one questioned Ed being Michelle's father because of the assumption it was impossible for Fletcher to have fathered her.
In this particular case, this reveal would have a HUGE impact on the characters because of how this upended the lives of all four people involved at the time. Claire and Fletcher's romance was destroyed. Ed and Maureen's relationship survived, but it caused damage that probably never totally healed. Ed never wanted to have more children after Michelle, which kept him and Maureen from trying to find a way to become parents of their own child.
So in this case, this wouldn't just be a temporary blip, it would be like a bomb going off in these characters' lives, with lots of things having to be sorted out, not the least being Michelle having to face the possibility of not being a Bauer.
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