Warning: This article contains spoilers from Wednesday’s midseason finale ofFor Lifeon ABC.
Thankfully, Jamal (Dorian Missick) talked some sense into him.
Aaron also made some major progress on the professional front.

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And collars for dollars is one example.
They have to maybe do a couple days in jail, pay bail, or lose work.

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In some ways, he’s ahead of Aaron.
But Henry cannot wait to just get out there and tackle huge issues.
He feels like he’s running out of time.
Since he was part of the problem, he’s very, very anxious to get his redemption.
But it does mean that he’s not running away from his problems.
When Ispoke to Nicholas, he said he found Aaron and Marie’s struggles emotionally challenging.
Life is difficult right now for everyone.
I’m in a writers' room where several of the writers I’ve never met in person.
Already there’s an estrangement and challenge to connecting and sharing.
Then of course, we’re writing about COVID, we’re living through COVID.
We’re writing about a time in history when we’re not really that far removed from it.
And everybody has really strong feelings about it.
We have to in some way write about times.
So we obviously had to confront all those things.
You know, it’s like whatever you do when you’re doing normal storytelling.
We’re not going to show people protesting even though we talk about people protesting.
It seemed like clearly they go together.
We’re just trying to embrace that and do it in a smart way.
For Lifereturns Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 10 p.m.