This story makes a frightening amount of sense, and would have made me a bit more sympathetic to John if they had shown something like this on the show. I get the feeling that, after they knew that JDM wouldn't be back on the show any time soon, they set about burning his character so that no one would want to see him again.

In my case, they might have done too good of a job.

Right in the heartstrings, this story!!