Talk:Blood Must Have Blood (Part 2)/@comment-4554525-20150305033309/@comment-25900245-20150308005113

The reapers are addicted to the red liquid.

When denied the red liquid for any length of time they enter extreme withdrawal, which may stop their heart.

This happened twice to Lincoln; the first time, Clarke restarted his heart with CPR, the second time this did not work and Abby used the stun-weapon as a make-shift defibrillator (e.g. rub the two paddles together, place them in the patents chest, yell "Clear" and hit the buttons).

There is no cure for addiction. Even at the end of this episode Lincoln is still an addict; the term is "recovering addict", and he has already relapsed once.