 Rousseau 's unknown fate in " Meet Kevin Johnson " was heavily discussed among critics . Alan Sepinwall of The Star @-@ Ledger felt that the relationship between Rousseau and Alex after their reunion remained unexplored , which made Rousseau 's death a wasted opportunity for a powerful death scene . BuddyTV 's Don Williams believed that Rousseau would survive , mainly because he had been waiting to see her flashback for four seasons , and thought her death would ensure it would not happen . Dan Compora from SyFy Portal was disappointed in her death scene , noting , " I wasn 't shocked to see Danielle get killed , but the scene felt like it was tossed in just in case this had to serve as the season finale . " Compora felt that Rousseau deserved more screen time in the episode leading up to her death . The San Francisco Chronicle 's Tim Goodman described it as " a rude and lazy way to get rid of Rousseau " . John Kubicek , also of BuddyTV , found her death scene unsatisfactory , commenting , " Then we have that entirely tacked on scene at the end which felt so artificial , like I accidentally flipped over to a different show . While I agree Danielle Rousseau being shot with an arrow is shocking , is this really what the show has come to ? <unk> putting a recurring character 's life in peril to pose as a cliffhanger ? " 
