diff --git a/command/agent/check.go b/command/agent/check.go
index 6564a39fd..5573d4008 100644
--- a/command/agent/check.go
+++ b/command/agent/check.go
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ type CheckMonitor struct {
 	Interval time.Duration
 	Timeout  time.Duration
 	Logger   *log.Logger
-	ReapLock *sync.RWMutex
 
 	stop     bool
 	stopCh   chan struct{}
@@ -156,12 +155,6 @@ func (c *CheckMonitor) run() {
 
 // check is invoked periodically to perform the script check
 func (c *CheckMonitor) check() {
-	// Disable child process reaping so that we can get this command's
-	// return value. Note that we take the read lock here since we are
-	// waiting on a specific PID and don't need to serialize all waits.
-	c.ReapLock.RLock()
-	defer c.ReapLock.RUnlock()
-
 	// Create the command
 	cmd, err := ExecScript(c.Script)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/command/agent/check_test.go b/command/agent/check_test.go
index 72ecfac28..749a8351d 100644
--- a/command/agent/check_test.go
+++ b/command/agent/check_test.go
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
-	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -46,7 +45,6 @@ func expectStatus(t *testing.T, script, status string) {
 		Script:   script,
 		Interval: 10 * time.Millisecond,
 		Logger:   log.New(os.Stderr, "", log.LstdFlags),
-		ReapLock: &sync.RWMutex{},
 	}
 	check.Start()
 	defer check.Stop()
@@ -96,7 +94,6 @@ func TestCheckMonitor_Timeout(t *testing.T) {
 		Interval: 10 * time.Millisecond,
 		Timeout:  5 * time.Millisecond,
 		Logger:   log.New(os.Stderr, "", log.LstdFlags),
-		ReapLock: &sync.RWMutex{},
 	}
 	check.Start()
 	defer check.Stop()
@@ -125,7 +122,6 @@ func TestCheckMonitor_RandomStagger(t *testing.T) {
 		Script:   "exit 0",
 		Interval: 25 * time.Millisecond,
 		Logger:   log.New(os.Stderr, "", log.LstdFlags),
-		ReapLock: &sync.RWMutex{},
 	}
 	check.Start()
 	defer check.Stop()
@@ -154,7 +150,6 @@ func TestCheckMonitor_LimitOutput(t *testing.T) {
 		Script:   "od -N 81920 /dev/urandom",
 		Interval: 25 * time.Millisecond,
 		Logger:   log.New(os.Stderr, "", log.LstdFlags),
-		ReapLock: &sync.RWMutex{},
 	}
 	check.Start()
 	defer check.Stop()