To have something else that becomes a catalyst for that moment would’ve felt inauthentic, and we would’ve had to start chipping away at what we had to do at the end of the season. It would’ve been us going back to the drawing board to figure out other ways in how the season culminated.
Thankfully we were able to share our passion and have her back in this universe and it was truly amazing.
We talked kind of jokingly about a couple of contingency plans, but none of them were actually real enough that would pack that kind of emotional punch that we knew was necessary to bring Ali back at this time.