From our point of view, as crafting this and why this episode, the ninth, the second to last, why take an episode to do this for John, is to really enter into his psyche and to put the audience, once again, in the shoes of John where he’s confused and he doesn’t know what’s going on and he doesn’t know what’s reality and what’s not reality.
It moves off of the format of previous episodes for the entire series because this is really delving into John’s subconscious.
There was no way of getting to that level of storytelling without taking John on this journey.
It’s very much in essence a mental breakdown for John.