We struggled with that, because burning someone alive is a sadistic exercise, but we weighed it against other options of shooting her or drugging her.
I’m not going to say more than that, but it’s the A side of a larger story.
It seemed the most visual option, and in a way, the sadistic approach of burning her alive spoke to the mythology of who these creatures were and how they suffer.
So it was both a story device and a world-building character exercise… [I]t also sets up a story later in Season 1 in terms of trying to kill the virals.