Initially, Anderson called up Morgan and asked him to write a story in which Scully "fall hard" for another man, leading to an "intense kind of romantic or passionate relationship". Morgan obliged and wrote a scene featuring Scully enjoying a passionate night with Jerse. This was later removed from the script by series creator Chris Cartermaking it the only time that Carter had removed one of Morgan's scenes. Morgan later noted, "I think Chris thought that I was monkeying around with him, but I really wasn't."