Jeffrey Bell

So on the Wikipedia article, uh, there's a p- section that says writing, and it says, "Ming-Na Wen, who plays May, was not told of her character Melinda May's backstory in the series until she read the script for this episode.

Executive producer Jeffrey Bell talked about exploring May's backstory in the episode after it being teased since the start of the series, saying, quote, 'She's a very different May in this episode.

This is the May before this incident happened.

And so there are qualities that, uh, Ming-Na Wen brings to the role.

Yeah.

And of course, Coulson has the classic sci-fi line of take me to your leader.

Um, so with regards to the writing of this episode, executive producer Jeffrey Bell explained the frenemy of my enemy's place in the overarching story of the season, saying that it, quote, really sets up nicely the final four, which I think kind of move like a train.

If you had gone to see a 22-hour movie, oh my goodness, this sort of launches us into act three, where everything starts coming together.