Toni Graphia Annotation

As soon as I saw this phrase in the book, I knew it was a great title for an episode. Episodes 304 & 305 were originally one episode—but the episode kept growing until it split into two—like a giant amoeba. Ha ha. I loved both stories—one was Jamie centered and the other was mostly Claire. How to choose between them? I really wanted to do both. I felt passionately about portraying Claire’s dilemma about leaving her daughter to find Jamie, and wanted to dig deeper into this story.

This script evolved more than some others and is for the most part, not in the book. An early version had Brianna backpacking through the Highlands to get to know her father’s culture! Another version had Roger and Brianna going to a Vietnam protest in Boston and getting maced! But I always believed that at its core, this story was about a mother and daughter and we wanted to do justice to exploring their relationship and both their decisions about how to part with each other.