Luke Schelhaas Annotation

This is a really important scene and it’s a long scene, and a difficult one. For a lot of reasons, mostly weather, the shooting of this scene had to be rescheduled a number of times. When we finally shot it, it was in the middle of a blizzard. Literally. Not just a snowfall, a blizzard. And we had nothing else to shoot. That’s a rare thing for us or any show. We almost always have what we call “weather cover”—scenes we can shoot inside if need be. On this day, we didn’t have that, and the snow came out of nowhere, so we shot the entire thing—seven pages—in a blizzard but of course… if you’ve watched the episode, you saw that it was a beautiful day. That’s because after we’d shot it and cut it together, we realized that it just didn’t look right. Why would Jamie and Brianna go for a walk, and talk of such intimate matters in this kind of weather? So, we made the hard choice of reshooting the entire scene—basically a whole day’s work. That was a tough call, because Sam and Sophie had done AMAZING work the first time around. Asking them to play this emotional and challenging scene a second time was a tough ask, but they were troopers, and the final result is amazing.