Matt Roberts & Toni Graphia Annotation

We always knew from the beginning, when we first started talking about this episode, that we wanted to start with the image of Claire wrapped in the sail, drifting down to the bottom of the ocean and that the opening line would be “I was dead.” We wanted to make the image surreal and provocative, something that made the audience wonder how Claire got here…and then later catch up to the same image, where we’d now understand what happened and why. We also loved the juxtaposition of dying, yet being filled with happiness and peace.

You might recognize the music cue here…it’s Bear McCreary’s theme from “Faith,” when Jamie and Claire are at the grave of the baby they lost. We purposefully chose it for its sad yet beautiful melody, and Bear slowed it down to make it even more ethereal.