 During this meet, Carter asked Gilligan if he had any episode ideas, to which quickly noted that he had been observing his shadow and thought it would be "creepy" if it began moving independently.Carter asked Gilligan to develop a script based on the idea as a freelance project (although when the episode was finished, Carter offered Gilligan a job as a permanent writer).This episode was thus one of the first episodes to be written by someone from outside the main writing staff of "The X-Files".