When ABC saw this draft, they asked the producers to remove this line, explaining that they did not want the show to venture into science fiction during the first season.[9] The character of Sullivan, to whose medical woes Jack tended, was created to make the rest of the survivors think that Rousseau's team was killed by an illness.[9] The idea for Hurley's golf course came from script coordinator Brent Fletcher; it was based on a miniature golf course he created in the offices for the television show Angel.[9]