Sara did not find out that Jenna was dying until two weeks before the episode was shot, though she was very glad that she got to be a vampire before leaving the show. She would have liked having more time for Jenna and Isobel to interact. Sara did wonder about how Jenna was going to react to the truth about vampires, she had thought Jenna might be in denial and not believe it, but she liked the ‘heartbroken’ direction that the writers took.