At the end of the day, we tried quite a few of those, and we knew we were going to have to separate Tomas and Marcus in order for this story to work, in order to give Tomas his hero moment and allow him to become an exorcist. We had versions where the Pope had already been turned, and what you thought was an assassination attempt wound up being a display of his power - the idea that there was a satanic Pope in the Vatican, and he was already taking steps to ensure their success. There were a lot of different versions of the entire story of Pope Sebastian’s visit and we didn’t settle on the right one until pretty late into the season, because we had versions where the heroes failed to stop it and the Pope was killed. The first time you do that, it takes all the suspense out of the show because you say, “Okay, well now you got a magic rescue button that you can press whenever things get too tough.” Because nothing drags me out of a show faster than a magical cheat where suddenly a blindly white angel suddenly appears in the middle of the room and saves the day. And we also have to play fair with the audience. Their power does come from a higher source, and we have to be respectful of that. It would be disingenuous to do a show about Catholic faith and then act like our heroes are all alone in the universe. All they will do is give you a nudge in the right direction and help you along. It’s an idea that there is an agency for good out there working, but they’re never going to directly interfere in the way the bad guys will directly attack. It’s the page number of the book that ultimately leads Tomas to saving the family. Like these voices that Henry keeps hearing saying the “1-6-2” over and over again and he can’t figure out what he means. We have these little hints and suggestions. We do have the presence of good in our show. It’s easy to see the evil in the world, and sometimes you have to look a little closer to see the good. But it also was important to say, you don’t want the finger of God to rip the roof of the house off and come down to Angela and point to Angela and say, “God saved the day.” That is what makes faith a little harder. At some point it just becomes Supernatural and they’ve kind of staked that territory very well for themselves and I don’t think we’d want to compete in that area. I’ve been adamant from the beginning that I don’t want this to turn into the kind of show where you have helpful, heroic angels walking around and interacting with the cast. It’s always been something we’ve struggled with in terms of how much to show and how much to suggest. It’s always been important in a show like that if you’re presenting the idea that evil is real in the world, you need to present the counterpoint that every shadow has a light source and that if there are forces of darkness in the world, then there also have to be forces of good. So I don’t think any of the characters on their own could have defeated Pazuzu, but together, the combination of all of them was just enough. Angela has to make that same emotional leap before she’s ready to face the demon. In the same way, Tomas isn’t able to become an exorcist until he lets go of those things that are holding him back. And it’s not until she lets go of that fear and opens that door and accepts the inevitable that she is able to move on. She has allowed fear to rule her life in a very real way. It was Tomas fighting in the real world to reach and bring her back, and the voices of her family who refuse to abandon her, and really just Angela coming to that realization on her own, that she has been running from her past for 40 years. You’re talking about a demon that’s millions of years old, and just massively powerful and dangerous. The idea was always that any one of these participants on their own wouldn’t have been strong enough to stop this overpowering supernatural force.