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Writing Fool for Love

Some episodes we get a lot of time to write, and some episodes we have to write very, very quickly. Fool For Love had to be written very, very quickly.

It was a hugely ambitious episode and I had about four days to write it which I think is a record for me. I was freaking out. I was like, "What am I going to do? I cannot do this much work in this short a period of time."

I spoke to James [Marsters] about it and said, "Look, I’ve got this huge episode to write, I’m really excited, I love to be working with you but…" and he brought me back a case of Red Bull.

Fans had sent him cases of Red Bull and he generously gave one of those cases to me. I lived on Cheetos and Red Bull for four days and just slept on the sets, wrote it very quickly and was a highly caffeinated lunatic.

So, thank you James and thank you to the fan who gave James the Red Bull who gave it to me which resulted in Fool for Love. There’s some kind of beautiful cycle of life thing going on in there, a cycle of caffeine.