Wagner wrote the first two parts and Grant the last two. Grant has said that this was done because it couldn't have been done any other way, "Together with Chopper in "Oz", it brought the crisis in John's and my partnership to a crescendo." Concluding "The only time we ever did alternate episodes was on Last American, when our partnership was teetering on its last legs anyway. If we hadn't done it that way, it still wouldn't have been published today, we argued so much about it."