 The first draft was completed on August 4, 1994 with 148 pages accomplished, and more additions were added on; the high school protagonist was changed to a stripper named Bethany who meet Jay and Silent Bob at a nudie booth, Azrael (or known throughout the script as the "Shadowy Figure") was introduced in the final 30 pages, and Bethany blew up the church in order to not let Bartleby and Loki pass through the archway.After Smith and "Clerks" producer Scott Mosier reread the draft, they decided that they didn't want "Dogma" to be their sophomore film; they didn't want to tackle a bigger scale picture until they felt ready to do it.Despite including the line "Jay and Silent Bob will return in "Dogma"" at the end of "Clerks", Smith moved to Universal Studios in order to develop his next film, "Mallrats".