 Fox Broadcasting Company announced that the reason for this was that it would be "in poor taste" to run an episode involving the murder of clergymen soon after the death of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the Archbishop of Chicago.However, it was rumoured at the time that the postponement may simply have been a way to draw attention to the series, as its ratings had begun to fall.According to Lance Henriksen, the original episode script called for Black to be confirmed as an atheist, but he refused to deliver the lines confirming this because he did not want Black's response as the hero to such a complex and important question to be simplified.