 By the time the show begins, Dougal has been exiled to Craggy Island as punishment for unknown misdeeds.In an early interview, the writers stated that it involved "a baptism gone wrong".In "The Passion of Saint Tibulus", Bishop Brennan says that Dougal cannot be allowed back into "the real world" after "the Blackrock incident", in which hundreds of nuns' lives were "irreparably damaged".