 "Exposé" was the fourteenth episode of the series directed by Stephen Williams, and the ninth written by the screenwriting duo Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.Kitsis and Horowitz intended to make the episode an homage to film noir, with two con artists who did the "perfect crime", that eventually goes wrong due to them getting stranded on the island.A reference to the genre was added by having Sawyer read Agatha Christie's "Evil Under the Sun".