 During season one, the writers had the idea of introducing a character who was an actress and also created the outline of the fictional show where she would work "Exposé".The "long, daunting hours" on the writer's room would sometimes lead to creating episodes of the fictional show, with ten being done when the Nikki-centered episode was written.Originally, there was going to be an entire flashback episode in which Nikki was going to be a crime-fighting stripper, only to have it revealed that she was actually an actress.