***The following contains spoilers for 4x09***
On the penultimate episode of season four of
FROM this weekend, it was revealed that Clara (Katerina Bakolias), who began as a background character, was, in fact, a mole. Sophia (Julia Doyle) came to Clara with black eyes, reminding her what she really is and of the deal they made, and now, she’s calling in the favor. Clara, both because she is scared, and in the hope of going home, helps Sophia by adding the entity’s blood to a drink she gives Fatima (Pegah Ghafoori) in hopes of speeding up whatever is currently happening to her.
SciFi Vision spoke to creator and executive producer John Griffin, showrunner and executive producer Jeff Pinkner, and executive producer and director Jack Bender about how long that storyline had been in the works. According to them, it came organically. “I will say that that evolved, and it evolved out of the best version of our three-legged stool creative process,” explained Bender.
“[O]ne of the wonderful things about the process and this show…is that sometimes people emerge in ways that were unexpected,” Griffin added. Bakolias really impressed them and over time evolved to be a bigger part of the series, and it led to using her when they needed a character to perform a specific function. “[A]s Clara became a more important part of the show, and as we realized, oh, you know what, we want the Man in Yellow to have an inside track in the town… and as we were discussing who this should be, one day I got a text from Jeff Pinkner saying, ‘Clara should be the mole!’”