Supernatural Session Transcript - January 18, 2007

QUESTION: Eric or Bob, you guys were sort of building up the daughter at the Roadhouse. Looked like she might be a sidekick for the brothers, and then she just disappeared. Can you comment on that? Was that the direction it was heading?

ERIC KRIPKE: Well, you know, the honest reaction is you try some things, and we're very interested in expanding the world of our show. We're very interested in introducing other hunters and really fleshing out the universe of this show and will continue to do so. She was introduced for the purpose of being a love interest with this guy. And the way TV works is you try some things and certain things work, and you try some things and you see them on screen, and they just kind of become evident.

And she's an absolutely terrific actress and a great character, and we're really proud of the work she's done. On-screen, she read more as a friend of these guys, a supporter of these guys, than a smoldering love interest. And just like -- you have to adjust as things come on and things become apparent. You can't try to force a square peg in a round hole. We saw it. We said, you know, she really works as a friend of the guys, so then let's change into that direction. So we did.

ROBERT SINGER: Having said that, she actually comes back in an episode coming up.

ERIC KRIPKE: Yeah.

ROBERT SINGER: She is quite spectacular in it, and it really helps him paying her character off. We love her and brought her back because we do love her. In this episode coming up, she's really great. It's a great episode.