Can't get Sho?gun's heartbreaking ninth episode, "Crimson Sky," out of your head? Imagine living with it for five years.

That's the case for Rachel Kondo and Caillin Puente, the two writers of the episode. (Kondo is also a co-creator and executive producer on the show; Puente is a story editor and associate producer.) The pair had the responsibility of bringing the most pivotal sequence of James Clavell's original novel to life, in which Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai) attempts to leave Osaka.

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