‘Ginny & Georgia’ bosses wrote an alternate ending to season 3

This article contains spoilers for Ginny & Georgia season 3.

For a second there, it seemed like Georgia Miller (Brianne Howey) was going to prison.

In Ginny & Georiga‘s third season, the mother of two (and killer of … more than two) was put on trial for the murder of Tom Fuller (Vincent Legault), a murder that she did, in fact, commit. And as the season went on, it really started to look like Georgia might have to pay for her crime.

Ultimately, the jury declared her not guilty after her son, Austin (Diesel La Torraca), took the stand and told everyone that he witnessed his father, Gil (Aaron Ashmore) kill Tom. It was a lie, of course — one orchestrated by Austin’s older sister, Ginny (Antonia Gentry) — but it worked, and Georgia was able to return home.

But that doesn’t mean that jail was never an option. Speaking with series creator Sarah Lampert and showrunner Sarah Glinski, they reveal that not only did they consider sending Georgia to jail, but Lampert actually wrote it.

“I wrote a scene where she’s in jail and it ends that way. It’s the bad ending,” Lampert tells Entertainment Weekly. “I wrote a scene of Ginny visiting Georgia in jail that isn’t the one that’s in the show, where it’s just a visit. No, Georgia’s in jail now.”

Lampert admits that the exercise of writing the scene was “just to play around” and see how it felt, thought they were confident things wouldn’t end that way.

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“I’ll be honest, it was never the plan,” Lampert continues. “The plan was always what the ending was. We came up with that ending in season 2, with the Tom of it all and Austin seeing it, and not killing Gil so we could have a fall guy. We had that plan in motion. Ultimately, I think this ending gives us so much more fun story to play with in season 4. But that’s not to say she doesn’t end up in jail later. I mean, she’s got multiple notches under her belt.”

Ginny & Georgia is streaming now on Netflix.