Brenda reveals that the two are engaged and that she is pregnant. Later that evening, Peter, Quagmire and Joe discuss killing Jeff, with Joe, being a police officer, opposing it on the grounds that Quagmire could be arrested for murder regardless, while Quagmire says that men like Jeff never change. When the trio witness an infuriated Jeff severely attack Brenda for simply changing the channel on Quagmire's TV, Joe agrees to help the group kill Jeff. The three decide to talk Jeff into a hunting trip in an attempt to kill him, and make it look like an accident. Jeff, having anticipated this, reveals his own gun, and knocks out Peter and Joe so that he can kill Quagmire in a deeper part of the woods. Once there, Quagmire talks Jeff into fighting him instead, during which Quagmire is seemingly strangled to death. Jeff then begins digging a grave, but then the headlights of Peter's car come on and he sees an angry Quagmire, alive and well, behind the wheel. Quagmire reveals that he chokes himself every day, and kills Jeff by ramming him with the car and smashing him into a tree. Peter, Joe and Quagmire return home the next day, and present a heartbroken Brenda with a forged note from Jeff stating that he has decided to leave her, without telling her that he is dead. Production and development The episode was written by series regular, and executive producer, Alec Sulkin, who previously wrote the Family Guy, Star Wars parody "Blue Harvest", as well as "Stew-Roids", and the final installment of the Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story series. The episode was directed by series regular Dominic Bianchi, who previously directed the series's landmark 150th episode "Brian & Stewie". Series regulars Peter Shin and James Purdum served as supervising director, with Andrew Goldberg, Alex Carter, Spencer Porter, and Elaine Ko serving as staff writers for the episode. Composer Walter Murphy, who has worked on the series since its inception, returned to compose the music for "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q". In addition to the regular cast, actress Kaitlin Olson guest starred in the episode as Brenda Quagmire, making her the second cast member from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to appear on a Seth MacFarlane show, after Glenn Howerton on The Cleveland Show, a spinoff of Family Guy. Recurring guest voice actress Alexandra Breckenridge, writers Gary