people told me that on that episode I was so 'unlike' Scully or that 'it showed my range'. I told them I thought they were wrong. I don't think that what I did here was out of character for Scully. The only thing different is that the audience hadn't seen it before. Initially, Anderson called up Morgan and asked him to write a story in which Scully "fall[s] hard" for another man, leading to an "intense kind of romantic or passionate relationship". Morgan obliged and wrote a scene featuring Scully enjoying a passionate night with Jerse. This was later removed from the script by series creator Chris Cartermaking it the only time that Carter had removed one of Morgan's scenes. Morgan later noted, "I think Chris thought that I was monkeying around with him, but I really wasn't." While "Never Again" was directed by Rob Bowman, the job was originally supposed to go to Quentin Tarantino, but he was prevented by the Directors Guild of America; the guild noted that Tarantino, who is not a member, failed to join the union after working on ER, violating an agreement the two parties had made. A spokeswoman from 20th Century Fox later noted, "Quentin approached us, we were very excited at the opportunity. We made some special arrangements, and we're disappointed that it's not happening. But we bow to Quentin's philosophical stance [and] we hope something can be worked out for the future." The episode's air date was flipped with the episode "Leonard Betts" in order to ensure that the latter episode, which featured the show's two stars in their traditional roles, aired after the Super Bowl. Anderson has said that she "would have played the part [in 'Never Again'] differently" had she been aware of this at the time, as Scully discovers that she has cancer at the end of "Leonard Betts". Casting and effects The actor who portrays Ed Jerse, Rodney Rowland, was a former cast member of Glen Morgan and James Wong's short-lived Fox series Space: Above and Beyond. He and Anderson dated for a period of time after this episode. Jodie Fostera friend of series' casting agent Randy Stoneprovided the voice for Ed's tattoo, Betty. Anderson initially volunteered to get a real Ouroboros tattoo for the episode, but she was later told by the production crew that it would "have taken too long [and] it wouldn't have been