about Jim who gets attacked by a radioactive bear and takes its powers. She asks for others' opinions before giving it to Jim, but most of them give her harsh critiques. Jim gives Pam a beautiful bracelet and he is equally amazed at the comic book she gives him. Jim and Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) agree to a snowball fight after Jim throws a snowball at Dwight indoors. When he is first challenged outside, however, he finds the doors chained. Dwight then emerges from a snowman, throwing multiple snowballs at Jim and leaving him with a bloody nose. Throughout the day, Dwight torments Jim with increasingly elaborate snowball ambushes, some of which involve Dwight disguising himself as Pam (he explains that he has a wig for every person in the office) and making a spring-loaded trap present. Jim tries to surrender, but Dwight refuses. At the end of the day, Jim is too afraid to go outside. He and Pam find multiple snowmen, and Jim attacks them all hoping to find Dwight. Dwight, however, is on the roof of the building, watching Jim with a satisfied look on his face. He claims that the greatest snowball in a snowball fight is fear, and smilingly wishes the camera "Merry Christmas". Production The episode was written by co-executive producer Mindy Kaling, her eighteenth writing credit for the series. Rainn Wilson, who portrays Dwight Schrute on the series, directed the episode, his second directing credit of the series after the sixth-season episode "The Cover-Up". The episode was also the first of several season seven episodes that saw the return of Amy Ryan as Holly. Kaling purposely made Dwight "complicated" and "mean" in the script; she wanted to avoid a situation wherein Jim and Dwight become best friends, calling it something that would happen in a "crappy sitcom feel-good formula." She wanted to stress the fact that "Jim [and Dwight] are not friends." Kaling specifically wrote Jim to be "off-guard [and] surprised" in the episode, because she reasoned that "perfect isn't always nearly as fun to play or watch as flawed." The episode was filmed in early November and was shot out of order. This required the assistant directors of The Office to re-dress "the sets from white, spare 'classy Christmas' look to the elaborate, colorful 'regular Christmas look. According to Kaling, the group had to pretend like it was cold during the outdoor