The finished episode is nothing like what Tormé originally pitched and wrote because Hurley demanded endless rewrites. This resulted in the writer taking his real name off the script, and the finished episode of “The Royale” is credited to the fictional Keith Mills.
Tormé hated the forced script changes so much that he stepped down from staff writer to creative consultant, and after Hurley demanded similar rewrites to his next episode, “Manhunt,” the writer left the show completely.
Looking back, he has no love for the version of “The Royale” that fans saw, saying that he has “completely disowned the piece.” He described rereading the forced rewrite and getting only “ten pages through it” before he “got sort of a cold chill and had to put it down.”
Normally, rewrites are intended to make episodes better, but to hear the writer tell the story, almost everybody except Maurice Hurley was confused as to why the script was rewritten in the first place.
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