Note: The following story contains spoilers from episode 10 “Three Women”.

The final moments of “Three Women” it should communicate a very specific idea: you are not alone.

The majority of the Starz series follows Gia (Shailene Woodley) as she flits between her three interview subjects and her own complex relationship with love and sex. But in the final moments of the series, Sloane (DeWanda Wise), Lina (Betty Gilpin) and Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy) appear together on screen. At one point, a horrified Gia looks at her nurse as she waits to get into an MRI machine, a test that will determine whether or not she has lung cancer. Next, that nurse is replaced by these three complex women, all in scrubs.

“She’s in this moment of crisis and pain and all the women are there around her, comforting her,” showrunner and executive producer Laura Eason told TheWrap. “That’s what the show as a whole is trying to do — for everyone to bring their own unique, individual story, but to be able to hold space for each other and be there for each other, and for women to feel like they’re not alone. “

Although “Her Name” has a clear finality, the Starz show’s conclusion was actually filmed in the same midseason block as episode 6, “Climax.” Both episodes were directed by So Yong Kim, and both are the only episodes to feature all four main characters. But instead of highlighting female pleasure like Episode 6 does, Episode 10 takes on a much more reflective tone.

“(The episodes) speak to each other stylistically,” Eason said. “We’re working through the fallout and then we’re landing squarely in Episode 10.”

Just as important as introducing all the women in the finale was incorporating Maggie’s story in a way that felt both organic and earned. Throughout the series, Gia has a fairly straightforward relationship with two of her sources, Lina and Sloane. The series shows Gia meeting both of them and chronicling their life stories through long conversations. Not so for Maggie. While Gia narrates what the high schooler is going through, the show never shows how Gia came to know Maggie’s story.

At least that is until “Her Name”. As they sit across from each other in a restaurant for the first time, Gia tells Maggie the three words she’s been dying to hear since Maggie’s romance with her English teacher became public: “I believe you” . It was vital for Eason and the team that this moment landed.

“One of the things you look forward to throughout the season is when will Gia’s story connect with Maggie’s?” Eason said. “To have her story end in this place where Gia was seen and heard felt very powerful.”

Before filming the scene, Woodley and Creevy were so “deeply connected” to their characters that they didn’t need much direction.

“There wasn’t much to say,” she explained. This level of character certainty applied to all four main characters of this series. “We always felt like we were on the same page and moving in the same direction in a really nice way.”

This symmetry was not limited to this one scene. “Every day on set was special. I don’t know how else to say it. It felt more than just doing a show, which is amazing anyway, but to do something that we all cared so deeply about and loved so deeply, it was such a wonderful collaboration,” Eason said. “It was such a perfect combination of people and you never know if that’s going to be the case. It was just one of those lightning-in-a-bottle situations.”

It doesn’t seem likely that this particular situation will continue beyond this first season. “Three Women” details the book of the same name by Lisa Taddeo, and STARZ is promoting the series as a limited series. But in a world where limited series sometimes have multiple seasons, Eason is possibly open to more.

“We’re excited it’s on and excited people are watching. We’ll see what the future holds,” she said.

Since the show premiered in mid-September, Eason said the response to it has been “very emotional.” “It’s part of adapting this much-loved non-fiction book for television, you always worry, ‘Will the people who loved it love it in this version?’ Will people who don’t know the book at all feel like the door is open enough for them?'” Eason said. “Both things are proving to be the case, which is really the most gratifying thing.

“It makes you realize we don’t see enough of these kinds of stories,” Eason concluded. “But I hope people will be able to speak up and say, ‘What they did in ‘Three Women,’ we need more.” This is also our dream.”

All episodes of “Three Women” are now streaming on Starz.