A couple of Duffer Brothers offered their mercy to a Stranger Things character in the season four finale, and for that, we’re thankful.

Original scripts Matt  Ross DufferThree pivotal characters were to be killed off: Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn), Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) and… Enzo (Tom Wlaschiha). The Duffer Brothers realized that they could not kill the Russian Guard as soon as filming began.

Matt said to Collider that he ended up making it. “But that’s [the most]We ended up with something far more radical than the original idea.

The Duffer Brothers are not known for changing their minds after finalizing scripts. When we break a season of television, one of our first thoughts is “Where do we want the story to go?” he explained. “I don’t think that we’ve deviated really in any season of the finale. It’s something we’ve stuck to all along. It’s the same case here, I think.”