The actresses Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros had widely publicized drunk driving charges several months before the airing of the episode, but the producers later claimed in several interviews that the deaths had been planned for over a year.

[4] Flashbacks begin directly after Ana Lucia Cortez (Michelle Rodriguez) shooting Jason (Aaron Gold) in "Collision".

In the present, Ana Lucia starts questioning Henry Gale in the hatch, but suddenly he attacks her, and is only stopped when John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) knocks him unconscious.

Although Libby (Cynthia Watros) advises Ana Lucia not to try to get revenge on Henry, she is determined and asks James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) for a gun, but is rejected.

Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) return with Michael Dawson (Harold Perrineau).

[5] The deaths of Ana Lucia and Libby caused speculation that they were killed off due to the DUIs that actresses Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros received within fifteen minutes of each other on December 1, 2005.

[6] In February 2006, US Weekly claimed that an insider told them that the Lost producers were frustrated with Rodriguez's behavior and were going to kill her character off.

[7] In 2023, Maureen Ryan reported various allegations of co-showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse fostering a toxic work environment.

Several sources, including a member of the writing staff for the second season, corroborated claims of Rodriguez's firing due to her December 2005 arrest.

[8] After "Two for the Road" initially aired in May 2006, writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse told TV Guide that when talking to Rodriguez about the part of Ana Lucia, she said that she would be interested, but only for a year.

[2] Later, in a 2020 podcast, Lindelof amended this and revealed Rodriguez expressed interest in continuing the role beyond her one-season deal midway through the season (shortly following the DUI charges), but he informed her they had already planned her death storyline.

[10] Lindelof made a claim of recalling that after they found out both Rodriguez and Watros got DUIs, he expressed concern that it would look like killing Ana and Libby was the producers attempt to say "Don't drive drunk!

According to Lindelof and Cuse, Watros was very sad about Libby being killed off, and the producers felt bad for her, so they helped her get in a pilot for a show on CBS called My Ex-Life, although it was not picked up by the network.

Lindelof further described the character's intentional role as a "persona non grata in our society for some time to come" as a result of Shannon (Maggie Grace)'s death and becoming integrated into the fuselage camp.

[citation needed] They attempted to rework the storyline with Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell), though after "The Other Woman", Lindelof felt the relationship was contrived and ended it as well.

The producers initially planned to bring Watros back as a recurring guest star, to tell Libby's story in a mysterious, posthumous way.

The resolution to her storyline was scrapped in the fourth season due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, where she was initially scheduled to make two further appearances after one guest stint as an apparition.