Executive producer Jane Tranter offers more details on the episode she had to cut because of the pandemic.

James McAvoyreturned to Wales in March to film a special episode ofHis Dark Materials.

Then the pandemic hit.

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“That missing episode [took place] three days before the start of season 2.

So you flash back three days and then you catch up with where season 2 started.”

It’s very intwined with all the mythology of that world.

So, I don’t know."

Either way, this isn’t the last we’ve seen of Asriel.