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

The last moments of “Three Women” are meant to communicate a very specific idea: You are not alone.

Most of the Starz series follows Gia (Shailene Woodley) as she darts between her three interviewees 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) finally appear together on screen. For a moment, a terrified Gia watches her nurse as she waits to enter 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 need, and all the women are there around her, comforting her,” showrunner and executive producer Laura Eason told TheWrap. “That’s what the show in general is trying to do — to have everyone bring their unique, individual story but to be able to hold space for each other and be there for each other and to make women feel like they’re not alone.”

While there is a clear finality to “Her Name,” the finale of the Starz show was actually filmed during the same midseason block as episode 6, “Climax.” Both episodes were directed by So Yong Kim, and both are the only episodes featuring all four main characters. But instead of highlighting the women’s pleasure as episode 6 does, episode 10 takes on a much more reflective tone.

“(The episodes) kind of talk to each other stylistically,” Eason said. “We process the fallout and then land fully in Section 10.”

Just as important as featuring 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. That’s not the case with Maggie. When Gia tells what the high school student is going through, the show never shows how Gia came to know Maggie’s story.

At least that’s the case until “Her Name.” When 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 ever since Maggie’s romance with her English teacher became public: “I believe you.” It was crucial for Eason and the team that this moment landed.

“One of the things you look forward to in the season is when will Gia’s story finally connect with Maggie’s?” Eason said. “Then to have her story end in this place of being seen and heard by Gia, we thought was 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 that really needed to be said,” she explained. This level of character assurance applied to all four of this series’ leads. “It always felt like we were on the same page and moving in the same direction in a really beautiful way.”

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

It does not seem likely that this particular situation will continue beyond this first season. “Three Women” describes Lisa Taddeo’s book of the same name, and STARZ is marketing the show as a limited series. But in a world where limited series sometimes get multiple seasons, Eason is possibly open to more.

“We’re happy it’s up and running and happy people are watching. We’ll see what the future holds,” she says.

Since the series premiered in mid-September, Eason said the response to it has been “really touching.” “Part of adapting this much-loved nonfiction book for television, you always worry, ‘Will the people who loved it love it in this version?’ Will the people who don’t know the book at all feel like the door is open enough for them?’” Eason said. “Both of these things turn out to be the case, which is really the most gratifying thing.

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

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