In the wake of the series finale of Disney+’s Andor, creator Tony Gilroy is explaining why a couple of characters did not show up in season two.

During an in-depth Hollywood Reporter interview about the final three episodes, Gilroy was asked about why Andy Serkis‘ fan favorite character Kino Loy — who helped lead the Narkina 5 Imperial prison rebellion — and why Cassian Andor’s (Diego Luna) missing sister Kerri never showed up.

“Andy dropped the mic, man,” Gilroy explained. “What am I going to do that’s going to be better than what we did? All it does is minimize that moment. I knew a lot of people were talking about whether we had a way of [bringing him back]. But I didn’t want to have that sort of coincidental environment.”

The moment that Gilroy is referring to is Loy saying to Cassian “I can’t swim” right after busting out of the floating island prison before being swarmed by other escaping prisoners and going into the water, his fate ultimately unknown.

As for Cassian’s sister, the show’s first season opened with Cassian trying to find his sister on Morlana One, a quest that led to him killing two Imperial Security Bureau officers and setting in motion the events of the show. She’s also seen during a series of flashbacks throughout the first season.

“[Kino Loy] is like the sister — people wanted to know if we’re going to resolve the sister,” Gilroy continued. “And the sister, in the beginning, is so much more interesting to me as a deficit. She’s much more valuable to me for Cassian as an absence. As he says in the end, ‘Maybe I should stop saving people.’ His need to return and save people and to be a savior and the compulsion to do that comes from this hole in his life, and I didn’t really didn’t want to fill that in.”

In Gilroy’s full interview, he also talks about Dedra’s ironic destiny, Bix’s surprise pregnancy, and another character whose fate was left uncertain — Mon Mothma’s daughter. Read the whole interview.

Andor is now streaming all episodes on Disney+. Read THR’s season coverage.