The Love Story Finale's Most Eerie Moment Behind the Scenes

Throughout Love Story: John F. Kennedy, Jr. & Carolyn Bessette‘s nine episode run, there were plenty of moments that were recreated precisely as they happened in the mid to late ‘90s. From John and Carolyn’s romantic getaway on a speedboat to their Cumberland Island wedding, it became imperative for the producers and the crew to get as many details as accurate as possible.

“Especially when we were shooting around N. Moore Street, where they lived, or restaurants like Odeon or Indochine, we were in these real-life places [with these sort of] lipstick traces of people who were there before,” Love Story executive producer Brad Simpson tells Glamour. “I believe there’s a haunt-ology of places and that time is elastic, and you could feel it sometimes for the actors. It became very intense when they sat in the same booth at Indochine that Carolyn had sat in, or when they walked the same streets. Everyone felt the weight of that.”

But it wasn’t until the final episode—titled “Search and Recovery”—that Simpson says he experienced possibly the most eerie moment of the entire shoot.

In the days after John, Carolyn, and Lauren’s remains were discovered following their tragic plane crash, Caroline (Grace Gummer) ends up having an impromptu conversation with Ann (Constance Zimmer), Carolyn and Lauren’s mom, at John and Carolyn’s apartment, in which the two women are able to finally be honest about the depths of their grief.

_{Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy.}

After, Caroline is seen walking out of John and Carolyn’s apartment on 20 N. Moore Street, where hundreds of mourners have lined up to pay their respects. As she leaves to get into a waiting car, the crowd quietly parts to allow Caroline easy access to the vehicle. Once inside, she sobs. It’s a somber reminder that her sister-in-law, Carolyn, was never afforded the same respect by waiting paparazzi.

“When Caroline walks out of the apartment, where all these mourners have put a shrine up the way they did for Princess Diana, and they all just part for her quietly reverentially, and she gets in the car…that was incredibly eerie because we knew that Caroline may have walked in those same footsteps,” Simpson says. “Literally we shot the place in those same footsteps. The memorial had been there. We felt like we were surrounded by ghosts.”