User blog comment:JERealize/Progress Bar: Issue 056 (TDPI Episode 6 Review)/@comment-1874924-20140825061754/@comment-3483396-20140825062726

I figured 'the past' would refer to something from a different season, not this season. And what did come out of 'the past' was just a footnote in the story, as the story departed at the end of the episode.