TV Guide is reporting that Pushing Daisies episode 1.09 (spoilers) may serve as the finale for the show’s abbreviated first season, due to the writer’s strike.

Daisies creator extraordinaire Bryan Fuller informs me that the show’s ninth episode — the last one for which a script is written — can function as a season finale in the event the strike extends into the new year and beyond.

“As we were scrambling to rewrite [Episode 9],” he reveals, “we added several elements that will put many balls into the air and hopefully encourage the audience to come back and see how they land.”

Fuller confirms that production on the potential season finale got under way today, which means “our crew will now be able to work through Thanksgiving.”