The season one finale of Lanterns, DC Studios’ HBO television series, wasn’t exactly conventional by superhero media standards. There was no big battle, no final faceoff with a big bad. It was mostly quiet and contemplative, with a lot of conversations and internal moral reckoning. And somehow, in the middle of all that, it left a lot of people wondering how—and if—Manhunters can reproduce. Turns out series co-creator Chris Mundy has an answer. Major spoilers for Lanterns episode eight, “Dirt and Stars,” follow.

In Lanterns episode five, “Lights Out,” Zoe (Poorna Jagannathan) uses Manhunter technology to regrow John Stewart’s (Aaron Pierre) skin after he’s severely burned in a car crash. In “Dirt and Stars,” we find out that Zoe used that same technology years ago to regrow Sheriff Kerry Kane’s (Kelly Macdonald) finger. Except that time, something went awry with the machine, and in addition to regrowing her finger, the machine impregnated Kerry. As a result, her son, Noah (Shea Pritchard), was born a Manhunter.

As Kerry is explaining this to John, she glosses over the details of what happened because she doesn’t really understand it herself. Consequently, her story raises a lot of questions about whether Manhunters, a race of genocidal robots created by the Guardians of the Universe, can reproduce and whether Zoe purposefully used Kerry to propagate her species.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Mundy addressed both issues. When asked whether Manhunters can reproduce, he said, “Obviously in our story, [Manhunters] have that machine that can bring back people’s tissue and all that.

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