Warning: This article contains spoilers from the midseason finale ofLuciferseason 5.

Lucifer’s burgeoning family feud turned violent in season 5’s midseason finale, “Spoiler Alert.”

This powder keg eventually exploded at the precinct in “Spoiler Alert.”

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You previously made your directorial debut on season 3s Once Upon a Time.

How did that experience compare to directing Spoiler Alert?

Id only done short films.

The second time around, I knew just a little bit more, which helped me.

What was your first reaction when you received the script and read the fight scene for the first time?

I said, What the hell?

How the heck am I supposed to do this?

Why is this happening?

What are my characters going through?

What needs to be achieved?

It was a three-day monster to put this whole fight together.

Okay, we got this shot.

It was a beast, but we freaking did it.

I imagine there must have been a lot of body double work.

That seemed to do us some justice as far as the scheduling goes.

That actually gave us an additional few days to really, really hammer out the shooting plan.

So, it was a blessing in disguise.

I had to look at each [character] individually because theyre all going through something different.

Maze is fighting from a place of, Ive been betrayed.

Everyone is battling their own sense [of that], even if its self-betrayal.

You trust that everyone has done their work, and they did.

What was the hardest shot of the entire sequence?

The most difficult one was the opening of that episode where Dan has shot Lucifer and its in slow-mo.

What started off to be, That should be easy.

Thats surprising because I definitely expected something in the fight wouldve been.

And it was that.

We were like, What the heck?

Why is this so difficult?

In that case, the actor was me, so we had to map everything out with a stand-in.

It was a real jigsaw puzzle to put together.

How did you pull that off?

That was super tricky, too.

It was all special effects.

Not Lucifer going through the glass, like all those stunts are real.

But the moment theyre no longer touching it, it sticks.

So we had to be very specific about how we paid attention to those rules that wed already set.

So, that was a challenge.

Then, we digitally re-create them so that [Brandt] can walk out.

We decided, There should be glass here, so move your hand here.

You move that out of way.

Youll step over this.

Then, the guys digitally threw them in there.

Dan is really going through it in this finale because he just found out Lucifer is actually the Devil.

Was it hard for you to direct the episode and get in that headspace?

Directing can be pretty stressful, so I was already unwound.

That was easy to step into.

Luckily, I know the character inside and out that you couldnt tell.

The first eight episodes ofLuciferseason 5 are available now on Netflix.