FX's "Sons of Anarchy" Season 7 Episode 6 "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em" ended with Juice coming face-to-face with Jax after trying to make a deal with Alvarez -- director Guy Ferland recently detailed filming the intense scene.

Ferland, who previously directed the hit outlaw motorcycle club series' impressive scenes in "The Pull," "Albification," as well as this season's "Poor Little Lambs," discussed working on the last episode's scene when Jax and the guys walk in.

"We took a lot of time filming that. I wanted it all to take time," he told Entertainment Weekly. "I staged it so that Juice could be surprised, he wouldn't see them too early coming through the door -- he'd see them when they're already in the room."

Ferland then explained how he was able to capture the SAMCRO president's tension and hatred towards his betrayer: "I think it's important to see everybody's different reactions and feelings. You could understand everything without one word. When the scene got up on its feet and we knew what it was, that's when the weight of everything really hit the cast. It was tense.

"Everyone wanted to get it right. What's great about that show and that cast is everybody knows how to find their moments. You just have to cut to the faces and the audience, as you saw, has to stop and catch their breath," Ferland said. "It's really not technically that difficult of a scene, but it just shows that when you know when to cut to somebody and capture their feelings while something else is going on, it makes it kind of thrilling. It's a perfect example of a 'Sons' scene working at its best."

Jax is ready to kill anyone who is involved in Tara's brutal death; drama indeed intensifies as Gemma waits for the day when her son discovers that she is the one who murdered his wife. When asked whether the intimidating final image of Jax walking into the camera was scripted, Guy Ferland said, "Nope, it wasn't scripted that way. It just sort of happened through rehearsing.

"I had just seen the skull promo for the season, and I thought, wow, we could make his face turn into the skull kind of at the end of this," he said. "It's tricky: The club feels a lot of hatred toward Juice, but we don't want to give away everything right now and have them start beating up on him right there. I think Kurt [Sutter] was the one who told me 'dead man walking,' so that's what I tried to do."

"Sons of Anarchy" Season 7, Episode 7 "Greensleeves" will air on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 10 p.m. on FX.