If you happen to’ve seen episode 5 of Netflix’s 3 Physique Drawback, your jaw would possibly nonetheless be on the ground. For the residents of the doomed ship Judgment Day within the present, it isn’t simply their jaws.

Taken straight from Liu Cixin’s e-book, it is one of the crucial horrifying scenes you will see on TV this 12 months. The sequence sees the navy deployment of Auggie Salazar’s (Eiza González) nanotechnology towards a big repurposed tanker. It is the floating HQ of oil magnate Mike Evans’ (Jonathan Pryce) and his Earth-Trisolaris Group (ETO), a inhabitants of 1,000 individuals, together with youngsters, awaiting the arrival of the aliens generally known as the San-Ti — who’ve simply gone chilly on Evans after a bedtime story.

Within the episode, Strategic Intelligence Company head Thomas Wade (Liam Cunningham) will get intel from Detective Da Shi (Benedict Wong) that the ship — sure, forebodingly named Judgment Day — has booked passage via the Panama Canal. There, Wade recruits Salazar’s mainly invisible know-how to set a entice, simply slicing via the bow and its inhabitants like a type of old-school egg slicers. It is deeply tousled.

In a brand new clip from Netflix, showrunners D.B. Weiss, David Benioff, and Alexander Woo unpack the sequence alongside episode director Minkie Spiro and the manufacturing crew. “The Judgment Day sequence within the e-book was a type of ones that we talked about earlier than the place you simply suppose, ‘Oh man, I actually wish to see that on-screen, see it carried out proper,'” says Benioff.

The crew spoke about how the manufacturing designers leaned into physics to make the Judgment Day’s destruction really feel horribly life like, and the episode’s evaluation of how far somebody would go in a wartime scenario.

“I learn the episode numerous instances attempting to fathom: how am I going to visually pull this off?” says Spiro. “For one thing as epic because the Judgment Day, it started with months of prep, and it began with the science.”

Dr Matt Kenzie, who labored as a particle physics guide on 3 Physique Drawback, says the important thing to that nasty piece of tech shouldn’t be transferring the cutter itself, however the factor you wish to lower — which is Wade and Auggie’s horrible plan within the collection.

“After we had been attempting to design the nanofibre cutter in Auggie’s lab, one thing I realised fairly rapidly was that if I used to be actually doing this experiment, I might wish to be observing the property of those fibres,” he says. “So you’ll most likely wish to keep away from transferring the fibres; you’ll wish to preserve the fibres static and transfer the block via the fibres.”

Manufacturing designer Deborah Riley additionally speaks about how the present’s development supervisor, Keith Perry, used neoprene to construct the destroyed tanker, so the digital camera may transfer via that shredded wreckage simply.

Check out the clip above for some strong behind-the-scenes footage for this totally terrible second in an excellent collection. If you happen to’re craving extra 3 Physique Drawback deep dives, we have got lots extra for you on Mashable.

Easy methods to watch: 3 Physique Drawback is now streaming on Netflix.