Jeff Woolnough, who directed the Nov. 6 episode of The WB's Birds of Prey, told SCI FI Wire that the episode, titled "Sins of the Mother," centers around Dinah's (Rachel Skarsten) mother, Black Canary (guest star Lori Loughlin). "The backstory is the Black Canary had left Dinah with foster parents and just kind of disappeared on her," Woolnough said in an interview. "Now she's coming back to Gotham 10 or 12 years later to be her mother."

Woolnough found the three leads—Skarsten, Ashley Scott (Huntress) and Dina Meyer (Oracle)—to be comfortable in their roles. It also helped that he had an existing relationship with Scott from directing episodes of Dark Angel. "Ashley Scott, who plays Huntress, was a recurring [actor] on Dark Angel last year, so I knew her from Dark Angel," Woolnough said. "She's a real salt-of-the-earth gal from one of the Carolinas. She's just a down-to-earth, normal, everyday person. Because of who she is, I really think that she's instrumental in gelling the other members of the cast. She's the one who the series is centered around, and the other ones are just drawn to her because of who she is."

The episode's action sequences were also comfortable to Woolnough because he was well-versed in the wirework martial-arts style. "We did wirework on Birds of Prey, and we used to do quite a bit of wirework on Dark Angel too," he said. "I love doing wirework. It's fun. You get to fly people around and do the sort of stunts and bits where people walk sideways on walls and walk up walls and flip over backwards and that sort of stuff. There's a fair bit of that in Birds of Prey."

As the series awaits renewal, Woolnough has been unofficially asked to direct future episodes. "So they've told me," he said. "I don't have dates, but I think they're still waiting for their back nine pickup. They told me I could do as many as I want if they get picked up. I'm sitting here hoping that happens." Birds of Prey airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

From: scifi.com