[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Virgin River Season 6.]
What occurred to Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley)?! That’s one of many cliffhangers that Virgin River left us with on the finish of Season 6, now streaming on Netflix.
Rather a lot occurred within the last episode of the season, together with Mike (Marco Grazzini) shockingly proposing to Brie (Zibby Allen) although he is aware of about her hookup with Brady (Benjamin Hollingsworth). However what had Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack’s (Martin Henderson) consideration the day after their marriage ceremony was the truth that Charmaine was MIA from the ceremony. And so Jack headed over to her home to see what was occurring, solely to search out the door open, indicators of a battle, and one thing that shocked him within the nursery. The excellent news? What showrunner Patrick Sean Smith advised TV Insider about that cliffhanger.
“I’d say the twins are protected. I’d be involved about Charmaine,” he admitted. “I really feel like after Season 5 with the miscarriage, I wish to promise that no infants might be harmed within the manufacturing of this present sooner or later, however the circumstances are messy, and Charmaine’s on the heart of it, which is the place she tends to sometimes discover herself, in the course of a multitude, proper?”
As Hollingsworth identified to us, “She’s a central level to that complete crime ingredient.”
The daddy of Charmaine’s twins is native gang chief Calvin (David Cubitt), whom she sought a restraining order towards in Season 6. Hollingsworth doesn’t know what occurred to Charmaine, however his cash is that Calvin is concerned ultimately.
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“I really feel like Brady additionally most likely has a bone to select with Calvin, too, so it might be enjoyable to see him be a part of that search occasion. I at all times like missions that he can go on with Jack and Preacher [Colin Lawrence],” Hollingsworth added. “I believe it might be actually enjoyable for them to get their Marine on and go do some, I don’t know, harm.”
That cliffhanger, with Jack taking a look at one thing that the viewers doesn’t see, was at all times the plan to finish of Season 6—and Henderson, too, is in the dead of night.
“I noticed one take the place he did it completely, after which he broke and regarded on the digicam, and he was like, ‘Why didn’t they write what’s on the opposite facet of this door?’” shared Smith. “For all that he needed to play in his face in not having the specifics of what was occurring on the opposite facet of it, he was a professional.”
The excellent news? We’ll get solutions as quickly as Season 7 begins. “Once we decide up in Season 7, there’s a time leap of possibly two hours, so we decide proper again up in that second and preserve operating,” Smith revealed. “I like having that momentum going from one season to the subsequent.”
One other query that Season 7 might want to reply is what is going to occur to Doc’s (Tim Matheson) license and clinic. His actions throughout a home name have been known as into query, and his license has been suspended pending an investigation. However as Hope (Annette O’Toole) revealed, a girl on the Grace Valley Hospital board of administrators shared plans to their convey community into Virgin River. (That girl thought she was simply talking to the mayor, not Doc’s spouse.) They need the clinic.
“One factor that I believe that’s a very particular alternative for our present is, whereas we’re not a standard medical procedural, we nonetheless have that medical perspective that we maintain by the collection, and attending to run that by the lens of a small city observe in comparison with Gray’s Anatomy and all the opposite exhibits which might be about main hospitals, it seems like there’s a recent alternative for us to have a look at the present state of medication a bit of bit and the way that may affect these smaller practices,” defined Smith. “There’s kind of an overarching theme of Season 7 of the skin invading this little slice of heaven, and that’s a few of the stress there.”
Somebody who definitely wanted medical assist this season was Mel’s organic father, Everett (John Allen Nelson). The 2 labored on their relationship all season—after which he had a coronary heart assault simply earlier than her marriage ceremony. He nonetheless managed to make it to the ceremony for a particular efficiency of a tune he completed for her.
There have been no discussions about killing off Everett, Smith revealed, as a result of “I really feel like it might have been kind of pointless to introduce him to kill him, virtually merciless, however we didn’t initially intend for him to have the well being scare that he had later.” As an alternative, it was in crafting the “final velocity bumps” forward of the marriage that it “simply felt good for Mel at that time to go on this emotional journey along with her organic father after which have this confluence of occasions that ends in her tapping again into the concern that she holds of the loss that she as soon as had, and attempting to rejoice her marriage ceremony day simply felt like form of an ideal strategy to convey all of it collectively.”
Different unfastened ends going ahead: Lizzie’s (Sarah Dugdale) being pregnant and a sure MIA character this season. The excellent news? Don’t count on Lizzie to be as pregnant as Charmaine was. Reasonably, Smith is “anticipating” she is going to give start in Season 7. And whereas the season started with Preacher on trial for his function in what occurred to Paige’s (Lexa Doig) abusive ex, she didn’t pop up. And there are “no plans” to see her once more, the showrunner stated.
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Virgin River, Seasons 1-6, Streaming now, Netflix (Season 7, TBA)
—Reporting by Avery Thompson