Ready For Virgin River Season 3? Here's What You Need to Remember From Season 2

Mel spends much of the season in a romantic back-and-forth with Jack. Despite the feelings between them, she’s reluctant to start anything because Charmaine is pregnant with his baby. That doesn’t stop them from hooking up early on and supporting each other through their struggles throughout the season. By the end of the season, though, she’s involved with the growing conspiracy surrounding Calvin’s drug operation, and the last we see of her she’s discovering Jack on the floor of the bar, bleeding from a gunshot wound.

Jack’s season revolves around two major dilemmas: his love triangle with Mel and Charmaine, and his discoveries about Calvin’s ambitions to grow his drug business. Although Charmaine is pregnant (with twins!), Jack realises that he’s in love with Mel, and after a few start-and-stops, it seems like they might finally have a chance to be together. He also calls on some of his old buddies to try to get to the bottom of Calvin’s operation, but the proof is hard to come by, even once he convinces Spencer to testify, and he is even briefly taken by Calvin’s team. That’s not the worst of it, though. By the end of the season, he’s shot in his bar by a still-unknown assailant.

Doc – to his chagrin – finds himself in a bit of a love triangle in season two. He’s still secretly seeing Hope, but Muriel is interested, too, forcing he and Hope to finally take their relationship public. By the end of the season, he’s ready for a recommitment ceremony, but there’s something else looming, too. He’s last seen trying to tell Hope something bad about his health before they’re interrupted by their friends throwing them a surprise party.

Preacher’s storyline is the definition of ups and downs. He spends a lot of the season helping Paige after her abusive ex, Wes, comes to town. After Paige accidentally kills Wes by pushing him away (and down the stairs), Preacher helps her cover it up and get out of town with her son. By the end of the season, things are looking up. He learns that Wes’s former partner turned on him, revealing his corruption, and he gets a job offer from Jamie to be a chef in San Fransisco. That’s when things take another turn: Wes’s twin brother shows up and vows revenge on Paige and Preacher alike.

Brady gets himself into even stickier situations this season. After losing his job at the bar, he starts working for Calvin. He figures out pretty quickly that something isn’t right, but the possibility of profits keeps him willing to push his morals further and further for Calvin’s “business.” Things reach a breaking point, though, when he’s ordered to capture Jack and murder Spencer, the informant. Instead, Brady fakes Spencer’s death and helps him escape with his family, but sharing that information with Mel might be part of the reason why Jack gets shot.

Dealing with a high-risk pregnancy with twins and in unrequited love with Jack, Charmaine spends a lot of her time trying to win Jack back. When she finds out that he slept with – and most likely loves – Mel, she spreads rumors around town. Frustrated by Jack’s rejection, she instead makes plans to move away to Portland and decides to cut him out of the twins’ lives.

Hope starts off the season by opening her home to Charmaine during her high-risk pregnancy, but the two immediately clash. She’s also in a bit of a love triangle; she’s still seeing Doc on the down-low, but she’s extremely unhappy to find out that Muriel is also interested in him. Eventually, they work things out, and after Doc returns from Seattle to prove to Hope how much he loves her, they decide to get re-engaged. The last we see of Hope, Doc is trying to tell her something serious about his health, but they’re interrupted by a surprise party.