Worried about Brady ahead of Season 6? Join the club! When Decider interviewed

Virgin River showrunner Patrick Sean Smith ahead of Season 5, Part 2’s drop,

he assured us our worries are valid. “He’s a guy who’s broken and has come from

a really rough life and is trying to do the best that he can and is running into the limitations of his experience,” Smith said when asked about Brady. “I was excited for Season 5 to feel a little bit like a redemption story for his character after so many seasons of him just making wrong choices and kind of letting people down. And now that there’s this threat, it’s a question of how Brady’s going to react. Is he still going to continue to be the guy that’s on the up and up or is he going to go back to Shady Brady?”

Sounds like we’ll have to wait and see which path Brady takes. Until then, Virgin River Season 5 is now streaming on Netflix for all your rewatch needs.

Later in the season, after Brady recovered and was set free, he tried to assist Mike and get Jimmy to turn on Calvin and cut a deal with the FBI. “I am walking free, and you? You’re just a dog in a cage,” Brady told Jimmy. “Calvin doesn’t need you anymore. How long you think he waits before he puts you down?”

We figured it had to be a character we already knew — you know, for the sake of drama — and we considered just about every potential dad in town. Could it have been Brady? Or Mike, perhaps? What about that stud Ricky? As it turns out, we guessed every man except for the one it actually turned out to be.