The return of Virgin River for its fourth season on Netflix

is just around the corner (July 20), but if you can’t wait that long,

fortunately, we have some ideas about what to expect in the 12 episodes

The third season left off with quite a few lingering questions, including: Whose baby is Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) having — her boyfriend Jack (Martin Henderson) or late husband Mark’s (Daniel Gillies)? Who shot Jack? Was it Brady (Benjamin Hollingsworth), or is he innocent as he claims, even though the gun was in his Jeep? Doc (Tim Matheson) has a grandson?!Thanks to executive producer Sue Tenney, Breckenridge, Henderson, and Hollingsworth, we have some teases. Below, we’ve gathered everything we know about what we can expect from the fourth season. (Plus, we already know it’ll be back for a fifth!)

When We’ll Find Out Whose Baby It Is
Season 3 ended with Mel interrupting Jack’s proposal to inform him she’s pregnant — but the baby might not be his. (She visited the fertility clinic where she and Mark had two embryos while in L.A.) “[The father’s identity] will be revealed at the end of [Season 4] and it’s a driving storyline in [it],” Tenney said.

Mel and Jack Discussing Getting Married
Just because Mel’s announcement overshadowed the proposal doesn’t mean that’s not something they have to talk about in Season 4. And with Tenney promising, “in the series, eventually, they are going to get married,” something tells us that discussion is going to take center stage sooner rather than later.

But whatever Mel’s answer is to Jack’s proposal, we do know there’s a lot the couple must address. They did just get back together towards the end of the season and there’s the matter of the baby’s father’s identity. “She’s just going through a lot of emotional turmoil about it and [in] Season 4, we’ll obviously explore that a lot,” Breckenridge said.The Identity of Jack’s Shooter Will Finally Be Revealed
Someone shot Jack in his bar at the end of the Season 2 finale, and while Brady has been arrested, it seems just a bit too easy to pin it on him. What we do know is that we will find out definitively who pulled the trigger. “The audience will be genuinely surprised at who’s behind all of it,” Tenney promised.“[In] Season 4, we wrap up actually what started as [Mel and Jack] being kidnapped, the introduction of Calvin [David Cubitt] and Jimmy [Ian Tracey], so we bring it all home and then we open up a new avenue of ‘Oh my God’ at the end of Season 4,” she continued. “The person who pulled the trigger and wanted him dead are the same person, but Calvin and Jimmy and the failed raid in Season 2 and him getting shot all intersect with all the rest of it