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Boston Blue Season 1 ended on a literal cliffhanger. The fate of someone close to the Silver family was left up in the air after their car was T-boned by a river, sending their vehicle plummeting into the water. The creators of Boston Blue tell TV Insider that the accident was “was intentional,” setting up a major mystery to be solved in Season 2. They also say there’s going to be a slight time jump between seasons, but that all answers will be revealed when the Blue Bloods spinoff returns this fall on CBS. Here, executive producers Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis answer all of our Boston Blue Season 2 burning questions. Warning: Boston Blue Season 1 finale spoilers ahead!

Detective Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green) was shot on the job in the finale, which aired on Friday, May 22. She’s badly injured and now in recovery, but she survived. Detective Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) prayed in the hospital’s chapel for hours while his Boston Police Department partner was in emergency surgery. His ex, Detective Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez), arrived as emotional support. When Lena pulled through, she met her biological father, Chris (Erik King), for the first time. He apologized for being absent his whole life, told her he loved her, and said he wants to be in her life now. Lena, thrilled, said it was a strong “start” to their relationship.

The season ended at a family dinner that included Chris, his daughter, Christina (Alisha Wainwright), Joe Hill (Will Hochman from Blue Bloods), and the usual Reagan and Silver gang. The only person they were waiting for was Lena’s boyfriend, Detective Brian Rodgers (Ryan Broussard), who had recently gotten his dream job offer with the DEA — a job that would move him to Washington, D.C., if he accepted. Brian was on his way to Shabbat with the Silvers when someone in a gray truck rammed into his car and pushed him into the river.

Boston Blue Season 2 will reveal Brian’s fate, but before then, here are the answers we could get out of the show’s creators about what’s to come, including answers about Danny and Baez’s reunion. (Here, see a breakdown of the finale with Martin-Green.)

Will the Season 2 premiere pick up where the finale cliffhanger left off?

Brandon Sonnier: There will be a small time jump so that we can get beyond the recovery that Lena has to go through in order to get her and Danny back out on the streets together. But we will pick up that story and we will fill in the blanks on what happened that night and the case that we pick up and pushes us forward into Season 2 is who was driving that grey truck, what was that about, and where are they now? And so if not for just that small time jump, everything else will be pointed toward let’s get to the bottom of what exactly happened at the end of Season 1.

Will Erik King and Alisha Wainwright return in Season 2?

Brandon Margolis: The answer is yes, they will.

How important will getting to know Lena’s new family members be next season?

Sonnier: Our show at its heart is a family drama. And so we don’t take the introduction of new family members lightly. Lena will put time and effort into getting to know her new family and thereby also getting to know parts of herself that she has never known before. Like she says in the finale, it’s a start. And so meeting these two new members of her family initiates a new batch of stories that can be told, a new bunch of adventures that can be had as Lena gets to know these new members of her family.

How significant will Mae’s reelection campaign be in Season 2?

Margolis: The reelection will be a big story for Mae. We love introducing Thad played by Ward [Horton] as a foil to her at the end of this season. And what’s going to be really interesting is seeing the pressure he puts on her when he starts playing politics and getting down in the mud and forcing Mae to respond while at the same time sticking to her priority of getting justice for the people of Boston.

In the finale, Danny said he would buy a house for him, Baez, her sick mother, and her daughter to live in, and Baez said yes. Will we see Danny and Baez living together next season?

Sonnier: We follow the thread that Danny starts at the end of the season by saying they’ve taken it too slow for too long and then inviting her to move in. So yes, she will come to Boston, but we do have to work through the realities of she has a whole life in New York that she needs to unwind from. She has a mom who’s in a professional care facility. She has a daughter. And so all of those things need to be dealt with and figured out and sorted before she can fully commit to living in Boston with Danny.

Brian’s car accident seemed intentional. What can you tease about that?

Margolis: We can tease that at the start of Season 2, Danny, Lena, and the rest of the Silvers and Boston police in general are on the hunt for the driver of that gray truck and that we will pick up where that case is when we return in Season 2.

Sonnier: But yes, it was intentional.

How would you describe Danny and Lena’s journey as partners in Season 1, and how would you describe where they’re headed in Season 2?

Margolis: In Season 1, I think Danny and Lena’s relationship was an organic recognition of the family you choose. And I think they saw in each other very like spirits and energies and they gravitated toward each other because they saw each other plainly. By the end of Season 1, they were both under fire so much emotionally and physically that it drew them closer in a way that’s going to be tested like never before in Season 2 when the fallout of that truck and other cases come crashing down.

Are you starting filming Season 2 soon?

Sonnier: We are currently writing Season 2 and we’ll be filming in the next few months.

Explain the choice to bring in Will Hochman as Joe Hill for the finale.

Sonnier: So to bring Joe Hill to Boston felt like such a great parallel in what story we were telling with Lena and having found her family and starting that journey of reconnection. Joe Hill’s story on Blue Bloods was that he was unaware that he was a Reagan for a while and then through Sean [Mika Amonsen], who reached out to find him, he learned that he had this whole family and this legacy and he embraced it and the family embraced him. So we thought it would be a great parallel to Lena to at least get to have a conversation with Joe and to point to the fact that Sean had engineered this thing before with his cousin Joe and here we all are now sitting around the Shabbat dinner table and Lena is moving into her own relationship having found her family and what legacy is going to come attached to that family moving forward.