Does Charmaine miscarry in Virgin River?
“Virgin River” season four ended with a lot of chaos.
Jack (Martin Henderson) and Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) found a pregnant Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley) collapsed on her floor. Charmaine then confessed to Jack that he’s not the father of her unborn twin sons, as she’d previously led him to believe.
Meanwhile, Jack and Mel, who were simultaneously expecting their own baby together and also engaged to be married, were facing their own drama. Worried about the health of her pregnancy after previously experiencing a miscarriage, Mel resigned from her job at the clinic. That decision left Doc’s (Tim Matheson) medical practice in a bind while he was also trying to get his wife, Mayor Hope McCrea (Annette O’Toole), to come to terms with the traumatic brain injury she sustained after a car accident.
To top it all off, Preacher (Colin Lawrence) and Paige (Lexa Doig) ended the season four finale in a dramatic confrontation with Vince (Steve Bacic), the twin brother of Paige’s abusive late husband Wes (also played by Bacic).
“Virgin River” season 5 wraps up some of that drama, but introduces even more. Here’s everything you need to know about how the new season ends before the show returns with additional holiday episodes on November 30.
Mel is pregnant and newly engaged when season five of “Virgin River” picks up, but tragedy strikes by mid-season. She loses the baby right after a camping trip with Jack and right before a wildfire spreads to Virgin River.
She’s devastated after her second pregnancy loss, but by the end of the season, she and Jack have decided to buy Lily’s (Lynda Boyd) farmland from her daughters after her death. They have plans to build a home and a family by any means and are even considering adoption.
Lizzie (Sarah Dugdale) and Doc’s newfound grandson Denny (Kai Bradbury) hit a rough patch at the end of “Virgin River” season four when he reveals that he has Huntington’s disease, which is fatal.
They get back together while Lizzie is working as Hope’s health aide (and eventual mayoral assistant). Lizzie plans to stay in Virgin River with Denny after they survive the wildfires together, despite her mother’s protests. At the carnival on the season five finale, Lizzie tells Denny she thinks she’s pregnant right after he reveals that he’s changed his mind and wants to leave Virgin River to go to med school after all.
Picking up from the season four finale, Paige, who’d returned to “Virgin River” in season four, and Preacher find themselves face-to-face with Vince, the twin brother of Paige’s abusive late husband Wes, in the season five premiere. Vince had kidnapped Paige’s son Christopher (Chase Petriw) to get to her, believing she and Preacher had conspired to kill Wes and hide his body. (As a reminder, Paige did accidentally kill her abusive ex Wes by pushing him down the stairs back in season two, then fled town while Preacher took care of the body.)
In the season 5 premiere, town detective Mike (Marco Grazzini) finds everyone and arrests Vince before anyone is killed. But there’s no happily ever after.
Soon after the confrontation with Vince is resolved, Paige decides to leave town with Christopher early in the season to start their lives over. Preacher eventually starts dating Kaia (Kandyse McClure), a firefighter, who is presumably alerted to the discovery of Wes’s dead body in the season five finale. That’s potentially going to cause some problems for the couple in “Virgin River” season 6.
