‘The Artful Dodger’ Stars Break Down What’s Next for Dawkins, Lady Belle & More After Season 2 (VIDEO)

[The video above and article below contain MAJOR spoilers from The Artful Dodger, Season 2.]

The Artful Dodger‘s second season has arrived, and with it, a new layer to the romance between scrappy surgeon, Jack Dawkins (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), and the determined Lady Belle Fox (Maia Mitchell).

As Season 2 picks up, Dawkins, a.k.a. Dodger, manages to escape the noose, released from imprisonment with permission to live under father figure Fagin’s (David Thewlis) supervision. Meanwhile, Lady Belle’s mother, Lady Jane Fox (Susie Porter), puts her foot down, telling her daughter that if she wants to study medicine, she’ll have to avoid Dodger, or she’ll have him sent back to prison.

The added layer of raised stakes runs throughout Season 2, but ultimately, circumstances allow for Lady Belle and Dodger to work side by side at Port Victory’s hospital, and when Lady Jane falls ill, it’s Dodger’s know-how and Lady Belle’s assistance that help her pull through. After Lady Jane is forced to confront secrets she’d been holding in for years, and seeing first-hand how Dodger cares for her daughter, she decides to lift all restrictions surrounding their exchanges, even if she’d pushed for Port Victor’s new lawman, Inspector Boxer (Luke Bracey), to be a potential suitor.