‘Sullivan’s Crossing’ Season 4: Morgan Kohan, Chad Michael Murray and Marcus Rosner love triangle gets messier

While Maggie Sullivan, played by Morgan Kohan, continues to navigate managing the Crossing without Sully (previously played by Scott Patterson), Sullivan’s Crossing Season 4 (Sundays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on CTV and streams next day on Crave in Canada) has a lot more in store with her ex, Liam (Marcus Rosner), still around, and the impact of that on Maggie’s relationship with Cal (Chad Michael Murray). As the season continues with Episode 2, the dynamics between everyone at the Crossing become far more complex.

But the episode begins with Maggie and Lola (Amalia Williamson) comforting Sydney (Lindura) after her breakup with Rafe (Dakota Taylor). At the same time, Lola also admits she’s been feeling lonely since Jacob (Joel Oulette) left the Crossing to finish his studies. And the girls make a pact to always stick together.

It’s a friendship and support system that’s great to see on screen, and was a particular highlight for Kohan.

“I love those scenes and just those women in general,” she told Yahoo Canada. “Just being around them is fantastic.”

“I think all of us, as humans, different sides of us are brought out, depending on who we’re around. So we get to see Maggie in a different light when she’s just with her girlfriends.”

It also becomes an important connection when we find out that Lola lost her internship and plans to go to Calgary to be with Jacob, and will help with his research in the Rockies.

‘I don’t think I realized how much that breakup affected me’

But back to a particularly critical storyline this season, the awkwardness between Maggie and Liam is far from over, as she finds out that the annulment never went through. And while she tells Liam he doesn’t have to stay at the Crossing to wait for that to be resolved, he’s still sticking around.

That comes with more bad news. Cal finds out that Maggie now has to file for divorce because there’s a five-year time limit on refiling for annulment, but she also needs a copy of the marriage certificate, which Maggie ripped up years ago.

A big question to start the season is whether Maggie and Liam could rekindle their relationship, and the answer is still pretty unclear.

At one point, Maggie takes Liam to get stitches on his leg after his injury from the season premiere, and when they get back to the Crossing, she tells him that she wants him to get his visa so she never has to see him again. But then she has a flashback to when he had to leave right after their wedding to cover a big story, and they exchanged I love yous.

“I don’t think I realized how much that breakup affected me until I saw him,” Maggie tells Sydney later in the episode.

But the curiosity around Liam’s journey to the Crossing gets more intriguing when we see him make a phone call to someone, saying he’s going to be there longer than expected, and there’s something he hasn’t told Maggie about yet.

“It just wasn’t the right time,” Liam says to the person on the phone, as he pulls out a wedding picture of him and Maggie.

To end the episode, Maggie goes to Liam’s cabin and sees a giant scar on his back, and wonders what happened to him. Something we’ll maybe learn more about in the next episode.

Chad Michael Murray has a similar experience as Cal with younger costar

So, how is Cal taking Liam being at the Crossing? Aside from helping Maggie file for divorce, he seems thrown for a loop when he asks Liam if he has a copy of their marriage certificate and sees the photo of Liam and Maggie on their wedding day, folded up on the table in his cabin.

But Cal has other things to occupy his mind, primarily taking Ben (Colby Frost) under his wing, after meeting him with Lola’s group from the Timberlake Youth Centre in the last episode, and Cal’s given Ben a job.

As Ben told Cal, his dad left, and his mom’s working two jobs, but Ben says the family is better off without his father around. And when Ben says he doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to leave his sister, you can see in Cal’s eyes the impact leaving his siblings all those years ago still has on him.

“Cal, seeing a young reflection of who he was, and seeing how a younger person is dealing with a similar scenario, it was just an interesting look, from an acting perspective, at the character and at our history,” Murray said. “And just from a human standpoint, seeing a younger actor in Colby, who I love and adore, … and just our relationship between the two of us. Watching a young actor come up in his younger 20s, and I’ve already done that, so there’s really that kind of mirrored combination between life and storytelling that really, I think, god willing, bleeds through.”

But things get complicated when the disgruntled guest we met in Episode 1, Quincy (Jonathan Silverman), says his watch has been stolen. Later in the episode, Cal sees Ben toss the watch, with the specific engraving, into some flower bushes — another incident we’ll have to wait to see how it’s resolved.

Maggie feels like she’s letting Sully down

But Sully’s absence is keenly felt in the show, with Maggie and Frank (Tom Jackson) addressing it directly, as Maggie opens up about how it feels like “everything’s gone wrong” since Sully left, and she feels like she’s “letting him down.”

“It would have been nice if he had given us a little more notice,” Maggie says.

Frank says he feels similarly, having to navigate the logistics around Glenn’s land on his own, but he also says that he knows Sully would have talked himself out of going to Ireland if he had given himself more time to leave.

There are a lot of changes happening in Sullivan’s Crossing, and how all these characters will adapt is a core part of the evolution of the show.