The Pitt Season 1 ends on the bittersweet note of Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) and Dr. Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) sharing some beers in the park with the likes of Dr. Mohan (Supriya Ganesh), Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez), and nurses Matteo (Jalen Thomas Brooks), Princess (Kristin Villanueva), and Donnie (Brandon Mendez Homer). While fans of the MAX show might already know that we’ll be seeing most of these familiar faces again in The Pitt Season 2, it’s still unclear if Javadi has had enough of emergency medicine. Will the med student be back for more in Season 2 or will she and Whitaker (Gerran Howell) have moved on to their next rotation?

**Spoilers for The Pitt Episode 15 “9 PM,” now streaming on MAX**

Come to think of it, will fan favorite Dr. Frank Langdon (Patrick Ball) be back for more rounds, or is he, as Dr. Robby thinks, done? Did head charge nurse Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) really say goodbye for the final time? (She did conspicuously take her personal photos home with her!)

Who in The Pitt cast will be back in Season 2? Who’s not returning when we check back in with the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital ten narrative months later over (what DEADLINE reports will be) a Fourth of July shift?

“The truth is that we loved all these characters. You can only keep certain people in certain jobs in certain hospitals before there’s a natural changeover,” The Pitt star and EP Noah Wyle told DECIDER. “I don’t know how to answer that question other than to say that it’s great that people want these characters to come back and that’s really fun to play into and away from and with, and that’s great.”

While Noah Wyle refused to weigh in on the question, The Pitt showrunner R. Scott Gemmill gave DECIDER some more insight into what the cast for Season 2 might look like. Not only that, but in talking with several members of the cast, DECIDER found that some actors are more confident than others about whether or not they’re coming back. (For instance, Fiona Dourif literally let it spill that she’s got to have her McKay bangs ready to go by June.)

So, between what we’ve seen play out on The Pitt itself and what we’ve heard from the cast and creatives, here’s everything we know about who’s coming back for Season 2 and who might be “done” after that hellacious shift…

The Pitt Season 1 finale doesn’t reveal what happens next to Langdon, leaving his fate up in the air after Dr. Robby discovered that he was indeed stealing painkillers from his patients. Langdon begs Robby to see his side of things — he was treating his own withdrawal symptoms — but the damage is done. Noah Wyle himself compared the characters’ fights to a “breakup.”

While Wyle wouldn’t reveal if Langdon will be back in The Pitt Season 2, showrunner R. Scott Gemmill made it sound as if he likely will.

“I would like to see Langdon come back, because I think he is a very good doctor. I think he has a lot to offer, but he definitely has to go through the steps necessary to allow him to return to work” Gemmill said. “And that’s part of his journey.“

Those steps Gemmill alludes to are pretty much laid out by Dr. Robby in The Pitt Season 1 finale. Langdon will have to admit he has a substance abuse issue and check himself into a rehab program. After that, he will have to subject himself to random drug testing and regular NA meetings for years.

Even if he does all this, don’t expect his relationship with Robby to go back to normal.

“It’s really hard to be in the same room as someone that you felt intimate with and felt betrayed by,” Wyle told DECIDER. “Even if you have to work next to them, even if they still are good at what they do, it’s really tricky to bridge both the professional and the personal at the same time after you’ve gotten the rug pulled out from underneath you.”

(One small, potential scheduling hiccup? Actor Patrick Ball is set to star in an Los Angeles production of Hamlet that runs through early July. The Pitt Season 2 is supposed to start shooting in June.)

Head charge nurse Dana Evans has a poignant scene in The Pitt where she tells Robby that she thinks this will be her last day. After all, she’s reeling from the emotional and physical trauma of being assaulted by heinous patient Doug Driscoll (Drew Powell). Later, she reiterates her intention to quit to Langdon in the season finale. Dana eventually packs her personal photos and leaves the hospital with a rather bittersweet vibe of farewell.

So will Dana be back?

“I don’t have anything final to tell you that. I mean, I don’t know myself,” Katherine LaNasa told DECIDER when we spoke to her last month. “I hope that they’re happy with me. I hope that I’m written in.”

“I was really honored to get to play such a complicated character,” she continued. “Dana is just such a gift and it’s such a gift to work with someone where I feel like I can just let go of how I look and just really dive into these complicated characters.”

Maybe we’ll learn in The Pitt Season 2 that Dana took a few months off to collect herself or that she’s been replaced with a new head charge nurse. Even if Dana quits, that also doesn’t necessarily mean that Katherine LaNasa is done with the show. There’s always the possibility that a retired Dana could wind up back in the Pitt as a patient (or patient’s loved one).

“So, you know, I’ll read the phone book if they asked me to go back,” LaNasa said. “I just hope I’m back.”

If you’re one of the many Pitt fans who found themselves googling “How do medical school rotations work?” in the fear that Whitaker and Javadi et al might be cycled out of the show, we have some good news from showrunner R. Scott Gemmill.

According to him, there is “some fear” they will have to naturally lose key younger characters thanks to the nature of internships and rotations. “It’s more down the line,” however.

“It they choose to follow an ER subspecialty, then they can stay,” Gemmill said. “But for some down the line, if they want to go into something else, then they will leave. We will have to cross that boundary, or that issue when we get to it.”

Gemmill went on to reveal they’ve already “found a way to do some things” and that fans can expect “some new people” next season.

“We’ll see how things shake out and who wants to stay,” he said. “Sometimes it’s who wants to stay on the show. Some people get other opportunities and we bless them and send them on their way. Kick them out of the nest, let them fly. So we don’t have any real hard rules moving forward with that. We’re just going to play it by ear, for now.”

When DECIDER spoke to the younger stars of The Pitt, all four of them seemed keen to return.

“I think I trust Scott [Gemmill]. I’m so excited by all our writers. They’re incredible,” Shabana Azeez said. “I’m really excited to, like, see what they do.”

“That’s what Mel studied in school and what the focus was always,” Taylor Dearden said, revealing that Dr. King probably isn’t moving specialties anytime soon. “Even at the VA, Mel was still in the emergency room.”

“I just really feel connected to Whitaker now and just want the best for him,” Gerran Howell said after affirming he’d “absolutely” want to come back.

“Hey, I’m an actor. I just want a job,” Isa Briones said, laughing. “I would love to have a job!“

“I think it’s a very important story that we’re telling and there’s more stories to be told,”she added, more seriously.

There’s definitely a subset of Pitt fans out there who want to see more from “night shift” characters like Dr. Jack Abbot, Dunkin iced coffee-slurping Dr. Shen (Ken Kirby), and Dr. Ellis (Ayesha Harris). However, as the show primarily follows Dr. Robby and he’s more of a day shift guy, does that mean no returning night shift people in Season 2?

All DECIDER knows is that Shawn Hatosy seemed game to come back to The Pitt.

“You know, [Abbot’s] got a lot of hidden trauma, let’s say, that he’s sort of wrestling with,” Hatosy said. “So whether or not we’ll get into all of that stuff in the history, I mean, I hope we do. But it’s very, very good. And so I look forward to digging in further and sharing it with the audience.”

We’ll have to stay posted to find out who is and isn’t officially returning to The Pitt between now and 2026.