jennifer garner returns as Hannah — The Last Thing He Told Me finally back for season 2
After more than two years away, viewers can pick up the tangled, suspenseful story of Hannah and Bailey as The Last Thing He Told Me returns for a second season. The new episodes, which began streaming February 20, 2026 (ET), thrust the central characters deeper into a web of mob entanglements, family betrayals and long-buried secrets.
Plot picks up with the Campano vendetta
Season 2 opens with Owen back in the picture and a major threat closing in: the Campano crime family is hunting Owen and anyone tied to him. Hannah (Jennifer Garner) and her stepdaughter Bailey (Angourie Rice) had rebuilt a semblance of normal life after the first season’s upheavals, but the Campano vendetta shreds that hard-won peace. The patriarch of the crime family (John Noble) is forced to grapple with sins committed in his organization’s name, while loyalties shift and old debts resurface.
As the season unfolds, the vendetta against Owen threads through every character’s storyline. The series leans into moral complexity: relationships are examined under pressure, alliances fracture and characters who once appeared peripheral gain new weight in the hunt for answers. The ultimate aim remains the same — to reunite Hannah, Bailey and Owen and allow them to live freely — but the path there is treacherous and unpredictable.
Cast additions and tangled backstories deepen the drama
The new season expands the roster of players and raises the emotional stakes. Notable additions include Rita Wilson, who plays Hannah’s unpredictable, long-absent mother, and Judy Greer, who appears as Quinn, a mob daughter determined to distance herself from her family but pulled back into the fold. John Noble’s turn as the Campano head intensifies the show’s focus on the costs of organized crime, while the return of Nicholas Bell (David Morse) gives the legal and familial angles renewed prominence.
Nicholas Bell’s history as the family attorney — his decade-long dealings with the crime organization — comes into play in ways that complicate every character’s motives. Bailey’s investigation into her late mother’s past becomes a driving subplot; when she discovers her mother once had a friendship with Quinn, Bailey embarks on a dangerous quest to understand the truth about what led to that death. That pursuit opens new doors in the narrative and deepens the series’ theme of how hidden histories shape present choices.
Source material, pacing and what to expect next
The first season adapted a bestselling novel; season 2 takes its cues from the author’s sequel. The show continues a weekly-release model, with new episodes dropping each week, allowing storylines and character tensions to build slowly and deliberately through the season. Expect a blend of intimate family drama and procedural suspense — interrogations of trust and identity set against threats that are as physical as they are emotional.
By the season’s close, the series sets up further uncertainty: a cliffhanger suggests more of the Michaels family story could arrive in a third season. For viewers who were invested in the initial mystery, season 2 promises equal measures of intrigue, intense character work and unfolding revelations that recast past events.
For now, fans can watch the new episodes as they roll out beginning February 20, 2026 (ET). The focus remains squarely on Garner’s compelling portrayal of a woman trying to hold her family together when everything she thought she knew is falling apart.
