The thriller continues! Followers of The CW’s Nancy Drew have been in for a shock when season 3 turned the lead character’s future with Ace right into a star-crossed twist.

Within the finale, which aired in January, Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) thought she was lastly along with Ace (Alex Saxon) when a lethal automobile crash made her understand that it was all a lie created by Temperance. Amid her loss of life, Temperance (Olivia Taylor Dudley) launched a curse that may stop Nancy and Ace from getting collectively romantically.

Throughout an interview with government producers Noga Landau and Melinda Hsu Taylor, the writing duo confirmed that it gained’t be lengthy earlier than Ace is clued into his destiny.

“We positively will decide up with Ace eager to know why Nancy ran out of his residence like that. His query to her, ‘Are you in hassle?’ goes to be the factor on his thoughts if and once we begin season 4. ‘Why did Nancy run out of my residence simply once I thought she was going to kiss me? I guess she’s in hassle, I would like to seek out out what’s happening,” Taylor instructed Leisure Weekly in January, two months earlier than the sequence was renewed.

Based on Landau, the upcoming season would deal with the feelings that may be kicked up a notch between Nancy and Ace. “Season 4 goes to be a season of intense craving for each of them,” she added on the time. “It’s solely ramping it up much more, for certain. For me, this present is at all times in regards to the simmering love and craving — for a number of characters, however particularly for Nancy and now for Nancy and Ace collectively.”

Regardless that there could be a approach to clear up the curse, Nancy gained’t instantly search for a approach out of her predicament.

“I feel the true problem is she is aware of after this season that Temperance’s magic could be very sneaky and that Temperance has in all probability inbuilt loads of fail safes in order that she doesn’t attempt to undo this curse. And that’s a part of the thriller that ultimately she in all probability will attempt to clear up,” Landau defined to EW. “We will’t say if she’s going to achieve success or not. However yeah, she’s positively going to need to.”

The showrunner continued: “She doesn’t know if she will be able to inform him she loves him. She doesn’t know if she will be able to even inform him in regards to the curse with out triggering it. So she has to form of work out the principles of it, if she’s ever going to even think about undoing it.”

Landau and Taylor additionally teased that season 4 would make an effort to return to the roots of the present.

“Placing Nancy again in a graveyard together with her beanie and her flashlight, and the start of a brand new thriller that ought to really feel a bit bit extra just like the mysteries that we tackled in season 1 and season 2 — for a little bit of a palate cleanser,” Landau shared with EW in regards to the season 3 cliffhanger. “And in order for the graves and the thriller, we’ll positively say that there’s a tendril of connection between a few of the stuff that you just see within the finale and why these graves are like that ultimately.”

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