<em>The Bear </em>Season 5 Trailer Sets the Table for the Final Meal

This story contains spoilers for The Bear season 4 and the surprise episode, “Gary.”

How long can Carmy go on like this? That was the most pressing question on audience’s minds heading into The Bear season 4, where Jeremy Allen White’s tense Chicago chef continues to wrestle with some of the demons that have plagued him over the past four seasons.

Now? The FX drama’s “To Be Continued” banner metaphorically locking viewers in the fridge isn’t the only image leaving fans on the edge of their seats. At the end of an hour-long episode that released by surprise last month, audiences saw Richie get into a car accident right before the screen cut to the credits. Screw Carmy and Sidney’s (Ayo Edebiri) restaurant—I just want to know for certain that Richie is alive.

Thankfully, everyone appears healthy and ready to serve up one final meal in the trailer for season 5. FX released the first footage from the fifth and final season on Monday, showing Carmy and Richie back in the kitchen and ready to work. It seems we’ll find out how both characters recover when the season premieres with eight new episodes on FX and Hulu on June 25 at at 9 p.m. ET. Until then, it appears that the building is the character with the most problems. Not only is the restaurant flooding, but Uncle Jimmy is also threatening to sell it entirely. You can watch the trailer below.

FX reports that season 5 picks up the morning after the season 4 finale, when Carmy announced that he was leaving the restaurant. “With no money, the threat of a sale and a torrential storm in their way, the new partners must band together with the rest of the team to achieve one last service, hoping they’ll finally earn a Michelin star,” the official logline reads. “Ultimately, they learn that what makes a restaurant “perfect” might not be the food, but the people.”

For now, there’s no mention of how Carmy bounces back into the restaurant. But even though season 4's finale left the door open for White to exit the show, The Bear’s record-breaking 23 Emmy nominations likely said otherwise.

Last summer, FX head John Landgraf told Variety that he hoped that [creator] Chris Storer had, "more than one more season of story to tell” beyond season 4, but the promotion for season 5 continues to state that this is the final season. “Not to the extent that if there was one great season or three mediocre ones, I’d rather have one great one,” he continued. “You just have to follow the creative.”

Until then, I'll keep praying for a Fak cousins spin-off.