Well, we kind of suspected that not everyone would survive The Day of the Jackal's season finale -- but we were still on the edge of our seats watching it.

Last week's finale saw Eddie Redmayne's assassin Charles (aka the Jackal) and Lashana Lynch's MI6 agent Bianca finally collide in a nighttime gun battle, and Charles came out on top, shooting Bianca dead. But his wife Nuria ran out on him, taking their child with her, and Winthorp refused to pay him for killing UDC... and tried to kill Charles, too. (For all the details, read our full finale recap here.) Luckily, Peacock has renewed Jackal for a second season, so we know we'll get to see if Charles gets Nuria back -- and gets Winthorp to pay up.

We still had plenty of questions after that finale, so we reached out to The Day of the Jackal executive producers Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant (both hailing from UK studio Carnival Films) to shed some light on why Season 1 played out the way it did... and what we can expect from Season 2. Read on to get their take on Bianca's ultimate fate, the state of Charles and Nuria's marriage and why Charles and Bianca could never have teamed up on the same side.

TVLINE | So first, to take a step back, when you started working on the series, was there always a possibility that it could continue for multiple seasons? Because I think a lot of people assumed it was just a limited series.

NEAME | Yes, we did always think about it as a returning series. But we obviously wanted to keep that very under the radar because of the ending of the novel and the original movie [where the Jackal dies]. We didn't want to basically give away the entire ending, so we just kept it quiet.