MobLand Season 2 wastes no time blowing up the Da Souza marriage.

The Paramount+ premiere, which dropped this week, opens with Conrad Harrigan (Pierce Brosnan) murdering a string of gangsters after a deal collapses, leaving Tom Hardy's Harry Da Souza to mop it up mid therapy session with his wife Jan, played by Joanne Froggatt. That's the moment Jan decides she's done. She sends Harry divorce papers before the episode is out.

Hardy and Froggatt sat down with Collider to talk through the fallout, and both actors were careful not to call it a clean break.

Froggatt said Jan hasn't really let go of Harry, not fully. "They have this bond that is, other than the sort of romantic sides of a marriage," she told Collider, pointing to the years, the shared daughter, the sheer weight of what they know about each other. Her read is that Jan would take Harry back in a heartbeat if he actually walked away from the Harrigans. But she's stopped expecting that to happen, and that's the crossroads Jan is sitting at now. Her marriage is a dead end, her daughter is growing up and pulling away, and she's got nothing of her own to hold onto.

Hardy's answer on Harry's loyalty is the more interesting tangle. Asked whether Harry's devotion to the Harrigans survives Conrad's unraveling, Hardy resisted a straight yes. He argued Harry's loyalty isn't really about Conrad specifically, it's about some internal code Harry hasn't fully mapped out himself, one that happens to be pointed at Conrad right now but doesn't have to stay that way. He compared it, unprompted, to Firs from The Cherry Orchard, the servant who dies with the house rather than leave it, and then said Harry isn't that. "A pirate is only loyal to one thing," Hardy said, which is about as close as he came to naming what that one thing is.

The other fire this season is Gina (Teddie Allen), the Da Souzas' daughter, who's now tangled up with Eddie (Anson Boon) and edging into the family business neither parent wanted for her. Froggatt said Jan's guilt is doing as much damage as her fear. She and Harry gave Gina the private school, the version of a normal childhood they never had, and none of it stopped their daughter from sensing the other world underneath it. Hardy put it bluntly: kids absorb what their parents do, not what they say, consciously or not, and Gina's drift toward that darkness is the direct result.

Season 2 is streaming now on Paramount+, with the rest of the Harrigan family reportedly closing in on each other as Kat McAllister (Janet McTeer) circles, waiting for the cracks to widen enough to walk through.