The Best Man: The Final Chapters reunites the beloved friend group across eight, hour-long episodes as they tackle midlife crises and renaissances and enter a different stage of their lives. The gathering is bittersweet, though, with one friend missing from the festivities.

What happened to Mia from best man?

Mia (played by Monica Calhoun) passed away from cancer at the end of 2013’s The Best Man Holiday, and her husband Lance (Morris Chestnut) has been grieving ever since. Despite her death, The Final Chapters found a way to bring back Calhoun while also paying homage to the character.

Episode 1 picked up where we left off in the last film, with Lance still mourning his wife and burying his feelings with a string of one-night stands. As the friends celebrated Quentin’s impending nuptials with fiancé Xiomara Amani (Nicole Ari Parker) at an island paradise, the widower couldn’t help but think that his wife would have loved the view from the fancy villa.