Scott Wolf Will Return for ‘Doc’ Season 2, Set to Make His Directorial Debut on the Show

Scott Wolf is getting back to work.

The actor, 57, will return for season 2 of Doc, PEOPLE can confirm.

Wolf will reprise his role as Dr. Richard Miller in a multi-episode guest arc, per a press release. He will also make his directorial debut on the series in an episode slated to air early next year.

“We always knew when Richard got fired that would never be the last of him,” Co-showrunners Barbie Kligman and Hank Steinberg teased in a statement. “But no one expected him to come back to Westside like this — least of all Amy.”

In season 1 — which began with Dr. Amy Larsen (Molly Parker) waking up from a car crash to learn she was missing memories from the last eight years of her life — Wolf’s character took over as chief of internal medicine.

Amy had just found out about a costly mistake Richard had made that killed a patient — and that he’d covered it up. That revelation came to light at the end of season 1, resulting in Richard getting fired.

Season 2 picks up with a newcomer joining the ranks as the new chief of internal medicine, Dr. Jaon Ridley (Felicity Huffman), who also happens to be Amy’s former mentor and friend.

Parker, 53, told PEOPLE that her character is “very much torn at the beginning of season 2 between the woman who she remembers herself to be eight years ago, the woman that everyone else tells her she became and trying to learn how to integrate those into something authentic.”

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Following the season 1 cliffhanger that saw Amy kiss her remarried ex-husband Michael (Omar Metwally), a moment that her new boyfriend Jake (Jon-Michael Ecker) witnessed, Parker said that Amy “wants clarity.”

“She really thinks, ‘If I could just get my memories back, maybe I would know. Maybe I would know what I want. Maybe I would be able to remember the things I don’t like about Michael, the things that I really liked about Jake when we first met, or vice versa.'”

Wolf’s return to Doc will mark his first role since he filed for divorce from his wife of 21 years, Kelley Wolf, in June. He called it “the most difficult decision of my life” in a statement obtained by PEOPLE, and he has since been awarded temporary sole custody of the three kids he and Kelley share — Jackson, 16, Miller, 12, and Lucy, 11.

Kelley, 48, entered a mental health treatment facility in Utah earlier this month amid the ongoing divorce, and she is also facing three misdemeanor charges related to the separation.

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New episodes of Doc premiere Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.